CERN CineClub - Fire & La souriante Madame Beudet

Thursday 16 Mar 2017, 20:00 → 22:10 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

 Fire

Directed by Deepa Mehta

Canada / India, 1996, 104 min.

Sita and Radha are two Indian women stuck in loveless marriages. While Sita is trapped in an arranged relationship with her cruel and unfaithful husband, Jatin , Radha is married to his brother, Ashok, a religious zealot who believes in suppressing desire. As the two women recognize their similar situations, they grow closer, and their relationship becomes far more involved than either of them could have anticipated.

Original version English / Hindi; English subtitles

 

La souriante Madame Beudet

Directed by Germaine Dulac

France, 1923, 26 min.

One of the first feminist movies, The Smiling Madame Beudet is the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Her husband is used to playing a stupid practical joke in which he puts an empty revolver to his head and threatens to shoot himself. One day, while the husband is away, she puts bullets in the revolver. However, she is stricken with remorse and tries to retrieve the bullets the next morning. Her husband gets to the revolver first only this time he points the revolver at her.

Silent

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