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Saturday October 21
7:15pm

EBAN AND CHARLEY

The setting is familiar -- a small, gloomy coastal town. Eban, a socially awkward ex-soccer coach, returns home for reasons undisclosed. During a day of slacking, he encounters Charley, a friendly and personable student. They share common interests: strumming guitar licks, riding bikes, and scribbling poetry. Their friendship leads to an intimacy that turns their differences into a crisis: Eban is 29 and Charley is 15. As both families learn of the taboo romance, Eban must face never seeing Charley again or being labeled a pedophile by his family, his community, and the law. Director James Bolton allows the audience to process the film's complex and unsettling issues as the tension builds to an uncertain conclusion.

EBAN AND CHARLEY was shot on digital video according to the rules of the Dogme 95 manifesto (until post-production, when a musical soundtrack composed by the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt was added).

EBAN AND CHARLEY; James Bolton, director; 2000; USA; 89 minutes; video

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