'Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss'

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - D – 1982 – fiction – black & white – 104’ – OV – STT FR / NL

Fourth instalment in Fassbinder’s tetralogy about post-war Germany, shown through the portraits of four women (Lili Marleen, Maria Braun, etc). In this film the heroine is a former star of the film company UFA, now an alcoholic and drug addict facing a grim fate. Rosel Zech plays the lead, and Xavier Schwarzengerger’s black-and-white photography is remarkably well suited to the portrayal of this cold and cruel society with no place for generosity or dreams.

With: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate

Coprod. Flagey / Cinematek

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Lola Montès

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Max Ophuls - FR - D - 1955 - fiction - color - 110' - OV FR - STT NL

New print of Max Ophuls’ masterpiece put together by the Paris Cinemathèque that restored its original colours, stereophonic sound, editing and cinemascope format. Max’s son Marcel Ophuls helped on the project, with support from the Thomson Foundation and the Franco-American Cultural Funds, as well as several European Film Archives, including the Brussels Archives.

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'Stranger than paradise'

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Jim Jarmusch - USA – 1984 – fiction – black&white – 88’ – OV – STT FR / NL

A young Jim Jarmusch directs this accomplished film, at once laconic and funny. A young Hungarian woman turns up in the New York apartment of her cousin and his equally clueless mate. The three head for Cleveland, where Eva’s aunt lives, and then she leaves again, after an existential and geographic road movie where love timidly shows its face. The black-and-white photography is by Tom DiCillo, and it’s perfectly suited to Jarmusch’s charming brand of minimalism 

With: John Lurie, Eszter Balint

Coprod. Flagey / Cinematek

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