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September 15 & 17, 2006 |
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LSC Classics Presents: Water (2005) September 15, 2006 at 7:00 and 10:00 pm in 26-100 September 17, 2006 at 7:00 pm in 26-100 Set in the 1930s, Water tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice. When director Deepa Mehta first began filming Water in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. The Indian government claimed it could not protect her, and the project had to wait four years before finally filming in Sri Lanka. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the custom followed by some Hindus that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. [www.rottentomatoes.com] "An exquisite drama brimming with life and laughter and great tenderness and
wrenching tragedy." |
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