About the Event
Olivia
Directed by Jacqueline Audry
(France, 1951, 88 min.)
Friday October 25 7:00
Saturday October 26 7:00
Free and open to the public
An English school girl (Marie-Claire Olivia) arrives in a French finishing school and is thrust into the middle of an epic power struggle between the school’s two mistresses – Miss Julie (veteran actress Edwige Feuillère who won a BAFTA for her performance) and Miss Cara (Simone Simon, Cat People, Ophuls’s La Ronde). Audry has just made the first version of Colette’s Gigi and would later make Sartre’s No Exit – and this film feels like a pressure cooker version of both films. Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times at the time of the film’s release, put it best: “A compound of velvet innuendos—polite, discreet and finely wrought. Because of the secret affections that pass among the teachers and the girls, [Olivia] skirts along the edges of an area of unnatural love.”
This screening is part of the Murfee Worsham Memorial Screening Series.
Parking available in West Lot 4, $5 flat rate charge, credit card required.
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