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Co-presented by Eos World Fund: In one of the most jarringly original independent films of the 1990s, a disaffected blackjack dealer, (played by the director’s sister Tinka Menkes), drifts through a neon-soaked dream vision of Las Vegas and experiences a series of encounters alternately mundane, surreal, and menacing, while death and violence hover ever-present in the margins. Awash in lush, hallucinatory images, Queen of Diamonds is a haunting study of female alienation with intellectual heft and formal rigor, from a filmmaker whose work can be compared to Akerman, Fassbinder, and Lynch, but with a unique, singular vision all her own.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. An Arbelos Films release.

“My very personal portrait of the US: an over-enlarged, profit-motivated core surrounded by mute and arid alienation”

– Nina Menkes