Taking Off: comedy film screening

At the end of the 1960s, the young Jeannie leaves the suburbs for New York, dreaming of becoming a singer, and ends up joining a group of hippies and bohemians. Meanwhile, her parents begin a search marked by tragicomic situations. Along the way, they meet a group of other parents whose children have disappeared and who are trying to understand their children and the generational conflict of the time. Through improbable encounters, drug experiences and family incommunicability, this comedy portrays adults lost in the face of a young generation rejecting conservatism and everyday compromises. Musical auditions punctuate the film, with brief appearances by Kathy Bates as Bobo Bates and Carly Simon. It was Forman’s first American film.