Antonio Banderas, the hunky Spanish actor married to Melanie Griffith, screens his film "El Camino de los Ingleses.
Today at Carlisle Theatre, 40 W. High St. It's his second project as a director.After the film.
Banderas and screenwriter/novelist Antonio Soler will answer audience questions.
The screening and answer session are free to the public; doors open at 3:30 p.m., and no one will be admitted after 4 p.m. The film, with English subtitles, has been shown abroad for two years and at several film festivals in the United States.
"El Camino de los Ingleses" (The English Road) is set in Banderas' hometown of Malaga, Spain, in the late 1970s. It is based on Soler's award-winning novel of the same name. The story focuses on a group of teenagers and the changes and experiences they undergo as they move toward adulthood.
This is not the first time Banderas has visited Carlisle. In 2000 he received an honorary degree from Dickinson College. At the time Soler was a writer in residence at the college. Grace Jarvis, chair of the Spanish and Portuguese department at Dickinson, who knows both "Antonios," was asked to do translation work on the film's screenplay.