THU MARCH 17, 2022 10:00 PM

QUEEN OF DIAMONDS

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Nina Menkes Retrospective 

New Restoration!

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  • RELEASED IN: 1991
  • 77 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: NINA MENKES

ABOUT THE FILM

QUEEN OF DIAMONDS follows the alienated life of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented but hypnotic interplay between repetition and repressed anger. Shot with a beautiful compositional rigor echoing Chantal Akerman’s JEANNE DIELMAN, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS is a remarkable and demanding masterpiece of American independent filmmaking.

New restoration by The Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.  

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Arbelos Films