“Peter and John” a Jay Craven Film
Based on Guy de Maupassant’s 19th Cent. novel
Chandler Center for the Arts
Sunday, August 7th, 7 pm
General admission: Adults $12, Seniors $10, Students $5

Jay Craven's 2015 film adaptation Peter and John is set in 1872 Nantucket, after the demise of the whaling industry, before the rise of tourism, and in the wake of the still-reverberating Civil War. The film will tell the story of Peter Roland, a sensitive, sober, and sometimes brooding town doctor in his early 30s. Peter takes pleasure from a cozy and affectionate relationship with his strikingly beautiful mother, Julia, and he enjoys a playful camaraderie with his mischievous and sometimes reckless younger brother John.

The film stars 2014 Golden Globe winner Jacqueline Bisset (Day for Night, Bulllitt), Emmy winner and Tony nominee Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue, Glengarry Glen Ross), Christian Coulson (Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets, The Hours), Shane Patrick Kearns (Blue Collar Boys) and Diane Guerrero (Orange is the New Black).

Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century seaside novel, Pierre et Jean, is widely credited for changing the course of narrative fiction. The book introduced intense psychological complexity into its naturalistic depiction of a family brought to the breaking point through startling revelations.

“Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever,” wrote Henry James who called Pierre et Jean a “masterly little novel.”

Maupassant’s novel was widely heralded by critics and writers – and it was cited as an influence by Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Van Gogh – for the beauty of its images and its potent themes of family, class, legacy, legitimacy, and self-discovery.