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    Woman in Chains

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    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    December 17, 2011

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    Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Laurent Terzieff,

    Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson

    France 1968, 35mm, color, 106 min. French with English subtitles

    Clouzot's unsettling last film offers a variation of his recurrent grand theme of torturous love, here in the form of a dangerous love triangle set in the Sixties Paris art world. The story of a chic gallerist whose discerning taste only hints at the strange sexual obsessions that eventually lure a wide-eyed up-and-coming artist into his kinky den, La Prisonnière returns to Clouzot's idea of corrupt business as the driving metaphor for the 20th century, with civilization doomed by the unfair "wages,” be they pecuniary or psychosexual, that sustain yet ultimately destroy it. Clouzot's only full-length feature in color, La Prisonnière concludes with a hypnotic barrage of psychedelic Op-Art abstraction directly borrowed from his ill-fated and abandoned feature, L'Enfer.


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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

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        December 17, 2011

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        9:30pm

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