Daratt (Dry Season)
- Saturday, March 22 9:45 am
- Monday, March 24 2:00 pm
- Thursday, March 27 6:00 pm
Savoy Theater
Thursday, March 27 at 6:00 pm SOLD OUT
Atim is a teenager, son to a man slain in Chad’s civil war just before he was born. His grandfather raised him, and now that the boy is 15, the old man has handed him a gun with orders to travel to the capital and avenge his father’s death. But instead of finding a cold-hearted killer, Atim discovers a quiet, regal man who has left killing behind and now bakes baguettes for a living. Manohla Dargis, The New York Times: “Truth arrives as grudgingly as reconciliation in the Chadian film DARATT. Gently and quietly told, steeped in the kind of resigned sorrow that can come after years of hurt and disappointment, it is an unassumingly political work that unfolds with the simplicity of a parable and the gravity of a Bible story… Revenge is generally wretched business, but in DARATT,written and directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, it is mainly bedeviling and surprising… DARATT has the feel of a gift.” Sponsored by Sarducci’s. Community Partners: Association of Africans Living in Vermont, Vermont Council on World Affairs, Peace and Justice Center. Rated PG-13, 96 minutes, in Arabic and French. Film website
Posted in 2008 Films & Events