This 35mm screening is part of the Jeanne Moreau season at Cine Lumiere. You can find all the details of the season here.
Time Out review:
In Malle's second feature, he continued his association with new star Moreau in an (at the time) controversial study of bourgeois emptiness and sexual yearnings. She plays a chic, high society wife with money, a daughter, smart friends and a casual lover. Then one night, she makes passionate love with a young student of a few hours acquaintance, and leaves it all for a new life. If it now looks too much like an angry young sensualist's movie, the combination of highly pleasurable body language, Brahms on the soundtrack, and the ravishing, velvety monochrome photography of Henri Decaë proves hard to resist. The film established Moreau's screen persona - commanding, wilful, sultry - but it marked the stylistically-conscious Malle apart from his more tearaway nouvelle vague colleagues.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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The screening below has been cancelled owing to a damaged print
Home from the Hill (Minnelli, 1960): Prince Charles Cinema, 3pm
This Badlands Collective event features a 35mm screening of Vincente Minnelli's superb 1960 American melodrama.
Chicago Reader review:
In this small-town America melodrama, Robert Mitchum plays the coolly licentious head of a Texan family, Eleanor Parker his frigid wife. Both vie for the allegiance of their son (George Hamilton), coming to terms with his patriarchal inheritance until he discovers the existence of an illegitimate half-brother (George Peppard). Then all hell breaks loose as the sins of the father are visited on the son. Vincente Minnelli's intelligent use of scope, colour and all the technical resources Metro could offer would make it watchable enough. His ability to present the network of relationships between his quartet of characters so that all four are presented in a sympathetic light, and particularly his portrayal of the central oedipal psychodrama (Hamilton is excellent), make it explosive viewing.
Rod McShane
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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