Sarah Rothenberg introduces Chantal Akerman's "Golden Eighties"

Name: Sarah Rothenberg introduces Chantal Akerman's "Golden Eighties"
Start: 2026-01-09T19:00:00-06:00
Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Schedule

Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston, TX

In conjunction with the performances of D'Est en musique on January 16 and 17, DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg introduces this screening in the MFAH Film series.
The musical Golden Eighties, from feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman, is a unique portrait of love and survival. In a shopping mall, store employees cycle through breakups, makeups, and misunderstandings, punctuated by imaginative production numbers. Akerman deftly balances the shiny pop pleasures of the genre with variations on her signature themes, including a moving reflection on wartime trauma and Jewish resilience. At its retrospective “Chantal Akerman: The Long View,” MoMA described this film as “perhaps the last great original movie musical, wedding gravity to lightness, chaos to order.”