Cinema

(de voertaal van deze avond is Engels).

Jeffrey's Underground Cinema has been showing neglected and forgotten films for the last decade. This night:  

RUMBA 2008
Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy
74 minutes
In French with English subtitles

What an imaginative punch this French-Belgian trio always brings to the screen! They work truly as a collective, two men and a woman, who direct the movie together, and they also play the principal roles.

They have collaborated on six films until now, and all of them are magical mini-masterpieces that are seldom shown. Although there is a story and some dialogue, these films are extremely visual, a bit in the vein of Jacques Tati… often merging tragedy with absurdist humor and thereby concocting a wild visual cocktail that faces some of life’s worst tragedies, and yet manages to emerge bright and uplifting pantomime.

Even though it’s made on a small budget, Rumba bypasses all that indie “rough” look which wears its poverty on its sleeve, and instead this wildly colourful film has deliriously smooth and almost glamorous aesthetics, interweaving the storyline with punchy fantasy sequences and wacky surrealism. It is of course a sound film, but the roots of its visual flair are clearly in pantomime… telling a story through images rather than dialogue.

With a short introduction by Jeffrey Babcock

20:30 (doors and bar open at 20:00)
Free entrance / no reservations
We advise you to come early: max. 70 people /
no admittance after 20.30