Winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival

On Wednesday November 12th, Columbia Center for the Arts will continue with the Film Series by presenting, Henry Fool beginning at 7:30pm. 

For this month only, because of the Thanksgiving holiday, this film will be shown on the second Wednesday instead of the fourth.

Winner of "Best Screenplay” at Cannes Film Festival in 1998, Hal Hartley's Henry Fool is hilarious comedy of art, commerce, faith, friendship, the mysteries of the creative process, and an audacious fable of fate.  

Simon Grim is a factory worker who lives with his nymphomaniac sister and manic depressive mother. Along comes Henry Fool, a convicted sexual offender who moves into Simon's basement. Henry sparks Simon's mind and challenges him to write "the great American poem." To everyone's dismay, he does just that. 

From there, events spiral even further, until Simon must eventually make an important decision: remain loyal to his friend and help him flee the country, or turn his back on what they shared together in the past. 

Funny, shocking, and impressively grand in its ambitions, Hartley's script takes turns that most writers would never consider actually writing down. 

The film series continues on every fourth Wednesday.