Neuro Film Series
The Neuro Film Series will end the season with 鈥淎 Matter of Life and Death鈥�. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is a romantic fantasy film created by the British writing-directing-producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring and Raymond Massey.听 Set in England during the Second World War, the film is about a young British airman, who under the earthly pretext of a brain illness, has his life put on trial by a heavenly tribunal. This celestial court is set up to judge the case while the airman, played by David Niven hangs in limbo between a Technicolor earth and a monochrome heaven.
Our host, Diane Broadbent Friedman, a nurse practitioner with a focus on neurological disorders, describes the film as 鈥渁 complex neurological study of a psychologically normal man who believes that a heavenly tribunal has sentenced him to death." Diane Broadbent Friedman is the author of 鈥淎 Matter of Life and Death: The Brain Revealed by the Mind of Michael Powell鈥�. Diane Broadbent Friedman will lead a discussion, invite comments and answer questions following the films close.
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Discover Science at the movies on May 16, 6:30 pm at the Neuro Film Series!
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Neuro Movie Nights are free and snacks can be purchased (including wraps and popcorn)!
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All films take place at: The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University Street, Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre.
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For more information contact: debbie.rashcovsky [at] mcgill.ca or 514-398-6047 or go to
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We look forward to seeing you there!
