Golden Eighties was suggested for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Kit.

You can almost smell the hairspray in Akerman’s exuberant but subversive musical about the many romantic entanglements of salon workers in a shopping mall basement. Its natty 1980s style, witty song lyrics, rapturous dance sequences, not to mention a gloriously bitchy male-suited quartet, deliver all the joys of the genre. At the same time, Akerman critiques the consumerist ‘paradise’ around them, questioning whether love, if it’s tied to conformity, really is the answer.

Restored by Royal Film Archive of Belgium (CINEMATEK), Fondation Chantal Akerman and L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna.

This screening will finish at 13:46.

Please note, this screening will take place in our new Screen 3, which will not yet have step-free access whilst we wait for our platform lift to be installed.

Cast:
Myriam Boyer, Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Lio