08 May 2023, 06:30 pm
Thinking of Him (Argentina/India)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
(110 min/2018/b/w & colour/Bengali/Spanish/English)
Director: Pablo César
With Victor Banerjee, Elenora Wexler, Héctor Bordani
Screening will be followed by a discussion with Suraj Kumar, Producer of the film
Thinking of Him are two stories intertwined over the time. In the present, Felix, a pessimistic and lazy teacher encounters a book that dazzles him, while teaching geography at a detention centre for minors. In the past Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, author of the book that has come to Felix arrives in Argentina and is hosted by Victoria Ocampo, Argentinian writer, critic and public intellectual. Felix becomes more and more obsessed with the story of the poet and writer…