The Gold Diggers + Cinema Tour + Intro

The Gold Diggers screens as part of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered; the 9th edition of the UK’s leading festival of newly restored, rarely screened or recently re-found cinematic gems – running in and around Bristol, UK, Wed 23 – Sun 27 July 2025.

Doors will be open an hour before the film for behind-the-scenes tours of the Curzon, with an intro to the film at 1pm from So Mayer, writer, bookseller, organiser and film curator, currently based in London.

The film: The ground-breaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson; The Gold Diggers is a key film of early ’80s feminist cinema. Starring Julie Christie and shot in rich black & white by Babette Mangold (Chantal Akerman’s cinematographer)The Gold Diggers is a striking cinematic provocation.

Made with an all-woman crew, it embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure. Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between gold and power. Ruby (Christie) is an enigmatic film star in quest of her childhood, her memories and the truth about her own identity. As their paths cross they come to sense that there could be a link between the male struggle for economic supremacy and the female ideal of mysterious but impotent beauty.

A feminist sci-fi musical extravaganza… Remains consistently fresh and unpredictable”- Sight and Sound

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