SAT FEB 19, 2022 7:30 pm THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT / ALEXANDRIA... WHY? $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | ‘Queer Throughout the Years: Love Onscreen’ Series This is a vaccinated-only event. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILMS THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, 1972, Janus Films, 124 min, Germany, Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Successful fashion designer and caustic narcissist Petra von Kant (Margit Carstensen) and her masochistic, sometimes-lover assistant Marlene (Irm Hermann) share a life of rigorous garment designing and brutal emotional manipulation from within Petra’s apartment. When aspiring model Karin Thimm (Hannah Schygulla) enters the situation, the instantly attracted Petra welcomes the supple young thing into her sick dollhouse with open arms. But Karin’s calm, inscrutable gaze belies her ruthless nature, and soon Petra is as much a casualty of obsession as long-suffering Marlene. A masterwork of intoxicating cinematography, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT is Rainer Werner Fassbinder at his ravaging best. In German with English subtitles. FORMAT: 35mm ALEXANDRIA…WHY?, 1979, Janus Films, 133 min, Egypt, Dir: Youssef Chahine. Winner of a Silver Bear at the 1979 Berlinale, ALEXANDRIA…WHY? is one of Egyptian auteur Youssef Chahine’s most celebrated films, and follows a young boy who dreams of becoming a Hollywood actor, while growing up in Alexandria during WWII. The film is a moving autobiographical portrait of the filmmaker’s youth and features a gay plot line celebrated for being one of the earliest depictions of LGBTQ+ love in the Arab world FORMAT: DCP This program was made possible by a generous grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association