Seeing as how I’m on an Alan Ayckbourn kick, I wanted to let you know that Coeurs, Alain Resnais’ 2006 French-language film version of Ayckbourn’s Private Fears in Public Places, is showing this week on IFC.
The play, which received its American premiere off Broadway in 2005, is one of Ayckbourn’s most important works, and even though Resnais’ bittersweet screen adaptation is very French, it’s surprisingly faithful to the original and more than worth seeing in its own right. To read what I wrote about it earlier this year, go here.
Six showings are scheduled:
• Tonight at 11:05 p.m. ET
• Wednesday at 5:25 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. ET
• Saturday, December 22, at 11:40 a.m. and 5:05 p.m. ET
• Sunday, December 23, at 4:55 a.m. ET
For more information about Coeurs, or to view the trailer, go here.
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
