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Bulletin Culturel
NOVEMBER 2008
LAST MINUTE !
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At the Circa
Night Club
October 29
ANTOINE
CLAMARAN
At the Circa
Night Club
November 1st
Welcome to the 4th annual European Film Festival in Toronto!
You are cordially invited to attend Eh!U Meet the Europeans – Toronto’s annual
event conveying the rich and diverse culture of Europe through a selection of
its finest and most recent films, held from November 16-30, 2008.
Canada in general and Toronto in particular have grown and thrived thanks to
European immigration. The mandate of the Eh!U Meet the Europeans film
festival is not only to present Canadian premieres and award winning films, but
also to create an open dialogue between Canada and Europe, and their
respective film industries, by promoting artistic excellence.
The dedication of various diplomatic missions and cultural centres has helped
us build a large team of volunteers and collect additional donations and
sponsorships: their support has helped lead to a successful 4th year. We
extend our heartfelt thanks for all the contributions they have made.
“But what is so European about European film?” asks James Skidmore, a
Department Chair at the University of Waterloo. He has many answers to this
question, but before you decide to enjoy one of the free screenings and come
up with your own answer, consider his statement – “We are able to say that a
film is European even if we can’t quite put our finger on what makes it
European, because the film will have a certain sensibility...”
We hope you will join us and enjoy an entertaining and memorable Eh!U Meet the
Europeans – Film Festival 2008!
Sincerely,
Jérôme Cauchard
Consul General of France
French Presidency of the European Union
Contents
Festivals - PAGE 3
Cinema - PAGE 9
Music - PAGE 12
Conference - PAGE 13
Exhibition - PAGE 15
Theatre - PAGE 16
Monday
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Calendar of events - November 2008
Tuesday
Cinema
Wednesday Thursday
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5
A scattered
identity
10
11
12
Cinema
Les Apprentis
17
Eh!U
18
Lecture
Les Apprentis
Eh!U
Eh!U
25
Eh!U
Exhibition
26
Theatre
Bashir
Lazhar
Until
November 30
Eh!U
Cinema
Saturday
7
Artist Emmanuel
ElkabasBesnard
I’ve loved
you so
long
13
14
Exhibition
Soldier
Sunday
Cinema
2
Mon
Oncle
8
9
15
16
Lecture
Opening
of the
EUROPEAN
FILM
FESTIVAL
Until December 6
20
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Music
Antoine
Clamaran
Alain
Trudel et
Jacques
Israelievitch
David B
By Devin
Jeffrey
Cinema
Mariette
Job
24
Eh!U
19
6
Friday
21
22
Concert
Eh!U
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ElodieO
Eh!U
Eh!U
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Eh!U
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Cinema
L’enfant
sauvage
(Also on
October
29)
Eh!U
Eh!U
Eh!U
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Eh!U
30
Closure of
the
EUROPEAN
FILM
FESTIVAL
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Festival s
From November 16 to 30, a selection of the Europeans most finest and recent
films! All screenings are free of charge, with English subtitles!
"Boasting such a strong lineup this year, and at an unbeatable price, Eh! U looks like a
can’t miss event."
James McNally (Toronto Screen Shots)
Discover in our newsletter the extraordinary program of the festival, and find it
anytime on the website: www.eutorontofilmfest.ca
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AUSTRIA
Karo (Karo und der liebe Gott)
By Danielle Proskar
With Resi Reiner, Branko Samarovski
2006, 94 min.
November 23
At 4:00 pm
1759. This historical drama is a
French version of a Robinson
Crusoe shipwreck tale, with an
actor as the sole survivor on a
small Pacific island. The arrival
of ‘Friday’ triggers a revolution
in his emotions and thinking.
BELGIUM
Friday or Another Day (Vendredi
ou Un Autre Jour)
By Yvan Le Moine
With Philippe Nahon, Alain Moraïda
Adapted from Michel Tournier’s Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique.
2005, 107 min.
November 21
At 6:00 pm
BULGARIA
Fly by Rossinant (Letete s Rossinant)
By Georgi Stoev
With Vasil Denev, Itsko Fintsi
2007, 90 min.
It is a terrible blow for 8-year-old
Karo when her parents split up.
She feels so miserable that she
turns on her walkie-talkie and
pours out her heart, in the hope
that God Almighty might be listening.
At the Innis Town Hall
At the Royal Cinema
Introduced by a short film: Oracle,
by Dimitar Dimitrov
The Bulgarian Grand Opera company is on a European tour.
During the journey, the newest
member of the orchestra, Teddy,
gradually falls for the young
Maria. The two young people are
drawn into the complex relationships of the company...
