Screening and discussion
Safe
22 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021
The event is over
California, late 1980s. Carol White, a well-to-do and passive housewife, spends her time between aerobic sessions, cooking and household shopping. Her cosy world is overturned when she develops an allergy to her surroundings.
Todd Haynes, Safe, United States, 1996, 35 mm, 119 min, colour, in English with French subtitles
with Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley
American Independent Award at the Seattle festival in 1995, FIPRESCI prize at the Rotterdam festival 1996
"As in Les Désemparés (The Reckless Moment), by Max Ophüls, the way Haynes views the middle-class housewife destroys everything we've been told about the American dream." Kelly Reichardt
"At the time [AIDS], like today [COVID], a scourge haunts the scenes and attempts to get through the locks. […] Safe is a film that's disturbing to watch in the middle of quarantine against a disease that seems to be both everywhere and nowhere […]. Whatever name the culture gives to a force that separates men at a given time, it has always pushed in the same direction: inward, further into solitude, guilt, shame and doubt, toward the mirror and a reflection that we ceaselessly attempt to fool." David Roth, The New Yorker, 28 March 2020
Followed by a virtual encounter with Todd Haynes and Kelly Reichardt
Where
Cinema 1, level 1
When
22 Oct 2021
Kelly Reichardt et Todd Haynes en 1995 a Portland. Collection Kelly Reichardt
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