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    Manon & Fear in the Batignolles

    Manon & Fear in the Batignolles

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    December 16, 2011

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    Manon
    Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Cécile Aubry, Michel Auclair,
    Serge Reggiani
    France 1948, 35mm, b/w, 100 min. French with English subtitles
    Exalted by Ado Kyrou as one of the purest renditions of amour fou in the cinema, the rarely seen Manon is a dark surrealist fever dream and among the greatest discoveries within Clouzot's oeuvre. Crowned by a kinetic scene of a cathedral torn apart by bombs, Manon is fascinating for its evocation of the destruction and aftermath of World War 2 and its vision of a traumatized and morally compromised postwar France. A boyish Serge Reggiani falls willing and masochistic victim to the double-edged charms of Manon, transformed by Cécile Aubry into the ultimate femme fatale, at turns a petulant angel, and others a cruel, avaricious succubus – yet bringing an awkward, childlike grace to her every act of treachery.

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    Fear in the Batignolles (La terreur des Batignolles)
    Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Louis-Jacques Boucot, Germaine Aussey, Jean Wall
    France 1931, digital video, b/w, 15 min. French with English subtitles
    This recently rediscovered early comic short, the surprise twist story of a maladroit burglar, bears the strong imprint of the Weimar Expressionist cinema that was so important to Clouzot in his early years while also revealing the kind of satiric archetypal caricature that would recur throughout his later films.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        $9 - Regular Admission
        $7 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens
        Regular HFA screenings are free for all Harvard students with a valid photo ID.

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        December 16, 2011

        Times:

        7pm

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