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French Cinematheque: LOLA
FRENCH CINEMATHEQUE
Co-presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich
The Magical World of Jacques Demy
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LOLA
A brand new digital restoration
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Post-film discussion with Professor Anne Kern (SUNY Purchase)
Thursday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Carte Blanche: FREE | Avon & AFG Members: $6 | Students & Seniors: $8 | Nonmembers: $11
"As expressionistic and experimental as it is accessible and entertaining"
- Robert Bell, Toronto International Film Festival
ABOUT THE FILM: The innovations of the French New Wave were many, but one was the uncorking of sheer joy: joy in youth, joy in rule-breaking, joy in cinema. No film of the era is more blissful than Jacques Demy's LOLA, a bittersweet ode to first loves and missed opportunities. Gorgeously photographed by Raoul Coutard (shortly after his groundbreaking work on BREATHLESS), it's set in the atmospheric seaside town of Nantes. At the center of the interlocking storylines is a dancer (the stunning Anouk Aimée), who reunites with an ennui-burdened childhood friend (Marc Michel) but pines for the memory of a long-lost sailor. LOLA points toward Demy's subsequent musical treasures, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG and THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, which together form one of the great happy visions in all of movies: a niche between workaday reality and a fairy-tale world in which everything works out exactly as it should. --Robert Horton
Not Rated | In French with English subtitles | 90 minutes
ABOUT ANNE KERN: Anne M. Kern is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in Film Studies and Comparative Literature from Yale University, and has published on European and American cinema, surrealism and psychoanalysis, including a recent essay on three early Renoir films in A Companion to Jean Renoir. She is currently completing a book-length project titled A Sense of Play: Instances of the Ludic in Twentieth Century European Film & Theory. Dr. Kern also serves as a Board Member of both the Alliance Française of Greenwich and the Focus on French Cinema film festival.
