THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT 6
DARKNESS IN THE SIXTIES
THU-MON, NOV 14-18 · ROXIE THEATRE
Presented by Mid-Century Productions
THU, NOV 14
Even Paranoids Have Enemies
LA CORDE RAIDE
LOVERS ON A TIGHTROPE
(1960) 7:15
LA CHAMBRE ARDENTE
THE BURNING COURT
(1962) 9:00
FRI, NOV 15
The Quicksand of Seduction
(1964) 7:15
(1962) 9:15
SAT MATINÉE, NOV 16
Race/War/Class
ON N'ENTERRE PAS LE DIMANCHE
ONE DOES NOT BURY SUNDAY
(1960) 1:00
LE PETIT SOLDAT
THE LITTLE SOLDIER
(1960) 3:00
(1963) 4:45
SAT EVENING, NOV 16
Money/Blood/Money
SYMPHONIE POUR UN MASSACRE
SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE
(1963) 7:15
(1962) 9:30
SUN MATINÉE, NOV 17
Love's Acrid Aftertaste
THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX
THÉRÈSE
(1962) 1:00
CONSTANCE AUX ENFERS
WEB OF FEAR
(1964) 3:15
SUN EVENING, NOV 18
Flaws in the Ointment
MELODIE EN SOUS-SOL
ANY NUMBER CAN WIN
(1963) 6:15
LA MORT DE BELLE
THE END OF BELLE
(1961) 8:45
MON, NOV 19
PTSD I Love You
LA GUERRE EST FINIE
THE WAR IS OVER
(1966) 7:00
OBJECTIF: 500 MILLIONS
OBJECTIVE: 500 MILLIONS
(1966) 9:15
FRIDAY, NOV 15, 2019THE QUICKSAND OF SEDUCTION
THE LOVE CAGE / LES FÉLINS 7:15
Alain Delon takes his Tom Ripley persona and turns it inside out as an international lover boy who must go on the lam after one too many high-class seductions. Escaping from Paris to the south of France, he finds shelter in the mansion of a beautiful widow (Lola Albright) and her nymphet wannabe cousin (Jane Fonda). But there is something sinister afoot in the mansion, and Delon discovers that he's a prisoner of circumstance, in as much danger from the two beauties and their twisted secret as he is from the gang of thugs still looking to separate him from his head. (We screen the French version with English subtitles.)
(1964) 97min. Directed by René Clément. Dialogue by Pascal Jardin & Charles Williams. Screenplay by Pascal Jardin, Charles Williams & René Clément, from the novel Joy House by Day Keene. Photographed by Henri Decaë. Edited by Fedora Zincone. Music by Lalo Schifrin. With Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright, André Oumansky, Marc Mazza, Annette Poivre, Jean-Pierre Honoré.
HEXES / MALÉFICES 9:00
Juliette Gréco brings something extra to her femme fatale persona in Henri Decoin's macabre tale of lust and black magic on a remote island—appropriately, named Noirmoutier! She can clearly seduce men, as the hapless François (Jean-Marc Bory) soon discovers: but can she also cast spells? Is she slowly killing Francois' wife in order to "free" him to be her love slave? What secrets from her dark past are lurking in the shadows, alluded to by her mysterious African maid (Mathé Monsoura, in her only appearance on film)? Boileau and Narcejac, the source novelists for macabre noirs such as Vertigo, Les diaboliques, and Les louves (screened to great acclaim at FRENCH 5 last November) have done it again—hold onto your heads!
(1962) 104min Directed by Henri Decoin. Dialogue by Albert Husson. Adaptaton by Henri Decoin, Claude Accursi & Mireille de Tissot from the novel by Boileau-Narcejac. Photographed by Marcel Grignon. Edited by Monique & Robert Isnardon. Music by Pierre Henry. With Juliette Gréco, Jean-Marc Bory, Liselotte Pulver, Jacques Daqmine, Georges Chamarat, Mathé Mansoura.
