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:  

L’ICEBERG    2005
Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy
84 minutes
In French with English subtitles

This is the debut Belgian film by the trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy (Rumba, The Fairy) who have attacked the narrowness of modern cinema with their off-beat sense of humor and their surreal visuals. Belgians are exceptional in their ability to skate that thin line between lightness and tragedy, and this film is a perfect example. L’iceberg focuses on a woman who lives in the suburbs of Brussels and has a perfect family. One night when she is working at a fast-food restaurant she is accidentally locked in the backroom storage freezer where she is forced to spend the night. She survives, and attempts to return to her normal everyday life, but has a sort of mid-life crisis and abandons her humdrum family for an outrageous adventure.

What an imagination this French-Belgian trio always brings to the screen! Cinema is basically a visual language in the end, but so many films are laden with dialog-heavy scripts. Here the story is told visually, and it feels absolutely relaxing and refreshing. It is a sound film, but the roots of its visual flare are clearly in silent cinema. Because there is almost no dialogue, and the ideas are expressed through images, it can be compared to a more colorful and explosive version of a Jacques Tati film. Even though it’s made on a small budget, it bypasses all that indie “rough” look which wears its poverty on its sleeve, and instead this wildly colourful film has a deliriously smooth and almost glamorous aesthetic, interweaving the storyline with a wacky surrealism. This flick will blow away your normal (programmed) way of seeing films… and bad habits are always worth losing!

And once again, this film was criminally  never seen outside French-speaking countries, so this will be a rare chance to catch this punchy visual cocktail.

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