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The organization announced this Monday March 4 that “Wings of the Dove” will not be presented on March 13 as part of the 11th edition of its “classics” festival.
“The Cinémathèque française cancels the screening of the film the Wings of the Dove by Benoît Jacquot on Wednesday March 13 at 2 p.m..” The laconic press release from the film institution on Monday, March 4, closes the sequence of crescendoing tension for several days on the screening of this adaptation of the novel by Henry James with Isabelle Huppert and Dominique Sanda released in 1981, in a recently restored version. “A penniless adventurer, a luxury prostitute develops a scheme to embezzle the fortune of a young heiress. Based on the novel by Henry James, an exploration of the twists and turns of the feeling of love. Secrets, manipulations, jealousies and latent desires are revealed in a Venice with an ethereal atmosphere, around a strange trio consumed by loneliness and the fear of dying. Says the synopsis on the Cinémathèque website, which showed the film as part of the 11th edition of its festival. “classics”, with the guest of honor the Australian filmmaker Peter Weir and the screening of around a hundred films. That of Wings of the dove was to be followed by a meeting with the director of photography, Caroline Champetier, who followed the restoration work