Rice Cinema / De Lange Conference VII: Transforming the Metropolis
7:00 pm Monday, February 2, 2009
Megacities: 12 Stories of Survival (1998, 90 minutes, directed by Michael Glawogger)
Megacities is a documentary that deals with the human experiences of work, poverty, violence, love and sex. It is a film about human beauty in twelve chapters which tells the tales of people from Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New York, who are all struggling for survival, with ingenuity, intelligence and dignity. They all share the dream of a better life in the Big City at the dawn of a new millennium. A time when
