Monday, July 1, 2024 // 7 pm // Blue Salon // Room 012 // HfG Karlsruhe

Sailor and Lula are madly in love with each other. But Lula's mother is against their love and hires a knifeman to kill Sailor. He knows how to defend himself, but ends up in prison. When he is released, Lula is waiting for him in a fiery red convertible and the two of them flee across America. Their mother then chases after them with two men, a private detective and a killer, neither of whom suspect anything about the other.

The film will be shown as part of the film series "The Cinema of Euphoria", in which the Kino im Blauen Salon explores the concept of euphoria and puts it up for discussion in its many different representations and evocations.

USA 1990, 125 minutes, 35mm, English original version Director: David Lynch With Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Daffoe, Isabella Rossellini and others. Preliminary program: 35mm cinema trailer show on the topic

Free admission, donation requested

Euphoria is one of those words that we have inherited from the ancient Greeks. And as with many of these words, the question is: what does it even mean? And since we are a film club, the question is of course: what does it mean to feel euphoria at the movies? Does the selection of films we have put together make us happy, in love with life? Can films still do this in an age in which the image has lost its power due to its inherent oversaturation?

In this summer semester, carried along by spring, we will take you on a journey that examines the concept of euphoria in all its diverse representational and evocative possibilities. From Jackie Chan to Werner Herzog, from Singing in the Rain to Leos Carax!