The Pageant Theatre

DREAMS

Michel Franco

  • 98 minutes
  • 2025
  • English

      Friday, March 6
    • 4:30pm and 7pm
    • Saturday, March 7
    • 4:30pm and 7pm
    • Sunday, March 8
    • 2pm and 4:30pm
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    Fernando (Isaac Hernández), a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international recognition and a life in the US. Believing his lover, Jennifer (Jessica Chastain in a courageous perfromance), a liberal socialite and philanthropist, will support him, he leaves everything behind--secretly crossing the the US-Mexico border and narrowly escaping death in the process. However, his arrival disrupts Jennifer's carefully curated world. She will do anything to protect both their futures--and the life she has built. A tense, erotic drama from acclaimed director Michel Franco (Memory, New Order), DREAMS is a shocking critique of lopsided power dynamics and a provocative social critique with an extra-sharp sting in the tail.

A POET

Simón Mesa Soto

  • 123 minutes
  • 2025
  • Spanish with English subtitles

      Final show! Sunday, March 8
    • 7pm
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    Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A POET, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.

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