Crazy Kool Movie Alert!

Koolhaas HouseLife (T86, Thursday, 7:00pm)

If you don’t know about Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner—and former Russ Meyer script writer (let’s not go there right now) —Rem Koolhaas, and the amazing home he created 10 years ago: the Maison à Bordeaux, you’ll want to see this movie. This house is a wonder of engineering with moving walls, lifting bedrooms, platforms and automated windows designed to allow complete freedom of movements to its owner, a man who is confined to a wheelchair.

Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine’s movie, Koolhass Houselife is a film that captures the qualities of this amazing house perfectly, but adds another, more practical dimension by showing this high-tech home from the perspective of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper and the person who actually has to take care of keeping all this amazing design alive.

As one reviewer said, “you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, if you can only see one Koolhaas movie this year, make it Koolhaas HouseLife.” Okay, I’m the one who said that - but it's true!