Directed by Sande Zeig
United States
SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE
Assured new director Sande Zeig delivers an erotic
trance-like lesbian film noir set in a beautifully stylized Paris.Ý
Based on a short story by acclaimed French feminist writer Monique
Wittig (Les Guerrilleres), who also co-wrote the screenplay, the film
is a spare fable that chronicles the dangerous love affair between
two women, a femme nightclub singer and a butch painter.ÝÝ The Girl
features some of the hottest sexual chemistry ever captured on film:
in bed, the lovers hardly need to speak, and while the scenes are
unabashedly forthright, it is the stunning visual imagery and iconographic
performances that give the movie its real charge. But all is not an
idyllic here: the singer is also ominously involved with the nightclub's
cruel owner, an explosive bully of a man.Ý Actress Claire Keim, in
an elusive and ravishingly teasing turn as the movie's chanteuse,
slowly allows her character's inner turmoil to rise to the surface.Ý
Ardent but detached, in pursuit but ultra cool in her tailored suit,
Agathe de la Boulaye is alluring and authentically butch.Ý Despite
mounting dread and suspense, Zeig refuses to shake us out of our delicious
hypnotic reverie; we remain, with the lovers, in a dream-state of
passion almost until the end.Ý Produced by the legendary Dolly Hall
(High Art, All Over Me, The Incredibly True Adventures Of Two Girls
In Love).Ý Director Sande Zeig will attend the screening and discuss
her work with the audience.Preceded by Ashley, 22, Dir. Monica Nolan,
United States, SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE ÝÝJen, in pursuit of a younger
woman, spends a night at the local bar.
9:00 PM Screening only $10
Film plus post-screening Femme Noir party $20
The
Girl