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Story of My Death (Història de la meva mort)
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Films
Two people in 18th century European dress wave a sparkler among a joyful group of people, against a wall of smoke
Story of My Death (Història de la meva mort), dir. Albert Serra, Spain / France 2013, 144 min., Catalan with English subtitles

In Focus: Albert Serra

Winner of the prestigious Golden Leopard award for Best Film at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2013, Story of My Death is a baroque reflection on pleasure and erotic desire dramatised from an imagined meeting between the ageing Casanova and Count Dracula.

Albert Serra’s deliciously eccentric film mines history to blend the mythical with the everyday, charting the transition from the Age of Enlightenment to that of Romanticism – marking a clash between an eighteenth century of rationalism and sensuality against a nineteenth century founded upon repression and violence.
 

All films are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with a 10 min. curated selection of trailers.

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