November 19
At 8:30 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
In this metaphorical drama, a
thirteen year old kid, “the boy”,
lives and works in a cemetery.
The cemetery is his whole life,
and growing up with the dead
instills in him an obsession with
and respect for death.
BULGARIA
Warden Of The Dead (Pazachyt
na myrtvite)
By Ilyan Simeonov
With Vladimir Georgiev, Samuel
Fintzi, Itzhak Fintzi
2006, 105 min.
November 27
At 6:00 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
CYPRUS
Roads and Oranges (Dromi ke
portokalia)
By Aliki Danezi-Knutsen
With Vana Rambota, Stela Fyrogeni
1996, 100 min.
A radio announcement about the
sighting of two missing in action
Cypriots, in Turkey,
reminds Daphne of her own
missing father. Her strong belief
that she will find him leads
her sister Anna to follow Daphne
on the uncertain journey into
Turkey.
At 8:30 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
November 20
CZECH REPUBLIC
Vaclav (Václav)
By Jiri Vejdelek
With Ivan Trojan, Emilia Vasaryova
2007, 100 mins
Vaclav Vingl is a man in his forties and is considered by many
to be the village idiot. Villagers
see him as the local fool, nothing
but a constant annoyance, but
there is also a skeleton in the
village closet concerning his father’s death.
At the Innis Town Hall
November 17
At 8:30 pm
A gently offbeat study of a Jutland family in the early 1970s as
seen through the merciless, innocent gaze of an 11 year-old
boy; this refreshingly unconventional pic tackles its taboos with
compassion, grace and wit.
DENMARK
The Art of Crying (Kunsten at
græde i kor)
By Peter Schønau Fog
With Jannik Lorenzen, Jesper Asholt
2007, 106 mins
November 25
At 6:00 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
At 6:00 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
At 8:30 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
FRANCE
The Class (Entre Les Murs)
By Laurent Cantet
With Francois Begaudeau, Nassim
Amrabt, Laura Baquela
2008, 128 mins
“A fully sustained immersion in
the academics, attitudes and frequent altercations of a group of
junior high school students. One
of the most substantive and
purely entertaining movies in
competition at Cannes this year.”
J. Chang, Variety
November 17
Nelli daydreams about a career
as a singer while her parents
see her on her way to medical
school and a secure future. If
only she could come up with a
demo that she could use to
show her talent to the record
companies...
November 23
ESTONIA
Taarka
By Ain Mäeots
With Inga Salurand, Siiri Sisask,
Marje Metsur, Mikko O. Nousiainen,
Kaarel Oja, Tõnu Oja,
2008, 94 min.
FINLAND
Beauty and the Bastard (Tyttö
sinä olet tähti)
By Dome Karukoski
With Pamela Tola, Samuli Vauramo
2005, 102 mins
The film is a portrait of the
singer Hilana Taarka (18561933). She was a rebellious single mother who spoke and sang
in ‘Seto’, a dialect of Finnic
South Estonian.
At the Isabel Bader Theatre
November 16
At 4:00 pm
Auschwitz wasn’t what Sven, a
young German, had in mind
when he signed up to do his civil
service abroad…
GERMANY
And Along Come Tourists (Am
Ende kommen Touristen)
By Robert Thalheim
With Alexander Fehling, Ryszard Ronczewski
2007, 85 min.
At 6:00 pm
At the Royal Cinema
November 22
GREECE
Close to the Edge (Στα όρια)
By Savvas Karydas
With Tassos Nousias, Panayota Valandi
2006, 97 min.
November 29
At 6:00 pm
Farcical, ironic and darkly funny;
a failing actor ends up enveloped in a series of accidents
which “look bad,” to put it
lightly. Together with his director
friend they hatch a genius plan
of treating their predicament like
a film scenario and try to rewrite
the day...
IRELAND
A Film with Me in It
By Ian Fitzgibbon
With Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty,
Amy Huberman, Keith Allen,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
2008, 89 min.
November 28
November 30
Marco and Luisa, two young
Italians, arrive in an abandoned
village in the south of Morocco
and find a medallion that belonged to a young Arab woman
in the 1930s. Through them the
overwhelming love story of textile merchant Alessandro is told.
November 21
November 26
A priest in Ireland meets Valda,
a woman from his native Lithuania, only to find out her mysterious identity is closely connected
with a darkest secret of his
past…
November 27
Andreas, a young solitary taxi
driver, is part of a chaotic mega
city built on the stories of the
people who get in and out of his
cab. His chance encounter with
Maria, a fascinating and mysterious woman, makes him live his
own story.
