Murder and Murder (Rainer, 1996): ICA Cinema, 6pm
This film is part of the Yvonne Rainer retrospective at the ICA. Full details here.
ICA introduction:
Rainer’s
last feature is also one of her most personal, inspired by the lows
and highs of a breast cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s, and the
surprise of a burgeoning lesbian relationship. The latter is
playfully refracted here through the love story of two women from
very different backgrounds: Yvonne’s sixty-something screen
counterpart Doris (Joanna Merlin) and the younger academic she’s
soon to move in with, Mildred (Kathleen Chalfant).A
comic romance whose emotions are amplified by Rainer’s structural
tomfoolery and signature intellectual rigour – with the director
providing running commentary and appearing intermittently to address
the camera – MURDER and murder probes the
pleasures, and attendant questions, of late-in-life love affairs.
This is the UK Premiere of the 4K restoration of the work.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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