FILM "WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?"

Friday, November 6

7 PM · Conference by Raphaëlle Moine
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is the most iconic film of a sub-genre of horror, hagsploitation, that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, featuring stars once symbols of Hollywood glamour in roles of aging women descending into madness. Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, Katharine Hepburn, are among the stars who embody these "hags," psychopathic and marginalized women, in films that link female aging with monstrosity. By spectacularizing the decay of their characters, they revitalize the traditional figure of the witch. This conference will explore the history and iconography of this sub-genre and question the legacy of these horror divas in more recent films like Death Becomes Her or The Substance.

8 PM · Dinner by Domaine de Rombeau

9 PM · Screening "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? | ROBERT ALDRICH | USA, 1962, 2h14 | DCP
Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono……

This horrific chamber piece by Robert Aldrich, which marks the summit meeting between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in 1962, is rightly considered one of the films that ended the Hays Code, the "code of good conduct" that had prevailed in Hollywood since 1934. The film cruelly depicts the unhealthy sisterhood between two sisters cloistered in their mansion, consumed by boundless jealousy behind which dark secrets lurk. This grotesque duel is also a candid commentary on a certain image of women in cinema.
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