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Film Screening: Easy Living (2019)

Name: Film Screening: Easy Living (2019)
Start: 2024-01-27T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-27T19:00:00-05:00
Location: FedEx Global Center #1005

January 27 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Join CES for the 2024 EU Film Festival! From January 26-29, in FedEx GEC 1005, we’ll be screening films and hosting discussions with UNC faculty that speak to contemporary challenges facing Europe, the EU, and the transatlantic relationship. These events are CLE Credit Eligible! Parking is available in the GEC deck during the screenings.

A small seaside town on the border between France and Italy. Don is an American tennis teacher who dreams of being a painter. Camilla is a college student who smuggles medicines, alcohol and cigarettes across the border with the help of her teenager brother Brando. Their lives take a turn when they meet Elvis, an illegal immigrant trying to sneak across the border to catch up with his wife in Paris.

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Faculty Discussant

Maggie Fritz-Morkin studies 13th-14th c. Italian literature, with research interests in the history of rhetoric and authorship, visceral speech, medieval theories of debt, urban studies, and the rhetoric of medieval medicine.

The EU Film Festival is cosponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Romance Studies, and the UNC Film Studies program.