GOLDEN EIGHTIES
Special Features: 4K Restoration | Intro by Hester Baer, Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and German, University of Maryland, College Park
FREE SCREENING! Tickets are limited to four per reservation and are not a guarantee of admission. You must be seated at least 15 min. prior to showtime. Seating is limited, so please arrive early. Empty seats will be released to standby line guests.
a.k.a. WINDOW SHOPPING
The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love and survival in the age of late capitalism. Amid the consumerist wonderland of a shopping mall, a cadre of store employees (played by professional and nonprofessional actors, including many of Akerman’s friends and pop star Lio) bounce in and out of one another's arms in a cycle of breakups, makeups, misunderstandings and reunions, their romantic roundelay punctuated by imaginatively stylized production numbers. Working with frequent star Delphine Seyrig and a remarkable team of writers — who between them penned everything from JULES AND JIM (Jean Gruault) to DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (Leora Barish) — Akerman deftly balances the shiny pop pleasures of the genre with piercing variations on her signature themes, including a startlingly moving reflection on Jewish resilience and the legacy of the Holocaust. (Note adapted from Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Chantal Akerman; SCR Pascal Bonitzer, Henry Bean, Jean Gruault, Leora Barish; PROD Martine Merignac. Belgium/France/Switzerland, 1986, color, 96 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Restored in 4K in 2024 by the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in collaboration with Chantal Akerman Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the 35mm original negative and the original sound mix. Funding provided by Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Leora Barish, Henry Bean, Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF), SWA. Restoration supervised by Luc Benhamou. DCP courtesy of Janus Films.
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, March 09, 2025
Genre: Musical comedy