TUE JUN 3, 2025 7:30 PM

THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER / YOUNG TÖRLESS

$17.00 (member) ; $22.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Brady Corbet. Moderated by Scott Foundas.

‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 4’ and ‘A Tribute to Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold’

Co-presented by Kaplan Morrison

YOUNG TÖRLESS print courtesy of the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

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ABOUT THE FILMS:

THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER, 2016, Dir. Brady Corbet, 115 Mins, IFC Films, USA/UK/Hungary/Sweden/France/Canada/Belgium

In English, French and German with English subtitles.

A child’s angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses-shattering feature debut from actor Brady Corbet. A powerhouse international cast led by Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) headlines this dark domestic nightmare. Set amidst the turmoil of World War I and its aftermath, it follows the young son of an American diplomat living in France as he learns to manipulate the adults around him—a monstrous coming of age that ominously parallels the rising tide of Fascism in Europe. A stylistically fearless tour-de-force, The Childhood of a Leader reaches fever-pitch delirium thanks to ravishing cinematography and a thunderous score by legendary, boundary-pushing musician Scott Walker.

YOUNG TÖRLESS, 1966, Dir. Volker Schlöndorff, 87 Mins, Janus Films, Germany/France

In German with English subtitles.

At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil’s acclaimed novel, YOUNG TÖRLESS launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics’ Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.

FORMAT: 35mm