Golden Eighties

Akerman’s Golden Eighties is a departure from her best-known film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, which topped the 2022 Sight and Sound poll as the greatest film of all time. Starring Delphine Seyrig, Golden Eighties is a bouncy musical that follows the love lives and friendships between store employees at a shopping mall. Akerman presents a colorful, Gen X wonderland of consumerist delights and stylish production numbers as a lens to explore her career-long preoccupations with late capitalism and the legacy of the Holocaust. In French with English subtitles. (99 mins., 4K DCP)See the entire A Summer Abroad: International Film Classics lineup.IMAGE CAPTIONGolden Eighties, courtesy of Janus Films.