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Classics

Two feminist classics from behind the Iron Curtain, New Wave icon Alain Resnais’ first two features and Hollywood’s most ruthless satire
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Daisies
Sedmikrásky​

Vera Chytilová
Czechoslovakia  ·  1966

A brilliantly vibrant surrealist comedy following two young women on a joyously anarchic rampage.

“An amazing explosion of pop-art colours, absurdist humour and proto-feminist politics.”
– The Telegraph


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My 20th Century
Az én XX. századom

Ildikó Enyedi
​Hungary/West Germany  ·  1989
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​This whimsical debut tells of separated identical twin sisters – one a feminist anarchist, the other a hedonistic courtesan. 
Winner Camera d’Or, Cannes 1989

“A bracing combination of wit, invention, common sense and lunacy.” 
– New York Times
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​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

Alain Resnais
​France/Japan  ·  1959

A French actor (Emmanuèle Riva) falls for a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) while on shoot in Hiroshima. 


“A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Resnais’ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time.” ​– Criterion
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​Screening times, review and trailer >>​

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Last Year at Marienbad
L'année dernière à Marienbad

Alain Resnais
France/Italy  ·  1961
 
It’s déjà vu over and over again in Resnais’s elegant, labyrinthine puzzle, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Delphine Seyrig.

“One of cinema’s glorious enigmas, endlessly compelling and intriguing.” – LA Times


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Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder
USA  ·  1950

Fledgling screenwriter William Holden stumbles into the mansion of faded silent-film superstar Gloria Swanson in Wilder’s poison-pen letter to Hollywood. 

​“The blackest of all Hollywood's scab-scratching accounts of itself.” – Time Out
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