(FILM) This film about a
dystopian boarding school, based on a turn-of-the-last-century novella called
The Corporal Education of Young Girls, is directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who's the collaborator and off-screen partner of Gaspar Noé (
Irreversible). Her movie is
everything his over-the-top brutality fantasias are not: subtle, menacing, and rigidly contained. Best of all is her nearly wordless personality portraiture. This little girl is a sly sensualist; that little girl has the
otherworldly fury of Antigone. (
Northwest Film Forum,
1515 12th Ave,
267-5380.
7 pm and 9:30 pm, $5-$8.)