Version Restauree/Restored Version - The Eagle Has Two Heads Screening with Cruel Tale

New 4K Restoration - New York Premiere

L’Aigle a deux têtes avec Conte Cruel

The Eagle Has Two Heads
Dir. Jean Cocteau, 1948, France, 90min, DCP
Starring Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Silvia Monfort

Undeservedly the least known of Cocteau and Marias’ collaborations, their follow-up to Beauty and the Beast has been nearly invisible in recent decades. Edwige Feuillère, the grande dame of early French cinema, here reprises the stage role Cocteau had written for her. Against a backdrop of European royalty (the two-headed eagle long a symbol of empire), Marias enters as an anarchist poet sent to assassinate the Queen. Photographed by Christian Matras (Grand Illusion, Lola Montes), and later radically adapted by Antonioni for his film The Mystery of Oberwald.

Cruel Tale
Dir. Gaston Modot, 1930, France, 34min, DCP
Silent with recorded soundtrack by Léon Rousseau

1460 in Saragossa, the Spanish Inquisition, a Jewish man is being held in a dungeon torture chamber for his refusal to convert. This is the setting where Gaston Modot, star of Buñuel’s L’Age d’or, here directing his only film, creates a miraculous play of double exposures, handheld camera and tricks of light. A work of unbelievable atmosphere and crushing dread.

Cinésalon is made possible by the generous support of BNP Paribas, Sofitel New York and Air France.

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