Lunch With Books: Wheeling Film Society Presents, Purple Rose of Cairo

April 28, 2015
12:00pm - 12:00pm

Apr. 24 - Towngate at 7

Screening: The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985) - 82 mins.

Apr. 28 - Library at Noon

Conversation: The Purple Rose of Cairo

Woody Allen’s hybrid of romantic comedy and fantasy set in 1935 in a small, Depression-gripped New Jersey town, centers on Cecilia, who prefers the movies to her real life with an abusive, out—of-work husband.  One of the two movies she goes to see during the film is Top Hat; the other is an equally frothy Hollywood confection, set in Egypt and Manhattan, called The Purple Rose of Cairo.  Cecilia becomes unusually absorbed in this movie: one of the characters literally comes down from the screen to meet and fall in love with her, and eventually takes her back into his luminous black-and-white world of nightclubs and penthouse apartments.  Allen has long maintained that this comes closest of all his films to accomplishing exactly what he’d set out to make.

All programs – screenings and conversations – are free of admission charge.

Attend as many or as few programs as your schedule allows.

All are welcome, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Parental Guidance is recommended for all screenings and conversations.