SECRET MOVIE CLUB present
Part of our SURREAL SUMMER series! Friday, June 10, 2022
LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021
*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate.
8pm BELLE DU JOUR(1967, written by Luis Buñuel & Jean-Claude Carriere and dir by Luis Buñuel, Janus, France, 101mns, 35mm)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***As of April 1, 2022, masks are now optional for indoor theater events if you're fully vaccinated. Anyone without proof of vaccination will be required to wear a mask for their own safety. We will continue to update our protocols with the dynamic situation. We are working to make sure we make the theater going experience the most enjoyable and safest possible.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE BRING YOUR VACCINATION CARD (digital cards accepted).
2)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. (Disclaimer under “REFUNDS” applies)
Tonight, we continue our Surreal Summer series with one of Luis Buñuel’s most successful movies of all, the Catherine Deneuve starring Belle Du Jour.
The movie tells the story of sexually frustrated (for very good reasons, which are revealed) housewife Severine who lives in a world of sexual fantasy and terror and suddenly decides to work as a high class prostitute from 2pm-5pm each day, earning her the title “Flower of the Day” (also the title of the movie).
Unbeknownst to her faithful and loving husband, Severine finds that working in a brothel actually allows her to work through her own past and conflicts, though soon her secret life and her public life collide in ways she never could have imagined.
Belle Du Jour was one of the movies to inaugurate Buñuel’s final 12-year late period burst of wild creativity, returning him to France where he had made Un Chien Andalou at the start of it all.
Older, wiser, with dozens of movies under his belt, Buñuel co-wrote and directed a wild string of movies that were even funnier, more cinematic, more blasphemous & more confrontational than many of his mid-period movies.
Always someone who himself seemed to be gripped by sexual conflict due to his rigid Catholic and Spanish upbringing, Buñuel and Catherine Deneuve expertly go to places you never can fully predict. In true surreal fashion, the ending achieves a kind of unsettling profundity as the movie seems to acknowledge that our decisions and motivations can often lead to unexpectedly good and bad outcomes that could never be predicted.
Join us to watch this still shocking, hilarious, surreal masterpiece. On 35mm!
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder/Programmer
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REFUNDS:
We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.
However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)
HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:
We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.
There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.
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