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Primal Fear on Film: Cat Person

Based on the provocative "New Yorker" short story, this taut thriller about a curdled romance explores the terrifying gray areas in modern dating.

11/3/2023
7 pm – 9 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Fee required. Tickets required.

Based on the provocative "New Yorker" short story, this taut thriller about a curdled romance explores the terrifying gray areas in modern dating.

College sophomore Margot (Emilia Jones, Coda) meets a frequent filmgoer Robert (Nicholas Braun, Succession) while working concessions at an art house theater, and soon flirtation across the counter evolves into continuous texting. As the two inch toward romance, uncomfortable moments and red flags pile up. Margot's gnawing ambivalence about their relationship blossoms into vivid daydreams where Robert realizes his most threatening potential. But is Robert really a creep, or just an awkward older guy who may (or may not) have cats? 

Director Susanna Fogel (co-writer of Booksmart) premiered her high-wire adaptation of Kristen Roupenian's 2017 short story at the Sundance Film Festival and reignited the national debate around Cat Person, the most-read piece of fiction ever published in The New Yorker. Like its source, this gripping romance-gone-wrong reveals how power dynamics and gender expectations collide in ways that make modern dating often hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable and occasionally…terrifying. 

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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins.Center.for.the.Arts@dartmouth.edu
603 646 2422
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