SIFF Cinema's Rialto film series continues through February 7, with a double-feature each night.
Pepe le Moki / Quai des Orfevres
Monday, Feb 4, 7pm
Umberto D. / The Fallen Idol
Tuesday, Feb 5, 7pm
The Milky Way / Murderous Maids
Wednesday, Feb 6, 7pm
Mouchette / Au Hasard Balthazar
Thursday, Feb 7, 7:30pm
Tonight is gritty French gangsters, tomorrow, a feast for any Italo-Anglophiles out there: Scorsese says
Umberto D. is as good as it gets, while the screenplay to
The Fallen Idol comes from shared inkwell of Graham Greene and Carol Reed. Wednesday brings Bunuel -- "an anticlerical history of heresy, told with absurdity and filled with images that rank among Buñuel's most memorable (stigmatic children, crucified nuns) and hilarious (Jesus considering a good shave)" -- and a non-classic film about the
Papin sisters of 1933 France: it's class struggle the hard way, one dead employer at a time. Things close out with two from Robert Bresson, whom we've never particularly swooned over, but whom the black turtleneck crowd can't get enough of. The donkey lead of
Au Hasard Balthazar is a cinematic precursor to
Pasado, so be warned.
