Projection and discussion
Mildred Pierce
Episodes 1 to 5
13 May 2023
The event is over
A 5-episode series adapted from James M. Cain’s novel about a divorcee fighting for survival during the Great Depression in the US of the 1930s. Mildred Pierce draws on her fierce determination to start building an economic empire while maintaining complex relations with her insatiable daughter and the men in her life.
Todd Haynes, Mildred Pierce. Mini-series with 5 episodes. USA, 2011, 329 min, DCP (original format: 16 mm), colour, original version with French sub-titles
With Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood
Venice International Film Festival
“Todd Haynes came across this novel in the summer of 2008, just as the USA was sliding into the staggering sub-prime crisis. He decided to explore the effects of the Great Depression, filming and showing it in such a way as to echo the present. He also included many of the novel’s plot twists that had been left out of the film [by Michael Curtiz], such as the final period, which is crucial to the monstrous mother-daughter relationship playing out here. Adaptation on this scale required a mini-series format (over five hours), that Todd Haynes wrote with Jonathan Raymond.” Martine Delahaye, Le Monde, 22 June 2017
Kate Winslet received several awards for this role, including a Golden Globe.
Followed by an online meeting with Kate Winslet, attended by the film director
Programme
2.30 pm: Episodes 1 and 2
5.00 pm: Episodes 3 and 4
8.00 pm: Episode 5
When
11:30am - 7pm
Where
Todd Haynes, Mildred Pierce
© HBO 2011