A Wider Angle Film Series: ULYSSES & MONA

For July, A Wider Angle, our monthly film series highlighting independent global cinema, will screen the 2018 French comedy-drama Ulysses & Mona, written and directed by Sébastian Betbeder. The film premiered as an Official Selection at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). 

Ulysses (played by former international soccer star Éric Cantona) is a 50-something contemporary artist who has fled to seclusion with his dog Joseph, spending his days in an old forest manor listening to horror film soundtracks and hitting tennis balls thrown by a ball machine. Mona (Manal Issa) is a young art student bored with school who goes in search of Ulysses, hoping he will agree to be her mentor. The pair eventually embark on a road trip across rural France visiting people Ulysses hopes to make amends to for prior wrongs.

In French with English subtitles. (Running time 82 minutes)

For a review of the film, click here.

A Wider Angle film series is made possible through funding provided by the Friends of the Library.