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LOBOTOMY ROOM GOES TO THE MOVIES: The Devil is a Woman

Wed, 21 Aug

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176 Stoke Newington Rd

THE DEVIL IS A WOMEN - Starring Marlene Dietrich Lobotomy Room Goes to the Movies is the FREE monthly film club downstairs at Fontaine’s bar (Dalston’s most unique nite spot!) devoted to Bad Movies We Love (our motto: Bad Movies for Bad People), specializing in the kitsch, the cult and the queer!

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LOBOTOMY ROOM GOES TO THE MOVIES: The Devil is a Woman
LOBOTOMY ROOM GOES TO THE MOVIES: The Devil is a Woman

Time & Location

21 Aug 2019, 20:00 – 22 Aug 2019, 23:00

176 Stoke Newington Rd, 176 Stoke Newington Rd, Clapton, London N16 7UY, UK

About the Event

If visionary director Josef von Sternberg was the Leonardo da Vinci of cinema, then German glamourpuss leading lady Marlene Dietrich was his Mona Lisa. The Devil is a Woman (1935) was the last of the seven exquisite films the duo collaborated on together. And boy, did they conclude in high style! Sumptuous and bizarre, it’s a kinky and cruel black comedy about sexual humiliation, tinged with sadomasochism, and offering one final swooning and ambivalent valentine from von Sternberg to his gorgeous muse.

Set in a dream-like, deliberately artificial turn-of-the-century Seville, it stars Dietrich (clad in a wild wardrobe of lace mantillas) as heartless gold-digging femme fatale Concha Perez (variously described as “the most dangerous woman you’ll ever meet!” and “the toast of Spain!”) cruelly pitting virile young Antonio Garvan (Cesar Romero at his most handsome) against the self-destructively besotted Captain Don Pasqual Costelar (Lionel Atwill – deliberately styled to resemble von Sternberg himself) for her own amusement.

The Devil is a Woman is a deliriously perverse, borderline-surreal spectacle! Come see the movie the Spanish government successfully banned and that Dietrich herself called her favourite (“because I was most beautiful in it”) on Wednesday 21 August!

Lobotomy Room Goes to the Movies is the FREE monthly film club downstairs at Fontaine’s bar (Dalston’s most unique nite spot!) devoted to Bad Movies We Love (our motto: Bad Movies for Bad People), specializing in the kitsch, the cult and the queer! Doors to the basement Bamboo Lounge open at 8 pm. Film starts at 8:30 pm prompt!

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176 Stoke Newington Road
London    N16 7UY

10 minute walk from Dalston,  Dalston Junction & Stoke Newington Station, plus all buses running down Stoke Newington Road 

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