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Haut bas fragile (4K Restoration)
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Haut bas fragile, dir. Jacques Rivette, France/Switzerland 1995, French with English subtitles, 170 min.


Inspired by MGM’s low budget musicals of the 1950s, Rivette crafts an all-singing all-dancing sojourn through a sweltering Parisian summer in this captivating story of love, friendship and liberation.

The lives and adventures of three women intersect across the course of a summer, the upper-class Louise (Marianne Denicourt), recently awakened from a coma; Ninon (Nathalie Richard), a street-smart parcel courier; and Ida (Laurence Côte), a university librarian in search of her birth mother. 

Rivette weaves the lives of these three women, and several typically mysterious plot threads, through the sun-dappled streets of Paris to delirious effect, crafting an effervescent musical comedy of depth and verve.
 
08:20 pm
Tue, 13 May 2025
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
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