| Sunday 8 February 15.00
L'inhumaine
(Marcel L'Herbier, France 1924, c. 178')
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L'inhumaine |
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A rare screening for L'Herbier's modernist extravaganza,
designed as a showcase for the contemporary French arts, which tells the
story of a selfish chanteuse, poisoned by her jealous lover but resurrected
by science. Fernand Léger was invited to design the extraordinary
engineer's laboratory, with its clocks, bottles, revolving discs and futurist
two-way TV set, allowing him to explore purist forms in a cinematic space.
Robert Mallet-Stevens, Claude Autant-Lara and Alberto Cavalcanti also contributed
to the Cubist settings of this wildly lavish production.
With live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions)
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