sun 21 mar

2.00pm

Carnival in Flanders

France/Germany | 1935 | b&w | 110 mins | dir. Jacques Feyder, with Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat, André Alerme | cert. 12A

An award-winning and controversial film at it's time of release, La Kermesse héroïque is an early feminist farce. In a Flemish town in the 1660s, the local men fearfully await an invasion from the Spanish army. A solitary woman takes the helm and with the help of the other women in the town they succeed in stopping a likely furore.