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Golden Eighties

Dates with showtimes for Golden Eighties
  • Mon, Mar 31

The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve.  For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats.  Screening will begin promptly at midnight.

Director: Chantal Akerman Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 1986 Language: French

Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Lio, Myriam Boyer, Pascale Salkin

The shopping mall becomes a dance hall in 1986’s Golden Eighties, a vibrant and stylized musical closing out our Chantal Akerman Month series.

The film follows a group of sales clerks, customers, and shop owners whose romantic entanglements unfold in a world of brightly lit storefronts and choreographed musical numbers. At the center of the story is a love triangle involving a young woman torn between a stable but dull suitor and a passionate but unreliable lover, reflecting themes of longing and disillusionment.

With its blend of glossy artifice and bittersweet emotions, Golden Eighties subverts the romantic musical genre while offering a sharp, ironic take on relationships and modern capitalism through Akerman’s unique, minimalist lens.

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