This program has rich discussions on the movies selected each month by facilitator Barbara Brennan. If you enjoy movies, we encourage you to be a part of the group. Check out the movies below for March. Join the group and be a part of the fun!
The Good Shepherd – 2007 Netflix - Awards
Starring Matt Damon, Angelina Joli, Robert DiNiro, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt.
The Good Shepherd is an American spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro. The central character is Edward Wilson (a convincingly grey and serious Matt Damon), a literary scholar from a distinguished WASP family, who becomes a member of the world's most exclusive secret society, Skull and Bones, while a student at Yale. Based in part on the famed super spook and counterintelligence expert James Jesus Angleton (though much saner), Wilson is recruited for the newly formed OSS by Roosevelt's intelligence adviser, Bill Sullivan (a lightly disguised version of Major General 'Wild Bill' Donovan, played by De Niro).
This is a consistently intelligent and engrossing movie about the creation of a self-perpetuating international espionage community, living in a twilight world that gratifies a childish need for fulfilling fantasies, sharing secrets, exercising ruthless power in the belief that you are disinterestedly working for the good of the nation. Wilson is drawn in as a result of covering up his father's secret and his son, who's seen his mother (Angelina Jolie) kept out of the loop, becomes a CIA agent after his admittance to Skull and Bones. It is a quasi-religious calling, hence the film's title.
Past Lives – 2023 Amazon - Awards
Nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay in 2024.
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Decades later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront destiny, love and the choices that make a life.
NPR review: Across continents and decades, 'Past Lives' is the most affecting love story in ages.
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