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WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SCREENING
Mira Nair's
MISSISSIPPI MASALA
(USA | 1991 | 118 min | PG coarse language)
Wednesday 27 May at 7.15pm
University of Otago’s Colquhoun Lecture Theatre**
Mira Nair’s second feature is an incisive examination of race relations and cultural tensions in the American South, featuring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury as star-crossed lovers.
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“Twenty years after immigrating with her family to Greenwood, Mississippi, after dictator Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s Asian population, Mina (Sarita Choudhury) has assimilated to her adoptive home, where she works in the family motel chain—so much so that she thinks nothing of falling in love with a local boy, self-employed carpet-cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington).
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Moving beyond the division between Black and white that’s long defined depictions of the Deep South, Nair’s film depicts an increasingly diverse New South, revealing new discoveries and old resentments. The drama unfolds against a landscape of timeless beauty, the particularities of the dulcet Mississippi light captured by cinematographer Ed Lachman” – Metrograph.
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FURTHER REVIEW
"What we are dealing with is more than a transplanted version of Romeo and Juliet. Both the black and Indian characters (and certainly the local whites, who are not much of a factor in this movie) have a vast and comfortable lack of curiosity about other races; they prefer to think of them in stereotypes, and have no desire to meet them as individuals. When the Indian woman and the black man meet and fall in love
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everyone on all sides falls obediently into place to condemn their relationship. It was racism, of course, that brought the Indians to Africa in the first place, to build the railroads, and racism that kicked them out. And it was racism that brought Africans to America. But to be a victim of the racism of others does not inoculate anyone against the prejudice that can grow in their own hearts" Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert.com.
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NOTE – Thanks to our friends at Madman Entertainment, the distributors of Power Ballad –
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– the new music-themed comedy-drama from John Carney (the director of Once), we will be having a lucky draw for complimentary tickets and a two-for-one voucher for the film next Wednesday evening before the screening of Mississippi Marsala. Only members present on the night will be eligible to win one of these prizes.
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**To get to the Colquhoun Theatre: The Colquhoun is located on the first floor of the current Dunedin Public Hospital, above the chapel and squash courts. Stairs and lift access are from the main Hospital entrance on Great King Street.
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