35mm

La Pirate

Jacques Doillon
Part of

Jane and Charlotte Forever

January 29 - February 7, 2016

In this stylish, sexy, and subtly surreal portrait of amour fou, Jane Birkin plays a married woman who’s whisked away by her female ex-lover for a long night’s journey into extreme emotional violence.

DIRECTOR
Jacques Doillon
YEAR
1984
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
88 minutes
LANGUAGE
English and French with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm

Don’t miss La Pirate in the double-feature event An Evening with Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg, featuring a discussion with Birkin and Gainsbourg, on January 29 at 6:30pm.

On a rain-slicked night, Alma (Jane Birkin), a married woman, is whisked away to a hotel by her female ex-lover (Maruschka Detmers). So begins a long night’s journey into extreme emotional violence, as the two women make love, quarrel, and confront their love-hate feelings for each other—a volatile situation that’s pushed into overdrive when Alma’s husband (played by Birkin’s brother, Andrew, in a bit of provocatively incestuous casting) shows up. Meanwhile, a mystery: just who is the gun-toting teenage girl and the oddball gentleman seemingly along for the ride? Stylish, sexy, and subtly surreal, this fever-pitch portrait of amour fou is bathed in shadowy neo-noir atmosphere courtesy of cinematographer extraordinaire Bruno Nuytten. 

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