KINO Rotterdam

The visually stunning Resurrection by Bi Gan premieres June 11th. A film that blends memory, dreams, and history into a surreal cinematic journey across different eras, marked by Bi Gan’s signature style of hypnotic long takes and poetic storytelling.

Screenings of Une femme est une femme (1961) start tomorrow. Jean-Luc Godard, the iconic figurehead of the 1960s Nouvelle Vague movement, presented his idiosyncratic vision of the musical: “a neorealist musical.” Starring French superstars Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean-Claude Brialy at the height of their popularity, this singular classic is both a playful homage to and an ironic dissection of the American musical.

Karina’s Angéla, a st******se dancer who longs for a child, becomes caught up in a light-hearted yet sharply observed love triangle. With its exuberant colours, humour and gorgeous score by composer Michel Legrand, the film shows Godard at his most accessible, without sacrificing his formal playfulness. To mark its 65th anniversary, this sparkling key work in Godard’s œuvre now returns to cinemas in a stunning digital restoration.

Agatha’s Almamac screens now in KINO. 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on a remote farm in Manitoba, without running water, and lives for her garden. In this delightful documentary, she speaks with dry wit about her garden, her love life, and how duct tape can fix just about anything. A character you could watch for hours. Her niece Amalie Atkins did exactly that for six years, capturing everything on luminous 16mm film. A documentary festival favorite and an ode to individuality, slowing down, and of course: duct tape.