Join us on Thursday February 9 at Booth University College for another session in our ongoing Theology in the Dark series. For this one we’ll be viewing Get Low, the 2009 film starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. Billed as “based on a true tall-tale,” the film explores themes of life and death, conflict, love and redemption in a way both poignant and comic. In his review for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers observed that “All you need to know is that Get Low puts Duvall and Murray in the same movie.”
Murray gets big laughs without skimping on the minute details that build a fully rounded character. And watching Murray spar with Duvall is pure pleasure. By the end of this funny, touching and acutely observed film, shot in Georgia by the gifted cinematographer David Boyd and flavored by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek’s bluegrass score, [Duvall's character] Felix reveals his secret heart. And Duvall, without a word wasted or fumbled, holds you in thrall.
Plan to arrive at the front doors of Booth (442 Webb Place, just a block north of Portage Avenue) between 6:40 and 6:55pm. Following the film, we’ll be making our way down to the new Stella’s Cafe on Portage at Memorial for some shared conversation.
To view the movie trailer, simply click here.
