BFI FAN is proud to unveil the new UK-wide season – Too Much: A Season of Melodrama – where audiences are invited to follow their emotions this autumn.
‘Too Much’ celebrates the visual excess and dramatic potency of a form of cinema which champions decadence over ‘good taste’. Tracing the form from the “woman’s pictures” of classic Hollywood to the heightened plotlines of the Mexican Golden Age and the restrained tragedy of Mizoguchi or Naruse, the season will encourage audiences to forgo restraint and feel something.
The season will celebrate costuming, production design and the female stars who drew audiences to the cinema, reframing perceptions of female characters and storylines in the classic era. In addition to titles from the Golden Age, the wider FAN offering will explore the influence of the melodramatic mode all the way from the silent era to today.
Latest: BFI FAN members are invited to a Sprint Event at Watershed, Bristol on Tuesday 15th April to explore how you might develop your own activity as part of this UK wide programme.
