Version Restauree/Restored Version - Anatomy of a Marriage - My Days with Jean-Marc

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Nights with Françoise
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc

Two films for one admission

Complimentary refreshments and snacks available between the two screenings

Dir. André Cayatte, 1964, France, Italy, Germany, 112min, DCP
Starring Jacques Charrier, Marie-José Nat

A grand experiment: two films, about one relationship, told from the points of view of each partner, and viewable in either order, shot in stunning widescreen in black and white. Jean-Marc and Françoise meet, fall in love, marry and separate. Cayatte sought to create a film that presented each story so definitively, that it would be hard for the audience to imagine the other side. Interestingly opening in two different screens on 57th Street, reviews upon release focused on the way the films were being released, rather than on the films themselves, which both succeed unquestionably as emotional, daring works. As Cayette said, “Different, contradictory, complementary and reversible. It is not a film in two parts. Each one constitutes a complete whole.”

Version restauree/Restored Version

Whenever Version restaurée appears in a festival program guide, trailer (bande-annonce), or before the start of a film, it indicates a new and exciting chance to revisit a beloved classic, or make a significant discovery. In recent years, extraordinary ‘restored versions’, particularly from the French speaking world, have been made available by archives, cinémathèques, rights holders and studios. Most of these restorations have never screened in the U.S., and in some cases, haven’t been shown since their original release, if ever released in the U.S. at all.

For the Fall 2024 season, L’Alliance New York presents an expansive series consisting exclusively of New York, U.S. and world premieres of Version restaurée films. Running from September 10 to December 17, the series will comprise over twenty features and short films from France, Senegal, Tunisia, Switzerland, Burkina Faso, and the Louisiana Bayou, including a 1929 muet (Gaston Modot’s Conte Cruel) to a masterpiece of the new century (Godard’s Éloge de l’amour), and films by Frederick Wiseman, Marguerite Duras, Fernando Arrabal, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Christian-Jacque, Jacques Deray, Yolande Zauberman, Samba Félix Ndiaye and Jean Cocteau.

Event Pricing:
Member Price: Free
Non Member Price: $16
Under 28 Price: $8
Buy Series Pass $50 for 2 months

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