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PAAM film series shows ‘Matador’
Banner Daily Update Thurs. May 15
Banner Staff
FilmArt@PAAM is screening "Matador" (1986), a key film in establishing writer-director Pedro Almodóvar's international reputation as a cinematic talent to be reckoned with, on Thursday, May 15 at 7 p.m. at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 460 Commercial Street.
"Matador" is a mystery that revolves around two characters, an aspiring bullfighter, played by a young Antonio Banderas, and a serial murderer (whose identity is a curious twist) who kills victims while in the throes of sexual passion. Their stories are interwoven in much the same way that eroticism and bloodlust converge in art and life.
A discussion of the film will follow the screening. Suggested donation is $5 to the public and $3 for PAAM members. The popcorn is free, and beverages will be available.
FilmArt@PAAM's spring schedule continues on May 29 with "Morocco" (1930), Josef von Sternberg's deeply romantic and erotically suggestive pre-Code masterpiece, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, in her first Hollywood film; on June 5 with "Au revoir les enfants" (1987), Louis Malle's keenly observant and unsentimental remembrance of schoolboy friends and betrayal in France during the Nazi occupation; and on June 26 with "Female Trouble" (1974), John Waters's brilliant follow-up to "Pink Flamingos," a pointed and outrageous satire of art and artists, starring the divinely repugnant Divine in two roles (and two genders).
Screenings are held twice a month on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. in the museum's renovated galleries.
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May 15th, 2008