Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Mezzanine presents *Anatomy of a Relationship*, directed by Luc Moullet & Antonietta Pizzorno. 1976, France, 82m. Brand new 4K restoration! Opening night of *Luc Moullet: Hardly Working*, *a Mezzanine retrospective*. ∆ In this autofiction masterpiece, Moullet himself (in the first of many appearances in his own films) portrays a boorish filmmaker struggling to get his next film made while unable to sexually satisfy his girlfriend (Christine Hébert), whose intellectual awakening seems to further spell the death knell of their relationship. Frank and dryly hilarious, the film was co-directed by Moullet and his real-life wife and creative partner Antoinetta Pizzorno, and its many cringe-inducing, all-too-recognizable scenarios carry on the tradition of metafictional totems like *David Holzman’s Diary* and exemplify the cannibalizing labor and frustration of a life lived in independent film. In French with English subtitles. A Cinema Guild release. “Provides a succinct introduction to \[Moullet’s\] special brand of low-budget cinema. A restaging of his abortive sexual relationship with Antonietta Pizzorno (who cowrote and codirected but, unlike Moullet, appears only in the finale), it’s painfully, hilariously, and graphically honest, and its willful rejection of technique is an implicit critique of slickness.” -Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader ∆ Preceded by: *Essai d’ouverture .* 1988, France, 14m. Moullet struggles to open a bottle of Coke. ∆ Total runtime: 96m.