At the Royal Cinema
At 8:30 pm
At the Royal Cinema
ITALY
Carlo Goldoni - Venice Grand Theatre of the World (Carlo Goldoni Venezia Gran Teatro del Mondo)
By Alessandro Bettero
With Alessandro Bressanello, Tiziana
Grillo
2007, 72 min.
In the 1700s, while the glory of
Venice was nearing the apex of
its splendor, Carlo
Goldoni anticipated the French
revolution by remaking the European theatre, removing
the mask of the commedia dell’arte to reveal the true face of
the bourgeoisie.
At the Royal Cinema
At 5:00 pm
ITALY
The Silk Merchant (Il Mercante di
Stoffe)
By Antonio Baiocco
With Sebastiano Somma, Marta Bifano
2008, 78 min.
At 8:30 pm
At the Royal Cinema
LATVIA
Defenders of Riga (Rīgas Sargi)
By Aigars Grauba
With Jānis Reinis, Elita Kļaviņa
2007, 118 min.
At 8:30 pm
The First World War has ended.
After many years spent fighting in
foreign lands, Martin returns
home to Latvia, where his fiancée, Elza, is waiting. He has no
idea that the decisive battle –
both for Elza’s heart and for the
newly established Latvian state –
is still ahead of him.
At the Innis Town Hall
At 8:30 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
LITHUANIA
Loss (Nereikalingi zmones)
By Maris Martinsons
With Valda Bickute, Kostas Smoriginas
2008, 95 min.
NETHERLANDS
Simon (Simon)
By Eddy Terstall
With Cees Geel, Marcel Hensema
2004, 102 min.
In 1988, Camiel - a timid, homosexual dental student - is run over
by a jeep. Behind the wheel is
Simon - a coarse Amsterdam hash
dealer, the archetype of the heterosexual male.
Simon takes Camiel to the emergency room, and an unusual, lifelong friendship begins...
November 24
At 6:00 pm
Katyn describes the tragedy of a
generation by examining the story
of four Polish families whose lives
are torn apart when, at the outset
of WWII, thousands of Polish soldiers and citizens fall into the
hands of Soviet troops in the Katyn
forest.
POLAND
Katyn (Katyn)
By Andrzej Wajda
With Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska
2007, 118 min.
November 22
At 8:30 pm
At the Royal Cinema
POLAND
Tricks (Sztuczki)
By Andrzej Jakimowski
With Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak
2007, 95 min.
Six-year-old Stefek challenges
fate. He believes that the chain of
events he sets in
motion will help him get closer to
his father, who has abandoned his
mother. His 17
year-old sister Elka helps him
learn how to “bribe” fate with
small sacrifices...
At the Royal Cinema
November 29
At 8:30 pm
Ventura, a Cape Verdean labourer
living in the outskirts of Lisbon, is
suddenly abandoned by his wife.
He feels lost between the dilapidated old quarter where he spent
the last 34 years and his new
lodgings in a recently-built lowcost housing complex…
PORTUGAL
Colossal Youth (Juventude em
Marcha)
By Pedro Costa
With Isabel Cardoso, Cila Cardoso
2006, 155 min.
November 25
November 18
At the Innis Town Hall
At 8:30 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
ROMANIA
An Angel Hooked On Me
(Îngerul Necesar)
By Gheorghe Preda
With Anca Florea, Constantin Florescu
2007, 95 min.
Ana, a young pianist and composer, starts receiving messages
and presents from an unknown
admirer. Soon the reality around
her is altered, she feels like an
actor in a show, whose fate will
remain unknown to the very end.
“Someone up there loves you”…
At 8:30 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
A story of Vanda, a young flight attendant, who has a constant need
to fly, even in her private life.
She runs off to an old village in the
East of Slovakia and moves in with
her grandmother.
There, at the end of the world,
Vanda feels comfortable until she
gets evolved into trade with human
fate.
November 18
SLOVAKIA
Return of the Storks (Navrat
Capu)
By Martin Repka
With: Katharina Lorenz, Lukas Latinak, Florian Stetter…
96 mins
At 6:00 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
SLOVENIA
Estrellita (Estrellita - Pesem za
domov)
By Metod Pevec
With Silva Cusin, Marko Kovačevik
2007, 97 min.
Dora Fabiani is a piano teacher
but, more significantly, for 30
years she was the wife and muse
of violinist, Mihael Fabiani. After
his death, she discovers that she
was not the only woman in his life
and that he had kept much of his
intimate life to himself...
November 19
At 6:00 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
At night a city bus driver finds an
abandoned baby near a stop. A
divorced man comes to pick
up his happy son for the weekend. A pretty doctor befriends a
quadriplegic.
