Cinematheque at the Chazen: SMOOTH TALK

Name: Cinematheque at the Chazen: SMOOTH TALK
Start: 2024-11-17T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Chazen Museum of Art

Schedule

Sun Nov 17 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Chazen Museum of Art | Madison, WI

At the Chazen: Austen, Kawabata, Oates, and Didion On Film
Presented in conjunction with the Chazen Museum of Art’s exhibition, Petah Coyne: How Much A Heart Can Hold, this series presents four feature films that are all adaptations of stories or novels by writers who influenced Coyne’s body of work: Jane Austen, Yusanari Kawabata, Joyce Carol Oates, and Joan Didion. Each of these authors inspired original Coyne works in the exhibition, which can be viewed at the Chazen September 9 through December 23.
Chazen
SUN, 11/17, 2 p.m.
SMOOTH TALK
USA | 1985 | DCP | 92 min.
Director: Joyce Chopra
Cast: Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place
In this haunting adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' celebrated short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening. In her breakout lead performance, Laura Dern personifies the thrill and terror of adolescence as Connie, whose carefree summer is shattered by a menacing encounter with a mysterious stranger (Williams).