Atlanta Jewish Film Festival: "Room and a Half" is tribute to friend
Sometimes the best biographies are the ones that are partly made up.
That’s certainly the case with “Room and a Half,” Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s loving tribute to his friend, Joseph Brodsky. The great Russian poet and eventual Nobel Laureate loved his homeland, not wisely but too well. First, he was sent to a Soviet prison for speaking up against Stalin. Then, in 1972, he was permanently exiled to America where he died 1996.
“Room and a Half” makes no bones about being a fanciful (and then some) treatment of Brodsky’s life. Using his talent for animation, Khrzhanovsky creates scenes like one in which Soviet soldiers literally throw culture out the window. Imagine an entire orchestra’s worth of instruments floating above what was then Leningrad and you’ll get the idea.
If you go
"Room and a Half." 7:30 p.m. Thursday. $8-$10. Lefont Sandy Springs, 5920 Roswell Road. 404-806-9913, www.ajff.org
