A New Leaf
Elaine May / US, 1970 / 102 min.
In Elaine May's black comedy – viewed as one of the funniest films of the 1970s – a rich New Yorkse layabout (Walter Matthau) who has squandered his inheritance seeks to marry a rich woman, then murder her to solve his financial troubles.
In her deliciously drily-comedic debut, Elaine May plays the charmingly clumsy, naïve botanist Henrietta Lowell herself. Her fortune attracts spendthrift patrician Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) who plans her murder to support his luxury lifestyle. His bedtime literature for their honeymoon? A Beginner's Guide to Toxicology ...
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Director
Elaine May
Production year
1970
Country
US
Original title
A New Leaf
Length
102 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Liberating Hollywood
In its Liberating Hollywood programme, Eye is screening works by female directors working in the US in the 1970s. Pioneers of the second-wave feminist era, their work has seldom or never been screened in the Netherlands. Highlights of the programme are Wanda (Barbara Loden) and Girlfriends (Claudia Weill), the inspiration for Lena Dunham’s series Girls.
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