FACETS CINÉMATHÈQUE
September 2008
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A SNEAK PREVIEW OF A FACETS EXCLUSIVE!
YESTERDAY GIRL
(ABSCHIED VON GESTERN)
$5 admission
Free for Facets members
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WINNER
Special Jury Prize Venice Film Fest |
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"Surprisingly fresh"
-TimeOut New York
As the flagship film of the "young German cinema" movement, Alexander Kluge's first feature,
Yesterday Girl, paved the way for the New German Cinema of the 1970's. Produced immediately after the Oberhausen Manifesto,
Yesterday Girl is an experimental, youth-oriented satire with a fragmentary story about an unruly heroine named Anita G. (Alexandra Kluge, the director's sister and frequent collaborator.) Like any postwar German youth worth her salt, Anita wants to break free of the collective baggage left by her parent's generation, but her flee from East to West Germany only confirms that conservatism and scarred memories thrive on both sides of the wall. A nominee for the Golden Lion and winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 1966 Venice Film Festival,
Yesterday Girl made it clear the waning German film industry was headed for a renaissance.
Directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany,1966, DVD, 88 mins. In German with English subtitles.
Senses of Cinema: Kluge
CinemaScope: Kluge
TimeOut New York
Showtime:
Sunday, Sept. 14 at 12:30 pm
For all Cinémathèque inquiries, contact Charles Coleman at 773.281.9075 or
charles@facets.org