take 49: 25.9.2013

Women's Liberation on Celluloid

Door open 20h

20h30: France 1971, 93min, english subs

 

Director:Moshé Mizrahi

Writers:Moshé Mizrahi (adaptation), Christiane Rochefort

Stars:Bernadette Lafont, Michel Duchaussoy, Bulle Ogier

Celine (Bernadette Lafont) is a free-spirited woman who marries a dull, middle manager named Philippe (Michel Duchaussoy) in this comedy drama. The union results in her being pegged as a household ornament for her husband by her husband's coworker. She makes friends with a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get whatever material goods she desires. When the couple entertains the coworker and his wife, the drunken men suggests they swap wives... ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Features the legendary soundtrack of Chicago Art Ensemble.

KINO ANDERS vote: 4 of 4 STARS

A MUST SEE!!!

22h10, France 1973, 73min, english subs

  

I've long been a fan of the sculpture of Niki de Saint Phalle, so I really looked forward to seeing her speak and move in the flesh. Whitehead is a very personal director, and along with her intensely personal story, it is almost hard to watch this film. Apparently Whitehead wanted to do a biographical story about St. Phalle, but instead she wrote a 90-minute rant about her father, and acts out his sexual abuse of her while she tortures him, first by sexualizing her mother, then by bringing in a "young girl from the convent". The nutty piano repeating over and over in the background emphasizes the insanity of the whole film. St. Phalle is in her early forties and still very attractive here, but her therapeutic and ritualized dissection of her father doesn't feel successful, and I came away from this film feeling sad for her... Joel Rayne , L.A.