Join Metrograph on Saturday, March 30 for the NYC launch of author and critic Christine Smallwood’s La Captive. Her lyrical monograph on Chantal Akerman’s film of the same name—an icy, absorbing study of monomaniacal erotic fixation, adapting the fifth volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time—is the latest title in Fireflies Press’ Decadent Editions series. Smallwood joins Metrograph for one night only, participating in a Q&A following a screening of Akerman’s newly restored film, and a Lobby Bar reception, where books will be available to be signed, before she introduces Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo, a film which, in Smallwood’s words, “haunts every frame” of Akerman’s drama.

Post-screening Q&A with La Captive author, Christine Smallwood moderated by Anna Shechtman following the screening of La Captive
Saturday, March 30, 5:15pm

Vertigo introduced by La Captive author, Christine Smallwood
Saturday, March 30, 8:30pm