THE GOLD DIGGERS – DVD

THE GOLD DIGGERS
A film by Sally Potter

The groundbreaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson, The Gold Diggers is a key film of early 1980s feminist cinema. Made with an all-women crew and featuring stunning photography by Babette Mangolte, it embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure.

Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between money and power. Ruby (Julie Christie) is an enigmatic beauty trapped in fleeting memories of a frozen landscape, on a quest to recover the truth about her own identity. Celeste kidnaps Ruby and starts asking questions that lead to them making links between the star system, economics, and a cinematic riddle that contains them both. Together they begin to unravel the truth about the search for gold and the secrets of personal transformation and freedom.

Special features

• New director-approved presentation
• Five early works by Sally Potter: Thriller (1979, 32 mins); The London Story (1986, 16 mins); Jerk (1969, 2 mins); Play (1970, 5 mins); hors d’oeuvres (1971, 10 mins)
• Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned pieces by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sophie Meyer and Jacky Lansley
• Downloadable PDF files featuring letters, script extracts, press pack and more
• PCM dual mono audio (48k/16-bit)

UK | 1983 | black and white | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | 86 minutes + 65 mins extra material | DVD-9 | Original aspect ratio 1.78:1 (anamorphic) | Region 2 DVD

Review

A feminist sci-fi musical extravaganza… Remains consistently fresh and upredicatable. –Sight and Sound