Cinema East Film 'A Confucian Confusion'
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The next film of the Cinema East film series at Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay Street) is Edward Yang’s 1994 feature A Confucian Confusion, which screens on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 7:45 p.m., with a matinee screening at 11:00 a.m. More information and tickets can be found online.
According to the Pickford’s website, A Confucian Confusion charts the tangled web of emotional and professional manipulations among a group of young urbanites:
“Art versus commerce, friendship versus status, independence versus conformity—values clash and collide in Yang’s study of an increasingly Westernized country heading into the twenty-first century without moral guideposts…Injecting comedic elements into his patented brand of earnest soul-searching, Yang finds humor as well as pathos in the desperate behavior of a lost and lonely generation.”
The Cinema East film series is co-presented by Western Libraries and Pickford Film Center, with film selections curated by WWU librarian Jeff Purdue, who will also provide the introduction for this film.
For more information about the Cinema East series, please see the PFC website, or contact Jeff Purdue at: purduej@wwu.edu, (360)-650-7750.
All PFC theaters are ADA accessible with wheelchair seating, and closed captioning and assistive listening devices are available at the box office. For questions about or to request disability accommodation, please contact Meghan Schilling, meghan@pickfordfilmcenter.org.
[Image Description: Still image from the film, A Confucian Confusion: Two people sitting together at a table in a restaurant, each looking directly at the other as though deep in conversation.]