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Join us on Saturday February 26, 2022 at 5:30pm for the screening of Un mundo para Julius / A World for Julius (in Spanish with English subtitles) and a Q&A session with film director Rossana Díaz Costa.
“A world for Julius, the long-awaited film version of the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, one of the key and most widely read texts in Peruvian literature, directed by Rossana Díaz Costa, is coming to DePaul University on February 26th, 2022. The film tells the tender and moving story of a boy who wakes up to life with innocence and joy but also with sadness and many questions that he cannot answer, when he sees the huge differences between the beings he loves but who treat him coldly, and the reality of the employees of the house, who take care of him with great affection and are like his other family. The story is told from the gaze of Julius, an upper-class boy in Lima in the 1950s, who lives in a splendid mansion with his aristocratic family and extensive servants. As the years pass, Julius will gradually lose his innocence, discovering and never understanding an adult world full of inequalities and injustices. With a story steeped in tenderness; fascinating and entertaining, and that also rescues values and themes to reflect on, is a film aimed at adults and families, and despite the fact that it takes place in the past, it subtly touches current problems in Peru, such as discrimination, racism, machismo and harassment, which we must eradicate.”
DePaul University Schmidt Academic Center (SAC 154) on the Lincoln Park Campus, 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue (between W. Belden and Fullerton), Chicago, IL 60614
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
*All on-campus attendees and participants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to attending the event and must wear a mask always covering their nose and mouth while inside any DePaul facility. Valid proof of vaccination & valid photo ID required.
