General Admission: $15 ($12 for Belcourt members)
This seminar is presented in conjunction with Bertrand Bonello’s THE BEAST, opening April 19.
Movie tickets sold separately.
Presented by Jason Shawhan, senior film critic at the Nashville Scene
The films of French director, musician and actor Bertrand Bonello function as both exploration and exegesis. They present to the viewer isolated communities and organizations and depict their means of operation, but also how exterior elements infiltrate and become parts of those communities, allowing for a portrait of evolution as it is happening. His body of work is humane and lush, drawn from the inside out with an empathetic focus on the internal conflicts of given social situations, but also documenting from outside the shifts in interpersonal dynamics. Concerned with developments in technology and the adaptable natures of human beings, Bonello’s cinema is an essential document of the twenty-first century. Providing context for THE BEAST the night before it opens at the Belcourt, this seminar will focus on Bonello’s films THE PORNOGRAPHER (2001), TIRESIA (2003), L’APOLLONIDE/HOUSE OF TOLERANCE/HOUSE OF PLEASURES (2011), SARAH WINCHESTER, PHANTOM OPERA (2016), SAINT LAURENT (2014), NOCTURAMA (2016), ZOMBI CHILD (2019), and COMA (coming this summer from Film Movement).
