MON JUN 2, 2025 7:30 PM

SOMBRE / LA VIE NOUVELLE

$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux. Moderated by filmmaker Brady Corbet.

L.A. Premieres!

‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 4′ and ‘Philippe Grandrieux: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

Co-presented by Kaplan Morrison

Guest programmed by Ryan Coleman and Caleb Hammond

LA VIE NOUVELLE print courtesy of La Cinémathèque de Toulouse

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ABOUT THE FILMS:

SOMBRE, 1998, Dir. Philippe Grandrieux, 112 Mins, Films Boutique, France

In French with English subtitles.

Jean’s (Marc Barbé) solitary existence strangling women along the path of the Tour de France is upended when the troubled Claire (Elina Löwensohn) finds herself hopelessly drawn to him. Grandrieux operates the camera himself shooting in low-light environments, offering an alien vision of the French countryside stuck in a state of perpetual dusk. With a score from Alan Vega and a haunting diegetic use of Bauhaus’s “Bela Lugosi Is Dead,” SOMBRE announced Grandrieux as a singular voice in the New French Extremity movement, with its fearless gaze into the intersection of desire and death.

FORMAT: 35mm

LA VIE NOUVELLE, 2002, Dir. Philippe Grandrieux, 102 Mins, France

In French and English with English subtitles.

An American soldier (Zachary Knighton) descends through the criminal underworld of a desiccated Eastern European metropole in pursuit of an enigmatic sex worker (Anna Mouglalis) in LA VIE NOUVELLE, Philippe Grandrieux’s second and most startling feature. Described as “the first film shot inside the human body” by Nicole Brenez, Grandrieux breaches the outermost limits of abjection, inventing new ways of seeing the new lives lived at the extreme edges of human experience. In collaboration with the inimitable cinematographer Stephane Fontaine, LA VIE NOUVELLE contains some of the most indelible and haunting images of 21st-century European cinema.

FORMAT: 35mm