Emotional Arithmetic Movie News:

Headline: Stars work out Emotional Arithmetic
13th September 2006
Posted by: Rich Badley

Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow, Roy Dupuis and Susan Sarandon are starring in Emotional Arithmetic, based on the book by Canadian novelist Matt Cohen. by Paolo Barzman and adapted by Jefferson Lewis and Barzman, the film probes the intricate possibilities of love and madness and the shadows the past throws upon the present. Three people who formed a life-long bond in a concentration camp are re-united for the first time forty years later in the bucolic setting of a renovated farm. Sarandon will play Melanie Lansing Winters, a beautiful woman in her 50's who balances her precarious emotional state with an innate sharp, deprecating wit. Byrne will play Christopher Lewis, a British novelist haunted by the survivor's eternal question - "Why was I saved?" Von Sydow will play Jakob Bronski, a heroic dissident and veteran of a Soviet psychiatric hospital; who loses and saves his family twice and David Winter, (Plummer) Melanie's husband, whose compulsive infidelity has left him with a marriage in tatters and an embittered son (Dupuis).

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