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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, dir. Fritz Lang, USA 1956, 80 mins.
"What, then, is this film really? Fable, parable, equation, blueprint? None of these things, but simply the description of an experiment." – Jacques Rivette
Fritz Lang’s last film in the US is an intriguing film noir about a novelist (Dana Andrews) who, aided by his future father-in-law, conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment.
The subject of one of Rivette's most famous and decidedly inscrutable essays for Cahiers du cinéma, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is at its heart, as Rivette elucidates, a treatise on the very concepts of innocence and guilt.
Fritz Lang’s last film in the US is an intriguing film noir about a novelist (Dana Andrews) who, aided by his future father-in-law, conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment.
The subject of one of Rivette's most famous and decidedly inscrutable essays for Cahiers du cinéma, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is at its heart, as Rivette elucidates, a treatise on the very concepts of innocence and guilt.
04:00 pm
Sat, 17 May 2025
Cinema 1
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