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Sophie's Choice
Wednesday, Oct 7, 2015 1:00 PM
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This is a free event.
Told through the eyes of Stingo (Peter Mac Nicol), a young aspiring writer from the South, Sophie's Choice chronicles the travails of the title character (Meryl Streep), a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and Nathan (Kevin Kline), her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn. The New York Times' Janet Maslin wrote: "In [director] Alan J. Pakula's faithful screen adaptation of [William] Styron's novel, Miss Streep accomplishes the near-impossible, presenting Sophie in believably human terms ... she offers a performance of such measured intensity that the results are by turn exhilarating and heartbreaking." She was rewarded with both an Oscar and a Golden Globe. Her cinematographer of choice, the great NĂ©stor Almendros, earned an Oscar nomination, as did Pakula for his screenplay adaptation, Marvin Hamlisch for the music score and Albert Wolsky for the costume design. In his four-star review, Roger Ebert wrote that Sophie's Choice "is about three people who are faced with a series of choices, some frivolous, some tragic. As they wonder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of madness, they become our friends, and we love them."
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