Based on the autobiography of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, with whom Denis has a close working relationship, THE INTRUDER follows Louis Trebor, a middle-aged man in need of a heart transplant. As Trebor traverses the globe, seemingly shopping the black market for a new heart, his son Sidney re-enters his life after years of estrangement. The specter of another son, conceived out of wedlock and possibly living in the Caribbean, threatens to interrupt their bond. While almost certainly Denis’s most oblique and elliptical film, the sensuousness provided by Agnès Godard’s images and the music of Stuart Staples (Tindersticks) make the film a remarkable sensory pleasure. “Exhilarating and exhausting, the kind of picture you don’t bounce back from immediately. Yet its elusiveness is the very source of its poetic energy.”—Stephanie Zacharek, Salon (130 mins.)

THE INTRUDER screens on Sunday, May  12 at 2p.m. and Monday, May 13 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).