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Members gather for movie viewing and discussion It's been a busy spring for Branch 93. Seven members and friends met for afternoon tea at the Washington Square Hotel to celebrate Kulturni Dan (Slovenian Day of Culture) on February 9. In March, a few members hiked with the Appalachian Mountain Club through the Rockefeller Preserve in
Sleepy Hollow, NY.
In April, we resumed our ongoing film series when nine members and friends met to view the 1961 Slovenian movie Ples v dežju (Dance in the Rain). Jacqui Stewart, SWUA member from San Francisco who was visiting New York, also attended the screening and wrote the following review: For me the strongest features of the film "Ples v dežju" are that it is beautifully photographed and that it gives a view into an era that offers fewer and
fewer remaining vestiges. The black and white photography endows the film with a starkness and sense of defenselessness against fate, accentuated by unrelenting rains. The contrast between spare living
accommodations and the lively dining room scenes suggests the marked differences between the loneliness
and congeniality afforded by each. Even the otherwise lavish quarters of an actress take on a bleak feeling
of hopelessness in the last scene.
Ljubljana life in those times revolved around the river. Glimpses of the natural surroundings seem to enliven those few images with a green overlay. | |
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