Saturday | June 11, 2022 3:00 pm

Le combat dans l’île

Screening on Film

Directed by Alain Cavalier.
With Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre.
France, 1962, 35mm, black & white, 104 min.
French and English with English subtitles.
Print source: Museum of Modern Art

Hailed at its release by the then-critic Bertrand Tavernier as an exceptional political film, Alain Cavalier's first feature transforms the actions of an extreme right group preparing an attack—inspired by the one aimed at General de Gaulle—into a tense and rigorous thriller: a poetic ballad that owes much to the physical yet otherworldly presence of Jean-Louis Trintignant and the sensual charisma of Romy Schneider.

PRECEDED BY

Un Américain

Directed by Alain Cavalier.
With Jean Brasseur, Denise de Casabianca.
France, 1958, 35mm, black & white, 17 min.
French with English subtitles.

Alain Cavalier's first short film accompanies the Parisian wanderings of an American sculptor with equal sensitivity to the multiplicity of places and tiny events of everyday life and the mood of an artist unable to make his dreams and fantasies real.

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May 6 – June 19, 2022

Le combat dans l’île

Un Américain

Part of film series

Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave

Un Américain

Part of film series

Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave

Screenings from this program May 2022

Friday06May

The Olive Trees of Justice

Saturday07May

Moi, un noir

The Human Pyramid

Sunday08May

Love at Sea

Monday09May

A Simple Story

Friday13May

America as Seen by a Frenchman

Witness in the City

Saturday14May

The Doll

Moranbong

Sunday15May

A Game for Six Lovers

Monday16May

Enclosure

Friday20May

The Unvanquished AKA Have I the Right to Kill?

A King Without Distraction

Saturday21May

Adieu Philippine

Sunday22May

Mediterranean / As Long as You Get Drunk / Gala

Monday23May

The Last Vacation

Friday27May

Snobs!

Sentimental Education

Saturday28May

The Long Absence

Sunday29May

Machorka-Muff / Les enfants désaccordés / The Crimson Curtain

June 2022

Friday03June

The Punishment

Octobre à Paris

Saturday04June

The Depths

Sunday05June

Judex

Monday06June

The Ebb-Tide

Saturday11June

Le combat dans l’île

Sunday19June

Captive Feast / A Look at Madness

Screenings from this program
May 2022