The Philoctetes Center is pleased to present Forty Shades of Blue, winner of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and Official Selection of the Berlin Film Festival. Forty Shades of Blue tells the story of a beautiful Russian emigre living in Memphis with a much older blues musician, a local legend who has seen better days. She experiences a personal awakening in the course of an affair with his estranged son. In the bars and bedrooms of Memphis a love triangle forms, illuminating the hearts and souls of these three tangled lives, focusing on issues of infidelity and May/December relationships.

Starring Rip Torn as the aging musician, Darren Burrows as his son, and Dina Korzun as the woman caught between them, Forty Shades of Blue was shot on location in Memphis, Tennessee, the hometown of director/co-writer Ira Sachs. Rip Torn's magnetic performance as a music legend marks a return to the kind of roles for which he was famed in the 70s.

"Atmospheric and Haunting! There's an Altman-like richness to the texture of this movie." - David Ansen, Newsweek

Discussants:
Fred Sander is a member of The New York Psychoanalytic Society and leader of the "Psychoanalysis and the Theater" seminar at The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Ira Sachs is the Director of Forty Shades of Blue.

Richard Lorber is Chairman of the Board of Film Forum.

The screening is presented in collaboration with Film Forum, New York's leading nonprofit cinema for independent and repertory cinema. Forty Shades of Blue was produced by Margot Bridger, Jawal Nga, Mary Bing and Ira Sachs. The film was developed and produced in association with Mirage Enterprises.