Tuesday, 14th February 2017 – 8pm

I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Wo bu shi Pan Jinlian) 

D: Feng Xiaogang, C: Fan Bingbing, Guo Tao, Da Peng, Zhang Jiayi, DP: Luo Pan, CN 2016, 139 min., Mandarin OV – DP Lone lady contra the class political — or, is it — classily contra politics?! Feng Xiaogang offers a parable of the Chinese state machinery in skilfully stylized tableaux succeeding soon enough to bind these in a block, nay — in a blockbuster. The hilarity of a woman fighting in court against her own divorce reaches perfect pitch of absurdity as men of politics from Beijing to provincial backwaters curry favor.

After the screening:

Debate: APPARATUS

The machinery of film manufacturing and distribution inscribes itself within a political order. How does machinery and system regulate and readjust each other and can one exist without the other?

Guests: Irene von Alberti, director and producer // Manuel Silva-Ferrer, journalist and scholar // screenwriter Liu Zhenyun will be present

Tickets:
Premiere
Re-Run: Sunday, 19th February 2017 – 6pm