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Bringing together films from Belgium and the Netherlands, Lowlands ’70s & ’80s is a reminder as to what a fecund scene of cinematic invention and daring the so-called Low Countries were during the years when such talents as Chantal Akerman and Harry Kümel were working at the height of their powers and provocative perversity. Anchored by a selection of newly restored films by the unjustly obscure Dutch feminist filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel (1979’s A Woman Like Eve, 1982’s The Cool Lakes of Death), and with work by all of the above named, it’s a crash course in the high-wire art of the Lowlands.