Film
La Captive
Fri, Apr 29, 2016
- 7PM
- 9:30PM
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RUN TIME: 118min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $7 (free for Level 4 and above)
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April 2016
Friday April 29, 2016
Performances no longer available.
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2016
series Chantal Akerman: Images Between the Images
Directed by Chantal Akerman | 2000
With Sylvie Testud, Stanislas Merhar, Olivia Bonamy
“Inflected with an almost operatic intensity, the film transcends/eschews naturalism to create an almost timeless parable.”
—Time Out London
A reclusive young man’s (Merhar) infatuation with a curiously passive woman (Testud) traps them in a cycle of unfulfilled desire as he obsessively tails her every move à la Jimmy Stewart’s detective in Vertigo. Akerman’s mesmerizing take on Proust's La Prisonnière “transcends any notion of adaptation and touches on the distance between lovers who are doomed to dream apart” (The New York Times).
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BAMcinématek presents a career-spanning survey of “one of the great film artists of her generation” (The New York Times). See highlights from the retrospective in this series trailer.