In-Person Screening

Both Sides of the Blade

Screening September 3-4 & 10-11, 2022

“★★★★ – Love is patient and kind, or so they say. Both Sides of the Blade knows that love is actually a wrecking ball.” – Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com

Both Sides of the Blade wants us to see its characters rage, but it never loses sight of the larger world raging outside their windows. It’s a different kind of melodrama — and a great one.” – Justin Chang, NPR

The legendary Claire Denis delivers an understated yet psychologically vivid romantic drama, co-written with her Let the Sunshine In collaborator Christine Angot.

Radio-show presenter Sara (Juliette Binoche, Let the Sunshine In) and her ex-con husband, Jean (Vincent London, Titane), have been living happily together for years. However, on her way to work one day, Sara sees François (Grégoire Colin, Beau Travail), an old flame and Jean’s former best friend, outside of the metro. François gets in touch with Jean to propose the idea of going into business together, and he also happens to be very interested in seeing Sara again. Strangely, this gives Sara the opportunity to take a good hard look at her long term relationship with Jean, and a love triangle is formed when François asks Jean to work as a scout at his sports agency, drawing all three lives into a web of deception and desire, while Sara grapples with her increasingly volatile state of mind as she oscillates between the two men. Events begin to spiral out of control, which propel this finely wrought and melancholic narrative, with Denis’s characteristic knack for capturing the intimate sensuality of everyday life on full display, into a complex, emotional tale about a marriage in crisis, as well as the destructive forces of tension and attraction.

Screening in French with English subtitles.

Claire Denis, France, 2022, DCP, 116 mins.

Festivals, Awards, & Nominations

Winner – Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 2022
Nominee – Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival 2022

Showtimes

SAT 3pm 5:30pm 8pm
SUN 1pm 3:30pm 6pm

Ticketing

$12 General Admission

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