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On 23 November 2024 a small, private screening took place: an austere, late-night room, a handful of attendees, and a single cracked spotlight. Clemence Audiard sat near the back — quiet, precise, watching. The program listed a double feature: Taxi Driver and an experimental short titled Freeze XX. The air felt like an incision between two times: the kinetic paranoia of Scorsese’s New York and the cool, deliberate stillness of contemporary cine-poetry.

“Taxi Driver,” she said, “is a warning and a catalogue.” Its violence, she suggested, is not theatrical but cumulative—an aftereffect of repeated neglect. Freeze XX then becomes complementary, offering the slow build-up that leads to such a fracture. Together they map a trajectory from observation to eruption. freeze 23 11 24 clemence audiard taxi driver xx top

In the end, the program felt like a modest manifesto: that cinema can freeze a moment to reveal the pressure building within it, and can also release that pressure to show consequences. Both strategies matter. Both demand attention. And on that November night, in a small room with one focused viewer among many, the two works made the city feel both unbearably close and newly inscrutable. On 23 November 2024 a small, private screening