PINK PALACE: REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE

Pink Palace presents the jaw dropping (and fabulously bonkers) spectacle that is Reflections In a Golden Eye (1967) starring Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando directed by John Huston. A steamy pot-boiler of repressed sexuality featuring some of the greatest talent of the late Golden Hollywood era, made under the last years of the Hays Code, as the swinging sixties chipped away at the establishments heteronormative rules and regulations on what could and could not be seen on screen. "A bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion" IMDB "In this Carson McCullers adaptation, Brando plays an army major contending with his repressed homosexuality, his philandering wife (Elizabeth Taylor) and an attraction to a young private (Robert Forster, in his movie debut), on a southern military base during peace time. Reflections in a Golden Eye is a film filled with grandiose performances and outrageous actions (at one point, Taylor whips Brando repeatedly across the face with a riding crop). In contrast, Brando makes the major’s repression internal to the point of physical pain, palpably folding in on himself until all his bottled-up emotions are unleashed, to tragic consequences." BFI "A last-gasp entry in the beloved sub-genre of "Southern Gothic," Reflections in a Golden Eye peels away the placid exterior of life in a peacetime military base to reveal the madness and repressed passions that lie beneath the imposed order of barracks, military protocol, and rigid conformity. Its plot is steeped in southern-fried dread: Robert Forster is a sexually repressed soldier who develops a scopophilic fixation on Elizabeth Taylor, the sexually rapacious wife of army officer Marlon Brando. Brando, who tolerates Taylor's affair with fellow officer Brian Keith (whose mentally disturbed wife, Julie Harris, has recently mutilated herself out of grief over the death of a child), is a latent homosexual who becomes sexually obsessed with Forester. Houston, rather ingeniously, takes a stylistic cue from the book's title and not only shoots the film in muted tones of gold, but films the events from an emotional remove. We are not invited into the minds of these characters so much as we are entreated to observe their piteously empty and sad behaviour as though we are voyeurs ourselves: seeing it all from a distance, reflected and distorted in an immense, all-seeing, golden eye." LeCinemaDreams Please note there are NO ads or trailers, we start on time! Pink Palace is a super low fi highly relaxed event that takes place in the basement bar, its a safe queer space so come along and catch some queer film and pop culture history, each week the film is introduced by curator Andrew Woodyatt, and feel free to stay and chat afterwards, participation is encouraged!Southern Gothic DramaPT1H44M152025-03-20
Elizabeth Taylor
Marlon Brando
Robert Forester
John Huston
PINK PALACE: REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE"PINK PALACE: REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE"

Showtimes

March 20, 7:30 pm

Rio Cinema