Film Series At Library Will Feature Indie Features

This winter C.H. Booth Library will be showing award winning independent foreign films that rarely make it to the local movie theaters. The series will begin on Tuesday, January 10, at 7:30 pm, with the Canadian film Wilby Wonderful.

Even though Wilby is just a short ferry ride from the mainland, its residents rarely leave the comforts of their beloved home. While peaceful and tranquil on the outside, Wilby is filled with eccentric characters and more drama than most towns twice its size.

Filled with well-written dialogue, Wilby Wonderful explores what happens to several individuals when a series of less-than-innocent secrets threaten to reveal themselves and unravel the tight-knit community. As scandal threatens to rock the very foundation of Wilby Island, Duck MacDonald, the town’s dyslexic sign painter, keeps interrupting the depressed video store owner Dan Jarvis during his half-hearted suicide attempts.

Meanwhile, Dan has enlisted the blindly-ambitious real estate agent, Carol French, to sell his house in an effort to quickly tie up the last of his loose ends. Carol is more interested in selling her recently deceased mother-in-law’’ house to Mayor Brent Fisher, seeing it as a way to advance her social status.

To take her social step up, Carol could use the help of her police officer husband Buddy, but Buddy has his hands full with perennially-sexy, wrong-side-of-the-tracks Sandra Anderson, who can never decide if she is coming or going.

Sandra’s daughter Emily is none too thrilled about her mother repeating her typical pattern of married men and bad reputation, but Emily herself is just about to have her heart broken for the very first time.

Of course, everyone’s concerns are going to be very different once someone finds a body in a closet.

Running time is 1 hour, 39 minutes, and the film is not rated.

Admission is free, and light refreshments will be offered. Reservations are not needed.

Upcoming dates and films will be February 7, Le Grand Voyage; March 7, a series of film shorts including Sangam, which was an official Sundance Selection, and Inja, Das Rad and Mt Head, which received Academy Awards nominations; April 4, Drifters; and May 2, Agata and The Storm.

C.H. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street, can be reached at 426-4533.