MUBI Mondays sees the Little White Lies magazine's team selecting a classic film from a repertoire that's already been expertly curated by the programmers at MUBI, and screening it simultaneously with a live web broadcast.
For the fourth MUBI Monday Little White Lies are screening Eric Rohmer's lilting, semi-improvised masterpiece from 1986, The Green Ray, about a Parisian secretary who can't decide where to go on holiday, but ends up embarking on a poetic, metaphysical odyssey. The evening begins at 6.30pm with the screening starting at 7.00, following an illustrated introduction to the film by LWLies reviews editor, David Jenkins. Refreshments will be available on the night.
Time Out review:
'It's July, and Delphine (Rivière), a young
Parisian secretary, is suddenly at a loss regarding her holiday; a
friend has just backed out of a trip to Greece, her other companions
have boyfriends, and Delphine can't bear spending August in Paris. She
also hopes to find a dream lover, but receives only the unwelcome
attentions of pushy predators, until... There's a whiff of fairytale to
this particular slice of realism à la Rohmer, but what's perhaps most
remarkable is that the film was almost completely improvised; though not
so as you'd know it. It's as flawlessly constructed, shot and performed
as ever, with France's greatest living director effortlessly evoking
the morose moods of holidaying alone among crowds, and revelling in the
particulars of place, weather and time of day. Deceptively simple, the
film oozes honesty and spontaneity; the word, quite bluntly, is
masterpiece.'Geoff Andrew
Here is the trailer.
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