WED JUNE 1, 2022 7:30 PM RATCATCHER / VAGABOND $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | ‘BLEAK WEEK: Cinema of Despair’ Series Los Angeles Premiere of New 4K Restoration of RATCATCHER. Add to Cart
ABOUT THE FILMS: RATCATCHER, 1999, Janus Films, 94 min, UK, Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s bracing feature debut offers a look at growing up in squalor in Scotland in the 1970s. Set during a garbage strike, RATCATCHER follows James Gillespie (William Eadie), a 12-year-old boy living in one of Glasgow’s poorer slums, where local gangs and an isolated canal are constant perils. Superbly shot and featuring a mostly nonprofessional cast, this raw, yet poetic drama peppers its bleak social realism with occasional humor to create a soul-crushing portrait of childhood. FORMAT: DCP – 4K Restoration VAGABOND, 1985, Janus Films, 107 min, France, Dir: Agnès Varda. Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of VAGABOND. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s story through flashbacks told by those who encountered her (played by a largely nonprofessional cast), producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. With its sparse, poetic imagery, VAGABOND is a stunner, and won Varda the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. FORMAT: 35mm