Please Join us for the Annual
HBS Denver Film Festival Event
Saturday November 14th
Featuring "The Last Station"
Ellie Caulkins Opera House
(14th and Curtis at the Denver Performing Arts Complex)
Film starts at 7:30 pm
Light Dinner and Cash Bar at 6:00 pm
The LimeLight Supper Club (in the DPAC)
Price $35 per person (includes movie and dinner)
Click here to buy tickets!!!
This film received rave reviews at the Telluride Film Festival and is expected to be an Oscar nominee.
Synopsis: After almost 50 years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren) – devoted wife, passionate lover, muse, and secretary of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), who has copied out War and Peace six times … by hand! – suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of piety, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property, and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism, and celibacy.
So when Sofya discovers further that Tolstoy’s trusted disciple, Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) – whom she despises – may have secretly convinced her husband to sign a new will, leaving the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she is consumed by outrage. Using every bit of cunning she has, she fights fiercely for what she believes is rightfully hers. The more extreme her behavior becomes, however, the more easily Chertkov is able to persuade Tolstoy of the damage she will do to his glorious legacy. Into this minefield, meanwhile, wanders Tolstoy’s worshipful new assistant, the young, gullible Valentin (James McAvoy). In no time, he becomes a pawn – first of the scheming Chertkov and then of the wounded, vengeful Sofya – as each plots to undermine the other’s gains.
A tale of two romances, one beginning, one near its end, The Last Station is a richly complex, funny, and emotional story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it.
