{"id":53,"date":"2019-12-28T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/?p=53"},"modified":"2019-12-28T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:20:09","slug":"metamorphoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/2019\/12\/28\/metamorphoses\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 27, 6:30 pm (Closing Reception: 6pm) \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor Hall 203 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Metamorphoses <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\/ 2014 \/ Christophe Honor\u00e9 \/ 102 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/faculty\/syona\/\">Sigal Yona<\/a> (Jewish Studies, Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Respondent:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/faculty\/cudozier\/\">Curtis Dozier<\/a> (Greek and Roman Studies, Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pshiFGRWsnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arthouse favorite Christophe Honor\u00e9 takes a surprising and invigorating turn away from his bittersweet tales of modern-day love with\u00a0this contemporary adaption of Ovid\u2019s <em>Metamorphoses<\/em>. Honor\u00e9\u2019s take\u00a0on the Roman poet\u2019s essential narrative poem is anything but a stuffy\u00a0tribute beholden to a classic work of literature: on the contrary, he\u00a0uses Ovid to portray the multicultural France of today, setting his story\u00a0not only in lush natural landscapes but among the housing blocks\u00a0of the French suburbs, and casting a high school student of North\u00a0African descent in the central role of Europa, the young woman who\u00a0encounters a series of gods and mythological characters. Naturally,\u00a0Ovid\u2019s work is not adaptable in its entirety\u2014it features over 250\u00a0myths\u2014but Honor\u00e9 is true to its spirit, selecting representative tales\u00a0including those of Orpheus, Narcissus, and Tiresias, played here as a\u00a0transgender doctor. He also makes a virtue out of working with a low\u00a0budget, implicitly underlining the wonder in everyday life by avoiding\u00a0special effects and finding simple means to portray transformations\u00a0and deities. The outcome is a light, lyrical film, whose unforced sensuality and formal rigor is reminiscent of nothing less than Pasolini\u2019s<br \/>\ngreat literary adaptations.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival is made possible with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Services of the French Embassy<\/a> in the U.S., the Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The festival is cosponsored by the Department of Film, the Women\u2019s Studies Program, the Dean of Faculty and the VSA French Club.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, 2020<br \/>\nOpening Reception: 6pm<br \/>\nScreening: 6.30 pm<br \/>\nSigal Yona (Vassar)<br \/>\nCurtis Dozier (Vassar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}