Happening

8/21/2026

**Aesthetics, fetishism, and the bourgeoisie in the cinema of Alan Vydra** An enigmatic plot introduces us to the psychological transition of Caroline Grace, a young woman trapped in a monotonous, passionless marriage to an older, wealthy man. Her husband’s deeply conservative and repressed mindset forces her to wear modest, old-fashioned sleepwear, stifling any hint of eroticism. To cope with her profound frustration and marital apathy, Caroline begins to unleash her imagination through vivid, recurring sexual fantasies inspired by chance encounters in her daily life. Over the course of the film, her daydreams escalate in intensity, ranging from encounters with a Black bartender to a domestic maid, and leading down into underground basements packed with leather-clad bikers. Altho