Harpur Cinema
Since 1965, Harpur Cinema has been seeking to bring to campus a range of significant films that in most cases would not be available to local audiences. Our program is international in scope, emphasizing foreign and independent films, as well as important films from the historical archive. All foreign films are shown in their original language with English subtitles.
Lecture Hall 6, unless otherwise noted
7:30pm on Friday and Sunday
$4 Single Admission
*Tickets will be for sale at the door from 7:00pm on the evening of the screening.
APR. 12 & 14 – The Wild Boys – Bertrand Mandico – France – 2017 – 110 min.
Mandico’s first feature film, after more than 40 shorts, is “a grand burst of forms and textures, of artifices and effects laid bare, where the seams between images and sounds open as many breaches to the imaginary” (Le Monde). When a band of wealthy boys commit a terrible crime, they are sent off to work on a dreadful ship. After many adventures, they land on a paradise island, a place of mysterious metamorphoses. As it explores the unstable zone of fluctuation between genders, the film experiments with form such as overlapping, instantaneous transitions from monochrome to color, rear projection effects, visual manipulations, all realized while filming and evoking the poetic illusions of early cinema. “A refined example of radical and engaged cinema” (Cineuropa).
Won: Prix Louis Delluc, Best First Feature – Vilnius Film Festival, Best Director
Nominated: Munich Film Festival, Best Director – Venice Film Festival, Queer Lion
