Rue Mallet-Stevens

Rue Mallet-Stevens

Unclassified 15+
Dir. Chantal Akerman / 1986 / 8 mins / Belgium / No Dialogue / Experimental
Program Strand/s: Chantal Akerman: Traces

Mystery, modernism and romance come alive after dark in the 16th arrondissement.

Tucked away in Paris is a street named after the famous interwar-period architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. It contains five of his buildings, all odes to a modernist aesthetic with a cubist influence, and is the place where Chantal Akerman shot this moody short film, commissioned to celebrate a century of his life. As the camera moves from strangers on the street to an apartment, the director’s partner Sonia Wieder-Artherton plays the cello while being circled by Akerman herself, in drag, bearing a rose.

2K Digitisation.

This short film screens with Toute une nuit.

Tickets

Metro sessions
Mon 11 Aug 8:45pm Kino 2
Access: Assistive listening Wheelchair Accessible 100 percent subtitled
Past Session
Past Session

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