Version Restauree/Restored Version - Baby Blood

Baby Blood

Halloween Party after the screening!

Dir. Alain Robak, 1990, France, 82min, DCP

A truly unsettling French splatterfest just in time for Halloween! And the perfect place to start for a filmmaker whose work is completely underseen in the US, waiting to be discovered. “For circus animal wrangler Yanka, man is the one species of wild beast she can’t seem to tame. Yet it’s a slimy, snake-like creature that impregnates her by finding refuge in her womb, resulting in one of horror cinema’s worst-ever pregnancies. Under the telepathic influence of the bloodthirsty ‘fetus,’ Yanka grows increasingly unhinged in this grotesquerie that’s as unsettling as it is delightfully bizarre.” – Laura Kern, Film Comment

This film contains graphic content that will be disturbing to some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.

Version restauree/Restored Version

Whenever Version restaurée appears in a festival program guide, trailer (bande-annonce), or before the start of a film, it indicates a new and exciting chance to revisit a beloved classic, or make a significant discovery. In recent years, extraordinary ‘restored versions’, particularly from the French speaking world, have been made available by archives, cinémathèques, rights holders and studios. Most of these restorations have never screened in the U.S., and in some cases, haven’t been shown since their original release, if ever released in the U.S. at all.

For the Fall 2024 season, L’Alliance New York presents an expansive series consisting exclusively of New York, U.S. and world premieres of Version restaurée films. Running from September 10 to December 17, the series will comprise over twenty features and short films from France, Senegal, Tunisia, Switzerland, Burkina Faso, and the Louisiana Bayou, including a 1929 muet (Gaston Modot’s Conte Cruel) to a masterpiece of the new century (Godard’s Éloge de l’amour), and films by Frederick Wiseman, Marguerite Duras, Fernando Arrabal, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Christian-Jacque, Jacques Deray, Yolande Zauberman, Samba Félix Ndiaye and Jean Cocteau.

Event Pricing:
Member Price: Free
Non Member Price: $16
Under 28 Price: $8
Buy Series Pass $50 for 2 months

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