Sex! Jews! Budapest! Get ‘Gloomy’ with Oyster this Weekend

Join Oyster this Sunday, November 5th, at the San Jose Jewish Film Festival’s showing of ‘Gloomy Sunday‘. This award-winning film is already sold out, but Oyster can hook you up! Just email me: Oyster <at> oy-bay.org . This event is jointly coordinated with SVYAD and CBDYAG. You can also register for SVYAD’s stash of tickets.

This movie involves a look at the Hungarian Jewish community at the brink of World War II. B”H, we will have a Hungarian Holocaust survivor with us on Sunday to talk with us after the film about his experiences, and reactions to the movie. A movie summary:

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well. (Sexual situations, nudity)