Cornell Cinema welcomes actor Roshan Seth at a screening of his recent critically acclaimed film "Such a Long Journey" on Friday, April 6, at 7 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. Admission is $4.50 general/$4 students and seniors. Seth is in Ithaca for the role of Salieri in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts production of "Amadeus." The play will run April 26 through May 5; tickets can be purchased by calling 254-ARTS.
Born in India, Seth attended college in Delhi and then moved to England, where he studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He has worked extensively in British film, television and theater, as well as in U.S. productions. His major films include "Gandhi," "Mississippi Masala," "A Passage to India" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." One of his early films was the British art house hit "My Beautiful Laundrette." He has toured the world with the Royal Shakespeare Company's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and performed "King Lear" at the National Theatre in London.
In "Such a Long Journey," Seth stars as a Parsee bank clerk whose quiet, middle-class world unravels when he is caught up in a scheme to funnel cash to the Bangladeshi resistance on the eve of the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. In a complex, arresting performance, Seth makes the protagonist a sympathetic Everyman, tested by his wife's retreat into resentment and superstition, his son's rebellion and his daughter's illness, even as loyalty to an old friend leads him into dangerous political waters.
One of Roger Ebert's "Neglected Gems of 2000," "Such a Long Journey" also will be shown Tuesday, April 10, at 9:30 p.m.
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