Italian Film to Screen at Easton Library

The Italian film Shun Li and the Poet  will be shown at the Easton Area Public Library at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, September 23.

 

 Shun Li works in a textile factory near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender in a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the local fishermen, including Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed The Poet. A tender friendship grows between Shun Li and Bepi, but gossip soon threatens their innocent relationship, a bond that had once transcended two very different, yet not so distant cultures.

 

The film, which runs approximately 100 minutes in Italian and Mandarin with English subtitles, is free and open to the public. The film is unrated.

 

The movie will be shown in the Catherine Drake Meeting Room, which is handicapped accessible from Church Street. Patrons are welcome to bring light refreshments.

 

Shun Li and the Poet  is part of the Film Movement series featured at the Library.

 

For more information, call 610-258-2917 ext 307.