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The Departure(Le départ)

  • Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski

  • Belgium, 1967, French, 85mins, DCP

  • Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jacqueline Bir

Making his first film outside Poland, Skolimowski takes a spin for an alternatively frenetic and lyrical comedy in Brussels. Playing a hairdresser’s apprentice obsessed with acquiring a Porsche to compete in a rally car race, Jean-Pierre Léaud – fresh from Masculine Feminine with Catherine Duport – charges the film with hyperkinetic agility and dynamism through his manic hysteria and volatile outbursts, captured under Willy Kurant’s active camera and accentuated by Krzysztof Komeda’s striking jazz score. A thrilling wink at the French New Wave’s canonical characterisation of youth in flux, Skolimowski’s Berlinale-Golden-Bear-winner drives the evolution further down the road.

Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Bear for Best Film and UNICRIT Award

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

    • 2023-11-12 (Sun)
      16:15
      2023-12-10 (Sun)
      17:15

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    • Financially Supported by

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.