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    Celebrate dance and Belgian cinema with RUMBA

    Celebrate dance and Belgian cinema with RUMBA

    Presented by Indie Memphis at The Evergreen Theater

    May 23, 2011

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    The Belgian feature RUMBA will make its Memphis debut as part of Indie Memphis collaborations with Memphis in May and Project: Motion.

    Told with little music or dialogue to deflect from its clever slapstick, RUMBA (77 min) tells the story of Fiona and Dom, a happy couple who teach in a rural school and have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Leaning heavily on the comedic styles of Jacques Tati, the film pursues the eternal question of whether two people can be eternally happy through deliberate and staunch cheerfulness.

    "Like an episode of Sesame Street scripted by Luis Bunuel and helmed by Jacques Tati, RUMBA turns dark tragedy into deadpan comedy through a series of surreal G-rated gags"
    ~Variety

    "An old-fashioned, sweet-natured dance-based comedy debut to remember"
    ~The Guardian

    RUMBA is preceded by Mitchell Rose's MODERN DAYDREAMS (16 min), a suite of four Chaplinesque films exploring the theme of movement engendered by day-to-day life. In TREADMILL SOFTLY, a man reaches aerobic heart rate at the gym when he falls for a hunkette. In ISLANDS IN THE SKY, four people weave fifty feet in the air atop four cherry-pickers, aloft and aloof in their ivory towers. In UNLEASHED, a cubicle-bound Dilbert-ditto gets in touch with his inner puppy. In DEERE JOHN, a man and a twenty-two ton John Deere excavator dance a dance of discovery, fulfillment, and eventually, the loss that any diesel-based relationship must suffer.


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        The Evergreen Theater

        1705 Poplar Avenue
        Memphis, TN 38104

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        $7 at the door / $5 for Indie Memphis members and Project: Motion "Frame-by-Frame" ticket holders. Online tickets are available at a $1 discount plus service fees.

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        7 pm

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