35 Shots of Rum (Denis, 2008): Barbican Centre, 6.15pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the 'The Devil Finds Work' season based on the critic James Baldwin's work with the same title. You can find the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
A
handsome black widower (Alex Descas) and his lovely college-age
daughter (Mati Diop) inhabit a self-contained world of tranquil
domesticity and affection in a gray suburban high-rise outside of Paris.
A goodhearted but insecure woman down the hall (Nicole Dogué) lives in
the abject hope of winning the widower's heart, and a sweetly
melancholic young man upstairs (Grégoire Colin) harbors similar feelings
for the young woman. It's a given that the father-daughter bubble must
eventually burst, but the smart writer-director Claire Denis (Beau Travail)
has other, subtler things on her mind than Electra-complex melodrama.
This 2008 feature is beautiful but very quietly so, and definitely not
for the ADHD set.
Cliff Doerksen
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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