99 mins - Belgium / France / Switzerland 1986 - Subtitles Director: Chantal Akerman Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Myriam Boyer and Fanny Cottençon GOLDEN EIGHTIES is a loud, brash and amusing comedy musical that follows the lives of retail employees and customers at a shopping mall. This is a bright and cheery film with infectious pop songs (director Chantal Akerman herself wrote the lyrics) and much humour, while exploring such topics as consumerism and feminism. Screening as part of THE FILMS OF CHANTAL AKERMAN season“(A) magnificent, mega-modern mall musical.” Newcity  THE FILMS OF CHANTAL AKERMAN Triskel Arts Centre, in association with the British Film Institute, is delighted to present five features from the celebrated director Chantal Akerman. When J. Hoberman of The Village Voice wrote about her, he stated: “Comparable in force and originality to Godard or Fassbinder, Chantal Akerman is arguably the most important European director of her generation”. This season opens with her seminal 1975 film JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES, which was named as the greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound’s critic’s poll in 2022. [F-Rated] Read more Read less