Morel’s Invention (L’Invenzione di Morel)
Emidio Greco Italy 1974 110’ (cert. PG)
Italian with English subtitles | 35mm transferred to digital video
A fugitive is washed up on a seemingly deserted rocky island. Out of nowhere, a group of tourists arrive, clad in 1920s high-society clothing, and though he fears being discovered, the fugitive begins to fall in love with one of them, a woman called Faustine (Anna Karina). She doesn’t seem to notice him — and it gradually becomes clear that something mysterious and powerful is keeping them apart.
What could be read as an abstract sci-fi or a story of unrequited love reveals itself as a profound treatise on the image, and a (prescient) appraisal of our wish to record and preserve memories.
Screening as part of Baltic Cinema’s Sources strand.
Level 1 Cinema
Doors open 18:30; Film starts 18:45. Baltic Kitchen is open until 18:30 for drinks, which you are welcome to take up to the cinema.
