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Redemption Blues

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

(Peter Stastny, 2017) This event is part of Giorno della Memoria under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy and in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. Additional information available at www.primolevicenter.org. Redemption Blues (2017, Documentary, 84 min.) Directed by Peter Stastny Produced by Peter Stastny, Lucia Schrenk, Roland Hablesreiter – Transmitter Film Followed by a discussion between director Peter Statsny and Paola…

On Michel Houellebecq’s Sérotonine

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Join author and Harper’s Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, author and n+1 co-founder Marco Roth, and author Catherine Cusset for a riveting conversation on Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, Sérotonine (Flammarion). The conversation will be moderated by Adam Hocker. Sérotonine is a darkly humorous and deeply cynical novel about the loss of desire and the despair of contemporary society written in Houellebecq’s inimitable style. In English. Free and open…

Film: Ridicule

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. Set in late 18th-century France during the reign of Louis XVI, this comedy provides a fascinating glance into a time where a cruel rapier wit would take one further up the social ladder than gold, land, or birthright and where ridicule could drive a man to suicide.

Film: Margarethe Von Trotta’s Rosa Luxemburg

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Rosa Luxemburg, we are hosting a film screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s film Rosa Luxemburg(1986). The film depicts the life story of this thinker and activist of the international left, portrayed in the film by the great actress Barbara Sukowa. Amidst the growing militarization that preceded World War I, Rosa…