Swimming Pool (2003) and Persona (1966)
What:
Swimming Pool (2003) and Persona (1966)
Where:
Focus on Francois Ozon at ACMI
When:
Fri Oct 5 - Sun October 14
Watch the Swimming Pool trailer:
here
Wach the hilariously portentous Personatrailer:
here
This never happened with VHS. Sure, we had to fast-forward through that "HAVE ... YOU ... GOT ... WHAT ... YOU ... PAID ... FOR?" anti-piracy ad - shouted with glee here if you need reminding - but there were no commentary tracks, making-of featurettes, or animated menu screens. More and more, we seem to watch a movie through the media sitting around it.
The upcoming Focus On Francois Ozon retrospective at ACMI understands this. They're playing his new film Angel along with the older and rarer material that you'd expect from the critical darling of stylish French cinema.
But they're also showing double-features, where Ozon himself has picked the following film that he thinks will be the perfect thematic sequel to his own work - like Fassbinder's Fear Eats The Soul and Sirk's awesomely melodramatic Imitation of Life.
The pick of the bunch is the final night: Ozon's icy ‘erotic thriller' starring Charlotte Rampling, Swimming Pool, and Ingmar Bergman's ‘uh-kinda-hot-maybe-if-you're-feeling-obtuse' classic Persona. They're both stories of strange relationships between an older woman and younger girl, filled with precise imagery, shifting power dynamics, and repressed, ripe sexuality.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Make a therapy appointment now
Keywords: ACMI, Francois Ozon
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