VTIFF Program-Guide 2023 - Flipbook - Page 13
FILMS A TO Z
LA CHIMERA
THE CRIME IS MINE (MON CRIME)
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Italy | 2023 | Fiction | 133 min | Italian w/subtitles
Directed by Francois Ozon
France | 2023 | Fiction | 102 min | French w/subtitles
Directed by Nicole Newham
USA | 2023 | Documentary | 118 min | English
Film Source: Neon
Sponsored by: 05401 and Vermont Italian Cultural
Association
Film Source: Music Box
Sponsored by: Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain
Region and Lyric Theatre
Film Source: IFC
Sponsored by: Barbara McGrew
SHOWTIMES
SUNDAY, OCT 22 | 7 PM | FH
SHOWTIMES
TUESDAY, OCT 24 | 2 PM | FH
THURSDAY, OCT 26 | 4:15 PM | FH
Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro), one of the most
important contemporary independent filmmakers,
conjures a magical, hilarious, romantic adventure set in a
rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the
modern. Josh O’Connor (The Crown) stars as Arthur, a
ne’er-do well Englishman, handsomely rumpled and
recently out of prison, who returns to a rural town in central
Italy where he hesitantly reconnects with a ragtag group of
tombaroli (tomb raiders), for whom he uses his uncanny
powers of divination to locate graves that date back to the
Etruscan period and teem with antiquities of immense
value to collectors and museums. With fantastic
choreography, cinematography, sound design, music and
performances, Rohrwacher works as a magician who also
has no fear of occasionally breaking the fourth wall. ~OY
*** Preceded by 6pm reception sponsored by VICA ***
SHOWTIMES
FRIDAY, OCT 27 | 1:45 PM | FH
Shere Hite’s 1976 book, The Hite Report, was a huge
best-seller that challenged the basic cultural conceptions
A seeming trifle of a comedy that manages to be
of female sexuality and sex itself, particularly as it related
subversive, feminist, utterly amoral, and completely
to female pleasure. According to Newsweek, it has sold 50
delightful, Francois Ozon’s The Crime Is Mine embraces, in million copies and is the 30th-best-selling book (and
3rd-best-selling non-fiction book) of all time. Today, few
the words of its director, “the triumph of sorority.” In 1935
Paris, debt-ridden actress Madeline (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) remember her. What happened? This doc from Nicole
Newnham (Crip Camp) examines that question. As
rebuffs a lascivious producer, who ends up dead. Accused
of the crime and defended by her lawyer/roommate Pauline influential and earthshaking as the Report was, the
conservative, male backlash was equally intense. Archival
(Rebecca Marder)...well, why give away too much? The
clips show Hite as she was ambushed by Maury Povich,
mid-film appearance of Isabelle Huppert as the Cruellamocked and mansplained by a number of interviewers, and
DeVille-ish actress Odette Chaumette is a gift from the
shouted down by an all-male audience on the Oprah
movie gods. According to Ozon, the movie’s influences
Winfrey Show. Hite died in 2020, having lived her last
include Truffaut’s The Last Metro, Blake Edwards’ Victor/
decades in Europe. If you didn’t know her before, you’ll
Victoria, and the elegant comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and
wonder why you never heard of Shere Hite. ~SM
Jean Renoir. The era – at least, the movie version of that
era – is sumptuously recreated through its sets, props and
costumes. ~SM
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