Oddball Cinema - Screen & Discuss: "Carve Her Name with Pride" by Lewis Gilbert
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The Library's partner, Oddball Cinema, presents movies that you won’t find at your local multiplex: obscure, unusual, and independent features as well as occasional classics. The host will introduce the movie with a focus on what makes it “oddball.” After the screening, there will be time to discuss the film.
- Title — Carve Her Name with Pride
- Director — Lewis Gilbert
- Cast — Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
- Unrated, suitable for general audiences
- ©1958 | 1h 59m | Biography, Drama | black & white
- Running Time: 1h 59m
About the film: The movie begins as standard-issue World War II fare, with the British showing their stiff upper lips and the Germans being efficiently evil. The story, however, is true and compelling: Violette, a young Englishwoman, falls in love with a French officer who’s temporarily stationed near London. They get married and have a daughter. The officer is killed in action, and the woman resigns herself to raising the child alone. When the British government learns that Violette was born in Paris to a French mother and English father and speaks perfect French, agents recruit her for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
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- Date:
- Saturday, March 30, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Longfellow Room
- Library:
- Westover Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Film
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library