The Night Beauty + Thirteen Days of Love + Amok

‘30s PASSION! TRIPLE FEATURE MATINÉE

The Night Beauty / La belle de nuit

12:00 PM The recently rediscovered Louis Valray is our entry into a world of romantic transgression as a jilted lover (Aimé Clariond) prepares a strange dish of revenge involving a lookalike for the woman who threw him over (Russian emigré Vera Korène in a double role) only to experience unintended consequences. (1934, Louis Valray, 87 min)

Thirteen Days of Love / Escale

1:45 PM Valray dispenses with the ties to Paris life he used as a pretext for the action in La belle de nuit and takes us directly to the humid, doleful south of France where the waterfront is the catalyst for the romantic misadventures of Eva (Colette Darfeuil) as she wallows in the decadent allure of La Belle Escale—Marseille’s version of the Hotel California… (1935, Louis Valray, 83 min)

Amok

3:30 PM Parallels to pre-Code America (Red Dust) and early noir (The Letter) don’t go far enough to capture the overheated strangeness conjured by Russian-born director Ozep, who was clearly influenced by the 1927 silent Soviet version directed by Kote Marjanishvili. Romanian emigré Jean Yonnel is Dr. Holk, whose tour of duty in the Indonesian jungle seeking a cure for an outbreak of madness (“amok”) among the natives takes a fateful turn when he meets Hélène Haviland (Marcelle Chantal), leading to a case of l’amour fou that just won’t quit. (1934, Fedor Ozep, 92 min)