Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship.
William Friedkin’s 1980 film CRUISING, based on a book inspired by a series of murders, explores gay sexuality on screen and the fragility of an undercover policeman's identity.
Already sold out is Saturday’s screening of Rebel With a Clause; we’re working with semi-colon mavens Brandt Johnson and Ellen Jovin on an encore in the coming weeks.