Kerr McGee Auditorium N.W. 27th Street and McKinley Avenue Oklahoma City, OK
The 30th annual Oklahoma City University Film Institute?s film series will continue at with Jean Renoir?s The River. The 1951 film was shot in India and was seminal to the launching of the careers of Satyajit Ray, who assisted on the film, and Subrata Mitra, Ray's cinematographer whom he met during filming. The River is a faithful dramatization of an earlier literary work by author Rumer Godden. The movie rejects the India of exotic action and spectacle to make a meditative film set beside a tributary of the Ganges. Renoir?s entrancing color feature film contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the river, around which their daily lives unfold. A wounded American war veteran joins their community of expat schoolgirls and widows, and his presence awakens a host of desires. Just like a tributary running into a river and losing its course, the film, The River, focuses on a girl losing her way by a bigger and stronger current. After falling in love with the American, Captain John, the girl's heart is broken when she realizes he has fallen for her best friend.
