AU BONHEUR DES DAMES – Silent Film with Live Music (PG) Borderlines Film Festival

On sale Friday 27th January, 10am

With live musical accompaniment by Meg Morley Brand-new restoration by Lobster Films, Paris.

Set within the glamorous world of a Parisian department store, this long-forgotten masterpiece, one of the last silent films made in France, is ripe for rediscovery.

Dita Parlo, a German actress who later appeared in Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante (1934) and Jean Renoir’s The Grand Illusion (1937), plays a wide-eyed innocent from the country who is relocated to the city of lights, lured away from her uncle’s small shop by the sparkle of the department store. Based on the novel by Zola, both a celebration of Parisian life and a damning portrait of rampant consumerism, this breathtaking classic – by the director of such future classics as La belle équipe (1936), Pépé le Moko (1936) and Un carnet de bal (1937) – will leave you laughing, crying and asking for more.

DIRECTOR: Julien Duvivier
STARRING: Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant
FRANCE, 1930
1 HOUR 30 MINUTES
SILENT