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    Oxnard Film Society List of Films 2019
    January
    Shoplifters                             Japan                           
    The Guilty                               Denmark                     
    February
    Becoming Astrid                    Sweden                       
    Maria by Callas                      USA                            
    March
    The Wife                                   UK                            
    Cold War                                 Poland                        
    April
    Never Look Away                   Germany                    
    Woman at War                        Iceland                       
    Rafiki                                       Kenya                        
    May
    Birds of Passage                    Colombia                     
    Ash is Purest White               China                          
    June
    Amazing Grace                       USA                           
    The Third Wife                        Vietnam                       
    Working Woman                     Israel                           
    Non-Fiction                             France                        
    July    
    The White Crow                      UK                             
    The Wild Pear Tree                 Turkey                                  
    Photograph                             India                            
    In the Aisles                            Germany                     
    The Chambermaid                   Mexico                       
    August
    Trouble with You                   France                        
    Pavarotti                                  USA                            
    Rojo                                           Chile                           
    Maiden                                      UK                            
    September
    Trouble with You                   France                         
    The Farewell                            USA/China                 
    October
    Honeyland                                Macedonia                  
    Toni Morrison Pieces I Am    USA                           
    Official Secrets                       UK                           
    AGA                                              Bulgaria                      
    November
    TBA
    Tba
    December
    Pain and Glory                        Spain                
          



    JUNE 3 Amazing Grace​

     2019 USA 1hr 27min
    Documentary/Music
    Rated G
    In English

    Concert footage from 1972 of Aretha Franklin performing songs from the best-selling gospel album at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

    Film Sponsors: Susan Matsumoto and Mel Kennedy

    "Amazing Grace, featuring Aretha Franklin at the height of her powers, is one of the greatest concert documentaries ever made. It reaches so far into transcendence that watching it becomes an almost ecstatic experience."
    - Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor Author

    JUNE 10   The Third Wife

    2019 Vietnam 1hr 36min
    Drama
    Rated R
    In Vietnamese with English Subtitles

    In 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.

    "Gently dipping us into the long ago and far away past, Ash Mayfair's directorial debut brings an intimate immediacy to the re-creation of rural Vietnam in the late 19th century." - Jessica Kiang, Variety

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    JUNE 17    Working Woman

    2019 Israel 1hr 33min
    Drama
    NR
    In Hebrew with English subtitles

    Orna, (Liron Ben Shlush) is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family Orna returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny (Menashe Noy) who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to balance its demands with her home life, she begins to experience escalating sexual harassment from her boss. Her rapid rise through the ranks and her increasing financial success seem to parallel a pattern of predatory behavior which ultimately brings her career and marital relationship to the brink. This timely and devastating story is expertly told by long time feminist filmmaker Michal Aviad.

    Film Sponsor: Barbara Meister

    "Working Woman" unfolds like a psychological thriller - a procedural that, as it tightens its grip, captures how workplace sexual harassment slowly takes over one woman's life." - Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times

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