Films Classics From 2 Feb Mr Klein In this Kafkaesque tale set in 1942 in Nazi occupied Paris, Robert Klein (Alain Delon) is a prosperous art dealer who finds himself mysteriously confused…
Films Classics From 8 Feb Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the…
Films Classics 9 & 11 Feb Royal Affairs in Versailles This film retraces the history of the Palace of Versailles from its origins until the French Revolution. Produced in the aftermath of WWII, from which…
Films Classics From 10 Feb Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton + La Paresse In an intimately woven dialogue between Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton, the two evoke, in different voices, Sonia’s trajectory and relation with music. She says…
Films Classics From 14 Feb Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles + La Paresse Akerman's contribution to the landmark television series Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge (which also yielded Claire Denis' US Go Home and…
Films Classics From 16 Feb Mélodie en sous-sol Henri Verneuil’s Mélodie en sous-sol is an extremely stylised black and white gangster film in which Charles (Jean Gabin) plans a ‘last’ heist at the…
Films Classics From 16 Feb Les Rendez-vous d’Anna Chantal Akerman’s narrative follow-up to her international breakthrough, Jeanne Dielman, is a penetrating portrait of a woman’s soul-deep malaise and a mesmerising odyssey through a…
Films Classics From 22 Feb Night and Day Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the…
Films Kids & Families Sat 22 Feb Au revoir les enfants Garnering no less than 7 César awards including Best Film and Best Director, Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical film is one of the greatest accounts on the…
Films Classics From 23 Feb The Taking of Power by Louis XIV Screenings on February will be introduced by film critic and programmer Roberto Oggiano and followed by a discussion with the audience, as part of our…
Films Classics From 2 March Golden Eighties + Rue Mallet-Stevens The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love…
Films Classics From 8 March On Tour with Pina Bausch For five weeks, Chantal Akerman followed Pina Bausch and her dancers from the Tanztheater Wuppertal to Venice, Milan, and Avignon. Through scenes taken from the…
Films Classics From 8 March Je, tu, il, elle In her first narrative feature, Akerman offers a startling exploration of alienation, vulnerability and the search for connection. In a performance at once daringly exposed…
Films Classics From 18 Mar A Couch in New York Akerman’s stab at commercial cinema sees Juliette Binoche as Béatrice, a young, vibrant Parisian dancer who swaps apartments with Henry (William Hurt), a solipsistic Manhattan…
Films Classics From 30 March The Captive Loosely inspired by Proust’s The Prisoner, Akerman’s hypnotic exploration of erotic obsession circles around the relationship between the seemingly pliant Ariane and the disturbingly jealous…
Films Classics From 5 Apr From the East Following the demolition of the Berlin Wall, Chantal Akerman captures the reality and mutation of former Soviet territories, shot from summer through to winter in…
Festivals & Series Films 13 Oct - 25 Feb Alain Delon: An Odyssey Next event : Mr Klein Fri 07 Feb at 15:00
Arts Books & Ideas Classical Music Films Talks 6 June - 21 Sept Women Shaping the World Next event : Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Sat 08 Feb at 11:45
Classics Festivals & Series Films 5 Feb - 11 Apr Revisiting Chantal Akerman Next event : Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Sat 08 Feb at 11:45
Festivals & Series Films 24 Jan - 27 Feb Remembering Auschwitz-Birkenau Next event : A Real Pain Sun 09 Feb at 16:05
Arts Books & Ideas Classical Music 24 Jan - 1 April 2025 Versailles, In Every Sense Next event : The Flood Sat 15 Feb at 16:00
Classics Films 5 Nov - 28 Jan Finally Sunday Film Club Next event : The Taking of Power by Louis XIV Sun 23 Feb at 11:30