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Dominican University Hosts Latino Film Festival

Dominican University will present two film screenings as part of the Chicago Latino Film Festival on Tuesday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 19 in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Each film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. and will be preceded at 7:00 p.m. with a reception featuring music. A conversation with the directors and actors will follow each film. Both films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles. The cost of the film and reception is $10, general admission; $6 for students. For tickets, please call (708) 524-6942.

A Silent Love (Amor Callado) by Argentine/Canadian director Federico Hidalgo will be shown on April 12. The film, written by Hidalgo and Paulina Robles, has garnered a number of honors since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, including two Best Screenplay Awards at the Brooklyn International Film Festival and the Miami Latin Film Festival, where Susana Salazar received an honorable mention for Outstanding Performance.

The film revolves around the love-triangle between Norman (Noel Burton), Gladys (Vanessa Bauche) and her mother Fernanda (Salazar). Norman, a quiet, middle-aged film professor specializing in silent movies, initiates a passionate correspondence with Gladys, a young Mexican woman he met through an Internet dating agency. He travels to Mexico, convinces Gladys to marry him and brings her back to Canada, accompanied by her widowed mother. Trouble ensues when the impulsive Gladys becomes restless and Norman finds himself falling in love with the luminous Fernanda. The film defies Hollywood cliché through the dignity of its characters, especially the radiant Salazar, who feasts on a role that allows an actress past 40 to be funny, sexy and vital while unabashedly showing her wrinkles.

An Everyday Story (Una Historia Comun) by Puerto Rican director Sonia Fritz will be shown on April 19. Fritz’ film, The Kiss That I Gave Her, received the Audience Award at the 2000 Chicago Latino Film Festival. Fritz, a professor at the University of the Sacred Heart (Universidad de Sagrado Corazon) in Puerto Rico, also produced the acclaimed documentary The American Dream: Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in New York.

An Everyday Story depicts the transformation in the lives of a middle-aged couple living in a tranquil coastal town of Puerto Rico after the sudden reappearance of an old friend whom they thought had died years ago in Vietnam. Their lives are further upset by the arrival of an Argentine writer who moves into their small community with the intention of writing a novel. The drama unfolds as a tale of love and loss as this couple deals with the disruption of their formerly sedate everyday life.

This program is partially underwritten by a grant from the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation.