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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Marat/Sade (1967), a British postmodernist theatre-satire-musical-black-comedy-psych-horror-drama about a group of asylum inmates in post-revolutionary Napoleonic France who, under the leadership of the Marquis de Sade (the guy who wrote 120 Days of Sodom [1785]), decide to dramatize the 1793 assassination of radical agitator Jean-Paul Marat. Chaos ensues as the wardens and inmates battle over the play’s ideological content. It is based on the play of the same name by Peter Weiss, and considered the best film of director Peter Brooks, who is otherwise known for Lord of the Flies (1963). Looks cool; let’s watch.

Next up is La Ceremonie (1995), a French thriller about a new maid for a bougie family in a country mansion. They treat her with casual disdain. She meets a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against them; resentment builds, and class warfare heats up, as the two women join forces. This is one of the best-regarded films of French auteur Claude Chabrol, whose filmography we have not otherwise touched. Bong Joon-ho cited this film as an influence on Parasite (2019). We’ll check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Marat/Sade: https://letterboxd.com/film/marat-sade/
  • La Ceremonie: https://letterboxd.com/film/la-ceremonie/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Marat/Sade: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060668/parentalguide/
  • La Ceremonie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112769/parentalguide/

CWs for Marat/Sade:

  • Simulation of sex.
  • Sexual assault: a man grabs a woman’s breasts.
  • Abuse of asylum inmates.
  • Singing.
  • Mental illness.

CWs for La Ceremonie:

  • Kissing.
  • Pregnancy.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

Links to movies:

  • Marat/Sade: https://tankie.tube/w/nTeLV85KU28pBeP4wHpNf7
  • La Ceremonie: https://tankie.tube/w/1RUttWBvQiY9vVJhwNUu7L