The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, January 20-26
Tomorrow We Move (2004)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Sylvie Testud stars in this comedy as Charlotte, a writer of erotica who moves her widowed mother into her sooty Paris duplex. The two discuss life initially in the deceased man’s shadow, transitioning out of the past one burdensome hunk of family furniture at a time. Charlotte is a clear-enough cipher for Akerman, fourth-wall busting as she takes notes for her latest commission, hanging to the frame’s side while sundry characters hold court on lust and desire, death and memory. A whimsical picture for sure, it touches nevertheless on the weight of Holocaust survival and the olfactory détournements of love with indefatigable clarity. Steve Macfarlane (January 20, 8pm at the New York Jewish Film Festival; introduced by film critic Stuart Klawans)