Ciné-club Le 7e genre A LA RECHERCHE DE MISTER GOODBAR

LOOKING FOR MISTER GOODBAR
by Richard Brooks
EU - 1977 - 136 min
Screenplay: Richard Brooks
(based on the novel by Judith Rossner)
Starring: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Tom Berenger.

Theresa Dunn, a seemingly demure single woman, works as a teacher for deaf children by day and ventures out every night into the red-light districts of New York in search of sexual experiences with strangers.
Richard Brooks' last major film (Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, In Cold Blood…), Looking for Mr. Goodbar is an adaptation of Judith Rossner's best-selling novel (1975), itself inspired by a true story from two years earlier. Navigating between the patriarchal and conservative values ​​of her upbringing and her relentless pursuit of independence and pleasure, Theresa struggles to find her place. Is she truly free? Is this headlong flight merely an illusion? Observing the sexual liberation of the 1970s without idealizing or condemning it, the film primarily depicts the difficult condition of women within an alienating social and cultural context. It paints an intimate portrait of a young woman adrift, featuring Diane Keaton in one of her most memorable roles, just before her Oscar win for Annie Hall.

Our guest: Gérald Duchaussoy, head of the 'Cannes Classics' section (the Cannes festival section dedicated to heritage cinema) and co-director of the International Classic Film Market (MIFC) at the Lumière festival (Lyon).

PLEASE NOTE: exceptionally, the session will start at 8pm (and not 8:30pm)


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