{"id":4061,"date":"2022-07-09T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4061"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:53:30","slug":"transit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday, 10 March 2023: Transit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Friday, 10 March 2023, 20:00<\/p>\r\n

Venue<\/strong>: (see Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n

Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Director: Christian Petzold, Germany\/France 2018, 101 mins, 12A<\/p>\n

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"A profound meditation on the dehumanizing condition of statelessness" Chicago Reader<\/i><\/div>\n <\/blockquote>\n

Based on Anna Segher\u2019s 1942 semi-autobiographical novel, Transit<\/i> is set in contemporary Marseille but takes place in then still free WWII-Southern France. Georg, a Jewish German refugee, made it to Marseille under a false identity. While waiting for his papers and passage he falls in love with his ghost identity\u2019s beautiful widow. A story about the state of being neither there nor here, about shame, guilt and the urgency to do everything necessary to escape an oppressive system.<\/p>\n

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"Transit<\/i> is perhaps his most mysterious film, certainly one of his more\naustere and challenging works. And because of its thoroughgoing dismantling of illusion, it\u2019s\nperhaps his oeuvre\u2019s starkest instance of pure storytelling" Film Comment<\/i><\/div>\n <\/blockquote>\n

Further reading<\/h4>\n
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  1. Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. RogerEbert.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Film Comment<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. New York Review of Books<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    Trailer<\/h4>