Saturday Feb 13, 8 PM [Re-Run: Sunday Feb 21, 4 PM]

DESPITE THE NIGHT (MALGRÉ LA NUIT)
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D: Philippe Grandrieux, C: Kristian Marr, Ariane Labed, Roxane Mesquida, Rebecca Zlotowski, DOP: Jessica Lee Gagné, FR 2015, 150 min., French OwEs – GP

“Life, it blinds me.” Philippe Grandrieux arranges a rapture of love into a climax in snuff. Lenz is haunted by a former lover while Madeleine longs for liberating submission. Unfulfilled desire threatens to engulf them in a struggle for radical presence. Overcoming death becomes an existential fetish.

after the screening:

DEBATE: SEDUCTION

Strategies of a cinema that overexcites us. We explore titillation as philosophical and affective force.

Gäste: Philippe Grandrieux (Director), Pamela Pianezza (Writer, Photographer, Midnight Pictures founder and programmer), Marcus Stiglegger (Professor of Film Studies, Dekra University).

Moderation: Emil Leth Meilvang (Film critic, Krystalbilleder), Frédéric Jaeger (Woche der Kritik).