The Getty Center
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Start the Revolution Without Me
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Saturday Apr 26, 2008 (4 & 7:30pm)
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Note: The screenings are separate events and require separate RSVPs.
In conjunction with its ongoing exhibition Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love, the Getty Center has assembled a Versailles-themed film series culminating in today's screenings. The 1970 costume satire Start the Revolution Without Me stars Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder as two sets of twins, one peasant and one royal. Afterwards, in the 1943 master farce DuBarry Was a Lady, Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly get transported back to Louis XV's time, in a surreal twist that entertains more often than it makes sense. This isn't a double feature, so the downtime between films affords the perfect opportunity to investigate the related exhibition.
