Escale (Thirteen Days of Love). 1935. Directed by Louis Valray

Film

Escale (Thirteen Days of Love). 1935. France. Directed by Louis Valray. Screenplay by Louis Valray, Anne Valray. With Colette Darfeuil, Samson Fainsilber, Serge Arola. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 84 min.

An officer of a passenger ship falls in love with the mistress of a Marseille racketeer, with unexpected results. Louis Valray’s second and final feature film, written with his wife, Anne Valray, is as free-spirited as his first, La belle de nuit, owing little or nothing to any established school of French cinema, mixing the lyrical (as the lovers enjoy a few days of romance on a tiny island) and stark realism (unblinking observations of the Marseille underworld and its seemingly authentic denizens).

This film accompanies To Save and Project: The 17th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.

Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 4:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 4:30 p.m.

Introduced by Serge Bromberg, Lobster Films

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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