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 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

March 7–April 12

Albert Serra, or Cinematic Time Regained

April 4–May 5

Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy

April 7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

April 11–May 9

Planet at 50

April 13

The Yugoslav Junction Continues!

April 14

Theo Anthony, Subject to Review

April 17

The Ideal Cinematheque of the Outskirts of the World

April 18–May 18

From the collection – Satyajit Ray