Wednesday, September 2, 2015

MSSU International Film Festival to open with ensemble comedy

(From Southern News Service)

The 54th annual International Film Festival at Missouri Southern State University will kick off with a classic ensemble comedy from director Pedro Almodóvar.

The 1988 film “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” will be screened at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, in Plaster Hall’s Cornell Auditorium.

One woman's lover has just jilted her by leaving a message on her answering machine, and her best friend has just found out that her lover is a Shiite terrorist. Into that mix is added a third woman, who was just released from a 20-year stay in a mental institution, to create a film The New York Times called “a door-slamming farce in the grand tradition.” The ensemble cast features a young Antonio Banderas.

The film is rated R. Presented by the Missouri Southern Film Society and the Institute of International Studies, admission is free and open to the public.

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