Sarah Maldoror’s “Sambizanga” screens June 8 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. June 15) and 1980’s “The Heiresses,” another social commentary about economic and social divides wherein a wealthy woman (Lili Monori) asks a seamstress (the mercurial Isabelle Huppert) to conceive a child with her hubby (7 p.m. June 5) 1973’s bristling look at the divide between the haves and have-nots, “Riddance,” which does just that in a tale about a female textile worker who impersonates a student once she falls for an upper-crust college student (7 p.m. June 3.Ī few other films in the series include: 1969’s “Binding Sentiments” about a fraught relationship between a widow, her son and his girlfriend (7 p.m. Now 90, the Budapest-born director/screenwriter has been a creative force ever since her debut feature, 1968’s feisty “The Girl.” Appropriately, it is the first of 11 films to screen, and rewards audiences with the presence of a distinctive female antihero - played by singer Kati Kovacs - a rebel who decides to dig up her family roots. The summer season begins with “The Films of Marta Meszaros” running from June 3 through July 20. “The Films of Marta Meszaros” series starts June 3 and features 1968’s “The Girl.” (Photo courtesy BAMPFA)
