Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall

In caller years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the creation of Francisco Goya. The company’s aesthetic of bare-bones authenticity and banked-fire passionateness matches the painter’s acheronian candor. Situations and moods from Goya punctual and colour the troupe’s accustomed escaped collections of ensemble numbers and solos for its fantabulous dancers (among them Jesús Helmo and Paula Bolaños) and its transcendent star, Soledad Barrio. The troupe’s latest program, “Irrationalities,” joins Goya with a interaction of Fellini and Sophocles’ “Women of Trachis.” The past Greek playwright is different kindred tone for Noche Flamenca, which presented a revelatory mentation of “Antigone” a decennary ago.—Brian Seibert (Joyce Theatre; Jan. 27-Feb. 8.)

Movies

In his aboriginal years, successful the nineteen-fifties, the manager Max Ophüls, who fled his autochthonal Germany erstwhile Hitler took power, developed 1 of the astir instantly recognizable—and 1 of the astir sophisticated—cinematic styles, based connected elaborate tracking shots jointly choreographed for camera and actors. Metrograph’s twelve-film retrospective of his enactment includes these mature masterworks (a item is the Maupassant adaptation “Le Plaisir”) and his Hollywood films of the forties (such arsenic “Letter from an Unknown Woman”). The selections scope backmost to the commencement of his career, successful the nineteen-thirties, with specified films arsenic “The Company’s successful Love”—a bittersweet inside-the-movie-business drama (screening successful a caller remastering) that helium made successful Germany, successful 1932—and the dazzlingly inventive French romanticist drama “The Tender Enemy,” which is besides a shade story.—R.B. (Jan. 24-March 1.)

Pick Three

Rachel Syme connected cultish happenings upstate.

1. Last year, I yet got a car—after surviving successful New York City for 20 years without one—and 1 of the marvellous benefits is being capable to walk much clip exploring unusual and mystical areas upstate. It is nary astonishment to maine that the region, with its misty, mountainous terrain, has fixed emergence to galore oddball communities, some utopian and nefarious. I precocious binged the caller podcast “Allison After NXIVM,” a CBC amusement that features in-depth interviews with the histrion Allison Mack, who did jailhouse clip for her engagement with the abusive upstate cult tally by the con antheral Keith Raniere. The podcast is simply a fascinating artifact, the communicative of a pistillate inactive untangling her relation arsenic some unfortunate and victimizer.

2. On a little sinister note, I loved Mona Fastvold’s caller film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” truthful overmuch that I saw it 3 times successful a week. It tells the communicative of Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), an illiterate Englishwoman who founded the American Shaker movement, from a commune called Niskayuna, connected the Hudson River. It’s a gorgeous achievement—full of music, ecstatic dance, and existent believers hollering successful the woods.

3. I person continued down the Shaker rabbit spread since seeing the film, speechmaking each publication astir the radical that I tin find. So far, my favourite is Chris Jennings’s “Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism,” from 2016, which charts the paths of 5 kooky dreamers who founded (often ill-fated) experimental communities successful the American wilderness.

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