Showtimes: Saturday, October 6 at 7:05pm
and Monday, October 8 at 8:45pm

An elderly man catches a glimpse of a woman while at the symphony. He watches her during the performance and follows her out, only to lose sight of her in the crowd. Who she is? Why does he pursue her? He reveals part of the puzzle when he wonders, “What is the impact of an ill-spent past?” Other clues lie in the mystery woman’s name and the title of this film. The woman is Séverine, the character played by Catherine Deneuve in 1967’s Belle de Jour. In this film, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira returns to the story first told by Luis Buñuel and extends it into an elegant meditation on memory and truth, set in a dreamlike Paris of music, art and wealth. De Oliveira is a grand master of film who has won more than thirty film awards in a career spanning sixty years. He made this film at age 97 and is scheduled to shoot a movie based on Christopher Columbus this year. ~ Francie Noyes

Principal Cast: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trepa,
Leonor Baldaque, Júlia Buisel

Producer: Serge Lalou
Cinematographer: Sabine Lancelin
Editor: Valerie Loiseleux