Digital Gym Cinema Spotlights Austrian Auteur, Jessica Hausner
A Five-Film Miniseries Begins March 25th at the Digital Gym Cinema Downtown
Starting Monday, March 25, Digital Gym Cinema is delighted to spotlight contemporary Austrian auteur, Jessica Hausner, with a miniseries of four of her newly restored films in the days leading up to the release of her latest dark comedy, Club Zero, starring Mia Wasikowska.
Included in the series are: Lovely Rita (2001), Hotel (2004), Lourdes (2009), and Amour Fou (2014), with Club Zero closing out the series with its first run beginning Friday, March 29.
Boasting an oeuvre spanning coming-of-age, sci-fi, mystery, psychological horror, and even historical drama, Jessica Hausner subverts genre expectations and incorporates thematic undercurrents of faith and alienation to craft intimate narratives around female protagonists grappling with inner conflict and motivated by a desire to connect with others. With her sharp attention to the intricacies of human behavior and a dark sense of humor, Hausner strikes a fine balance between bold storytelling choices and compassionate recognition of her characters—yet her lens never flinches at the cruelties and uncertainties of everyday life.
Please join us for this special mini retrospective, and witness the evolution of a confident and daring voice in modern filmmaking.
Tickets are now available at digitalgym.org.
Lovely Rita (2001) - Monday, March 25, 2024, 7:30 PM - https://digitalgym.org/movies/lovely-rita/
Synopsis: Rita is an outcast teenager in suburban Austria, misunderstood both at school, where she's disdained by classmates, and at home, where her staunchly religious mother and temperamental father bemoan her inability to fit in with their comfortable bourgeois life. When Rita sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably.
Hotel (2004) - Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 7:30 PM - https://digitalgym.org/movies/hotel/
Synopsis: When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace. Is there a murderer on site, or are there even darker forces at work?
Lourdes (2009) - Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 5:00 PM - https://digitalgym.org/movies/lourdes/
Synopsis: In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Amour Fou (2014) - Thursday, March 28, 2024, 7:00 PM - https://digitalgym.org/movies/amour-fou/
Synopsis: Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.
Club Zero (2023) - Friday, March 29- Thursday, April 4, Showtimes TBD - https://digitalgym.org/movies/club-zero/
Synopsis: A suspicious headmistress, concerned parents and the failing health of her students lead everyone to question the inscrutable Miss Novak’s motivations for teaching a “conscious eating” class. As a few devoted pupils fall deeper under her cult-like tutelage, they are given a new, even more sinister goal to aspire to – joining the ominous “Club Zero.”
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