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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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CIN_Photo Rocky Horror Picture Show (1)

28.09.24 · 19h

Language : EN (ST : FR + NL)

18+
TW : Sex, Violence, Murder

PLEASE NOTE: For scheduling reasons, this event cannot be combined with the Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed Cabaret event taking place at Les Riches-Claires on the same evening.

Duration: 1h40

Place: Cinematek

A rather strait-laced couple break down in a remote area and travel to the strange home of Dr Frank-N-Furter.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a horror comedy adapted from Richard O’Brien’s 1973 London musical The Rocky Horror Show.
Located at the intersections between fantasy, science fiction, horror parody and B-movie, the film is a blend of glam-rock opera and cartoon. marinated in innuendo and steeped in sexuality, it tells the story of this strait-laced couple whose car breaks down on a stormy night. They take refuge in the mysterious castle of Dr Frank-N-Furter, a transsexual from Transylvania. In the lair of Dr Frank-N-Furter, the occupants indulge in debauchery under the half-terrified, half-concupiscent gaze of our two lost friends. A veritable icon of transgression, a Dionysian and androgynous figure, Frank-N-Furter extols the virtues of dramatic sexual liberation and openness to pleasure.

Beneath the extravagant exterior of the zany, glam-rock parody, the moral and message of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is deeper than might appear at first glance. Both cinematic and political, it is a film born of the sexual revolution of the late 1960s, when heterosexual and homosexual monogamy alike were strongly criticised. A porno-chic musical comedy, this film echoes the American horror cinema of the 70s, where violence is used to illustrate a general malaise and lack of confidence in the major institutions of American society. The Rocky Horror Picture Show parodies the institutions of marriage and the family with a discreet sense of paranoia that haunts the narrative.

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PLEASE NOTE: For scheduling reasons, this event cannot be combined with the Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed Cabaret event taking place at Les Riches-Claires on the same evening.

Credits
PRODUCTION Jim Sharman CASTING Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’ Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray PHOTOGRAPHY Peter Suschitzky MONTAGE Graeme Clifford SCENARIO Richard O' Brien, Jim Sharman DISTRIBUTION Park Circus
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