SLC Film Center and The Tanner Humanities Center

present an evening of film celebrating author Isabel Allende.

This program is also supported by the Utah Humanities Council which promotes understanding of diverse traditions, values and ideas through informed discussion.

November 30, The City Library

210 E., 400 S.


5:30 PM – The City Library

Isabel Allende: A Writer's Life


Directed by Paula Rodriguez Sickert

The world-famous Chilean author reveals her passionate engagement with life and politics. She has written nearly twenty novels, the most famous of which are The House of the Spirits, Paula and Aphrodite. Her books have sold more than thirty-five million copies in over thirty languages. Born in Peru in 1942 and raised in her grandparent's house in Chile, she started her career as a journalist. After the Chilean army overthrew her uncle Salvador Allende's government, she spent thirteen years in political exile in Venezuela before love finally brought her to live in the United States.

Isabel Allende manages to transform her passionate and painful life into literature, exorcizing her experiences onto the page. Each of her most successful novels marks an important part or even watershed in her biography, like the tragic loss of her 28-year-old daughter Paula who died in Spain from a metabolic disease. The film contains intimate interviews with her and her close companions and reveals her complicated personality. Several of her readers explain how meaningful her books are to them.

7:00 PM – The City Library

The House of the Spirits (113 mins)

Directed by Bille August

This hauntingly romantic adaptation of Isabel Allende's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, follows three generations of a South American family, starting in 1926. Esteban (Jeremy Irons) vows to marry Rosa, the daughter of a rich man. But when Rosa dies before Esteban saves enough money to do so, he instead marries her younger sister (Merle Streep). Years later, when their daughter (Winona Ryder) falls for a revolutionary (Antonio Banderas), the family is thrown into turmoil.


Both films will be introduced by Professor Isabel Dulfano from the University of Utah.



These screenings are presented in partnership with The Tanner Humanities Center and are part of the 2009 Tanner Lecture on Human Values.

December 2, 2009

7:00-9:00pm

University of Utah Olpin Union Ballroom

Please join us The Tanner Humanities Center for

a lecture by acclaimed novelist

Isabel Allende

"In the Hearts of Women"

December 3, 2009

11:00am

Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, Room 109

A Panel Discussion on the work of Isabel Allende

Participants:

Isabel Dulfano, University of Utah

Benjamin Saenz, University of Texas, El Paso

Donald Shaw, University of Virginia

All events are free and open to the public.
 For more information about the lecture and film series, please contact the Tanner Humanities Center
 at (801) 581-7989 or at www.thc.utah.edu.