May 11th 2025

Jean-Claude Rousseau: Les Antiquités de Rome (1989 / 1984)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Sunday, May 11th, at 7PM

Les Antiquités de Rome (1989 / 1984)
Jean-Claude Rousseau · 105m / 11m · 16mm

The Antiquities of Rome shows little of Rome’s antiquities. Following Ozu, Bresson, and Straub-Huillet and guided by the idea to “show as little as possible,” Rousseau’s cinema is one of ellipses and absence in which we see darkened interiors, the shadows of architectural structures, and streets that equally obscure and are obscured by the monuments and remnants of antiquity.

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