Directed by Ulrike Ottinger • 2020 • France, Germany

The latest from New German Cinema visionary Ulrike Ottinger may be her most personal work yet: a journey through memory back to the Paris of the 1960s, where she spent formative years as a painter early in her artistic career. Her vivid anecdotes conjure a place that was both a vibrant intellectual and artistic hub and a sociopolitical hotbed where utopian ideals collided with the realities of France’s history of colonial oppression. What unspools is a captivating portrait of the modern world’s most mythologized city, as seen through the clear-eyed, unsentimental lens of one of cinema’s most iconoclastic artists.