Metrograph

“Built out of Violette Leduc’s taboo-breaking prose, Therese and Isabelle is Metzger’s elegant exploration of the relation of past and present, word and image in the erotic imaginary. The film binds itself tightly to Leduc’s 1966 text, letting voiceover shoulder what the camera doesn’t show. Desire here becomes a problem of translation, between what can be seen and what can be said, between what lasts in memory and what gets left behind.” —Rob King, series curator, film historian and author of Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

Introduction by Rob King and Ashley West, writer and founder of The Rialto Report, on Sunday, April 19th