The Studio@620 continues its noble practice of bringing alternative cinema to Bay area audiences with the St. Pete-Film Movement, a monthly screening series of award-winning independent and foreign films from around the world.
The series kicks off with At Dawning and The Bothersome Man. The short U.K. drama At Dawning follows a woman who is attempting to sneak away after a one-night stand and what happens in her pre-dawn encounter with a suicidal man. The Bothersome Man is a dark comedy from Norway about Lien, a worn-out businessman who tries to kill himself by jumping in front of a train. Rather than death, he awakens to find he is on a bus en route to a strange, rather lackluster city, where he is presented with a new apartment, new job, new social circle of colleagues and a budding romantic interest. Soon enough, however, Lien begins to question the world, where all the food tastes the same and all the people exhibit the same variety of bland emotion. Even stranger is the apparent fact that no one can truly hurt themselves. Is it a dystopia for people who attempted suicide? Is it purgatory? Is it something in between? Find out this Thursday evening.
St. Pete-Film Movement, 8 p.m. Thurs., May 24, The Studio@620, 620 First Ave. S., St. Petersburg, $5, 727-895-6620, studioat620.com.
This article appears in May 23-29, 2007.