The Practice of Love (Austria, 1984, VALLIE EXPORT) - The story follows Judith, an investigative journalist who begins to unravel a murder mystery that implicates one of her current lovers. When she checks out a peep-show business on the seedy side of Hamburg as part of the investigation, she runs into a former boyfriend who used to be a psychiatrist but is now an arms dealer. Judith is lured back into his fold, cheating on her current lovers, one of whom is also a shrink. Despite her profession, or perhaps because of it, Judith tends to blend fantasy and reality -- explaining her attraction to psychiatrists. But two shrinks and a murder prove more than Judith can handle. (Facets)
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The fall series will showcase rarely exhibited films that took art-house audiences of New York City and West Berlin by storm during the period of 1968-1989. Based on archival research, this series looks at what audiences at the time were watching and how it formed their thinking on the politics of sex and gender. Program notes based on the films' exhibition histories in NYC and West Berlin will be provided at each screening.
Free and open to the public
Parking $3 in Core West Parking Structure