Premiere Screening of "Erotic Man"


May 7, 2011, 1 PM
Atlantic cinema

Tickets available at the cinema's ticket counters only.

Polish premiere of Jørgen Leth's Erotic Man
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the director.

The film is a journey into the land of the male erotics - a sensual, provocative, partially autobiographical and very melancholic essay that stems from the desire to understand the nature and meaning of the male sexuality.

Intimate, at times shocking and extremely honest, the film portrays an elderly man - the filmmaker's alter ego - who ponders over Eros, time and the sense of loss connected with it. He visits various corners of the world (Haiti, the Philippines, Senegal, Brazil, Argentina and Panama) to record the same scene repeated over and over again: that of a naked woman in - each time someone different - in a hotel room, who is crying over the loss of her lover, who had decided to return to Europe. As the film progresses, we as viewers begin to question the authenticity of the images we are shown. "Erotic Man" turns out to be one man's fleeting fantasy that he replays in his mind repeatedly.

The film's aesthetic and sublime imagery hipnotizes the viewer. The juxtaposition between the studied beauty of young female bodies and the sensuality and character of an elderly filmmaker provokes a sense of retrospection in the viewer; through it, the film becomes not only a pean for the beauty of female sensuality, but also a nostalgic elegy over a lost sexuality.