Jean Rochefort and Anna Gallena have a hair-raising romance in Patrice Leconte film
THE HAIRDRESSER’S HUSBAND (Patrice Leconte, 1990)
reRun Gastropub Theater
149 Front St., Brooklyn
Monday, July 11, $7, 7:00
www.reruntheater.com
In French auteur Patrice Leconte’s charming, offbeat tale, a young boy has a thing for the local hairdresser; he is simply mesmerized by her and what she does. When he grows up, his obsession for hairdressers continues as he meets and falls in love with a young woman who owns a small salon. Their love story, filled with crazy dancing, is fun to watch, although, this being a Leconte film, not all is so wonderful, of course. Jean Rochefort is a blast as Antoine, who can’t get enough of Mathilde the hairdresser (Anna Gallena). The Hairdresser’s Husband is screening July 11 at 7:00 as part of the reRun Gastropub Theater series Cheerfully Perverse: Five Years of Severin Films, a celebration of the studio that has rescued, restored, and rereleased such films as Richard Rush’s The Stunt Man (July 13, 10:00), Ted Post’s The Baby and Vidal Raski’s The Sinful Dwarf (double feature July 12, 7:00), and Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious Bastards and Lucio Fulci’s The Psychic (double feature July 14, 7:00).