Screening, Discussion

Lucid Intervals: Petroleum

Cinema

Free, upon booking

With Lucid Intervals, LUMA Arles presents a series of screenings around selected themes. Through the theme “Petroleum”, the screenings examine one of the most controversial resources of our time. The selected films address the imaginaries, exploitations, and ecological consequences tied to fossil fuel, revealing tensions between energy, power, and environmental destruction. The conversations following the screenings open a space to question cinema’s role in critiquing energy dependencies and their modern myths.

Films presented:
- There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
- La via del petrolio by Bernardo Bertolucci

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Friday, April 4 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

There Will Be Blood

by Paul Thomas Anderson
USA | 2007 | 2h38
Language: English with French subtitles

Daniel Plainview, a prospector, buys the drilling rights to the oil wells of a family living on a ranch in Texas. However, he soon realizes that the oil will challenge the American dream…

Awards:

2008 - Winner of the Golden Globe Award: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
2008 - Winner of the Academy Awards: Best Actor and Best Cinematography
2008 - Winner of the Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Bear

Saturday, April 5 2025 at 4:00 p.m.

La via del petrolio

by Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy | 1966 | 2h21
Language: Italian with French subtitles

Divided into three parts, La via del petrolio traces the journey of black gold, from extraction in Iran to refining in the heart of Europe.