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LILITH  

Director: Robert Rossen
Year: 1964
Runtime: 114 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: B&W
Format: 16mm

Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg co-star in director Robert Rossen's (All the King's Men, The Hustler) haunting drama about the obsessive love between a therapist and his patient. Vincent (Beatty), a war veteran, returns to his bleak Maryland hometown and takes a job as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private mental institution for the wealthy. There, Vincent meets a young schizophrenic, Lilith (Seberg), an enchanting patient whose fragile beauty bewitches all those with whom she comes in contact - especially Stephen (Peter Fonda), a troubled young man. As Vincent is drawn even deeper into her private world, he too becomes captivated by Lilith and will lie, betray and even destroy to keep her. Soon Vincent himself can no longer determine which of the two worlds - his or Lilith's - is the sane one.


"Robert Rossen's last film is a masterpiece, and also a complete contradiction of his career. The social critic suddenly blossoms into a hothouse romantic, through the dreamy story of an apprentice psychoanalyst who falls in love with one of his patients and the sweet morbidity she represents." — Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

"A very ambitious reworking of legend... built around beautiful performances from Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty. The only one of [Robert Rossen's] films that seems passionate, mysterious, and truly personal."
— Dave Thomson, The Biographical Dictionary of Film


 

 
showtime
Monday, November 26 at 7 pm
location
THE GREEN ROOM
144 West Street
admission
$6 general / $4 GBFS members