Tell Me A Riddle + The Stronger

A cancer diagnosis prompts a elderly couple to go on a road trip in Lee Grant’s heartfelt theatrical directorial debut. Her short adapts August Strindberg’s play about a wife and her husband’s mistress.

Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, Lee Grant’s touching theatrical debut considers the challenges of old age and was one of the first US feature films to be produced, written and directed by women. When David (Melvyn Douglas) discovers his wife Eva (Lila Kedrova) has terminal cancer, he elects to keep it a secret and the two of them embark on a road trip to see their children and grandchildren. Showing with her short film adaptation of August Strindberg’s The Stronger, which charts an encounter between a wife and her husband’s mistress.

English and Russian with English subtitles.