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    MFAH Film - Celebrating Satayajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore: Charulata

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Tagore Society of Houston at Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

    June 17, 2011

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    MFAH Film - Celebrating Satayajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore: Charulata

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Celebrating Satayajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore. These acclaimed films, directed by the legendary Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), are presented in collaboration with the Tagore Society Houston (TSH) in honor of Ray’s 90th birthday and Nobel Prize-winning author/poet/composer Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861–1941)150th birthday.

    Charulata...

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Celebrating Satayajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore. These acclaimed films, directed by the legendary Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), are presented in collaboration with the Tagore Society Houston (TSH) in honor of Ray’s 90th birthday and Nobel Prize-winning author/poet/composer Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861–1941)150th birthday.

    Charulata
    The Lonely Wife

    Satyajit Ray
    1964, Bengali with English subtitles
    India
    B/W
    117 minutes

    In this film, set in nineteenth-century Calcutta and based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore, a lonely woman drifts into an affair after her newspaper magnate husband asks his brother to keep her company. Tragedy eventually occurs, and the husband realizes what is truly lost.

    Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive with funding from the Film Foundation. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.


    Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

    1001 Bissonnet Street
    Houston, TX 77006

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    Tickets:

    $7 General Admission
    $6 Matinee Admission
    $1 discount MFAH members, senior adults (55+), and students with ID
    Free Children 5 and under
    Free Film Buffs members
    $60 Nonmember Discount Pass (10 admissions)
    $55 MFAH member Discount Pass (10 admissions)
    $3 Family Flicks Admission
    $2 Family Flicks Admission for MFAH members and students with ID

    Please note:
    The MFAH Films box office accepts payment by cash, check, and credit card.

    Tickets can be purchased in advance in three ways: online, in the museum lobbies, and at the box office.

    The box office opens at 5:30 p.m. for weekend evening screenings and at least 30 minutes before show time for most other films. 


    Times:

    Fri, Jun 17 7:00 PM 


    Phone: 713-639-7300

    Parking:

    Museum Parking Garage
    Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

    The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

    You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

    As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.
     


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