Duet for Cannibals

Name: Duet for Cannibals
Start: 2020-02-21T19:00:00
End: 2020-02-21T21:00:00
Location: Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater

Feb. 21, 2020 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27705

Feb. 17, 2020

11:20 a.m.

Courtesy of Metrograph

Duet for Cannibals(Susan Sontag, 1969, 105 min, Sweden, Swedish w/ subtitles, B&W, DCP)Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy. The story, involving an arrogant ex-revolutionist German exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping which gradually drifts towards gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent.

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Duet for Cannibals

(Susan Sontag, 1969, 105 min, Sweden, Swedish w/ subtitles, B&W, DCP)

Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy. The story, involving an arrogant ex-revolutionist German exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping which gradually drifts towards gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent.