Film Details

Tonight we mark the 27^th anniversary of the Cinematheque’s first film showing at the Cleveland Institute of Art with a special screening at our home away from home: the Capitol Theatre on Cleveland’s West Side. (There will also be free cookies!) You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet is the highly acclaimed new film by the great Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad; Hiroshima, Mon Amour ), now 91 and still turning out bold, innovative masterpieces that blend reality, artifice, and imagination. Resnais calls his new work“a film for cinephiles,” and it featuresan all-star French cast (Michel Piccoli, Mathieu Amalric, Lambert Wilson, Resnais regulars Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi, et al.). They play themselves—prominent actors summoned to a chateau by a now-deceased playwright to watch a recording of a new production of his famous play Eurydice (actually written by Jean Anouilh). Pretty soon they begin saying lines along with the on-screen actors—and inhabiting a dream space in which time melts away and pain, desire, and loss work together to forge something new. “A playful, intellectual consideration of memory, theater, and love lost and regained.” –The Hollywood Reporter.