Event

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston presents The Films of Chantal Akerman: Je Tu Il Elle (1974, 90min.)

• Location: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Date: May 24, 2008
• Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce this film program presented by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in conjunction with the List's exhibition Chantal Akerman:  Moving through Time and Space.

Screening takes place at the MFA.

 Je Tu Il Elle (1974, 90 min.). A film that quietly, slowly observes one woman in three parts, film critic B. Ruby Rich describes Je tu il elle as a “cinematic Rosetta Stone of female sexuality.” We first encounter the woman alone in an empty room as she discusses moving the furniture, eats sugar from a brown paper bag, and writes long letters that will eventually be strewn on the floor.  The second section accompanies the woman on a spontaneous and erotic ride with a trucker that has picked her up.  By the time we arrive at the third section, the woman is hungry and asks a woman she is visiting for a sandwich before making love to her.  A film that beautifully challenges conventions of both cinema and autobiography. “One of the most stirring and erotic lovemaking scenes in the history of cinema. I left the theater walking on air” (Bo Smith).

www.mfa.org/film For tickets, call the box office at 617.369.3306