• 9017 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:45:00 @ Kino 2

Director: Chantal Akerman
Cinematographer: Luc Benhamou
Editor: Claire Atherton

Mystery, modernism and romance come alive after dark in the 16th arrondissement.

Tucked away in Paris is a street named after the famous interwar-period architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. It contains five of his buildings, all odes to a modernist aesthetic with a cubist influence, and is the place where Chantal Akerman shot this moody short film, commissioned to celebrate a century of his life. As the camera moves from strangers on the street to an apartment, the director’s partner Sonia Wieder-Artherton plays the cello while being circled by Akerman herself, in drag, bearing a rose.

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