Chevalier

September 25, 2016 · Knoxville Museum of Art · 2:00 p.m.

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared, measured and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, but at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the “Chevalier.”

“With its bourgeois Olympics and its closed-system setting, the devastatingly funny Chevalier lays bare the fact that while the man might leave the boys’ school, the boys’ school never quite leaves the man.” — Brooklyn Magazine

“An inspired, gorgeously photographed work of deadpan lunacy that asserts itself as a spit-take on masculine rivalries… As the comedy of manners devolves, it also evolves into a thought-provoking critique on how the personal affects the political, and the utter ridiculousness of all human subjectivity.” — The Village Voice

About the Filmmaker

Athina Rachel Tsangari was born in Greece and studied theatre at New York University before obtaining her M.F.A. in film production at the University of Texas.