Long Island Jewish
Film Festival
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at large at the Museum of the
Moving Image
THE HEIRESSES
Friday, May 2 at 7 PM
& Sunday, May 4 at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Isabelle Huppert stars in this recently rediscovered
and restored drama from Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros. Huppert plays Irèn,
a young Jewish seamstress in 1936 Budapest, who is recruited by the wealthy
Szilvia (Lili Monori), to conceive a baby with her military officer husband so
that Szilvia can inherit her father’s fortune. Meanwhile, the rise of Nazism
has begun to poison Hungary’s ruling classes, complicating Irèn’s entrée into
high society. Laying bare the complicated processes of class, motherhood,
inheritance, and fascism. (1980, 100 mins)For the full festival schedule, click here.
