In Claire Denis’ stunning and deeply personal debut feature, the eight-year-old daughter of a French bureaucrat gradually awakens to the racial, social, and sexual tensions that surround her in 1950s Cameroon.
In one of her most narratively complex films, the medium-traversing artist Yvonne Rainer imagines the making of a documentary about menopause directed by a woman named Yvonne Washington (Novella Nelson), who interviews friends also experiencing this eternally misunderstood change of life. From there, Rainer concocts a genre-busting, autobiographical meta-film that interrogates memory, gender dynamics, and the reductive manner in which women’s stories are too often told.
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
103min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
TICKET INFORMATION
General Admission: $16
Members: $8
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BAM Access Programs provided by
the Jerome L. Greene Foundation
Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
the Ford Foundation and
The Thompson Family Foundation
