Jacob Elordi picks Opening Night for Cartier cinema night
Jacob Elordi gave his cinema night to a 1977 drama.
The actor, who serves as a Cartier ambassador, handpicked John Cassavetes's Opening Night, starring Gena Rowlands, for a Cartier Cinema Club screening, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
The screening took place on Friday at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, The Hollywood Reporter reported. It was the first Cartier Cinema Club event in the United States after the initiative's launch at the Venice Film Festival, moving the series from a festival launch to a regular cinema setting.
Elordi stayed after the screening for a 30-minute discussion about the film. He was joined by filmmaker Sean Baker, with Kim Gordon acting as moderator to guide the conversation and put questions to the pair.
The format is deliberately simple. One ambassador selects a title. That film plays for an audience on the big screen. Then the ambassador returns to discuss the choice in the open, with guests invited to widen the view and test first reactions.
In this case the choice reaches back almost 50 years. Opening Night dates to 1977. It bears Cassavetes's name and stars Rowlands, and Elordi's selection brought that older title back to a present-day audience for one evening as a personal favourite for the night.
What makes this stand out is the emphasis on talk over display. Many fashion house evenings centre on arrivals and portraits. This one centred on watching together and then comparing notes. Thirty minutes allows for more than quick praise. It allows for story detail, for process, and for the small observations that surface only after a shared viewing.
For fans, this means a clear view of Elordi's viewing life away from sets and press tours. There was no box office opening to defend, domestic meaning the United States and Canada, or worldwide. There was no release calendar to discuss. There was simply an actor telling a room why this performance and this director held his attention, with Baker and Gordon helping to draw out the reasons. It is a small gesture, but in a city built on opening weekends, giving the screen to someone else's older film for a night still registers.
