FILM

Holocaust Museum Houston will present a public screening of the thriller Emotional Arithmetic, as part of this year’s Fall Film Series. The film will be shown Thursday, November 17, 2011, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Museum’s Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater at the Morgan Family Center, 5401 Caroline St., Houston, TX 77004 in Houston’s Museum District.

Holocaust Museum Houston’s Fall Film Series will feature three early cinematic dramatizations that helped shape the memory of the Holocaust in popular consciousness. All the three films do what great Holocaust movies should: they take a dark time in history and weave a narrative that makes us understand what we didn’t know before. They educate more than they entertain, but they do it with compassion, humor and even the plain harsh truth.

This is a story of redemption, healing, and reconciliation ignited by the re-union of three survivors of Drancy, the WW II internment camp just outside of Paris. In 1945 a young dissident held at Drancy, takes two children, Melanie and Christopher, under his charge. 40 years later Melanie discovers that her now elderly rescuer, whom she believed had been taken from Drancy to Auschwitz and killed, is still alive. She immediately invites him to live with her and her family on their farm in Canada. He arrives with Christopher as a surprise for Melanie, and she and Christopher must face the truth of the bond between them.

The past explodes into the present (the mid-1980s) in an unexpected and tender love story which is life altering for them and for those around them.