Friday | May 20, 2022 9:00 pm

A King Without Distraction
(Un roi sans divertissement)

Screening on Film

Directed by François Leterrier.
With Claude Giraud, Colette Renard, Charles Vanel.
France, 1963, 35mm, black & white, 85 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: Gaumont

The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

May 6 – June 19, 2022

Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins

April 11–25

Tarr / Krasznahorkai

May 4–10

Little Fugitive

May 8–11

The Spring is Over (Prague 1970)