Long Live the Lady!
Ermanno Olmi
June 14 - 26, 2019
A group of young men and women are hired to work what turns out to be an epically strange dinner party in this subversive, Buñuelian send-up of one of Olmi’s recurring concerns: the conditioning of young people for the labor force.
Six young men and women are whisked away to a mysterious, heavily surveilled castle in the mountains where they are being employed as the hired help for a swanky soiree, an elaborate dinner party for a coterie of intellectual and cultural elites presided over by an ancient, unsmiling noblewoman. But as the bizarre, oddly funereal night progresses, the young charges being to suspect there is something fishy going on—and it’s not just the enormous, grotesque flounder being served as the centerpiece. A subversive, Buñuelian send-up of one of Olmi’s recurring concerns—the conditioning of young people for the labor force—Long Live the Lady! is a rich and strange feast indeed. 35mm print from Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
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