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

September 1–October 14

Música de Câmara. The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes

September 4–December 15

From the Harvard Film Archive Collection …

September 9–25

Chile Año Cero / Chile Year Zero

October 6–7

People and their Virtue. Two Films by Wang Bing

October 8–28

Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella

October 16–29

I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin

October 20–November 11

Filmmaker, Guest Worker: Zelimir Zilnik’s Expatriates

October 30

Adachi Masao’s Revolution+1

November 3–December 3

Out of the Ashes – The US-ROK Security Alliance & the Emergence of South Korean Cinema