Avalon

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  • Sunday, Apr 27

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Avalon

Presented in 35mm

The unsentimental yet heartwarming saga of a Jewish family’s immigration and assimilation in Baltimore from the 1910s through 1950s, Avalon is one of writer-director Barry Levinson’s most personal films. The Krichinsky family, led by patriarch and wallpaper salesman Sam (Armin Muehler-Stahl), faces crises and changes large and small, all presented with gentle humor and a feeling of nostalgia that is captured with rapturous beauty by the cinematography of Allen Daviau (E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple). A celebration of family life that can be enjoyed by the whole family.

Children’s tickets are available for Duck Soup and Avalon as part of the Jewish Film Festival’s Family Day.

"The real triumph of this film thematically is that melancholy and bittersweet emotions dominate. This is not the standard heartwarming immigrant film we have experienced so often. To be sure there are plenty of sweet moments, but the inexorable tide in the film is toward fragmentation."
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune

This film is part of the Jewish Film Festival 2025 series.



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