THE TRAP (1970) (Church of Film)

Arsene is a young man obsessed with being robbed, so he sets traps in his crumbling mansion. He lures a pair of kleptomaniac young women (counterculture icons Bulle Ogier and Bernadette Lafont) inside as a test, but unwittingly becomes the agent of his own destruction. Jacques Baratier’s THE TRAP is a strange and chaotic piece of cinema from the Zanzibar Group, a radical film collective that emerged from the revolutionary zeal of May’68. A nightmarish Daisies that prefigures France’s growing, punk-inflected feminist culture, it also features an experimental score by François Tusques and an appearance by surrealist Fernando Arrabal. This will be screened with Diourka Medveczky’s JEANNE AND THE MOTORBIKE, as it was in its original release.