Part of the BAMcinématek series Hysterical Excess: Discovering Andrzej Zulawski
Sat & Sun, Mar 10 & 11, 2012 at 4, 6:50, 9:30pm
New 35mm print!
Directed by Andrzej Zulawski
With Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill
(1981) 127min, 35mm
Zulawski’s supreme head-trip is a terrifying, delirious exercise in exploitation, the avant-garde, and camp hysteria. In the ultimate in dysfunctional relationships, Anna (Isabelle Adjani, in a ferociously feral performance—culminating in shocking, slimy subway histrionics—that netted her the Best Actress Award at Cannes and reputedly took her years to recover from) and Mark (Sam Neill) escalate from public screaming matches to sudden violence with kitchen gadgets. In English.
