CineNoche at Violet Crown Cinema: La sombra del caminante (Wandering Shadows)
La sombra del caminante (Wandering Shadows), a film by Ciro Guerra
Colombia, 2004
Drama/Satire, 90 min, Black & White
Spanish with English subtitles
Starring: César Badillo, Ignacio Prieto, Inés Prieto, Lowin Allende, Julián Díaz, Andrés Gaitán, Diego Manzano
Two Screenings!
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019, 7:00pm
Sunday, February 24th, 2019, 11:00am
(tickets available through links above)
Violet Crown Cinema
434 W 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701
Tel: (512) 495-9600
CLA members will receive a $2 discount on tickets purchased at the box office or by phone.
Synopsis
Mañe is facing a tough economic situation. He’s lost a leg; as a consequence he is unable to find a job, he’s behind on rent, and finds himself at the mercy of bullies. One day he encounters a “silletero,” a man who charges people 500 pesos to carry them around Bogotá… on a chair on his back. A complicated bond forms between them as they both try to come to terms with the past and forge new paths. Nominated by Colombia to the 78th Academy Awards. A rare opportunity to view the feature film debut of one of Colombia’s most celebrated filmmakers.
“Beckett goes to Bogota in Ciro Guerra’s wonderfully offbeat ‘The Wandering Shadows,’ a darkly comic, melancholy low-budgeter.” – Jonathan Holland, Variety
“Guerra proves himself a born filmmaker, deftly calling upon influences from both Italian neorealism and the Latin-American cinema of the ’60s in both his casting and his distinctive mise-en-scene. The Wandering Shadows takes cinema’s rockiest road – the one that relies upon poetry and metaphors to tell its truth.” – Tribeca Film Festival
CineNoche is a film series presented in partnership with Violet Crown Cinema.
The screening of LA SOMBRA DEL CAMINANTE is co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin.
This is just one of a series of Ciro Guerra films that you can view this spring!
| PÁJAROS DEL VERANO (BIRDS OF PASSAGE) Nominated by Colombia to the 91st Academy Awards Dirs. Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra, 2018 March 14+ at the AFS Cinema Buy tickets |
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| LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO (THE WIND JOURNEYS) Nominated by Colombia to the 82nd Academy Awards Dir. Ciro Guerra, 2009 March 20 & 24 at the Violet Crown Cinema Buy tickets |
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| EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE (EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT) Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year by the 88th Academy Awards Dir. Ciro Guerra, 2015 April 17 & 21 at the Violet Crown Cinema Buy tickets |
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