Duet for Cannibals
- Wed, May 28
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Director: Susan Sontag Run Time: 105 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1969 Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Starring: Adriana Asti, Agneta Ekmanner, Britta Brunius, Gösta Ekman, Lars Ekborg
Screenwriter: Susan Sontag
Producer: Göran Lindgren
Join us for a rare screening of the legendary Susan Sontag’s directorial debut. Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping that gradually drifts towards uncharted territory, gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent. Defying literal-minded interpretation, Duet for Cannibals is both an illustrative companion to Sontag’s criticism, and introduction of a startlingly original filmmaker.
Accessibility Options: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.