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Helena From the Wedding, Sun November 7
2010, 7:00

DFF at IFS: vivid social combat and the disintegration of smooth façades

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Helena From the Wedding shows at IFS on Sun November 7, 2010, 7:00

Helena From the Wedding
DFF at IFS: vivid social combat and the disintegration of smooth façades
Sun November 7
2010, 7:00

When a group of old friends gets together to celebrate New Year's Eve in a remote, snow-cloaked mountain cabin, it is not long before the whole gamut of their inner turmoil comes to light—the flaws and closely held secrets, resentments and insecurities of middle-aged people trying to survive in a bewildering world. Taking a couple of structural and dramatic clues from classics like The Big Chill and Ordinary People, Helena from the Wedding keeps its collective voice down and depends instead on a subtle range of actorly gesture and nuance.

At the heart of first-time writer/director Joseph Infantolino’s drama is Alex Javal (poker-faced Lee Tergesen, late of the HBO hit Oz), a failed playwright whose recent career plunge makes him vulnerable to emotional jitters and sensitive to perceived slights. Alex's new wife, Alice (Melanie Lynskey), complicates the picture—especially since some of his friends' marriages are starting to show signs of wear. Mix in the arrival of a disturbingly beautiful (and unmistakably younger) force named Helena (Gillian Jacobs), and the stage is set for some vivid social combat and the disintegration of of a few previously smooth façades.

Infantolino, who for the last decade has been producing films such as Jim McKay's Our Song and David Schwimmer's directorial debut Run, Fatboy, Run, says the idea for Helena from the Wedding grew out of his own midlife marriage, which contrasted sharply with some of the weather-beaten unions of old friends.

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$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
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Parking

Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.

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