MON JUNE 6, 2022 10:00 PM THE SWEET HEREAFTER $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Virtual Introduction by film critic Tim Grierson. Co-Presented by the Armenian Film Society. ‘BLEAK WEEK: Cinema of Despair’ Series. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Atom Egoyan’s masterful adaptation of a novel by Russell Banks traces the aftermath of a school bus accident in a small Canadian town that leaves fourteen children dead. When Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm), a big-city lawyer, arrives to organize a class-action lawsuit, his presence stirs up tensions within the town. Garnering Academy Award nominations for Egoyan for both best director and adapted screenplay, THE SWEET HEREAFTER is a powerful, deeply empathetic exploration of what it means to go on living in the face of tragedy. FORMAT: 35mm, courtesy of the TIFF Film Reference Library DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films