Friday | March 17, 2006 7:00 pm

The Milk of Human Kindness
(Le lait de la tendresse humaine)

Screening on Film

Directed by Dominique Cabrera.
With Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto, Bruno Salvador.
France/Belgium, 2001, 35mm, color, 94 min.
French with English subtitles.

After giving birth to her third child, a woman flees her household and hides out in her neighbor’s apartment. As her husband searches desperately for her, the young mother takes comfort in the kindness of her neighbor and envies the woman’s respectability, not realizing that her caretaker is having an affair with a married man. An offbeat, romantic, black comedy, the film features strong performances from Cabrera’s ensemble.

March 14 – May 2, 2006

Film and Autobiography

March 8–11, 2005

Realist Escapes: Two by Dominique Cabrera

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco