Essential Cinema: Trouble & Desire: Hal Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy and Early Shorts
SURVIVING DESIRE
Directed by Hal Hartley
USA, 1991, 1h 22min, DCP
Essential Cinema Trouble & Desire: Hal Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy and Early Shorts
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
“Hal Hartley’s cinema of inquiry flirts with existentialism by questioning aloud his characters and their aphoristic faiths.”
—Screen Slate
Clocking in at just under 60 minutes, SURVIVING DESIRE is the story of Sophie and Jude, student and professor, in love, until: THE END. A perfect distillation of 20-something ponderings, Russian lit, and romance, presented here with two shorts: THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (18 min) and AMBITION (9 min). Featuring Hal Hartley regulars Martin Donovan, Bill Sage, and Elina Löwensohn.
