La Mort en direct
France/Germany/GB | 1980 | col | 128 mins | dir. Bertrand Tavernier, with Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton | cert. 15

Diagnosed with a terminal disease, Katherine sells the TV rights to her death, but then hides, just to be unwittingly filmed by the one person she trusts. Tavernier considered Schneider, whose privacy had constantly been invaded by the media, as ideal for the role. Set in the near future, the film is surprisingly prophetic in the way it foreshadows reality TV and CCTV, also reflecting on film as voyeurism and simulacrum. Harvey Keitel co-stars, his camera-eyes fixed on his target, en route between a dystopian Glasgow and Land’s End. 

Fri 20 nov | 8.40pm

Tribute to Romy Schneider

• Death Watch

• Ludwig

• Le Train

• Les choses de la vie

• La Piscine

• L'important c'est d'aimer

• Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno