Place: Greenville UU Fellowship
1135 State Park Rd
Greenville SC 20609
(Upstairs in the Sanctuary)
Bring your favorite beverages and finger food to share with the community. The food will be shared in a left overflow room and we screen the movie in a sanctuary instead of the Founder’s Room.
Two Hindu women struggle with loveless, arranged marriages: Sita (Nandita Das), who discovers that her husband (Javed Jaffrey) has a mistress, and her sister-in-law, Radha (Shabana Azmi), who cannot give birth. As the lukewarm coals of their long-term relationships fade, the women ignite passion in their lives by finding comfort in each other. Director Deepa Mehta's drama is supposedly the first Indian film about lesbians. This movie was banned in India. Fire is a beautiful, poignant love story that has wonderfully complex characters and a story that can make you feel happy , sad and outraged all at the same time. This is one of the few films about lesbianism that found a way to deal with the subject without exploiting it or cheapening the women portrayed. But not only does it have a wonderful story to tell it is also beautiful to watch.
The movie is not rated by MPAA. It runs 104 Minutes.
