In this modern-day fairy tale and rediscovered Czech New Wave cult classic, an ordinary Bohemian village is visited by a magician (Jan Werich), his beautiful assistant Diana (Emília Vásáryová), and a magic cat with the power to reveal people in colors that indicate their true natures: yellow for the unfaithful, purple for liars, red for lovers like Robert (Vlastimil Brodský), a bighearted school teacher whose independence of thought places him at odds with the town’s conservative authorities. When the cat reveals the villagers as they really are and the town descends into whimsical chaos, humorless school principal Karel (Jiří Sovák) vows to hunt down the feline and put an end to its anarchic reign. Ahead of its time in experimenting with stylized color and extended political metaphor, The Cassandra Cat is director Vojtěch Jasný’s triumphant excursion into fantasy as a mirror of real-life social divisions and hypocrisies. – Janus Films
1963 • dir Vojtěch Jasný w/Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová • 105 min • DCP
Watch the Trailer:
Repertory Series
CAT FANCY: A FELINE FILM FEAST
Fri, Aug 29 – Thu, Sep 4
Learn more: brattlefilm.org/film-series/cat-fancy/
AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST • Fri, Aug 29 at 3:30 • 35mm
FLOW • Fri, Aug 29‡ at 6:00; Mon, Sep 1‡ at 12:00; Thu at 4:00 • DCP
KEDI • Fri, Aug 29‡ at 8:00; Mon, Sep 1‡ at 2:00 • DCP
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CATS (aka BLOOD FEAST) • Fri, Aug 29 at 10:00 • 35mm
KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE • Sat, Aug 30 at 12:00, 2:30; Sun, Aug 31 at 4:30 • DCP • Saturday dubbed; Sunday subtitled
BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE‡ • Sat, Aug 30 at 4:45 • DCP
AMÉLIE • Sat, Aug 30 at 7:00‡; Mon, Sep 1 at 4:00 • DCP
TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN OUTER SPACE • Sat, Aug 30 at 9:30 • DCP
EYE OF THE CAT‡ • Sun, Aug 31 at 7:00 • 35mm
THE SHADOW OF THE CAT‡ • Sun, Aug 31 at 9:15 • 35mm
THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE‡ • Sun, Aug 31 at 12:00 • 35mm
THE MARVELS‡ • Sun, Aug 31 at 2:15 • DCP
THE THIRD MAN • Mon, Sep 1 at 7:00; Tue, Sep 2 at 4:00 • DCP
THE BLACK CAT • Mon, Sep 1 at 9:15 • 35mm
CAT CITY‡ • Tue, Sep 2 at 6:30 • DCP
FELIDAE‡ • Tue, Sep 2 at 8:30 • DCP
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS • Wed, Sep 3 at 3:30, 8:30 • DCP
THE CASSANDRA CAT • Thu, Sep 4 at 6:00 • DCP
TITLE TBA • Thu, Sep 4 at 8:30 • TBD
‡ Double Feature
You may also like the following events from Brattle Theatre:
Also check out other
Entertainment events in Cambridge.
|
