Two Are Guilty + Trap for Cinderella
ANDRÉ CAYATTE Our showcase for neglected director André Cayatte (five films from the 1940s screened in Part One) brings the “lawyer of French film” into the 1960s with these tense thrillers.
Two Are Guilty / Le Glaive et la balance
2:55 PM An international trio (Anthony Perkins, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renato Salvatore) anchors TWO ARE GUILTY, a courtroom puzzle-piece that character-revealing flashbacks might (or might not) clarify. (1962, dir. André Cayatte, 130m)
Trap for Cinderella / Piège pour Cendrillon
5:20 PM Things get more complicated (and much more sexy) in Trap for Cinderella, featuring a bravura performance from the exotic Dany Carrel as an amnesiac women recovering from a murder attempt. The kicker is that she doesn’t know if she was the murderer or the victim! The great Madeleine Robinson is on hand to leave clues—some false, some true—for Carrel and for the audience…(1965, dir. André Cayatte, 115m)
Midcentury Productions’ THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT ’24- Part Two brings a landmark ten-year series to a smashing conclusion with 18 more rare films noirs from France, the actual birthplace of noir! Seven ultra-rarities play in the little Roxie on Friday and Saturday, Nov 29-30, followed by 11 more gems in the Big Roxie from Sunday, Dec 1 through Tuesday, Dec 3. Eternal French film icons — Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot — all appear in terrific films you’ve never seen. Join us Friday and Sunday for a special look at the secret career of Erich von Stroheim where you’ll fall in love with “the man you love to hate”.
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