The Cement Garden
Jane and Charlotte Forever
January 29 - February 7, 2016
Teen angst, incest, and… what exactly is buried in the basement? In this macabre, compellingly bizarro coming-of-age tale and should-be cult classic, Charlotte Gainsbourg is the dutiful eldest daughter of a very nontraditional family.
Teen angst, incest, and… what exactly is buried in the basement? This macabre, compellingly bizarro coming-of-age tale charts the strange goings-on within a family living in an isolated, rubble-strewn no-man’s land. One day, as 15-year-old Jack (Andrew Robertson) masturbates, his father drops dead. Mother follows shortly thereafter. Rather than tell anyone, Jack and older sister Julie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) assume the roles of father and mother to their two younger siblings—but take things to the extreme. Based on Ian McEwan’s gothic novel, this should-be cult classic (directed by Gainsbourg’s uncle Andrew Birkin) is a gripping, wonderfully weird portrait of nontraditional family values.
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