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With lush cinematography and a haunting soundtrack, ELVIS AND ANABELLE is a unique and timeless love story. Elvis is an unlicensed mortician in his family’s funeral home, a once-splendid American gothic in rural Texas. His sense of family obligation and love for his eccentric, ailing father keep him from following his dreams. Anabelle is a beauty queen being groomed for the big time by her pushy, show-biz mother. All her decisions are made for her – she’s just not sure she fits the part. Their lives are worlds apart, but they collide when Anabelle, in a moment of triumph, collapses and dies on a beauty pageant catwalkand ends up on Elvis’s embalming table. What happens next is as magical as it is unexpected...

(With Max Minghella, Blake Lively, Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Keith Carradine, 2007, 105 min.) Preceded by Red Man Directed by Will Geiger Red Man tells us the story of a Native American man in a grass skirt who’s waiting to be spirited away
from urban Seattle. (7 min.)