Imported Rarity!

France/Belgium, 2000, Chantal Akerman

Proust’s La Prisonnière (volume five of Remembrance of Things Past) is the inspiration for Chantal Akerman’s strange, mesmerizing tale of entrapment, sexual possession, and surveillance, in which a jealous young man who shares an enormous Paris apartment with his bisexual girlfriend obsessively watches or questions her every move. Filmed in elegant, somber colors, the movie is at once spare and voluptuous, with an undertow of intense feeling and a soaringly romantic classical music soundtrack. Undistributed in the U.S. on film or DCP, this major work from the director of Jeanne Dielman will be shown from an imported hard drive courtesy of the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels. With Sylvie Testud. “Akerman returns to top form.” –Time Out Film Guide. Subtitles. DCP. 118 min. Special admission $13; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $10; no passes.