AFS Essentials: Girl with Green Eyes
Tuesday night, the Austin Film Society presents Girl with Green Eyes, a tale of the naive-girl-in-the-big-city and the second offering in their Essential Cinema Series "Blokes 'n Birds: British Realist Cinema, 1958-1965."
Rita Tushingham plays Kate, a quiet, wide-eyed rural Irish girl thrust into the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Dublin and into the bombastic presence of the worldly Baba, played by Lynn Redgrave. While Baba may have plenty of verve, she is brushed aside as Kate becomes the desire of Eugene, played by Peter Finch, the emotionally bruised older gentleman who is intrigued by this gentle little fawn.
While Eugene may be dashing—he does, after all own land in the city and is a successful writer—he is also twice Kate's age and not officially divorced from his first wife. Will this relationship last like a backwards, modern day Ashton and Demi, or will it succumb to the too often true saying that "they are just in different places in their lives"?
AFS Essentials: Girl with Green Eyes
Tuesday, September 11th
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
7pm, $4 / Free to AFS members
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