MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE
From Signe Baumane, director of ROCKS IN MY POCKETS, comes a new award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in the bewildering world.
Director Signe Baumane will join the audience for a Q&A following the 7:30 p.m. screening of MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE on Friday, April 19. Presented by Friends of The Ross and the Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase.Â
SHOWTIMES
APR 19 | FRI
4:50, 7:30 p.m.
APR 20 | SAT
12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 p.m.
APR 21 | SUN
4:50, 7:10 p.m.
APR 22 | MON
4:50, 7:10 p.m.
APR 23 | TUE
4:50, 7:10 p.m.
APR 24 | WED
4:50, 7:10 p.m.
APR 25 | THU
4:50, 7:10 p.m.
SYNOPSIS
From Signe Baumane, director of Rocks in My Pockets, comes a new award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in the bewildering world. My Love Affair with Marriage follows Zelma on her 23-year quest for perfect love and lasting marriage set against a backdrop of historic events in Eastern Europe.
Told from a woman’s point of view, the film blends historical, biological, societal, and emotional arcs with a lively sense of humor and musical numbers. This animated film for adults tackles the issues of love, gender norms, domestic violence, fantasies, and toxic relationships to propel a woman’s journey toward independence and liberation.
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Director
Signe Baumane
WITH
Signe Baumane, Dagmara Domińczyk, Michelle Pawk, Matthew Modine
Run Time
Released
Distributed by
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Closed Captioning
Country
SUBTITLES
None
NOT RATED
Many of the films shown at The Ross are not rated due to the prohibitive cost of acquiring a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Consequently, as many of these films contain graphic content, viewer discretion is advised.
REVIEWS
“With its fine mix of dark humor, healthy anger and self-compassion, this portrait of the artist as a young woman is the work of an inspired filmmaker, and it was worth the wait.”
“It’s a moody, unpredictable tale of love and loss, stuffed with vivid metaphors, Soviet period detail and pedagogical sequences about the physiology of love. The glue holding these disparate pieces together is the film’s gloriously tactile aesthetic: Baumane crafted Zelma’s world by overlaying line-drawn characters on meticulously constructed papier-mâché dioramas. The result evokes an adult puppet show crossed with a graphic novel, and like the budding female identity the film untangles, the whole thing takes a little time getting used to. Once you do, it is remarkably beautiful.”
“With My Love Affair with Marriage, animator Signe Baumane creates another dense personal narrative that expresses complicated concepts and ideas in images.”