SuperFLINTA Film Club presents
MURDER and murder
(Yvonne Rainer, 1996)
+ DJ set by Alana Vegana & Bebam Água
MURDER and murder (1996), directed by Yvonne Rainer, is a romantic comedy that follows the late-in-life romance between Mildred, a longtime lesbian, and Doris, who falls in love with a woman for the first time. The film candidly explores female aging, lesbian sexuality, and breast cancer, interweaving the couple’s relationship with the director’s meta-cinematic commentary.
Yvonne Rainer (USA, November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, writer, and filmmaker. Her work is characterized by experimentalism and minimalism. She founded the Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s, a movement that influenced dance for decades to come. She presented her work as a choreographer in the United States and Europe, and in the 1970s, she filmed Lives of Performers, her first film. In the following decades, she completed seven films. Her latest, MURDER and murder, premiered in 1996 at the Toronto Film Festival.
