GOLDEN EIGHTIES

October 17, 18 & 27, 2024
Golden Eighties
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 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 to Desperately Seeking Susan — 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.
Dir: Chantal Akerman / 1986 / French with English subtitles / 99 min

“Akerman links erotic crises to political ones via choreography; she sets crowds of colorfully clad customers and employees in motion as they mouth the songs’ droll, bouncy lyrics (which Akerman wrote), balanced blithely between calamity and apocalypse.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker

SCREENING: THU 10/17 7PM; FRI 10/18 4PM; SUN 10/27 7PM

Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.