SLOVENIA
Short Circuits (Kratki Stiki)
Janez Lapajne
With Tjasa Zeleznik; Grega Zorc,
Jernej Sugman…
2006, 105 mins
November 23
At 6:00 pm
SPAIN
My Name is Juani (Yo soy la
Juani)
By Bigas Luna.
With Verónica Echegui, Dani Martín
2006, 100 min.
November 24
November 26
Two girls in their twenties, so different and yet, so alike. Elin, the
daughter of a selfcentered
criminal professor and Yasmin,
the daughter of a Turkish heart
surgeon (who,
as an immigrant, has to make his
living as a subway driver), meet
when they both apply
to the police academy.
November 20
At 8:30 pm
At 6:00 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
Juani has problems at home
and argues with her boyfriend.
She can´t stand him any
longer. They have been together since they were fifteen,
but now his jealousy and his
indecisiveness are unbearable.
Juani explodes; she leaves and
decides to do everything she
hasn’t done while she was
wasting time with him.
At the Innis Town Hall
SWEDEN
Mind the Gap (Se upp för
dårarna)
By Helena Bergström
With Rakel Wärmländer, Nina Zanjani
2006, 103 min.
At 6:00 pm
At the Innis Town Hall
Cinema
Mon Oncle
Mon Oncle (My Uncle)
Director: Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre
Zola
Year: 1958
Country: France/Italy
Runtime: 110 minutes
Sunday, November 2
Slapstick prevails when Jacques
Tati’s eccentric hero Monsieur
Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern home of his brother-inlaw, and in an antiseptic factory
that manufactures plastic hose.
Tati directs and stars in the second entry of the Hulot series, a
delightful satire of mechanized
living.
The movie won the Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Special Prize at
Cannes, as well as the prestigious New York Film Critics
Award, making it the mostawarded of Tati's films.
A scattered identity
A scattered identity
A documentary by Aurélie Resch
Running time: 51 minutes
In French
Jane Dawson was adopted as an
infant by a couple from a small
village in Quebec. They always
brought up with the full knowledge of her roots and identity.
Having learned that Jane was
Mexican, the child grew up eating Mexican foods, listening to
Latin music and traveling to
Mexico for holidays. It is only
Mon Oncle
By Jacques Tati
Sunday, November 2
at 1 pm
Cinematheque Ontario
Jackman Hall
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
www.cinemathequeontario.ca
November 4
cestry. This will completely
change her life. She will leave
her home in Toronto to her
young daughter and move to
Betsiamites, an Innu community
in northern Quebec. There she
will find what has been missing
in her life.
A scattered identity
Tuesday, November 4
At 6:30 PM
felt it important that she be
much later, married and living in
Toronto, that Jane will discover
from an official document that
she is in fact of aboriginal an-
At the Alliance Française
de Toronto
24 Spadina Road
Free admission
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Il y a longtemps que je t’aime
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime
(I’ve loved you so long)
Directed by Philippe Claudel
Starring Kristin Scott Thomas,
Elsa Zylberstein
Drama
Running time : 1:55
Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are
sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving
a long sentence. Léa was still a
teenager when Juliette, a doctor,
was convicted of the murder of
her six-year-old son. Life together isn’t easy to begin with.
Juliette has to relearn certain
basics. But a huge question
hangs over Juliette's renais-
Les Apprentis
To pay hommage to Guillaume
Depardieu, gone last October
13, the Alliance Française de
Toronto organizes the screening
of: Les Apprentis.
LES APPRENTIS
By Pierre Salvadori
With François Cluzet, Guillaume
Depardieu, Marie Trintignant
Comedy
1995
Running time: 1h35
Black comedy about two best
friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time
annoying their girlfriends and
getting into various scrapes.
Things turn nasty, however,
November 7
sance. Why did she do such a
terrible thing fifteen years ago?
For all the others, it's a recurrent thought that they dare not
put into words. And for Juliette,
locked away in her secret, it's a
burden to bear, which holds her
back from engaging in her life
and believing that she too has
the right to be happy.
Il y a longtemps que
je t’aime
By Philippe Claudel
In Toronto theatres since
November 7
November 12 and 19
when the pair are caught burgling the offices of a karate
magazine, the consequences of
which sends the playwright into
a spiraling bout of depression.
