- The Country Teacher
- Friday, August 14, 2009
- 5:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.
- The Tower Theatre
- 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
- $10.00 General Admission
- $8.00 for Students and Seniors
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- Screening Sponsor: Fresno Reel Pride
“Directed by Bohdan Sláma, it deals with weighty issues — loneliness, sexual identity, love (straight and gay) — in a quiet, intelligent fashion. [...] A great story of love, friendship and forgiveness.” V.A. Musetto, New York Post
“The film’s portrayal of farm life as a rugged pastorale lends The Country Teacher a foundation of visceral truth.” Steven Holden, New York Times
“Troubled by his sexual orientation, a teacher gets an education in self-acceptance and forgiveness during a rural pastorale in this beautifully crafted bittersweet dramedy from Czech writer-helmer Bohdan Slama.” Alissa Simon, Variety
Watch the Trailer
Synopsis
A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teacher has no romantic interest in the woman but they quickly form a strong friendship, each recognizing the other’s uncertainties, hopes and longing for love.
When the teacher’s ex-boyfriend comes to visit from the city, he quickly realizes that nobody in the village knows that the teacher is gay and harbors a secret affection for the teenage boy. His jealous actions set in motion a series of events that will test the inner strength and compassion of the teacher, the woman and her son to a breaking point. A beautifully shot, powerfully acted, profoundly moving story of desire, responsibility, forgiveness and the need to belong, from the internationally-acclaimed director of Something Like Happiness and Wild Bees.
Directed by Bohdan Slama
Czech Republic/Germany/France, 2009, 35mm
113 minutes, Not Rated
Czech with English subtitles
Purchase Tickets Online
Enter the number of tickets you wish to purchase and click the “PayPal buy now” button. This will launch a new window containing your PayPal shopping cart. Please print out and bring your PayPal receipt so we can verify your ticket purchase at pick-up time. Tickets can be picked up at the ticket booth in front of the Tower Theatre before the film starts.
Advance tickets may also be purchased with cash or check at the following locations:
- JA Photography, 2003 N. Van Ness [map]
- The Tower Theatre Box Office