ALOÏSE preceded by QUI DONC A RÊVÉ?

OPENS AT METROGRAPH MAY 15

METROGRAPH IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RUN OF Aloïse preceded by QUI DONC A RÊVÉ?
STARTING MAY 15.

One of a handful of female outsider artists to earn praise from the early exponents of art brut, Aloïse Corbaz—born in modest circumstances in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1886; institutionalized as a schizophrenic in 1918; and kept under psychiatric observation until her death in 1964—is portrayed here by two of the premiere European actresses of their respective generations: Isabelle Huppert, who plays Corbaz as a ruminative, searching young woman, and Delphine Seyrig, astonishingly committed as the elder artist. Produced by Paul Vecchiali, de Kermadec’s sophomore feature, newly restored by Cinémathèque Française, is an ideal introduction to an unjustly forgotten giant of post–New Wave French cinema, who in the same year of its release would serve as one of the producers on Seyrig and Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce. Screens with Qui donc a rêvé?, de Kermadec’s first short, undertaken shortly following an “apprenticeship” period as set photographer to the likes of Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais. 

A Several Futures release.

Restored in 4K by TF1 Studio, La Cinémathèque française and Cinémathèque suisse at Hiventy and Transperfect laboratories, from the original negatives.

Accompanying the run of de Kermadec’s Aloïse, Metrograph presents Liliane de Kermadec: The Price of Freedom, a series comprised of her own directorial works alongside films she worked on, running from May 15 to May 30. Titles include Cléo from 5 to 7, Don’t Change Hands, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Muriel, or The Time of Return, and Les rendez-vous d’Anna.