Menuet

Lili Rademakers / NL, BE, 1982 / 86 min.

Lili Rademakers-Veenman, wife of Fons Rademakers, directed two feature films and played a pivotal role in the creation of Rademakers’ oeuvre. To mark the publication of Jutta Chorus’ book 'Alma's dochters – vijf levens in de schaduw', Eye is screening the 35mm conserved version of Lili Rademakers’ first feature film.

poster Menuet (Lili Rademakers, NL/BE 1982)

For her debut film, Lili Rademakers and co-screenwriter Hugo Claus adapted the novelle of the same title by Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon, a ‘domestic drama’ about a man and a woman in a sexually dysfunctional marriage. The wife seeks pleasure in the arms of her brother-in-law, while the husband falls for a thirteen-year-old servant girl.

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Eye Classics

Director

Lili Rademakers

Production year

1982

Country

NL, BE

Original title

Menuet

Length

86 min.

Language

Dutch

Subtitles

NONE

Format

35mm

Part of

Eye Classics

Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. We screen them regularly, in various programmes. Eye now brings film history even closer with its new series Eye Classics: three classics a week, chosen by Eye's programmers. On the big screen, screened in 35mm whenever possible.

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