| Tuesday Jan 19, 2016 6:15 PM - Tuesday Jan 19, 2016 8:00 PM | $45.00 |
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Spanish Wines, Valencia's Paella and Award Winning Spanish Silent Film Blancanieves (2013)
Viva Espana's Vino y la Paella!
This Spanish foods and wine tasting experience is set in an old European family-style banquet that compliments what food and wine is meant to do... be shared.
We begin with a wine reception sampling a wonderful Cava wine, followed by a Valenciana focused four-course dinner paired with wines from around Spain and ending with the extraordinary award winning film Blancanieves
This dinner and wine tasting is enjoyed in family style at a 17ft long banquet table. To accentuate the experience our wait staff are dressed as classical camareros and your host Georgia Malki, born in Spain, will share anecdotal and Spanish lore related to food and wine.
During dessert and thereafter guests are welcomed to enjoy the extraordinary Andalusia black and white silent film Blancanieves. Film description and trailer link below.
THE EXPERIENCE
6:30 - 7:15PM
WINE RECEPTION
Cava Wine
FIRST COURSE
Caldo de Galicia soup
Wine from Galicia
SECOND COURSE
Paellas de Valencia
Seafood
Vegetarian
Wine of Ribero del Duero
THIRD COURSE
Ensaladas de Valencia
Wine of Alicante
FOURTH COURSE & ACCLAIMED BLACK & WHITE SILENT FILM BLANCANIEVES
Classical Spanish Dessert
Pudding Diplomatico
Valencia Oranges
Sherry from Jerez
(Guest may feel free to leave during film at any time)
ALL INCLUSIVE SPANISH FOOD & WINE DINNER:
Cava wine tasting Reception
Four-Course Dinner paired with Spanish wine tasting
Complimentary evening finale of Blancanieves
Price per person: $45.00
Gratuity is additional and presented on site
The acclaimed film BLANCANIEVES
Review written by Roger Ebert - film critic
Although the story draws on the Brothers Grimm and the legend of Snow White, it is anything but a children's movie. It is a full-bodied silent film of the sort that might have been made by the greatest directors of the 1920s....
.... "Blancanieves" exploits the silent medium for its strengths, including the fact that it can so easily deal with fantasy. This is as exciting, in many of the same ways, as the greatest traditional silent masterpieces by Dreyer, Pabst or Murnau. It's a Spanish film, but of course silent films speak an international language.
The story opens with a famous matador, Antonio Villalta (Daniel Giménez Cacho), who is filled with swaggering ego. All goes wrong for him. He is paralyzed in the ring, and his beloved wife dies in childbirth. Their daughter, Carmen, is raised by her grandmother until her death. Antonio unwisely marries the heartless Encarna (Maribel Verdu), his former nurse, who wants only his money and ignores him as he sits in a wheelchair in his room.
After Carmen is orphaned, Encarna allows the child to come and live with her and her father, only to give her a room in the barn and put her to work at hard labor. Encarna, meanwhile, dominates the household's chauffeur in classic boot-and-whip style. Eventually, Carmen manages to sneak into the mansion and bond with her father, who teaches her the art of bullfighting.
Fed up with caring for her invalid husband, Encarna hastens his demise. She also orders the chauffeur to eliminate the now-teenage Carmen.
Left for dead in a nearby river, Carmen is discovered by a troupe of dwarves, Los Enanitos Toreros. They are bullfighters who travel between cities and look like characters out of a Tod Browning film. They name her Blancanieves, Spanish for Snow White.
When one of them is wounded, she leaps into the ring and distracts the bull, using the matador skills she learned from her father. Eventually she, too, becomes a famed matador.
This film is a wonderment, urged along by a full-throated romantic score. Carmen as a child is performed lovably by the angelic Sofía Oria and as an adult, Macarena García. As with "The Artist," I believe audiences will discover they like silent films more than they think they do. The silents offer experiences and dimensions different from talking pictures.
From Wikipedia
Blancanieves was Spain's 85th Academy Awards official submission to Best Foreign Language category, but it did not make the shortlist.[;;;;7];;;; The film won the Special Jury Prize and an ex-aequo Best Actress "Silver Shell" Award for Macarena García at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival.[;;;;8];;;; It was also nominated in every category for which it was eligible for at the 27th Goya Awards (except for Best Sound), winning ten Goya Awards, including the Best Film.
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LocationLex 18 Supper Club (View)
18 North Lexington Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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