MARS ET AVRIL Screens March 4th at Schlafly Bottleworks – “Strange Brew”

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MARS ET AVRIL screens March 4th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood

DANGER DIABOLIK, TARANTULA, THE THING WITH TWO HEADS – You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143).

This month (Wednesday March 4th) Strange Brew is offering up something I’ve never heard of….but it sure looks interesting! It’s the 2012 French-Canadian sci-fi mindbender MARS ET AVRIL

Plot synopsis for MARS ET AVRIL: As the first human prepares to touch down on Mars, a charismatic Montreal musician enters into a tempestuous love triangle in this adaptation of the popular graphic novel of the same name. Jacob Obus (Jacques Languirand) is a musician who toys with time. Using instruments inspired by the female form and designed by his friend Arthur (Paul Ahmarani), Jacob creates music that seems to exist on another plane of reality. When Jacob and Arthur both fall for pretty photographer Avril (Caroline Dhavernas), the cracks in their friendship start to grow. Meanwhile, Arthur’s father Eugene (Robert Lepage), a noted cosmologist, has his own theories about the human race’s desire to reach Mars, and teaches Jacob that true love is a force more powerful than he ever imagined.

The critics have been digging MARS ET AVRIL!

Anton Bitel at Sight and Sound describes MARS ET AVRIL as:

“a meta-cosmo-poem with musical accompaniment, photographic imagery and much male longing and loneliness”

“Oh, what a wonderful, rich, glorious treat of a film MARS ET AVRIL is. A sci-fi steam-punk romance with a terrific score, it is a delight to the senses. Visually stunning, melodramatic in its storytelling, and unafraid to delve into deep philosophical musings…..this is a film that demands to be seen on the big screen, but is by no means an easy watch, in the sense that it does ponder big questions, and asks the spectator to stretch their imagination more than usual.”

Now you can experience the cosmic weirdness that is MARS ET AVRIL when it screens Wednesday night March 4^th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143). The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.