An absurdist revolt of a garment in one of the most shameless tragicomedy films of the 1990s. Screening as part of the Still Life. Portrait. Landscape. Genre Beside Itself programme.
Registration opens three weeks before the screening
The Dress
- Date:
- 22 Jan 2027,
19:00–21:00
Registration opens three weeks before the screening
- Age restrictions
- 18+
De jurk
1996, Alex van Warmerdam
Netherlands
103 minutes, Dutch with Russian subtitles
Starring: Henri Garcin, Ariane Schluter, Rijk de Gooyer, Alex van Warmerdam
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A cotton field, a weaving mill, a fashion designer’s office and, finally, a boutique. By the time housewife Stella, defying her husband’s advice, buys a blue dress with a floral pattern, it will have managed to ruin several lives on its way to the clothes rail. And that’s just the beginning.
Still from The Dress, 1996
Van Warmerdam’s dexterity in choreographing the story’s many twists and turns is to be admired.
— David Rooney, Variety
Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam transforms the story of an object into a scathing parable. The dress, rebelling against its owners, seems to cry out: materialism will lead humanity to no good.
