Filmscreening - Bent
Jeffrey - 04.11.2010 13:37
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16 at 20.30
BENT (1997) Directed by Sean Mathias 105 minutes, in English, no subtitles
Filmhuis Cavia- Van Hallstraat 52-B. Membership for the evening: 3 Euros
This cult classic includes a truly bizarre and unexpected performance by Mick Jagger in drag, swinging from a chandelier!
Bent (Mathias, 1997)
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16
BENT (1997)
Directed by Sean Mathias
105 minutes
In English
Max (Clive Owen) is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Pursued and captured, Max is placed in Dachau concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. Therefore Max would rather wear a yellow star and proclaim himself a Jew than be lanced with the pink triangle that designates homosexuality. As a way to deal with the horrors around him, Max starts a forbidden relationship with an openly gay prisoner (Lothaire Bluteau), who chastises him for his homophobia. It is through this relationship that Max understands that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
The first part of the film is set in a war-ravaged Berlin, a stylized, a stark and bombed-out world full of decadence and chic theatrical disarray. Because of these scenes the film had a restricted distribution in America (the land of the free?). There are many poignant as well as harrowing scenes, and the result is a somber work that stands as a reminder that intolerance cannot overtake individualism and love. A tender award-winning film which has been largely forgotten about these days.
I guess I should also mention that the cult classic includes a truly bizarre and unexpected performance by Mick Jagger in drag, swinging from a chandelier! And it features a very young Jude Law as a storm-trooper! And the music is by Phillip Glass....!
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Filmhuis Cavia- Van Hallstraat 52-B
Time: 20:30
Membership for the evening: 3 Euros
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