Duet for Cannibals
Jun 24 - Jun 25, 2009
(Susan Sontag, Sweden, 1969, 35mm, 105 min)
Celebrating the Inaugural Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes:
The directorial debut of famed American writer, philosopher, and political activist Susan Sontag is an intriguing tale of two couples involved in academia and politics. Artur is a professor living in exile in Sweden with his enigmatic wife Francesca. He hires young Tomas to help prepare a compendium of his works, but Tomas soon suspects that there is an erotic side to his new assignment. New York Times critic Vincent Canby described Duet as “intriguing, surprising, witty and sinister to the end.”