SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“Spare, elegant, disjunctive, initially annoying and ultimately drop-dead beautiful... one of the great European art films of the post-art-film era.”
120 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Marguerite Duras. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
Screening as part of “Fall of ‘75,” a celebration of some of the greatest films from one of cinema’s greatest years.
Marguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerizing, almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema. Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men—with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness. Setting her evocatively decadent visuals to a desynchronized chorus of disembodied voices that comment on and counterpoint the action, Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other.
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS in this series:
Mirror: Saturday, October 4 at 3 p.m.
Mirror: Sunday, October 5 at 12 p.m.
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Saturday, October 11 at 3 p.m.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom: Sunday, November 2 at 3 p.m.
Three Days of the Condor: Saturday, November 8 at 3 p.m.
Nashville: Saturday, November 15 at 3 p.m.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Saturday, November 29 at 3 p.m.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Sunday, November 30 at 12 p.m.
Manila in the Claws of Light: Saturday, December 6 at 3 p.m.