Provincetown International Film Festival 2009

Producer Matthew Lavine will be in attendance.

FOUR SEASONS LODGE follows a group of Holocaust survivors who have spent 25 years summering together at an isolated rural compound in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Among them are a couple who met in a Nazi concentration camp but only recently became lovers; two women whose 65-year-long friendship is alternately caustic, tender and revealing; the colony's president, who struggles to keep 100 demanding residents content while tending his ailing wife; and the vice president, who is the colony poet, beloved jokester and a moody misanthrope who refuses to reveal his war-time past. They come for the raucous poker games, the dancing that goes on till dawn, and the long summer days spent with others who understand their pasts - and their unfathomable pain. Over the course of a summer that may be the colony's last, age-old rivalries are settled and cherished relationships come apart. As the summer draws to a close, the lodgers throw one last party - the fate of their colony undetermined, but their spirits unbowed. A subtle exploration of aging and death, the power of memory and the ability of human beings to celebrate life despite numbing loss, FOUR SEASONS LODGE is also a counterintuitive film about the Holocaust: a verité, uplifting and insightful portrait of people who embrace their dark pasts with striking openness and, at times, dark humor.

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