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French Cinematheque: BAY OF ANGELS
FRENCH CINEMATHEQUE
Co-presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich
The Magical World of Jacques Demy
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BAY OF ANGELS
A brand new digital restoration
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Post-film discussion with Professor Anne Kern (SUNY Purchase)
Thursday, December 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Carte Blanche: FREE | Avon & AFG Members: $6 | Students & Seniors: $8 | Nonmembers: $11
“Fast-moving, supremely assured, hypnotic.”
- Richard Roud
ABOUT THE FILM: (1963) After Bank clerk Claude Mann’s holiday gets diverted to Nice’s “Baie des Anges” and a seat at the roulette table next to platinum blonde Jeanne Moreau, the couple rollercoaster from hotel suites, cars and couture to scrounging for change, and back again. Demy’s second film is a triumph of style, from Raoul Coutard’s mobile camerawork amid sun-splashed Riviera locations to Moreau, resplendent in white lacy bustier, flashing across a succession of mirrors in the penultimate shot. Restored in 2012 with the support of the La Cinémathèque Française, the Franco-American Fund and the Audivisual Archives of Monaco. -Film Forum
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.
