Event
Melodrama: Imitation of Life
Jun 23
(Douglas Sirk, U.S., 1959, 125 min)
Co-presented with Three Dollar Bill Cinema
Hosted by The Lady B, performer/activist
Happy hour in the lobby at 7:00pm
Thursday, Jun 23 at 08:00PM
Soap opera-esque in the absolute best sense, Douglas Sirks Imitation of Life is one of the great melodramas of the 50s, steeped in the race and class politics of the era. A white single mother in show business struggles to maintain her relationship with her daughter as she strives for stage fame; the African-American widow with whom the aspiring starlet shares an apartment has a light-skinned daughter of her own who, to her mothers dismay, longs to pass for white; the film follows the two mother-daughter relationships as they develop over several years.
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LocationThe Northwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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