Frederick Wiseman’s MONROVIA, INDIANA - Real to Reel Sponsored by Stu and Ginger Polisner

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Mon, Nov 26, 2018 7:00 PM

Description

REAL TO REEL Sponsored by Stu and Ginger Polisner


Frederick Wiseman’s
MONROVIA, INDIANA

Monday, November 26 at 7 pm | Members $7 | Public $12


Director Frederick Wiseman’s latest American opus takes a long, slow look at a rural red-state town.

Small town America is so often depicted in fiction as the idyllic backbone of American life and culture, when in reality local politics and the mundanity of rural life hide below the surface. Wiseman creates a window through which audiences can peer, allowing those of us on the outside to contemplate what life is like for the residents of small American towns like Monrovia. Monrovia, Indiana isn’t constructed as a critique on rural life in conservative enclaves, but rather a fair examination of the real people often overlooked and romanticized by mass media. By piecing together bits of a pastoral American town, we can gain an understanding of how rural Americans view themselves and their place within the greater American fabric. (USA, 2018, 143 mins., NR, English | Dir. Frederick Wiseman)