VIRTUAL SCREENING
This film may be streamed from October 10 - 17
and is only available to be viewed by audiences in Nassau County. You will have 48 hours from the moment you start the film to finish watching. If you are purchasing an All Access Pass,
please make sure to reserve your tickets in advance as there are limited views
available for this film.
Director Asaf Galay (The Muses of Bashevis Singer) delivers the first
documentary about author Saul Bellow, one of the most acclaimed chroniclers of
post-war American Jewish life. Galay intelligently weaves a chronological study
of Bellow’s oeuvre with an intimate portrait of the writer’s inner life and relationships.
According to Philip Roth, one of the many people interviewed, what was
liberating about Bellow’s fiction compared to other Jewish writers was that he
just presented Jews as they were rather than trying to honour or defend them.
Similar insights by writers such as Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis make this
compulsory viewing for Bellow fans.