The third and last month of our inaugural cycle of films focused on the nature of the spirit, by Michelangelo Antonioni and Terrence Malick. Programmed by Omar Chowdhury, the event was free and open to all.

La Notte (Antonioni)
6 June 2015, 6:30 PM, Saturday
(1961, 122 mins, black and white)
A husband and wife suffer in a stilted, sick marriage. The film mirrors this in the intellectual ecology they inhabit. A friend dies in moral agony. They go to a decadent party and the night becomes wild. They both stray and play games until dawn. Neither know what they mean to each other but they feel both dependent and apart.

Days of Heaven (Malick)
7 June 2015, 6:30 PM, Sunday
(1978, 95 mins, colour)
Out in the golden plains of 19th century America, drifting communities farm the land of rich farmers. A secretive young couple in love and a child narrator are involved in a gothic plot to steal the lands of a dying farmer. Love is confused by greed and godlike nature is unmoved by tragedies.

Bengal Cinematheque presented the films and ideas of cinema’s greatest auteurs, shown at the highest quality, to help build a community of emerging film-makers, writers and programmers in Bangladesh.