February Screening Series: International Romance

Love is in the air at the ASU MIX Center this February, where The Sidney Poitier New American Film School hosts a pair of swoon-worthy film screenings. First up is the 2000 Wong Kar-wai film “In the Mood for Love,” starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung as a man and woman in 1962 Hong Kong who discover their spouses are cheating on them, and then in their commiseration begin to develop feelings for one another. One of the most ravishing films ever made, “In the Mood for Love” has come to be recognized as a major work of Asian cinema. Then things heat up with the 1991 romantic drama “Mississippi Masala,” directed by Indian American filmmaker Mira Nair. Mina (Sarita Choudhury), an Indian immigrant exiled from Uganda now living in Mississippi, is unexpectedly drawn to handsome and hard-working carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington). Can their love cross cultural divides in the deep South? 

Feb. 12: "In the Mood for Love." RSVP here.

Feb. 26: "Mississippi Masala." RSVP here.

All screenings begin at 6 p.m. and are free and open to the public.