Made In France

For the first time since 1686, Versailles' Castle is recreating its "Royal Carrousel", a phenomenal and majestic performance of cavaliers and horses. Horses, baroque costumes and operatic music made this spectacle the most popular of all court entertainments, and the only one intended for a large audience.

Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these five films pushed boundaries in their day and continue to have a profound influence on filmmakers all over the world.