Everywhere

Everywhere at Once is an embodiment of the possibilities of film as an expressive art. The story of a woman recovering her ability to dream, to feel, is embedded in a complex, shifting weave of text, images, and music, where the viewer is guided by the magnetic voice of Jeanne Moreau. The star—who narrates and appears in the film, reinforcing the possible biographic implications—becomes an incarnation of life itself, an enigmatic figure who reflects on love, beauty, and mortality. This sumptuous film is the result of a close collaboration between fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh and experimental filmmaker Holly Fisher, starting from their encounter with a box of Lindbergh's beautiful blackandwhite photographs, which they intercut with Tony Richardson's Mademoiselle (1966). The film moves between fiction and documentary, and evokes the voice of Marguerite Duras, who wrote the original 1966 film that starred Moreau as a fatally dangerous woman. The film that resulted from Lindbergh and Fisher's collaboration is a sumptuous layering of images in high definition, with a poetic text by Kimiko Hahn, underscored by the complex music of Lois V. Vierk. The music, inspired by the Japanese gagaku style, is hypnotically slow and repetitive, providing the rhythm for Holly Fisher's complex editing. After watching the surreal imagery, the viewer will bring his or her subjective interpretation of the meaning of this powerful, magical, and evocative film. Everywhere at Once combines the talents of an extraordinary filmmaker, photographer, writer, and composer to create one of the best examples of a "pure art film," as it was called by critic John Anderson in Variety (May 6, 2008) after its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. After seeing it, Isabella Rossellini commented, "The film is like a poem which can be seen over and over again." Regular $10.00 Student/Senior $6.00