Pattern Recognition: Morocco + Charlie Chaplin's A Woman 
With this romantic reverie, Marlene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralling, insouciant persona that would define her Hollywood collaboration with director Josef von Sternberg.
Set on the far side of the world but shot outside Los Angeles, Morocco navigates a labyrinth of melancholy and desire as the cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich), fleeing her former life, takes her act to the shores of North Africa. There she entertains the overtures of a wealthy man of the world while finding herself increasingly drawn to a strapping legionnaire with a shadowy past of his own (Gary Cooper).
Fuelled by the smouldering chemistry between its two stars, and shot in dazzling light and seductive shadow, the Oscar-nominated Morocco is a transfixing exploration of elemental passions.
This screening will open with A Woman (26 mins), Charlie Chaplin's short film that, like Morocco, explores and subverts gender roles in early Hollywood through fashion and costume.
Films, but make it fashion. From classic Hollywood glamour to modern environmental couture, you're invited to a season celebrating the craft of fashion in cinema, handmade by our LUMI Programmers.
