MoMA Film Screening: The Dead Girl’s Feast (11/6 + 11)

Film “A Festa da Menina Morta” (The Dead Girl’s Feast), at MoMA

Still from The Dead Girl's Feast

Part of MoMA’s new film series “Iberoamérica: Our Way (s) – “A Festa da Menina Morta” (The Dead Girl’s Feast) 2008. Brazil. Directed by Matheus Nachtergaele.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3HDH41-bsc

One of Brazil’s finest actors makes his directorial debut with this deeply disturbing tale about the deprivation and manipulation simmering beneath extreme religious ritual and superstition. As the appointed “saint” of a remote Amazonian village prepares to speak to his audience in the voice of a dead girl, a rite he has performed for twenty years, the frayed inter-relationships of several members of the remote community are tested. In Portuguese; English subtitles. 115 min.

Matheus Nachtergaele

Friday, November 6, 2009, 4:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1 (New York premiere. Introduced by Nachtergaele).
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 7:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2 (New York premiere).

At THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York.
For more information: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1011