Cannes Classics: “The Savage Eye” by Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, and Joseph Strick

The section Cannes Classics is dedicated to the discovery and re-discovery of works from the past. At 10:15pm tonight, a completely new copy of The Savage Eye will be presented, a film by Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, and Joseph Strick made in 1960. As the story goes, Judith McGuire is a young woman who recently divorced and is trying to make a new life for herself in Los Angeles. Via an inner masculine voice that assails her with questions, it is the solitude of a woman that speaks to her, and the horrible feelings she holds against the chimera that America of the 50s has become. Accompanying this feature is the 22-minute My Lai Veterans in which director Joseph Strick looks at the trauma of the Vietnam War.