One Night Only: Olivier Assayas

One Night Only: Olivier Assayas

A titan of contemporary French cinema, Olivier Assayas joins Metrograph on Friday March 6th to present his headlong dive into the hellmouth of emergent digital culture, Demonlover, alongside Roberto Rossellini’s The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, a crucial influence on his forthcoming The Wizard of the Kremlin, featuring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin, which screens at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2026.

In partnership with Rendez-Vous with French Cinema

With the Support of Film at Lincoln Center and Unifrance

                

Demonlover

Olivier Assayas / 2002 / 122min / 35mm
Q&A with director Olivier Assayas moderated by filmmaker Kent Jones on Friday, March 6th
Fri Mar 6
Fri Mar 6
Tue Mar 10

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Roberto Rossellini / 1966 / 94min / DCP
Introduction by Olivier Assayas on Friday, March 6th
Fri Mar 6
Fri Mar 6
Thu Mar 12