Schedule:

1:00 PM DAYS OF HAPPINESS LES JOURS HEUREAUX

The privileged world of classical music is the setting for drama on and off the concert stage as Emma (Desmarais), a young rising star conductor, makes a misstep that may put her dream of a prestigious new job in peril.  Emma’s controversial program for the final concert of her residency triggers a fraught confrontation with her personal demons, including her relationships with her controlling father/manager and her lesbian lover. Actor Desmarais was coached by conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kensho Watanabe, and Nicolas Ellis to master her conducting movements. The film’s soaring music includes pieces by Mozart, Schoenberg, and Mahler.  In French with English subtitles.

4:00 PM PINK LADY

Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox community is the setting for a comedy/drama of a marriage in crisis when the husband’s secret desires are outed by criminals intent on blackmail.  Bati (Fibak), a mother of three happily married to devout and seriously observant Lazer (Blufarb) receives a mysterious envelope in the mail one day.  It contains graphic photos of her husband kissing another man.  Amid denials and flimsy claims of Photoshopping, Bati takes a new look at her man.  An unexpected encounter with a very unusual woman causes her to take a fresh look at herself.  Prolific award-winning director Bergman entertainingly opens a Pandora’s Box of issues — Orthodox family values, homosexuality and conversion therapy.  In Hebrew with English subtitles.

7:00 PM MIDAS MAN

Often called “the Fifth Beatle,” manager/impresario Brian Epstein burned brightly as the man who catapulted the Fab Four to international fame then tragically died at 32. This brisk and wonderfully evocative biopic is a fictionalized capsule of early Beatles history from Liverpool’s grungy Cavern Club to the flower-power years, set against the background of Epstein’s short life. Jewish, closeted gay, and energized by the rocking tunes of the underground culture, Epstein talks his way into managing the band of four scruffy lads. MIDAS MAN brings one beloved chapter in the rock ‘n’ roll story to life with color and spirit and underlines the toll success takes on the man who made it happen.

Click here to buy tickets