Tuesday | April 24, 2007 9:00 pm

Butterfly
(La lengua de las mariposas)

Screening on Film

Directed by José Luis Cuerda.
With Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco.
Spain, 1999, 35mm, color, 96 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Print source: Swank

Butterfly views the thunderous build-up to the Spanish Civil War from the quiet distance of a prematurely wise eight-year old boy. This delicate coming-of-age story follows young Moncho’s apprenticeship in love, heroism and treason as his village is gradually polarized into two camps. Legendary Spanish actor Fernando Fernân Gômez is especially memorable in the role of the boy’s iconoclastic school teacher and mentor.

March 3 – April 24, 2007

Franco, Fascists, and Freedom Fighters: The Spanish Civil War on Film

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 3–7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada