Essential Cinema: Film as a Subversive Art

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Directed by Gustav Machatý/Jean Genet

Czechoslovakia/France, 1932/50, 1h 56min, DCP, Czech with English subtitles.

Essential Cinema  Film as a Subversive Art

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“One of the great works of the poetic cinema, a sensuous story of passion and desire”
—Amos Vogel

Condemned by the censors, this towering testament to passion stars pre-Hollywood Hedy Lamarr as a newlywed who, after discovering her older husband’s impotence, moves on to a virile younger man with unforeseen consequences. Screening with Jean Genet’s queer classic, UN CHANT D’AMOUR. Newly restored.

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