Les Apprentis
November 12
At 7:30 PM
At the Alliance Française
de Toronto - Spadina
24 Spadina Road
November 19
At 7: 30 PM
At the Alliance Française
de Toronto - North York
95 Sheppard Avenue W.
Free admission
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L’enfant sauvage
L’enfant sauvage (The wild
child)
Director: François Truffaut
Cast:
Jean-Pierre
Cargol,
François Truffaut
Year: 1969
Country: France
Runtime: 89 minutes
L’enfance nue
L’enfance nue (Naked Childhood)
Director: Maurice Pialat
With: Michel Terrazon, Marie
Marc
Year: 1968
Country: France
Runtime: 80 minutes
November 28 and 29
L’enfant sauvage
By François Truffaut
The Wild Child is based on a remarkable journal, the 1806
memoirs of a French physician,
Jean Itard. The record begins in
1798, when a child is found living in the forest like an animal.
Dr. Itard sets for himself the
task of educating this child who
is totally alien to civilization.
Shot in austere black and white,
the film achieves a depth of vision treating a new love, freedom, the nature of childhood
and childhood's end.
Abandoned by his own parents,
François, a nine-year old boy, is
placed in the care of Mr and Mrs
Josselin, an ordinary working
class family with a young
daughter of their own. The Josselins learn that François has
serious behavioural problems
and he soon becomes too much
for them to cope with. As the
boy’s unruly conduct worsens,
he is returned to social services
and ends up with another
adopted home. His new foster
parents are Mr and Mrs Minguet,
an old couple who already have
their hands full with their elderly
mother and another foster child,
Raoul. For once, François appears to become settled and
manages to find a genuine
Friday, November 28
at 7: 00 pm
Saturday, November 29
at 8: 45 pm
Cinematheque Ontario
Jackman Hall
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
www.cinemathequeontario.ca
November 26
friend in the Minguets' frail but
kind-hearted mother. However,
when the latter dies, François’
behaviour suddenly takes a turn
for the worse…
L’enfance nue
By Maurice Pialat
Wednesday, November 26
at 8: 45 pm
Cinematheque Ontario
Jackman Hall
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
www.cinemathequeontario.ca
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Antoine Clamaran
Music
As a DJ, author and producer,
Antoine Clamaran has turned
the whole planet into a huge
dance floor!
Weekly resident on FG DJ Radio
each Sunday from midnight to 1
A.M, also monthly resident on
Fun Radio every third Saturday
from midnight to 2 A.M, executive producer of 19 labels, an
artist-reference according to
many great names of house
music, Antoine is following the
road to success.
Appart from his numerous productions and remixes for international star DJs, he released a
first album entitled "Release
Yourself" in 2002, followed by
four opuses of "Mix Inc." between 2003 and 2005.
The single "Keep on Trying" was
commercialized in May 2006,
followed in June by "Dancefloor
FG summer 2006", a mixed
compilation which soon became
a Gold Album.
Both 2007 and 2008 have been
quite busy years, first by releasing " Inside ", his best of only
sold abroad and available for
downloading in France on 4deejays.com, as well as the compilation " All Night Long ". As it
encountered a massive success,
his partnership with EMI was reconducted, logically leading to
another 2-CDs compilation of 30
Alain Trudel and Jacques Israelievitch at TSO
Choice symphonies by
Haydn and Mendelssohn open
and close this appealing programme. In the “Reformation”
Symphony, Felix Mendelssohn
celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Protestant movement. It climaxes in the familiar
Bach chorale, A Mighty Fortress
Is
Our
God.
Jacques
Israelievitch,
the
TSO’s
distinguished former concertmaster, returns to perform
Bruch’s warm and fiery Concerto
No. 1.
About Alain Trudel :
Born in 1966, Alain Trudel has
established himself
interna-
tionally as a truly remarkable
musician.
Trudel has been invited and reinvited to conduct numerous orchestras including, the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra...
About Jacques Israelievitch :
Internationally renowned violinist Jacques Israelievitch has
become a popular and active
member of the Canadian music
scene
since
becoming
Concertmaster of the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra
Born in France, Mr. Israelievitch
made his debut on French National Radio at the age of eleven
November 1
dance floor hits, all selected and
mixed by Antoine Clamaran :
"All Night Long 2" is available in
music stores since August 25th.
Right now, Antoine keeps travelling and bouncing the entire
world. He produces tracks,
remixes the most famous artists
and is working on his second
album, which should be ready in
the early hours of 2009.
Be ready to dance… ALL NIGHT
LONG !
ANTOINE CLAMARAN
November 1st
At Circa Night-Club
126 John Street
www.circatoronto.com
www.antoineclamaran.com
November 1 and 2
and graduated from the Paris
Conservatory at just sixteen.
Since 1988, Mr. Israelievitch has
been the Concertmaster of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Hayn-MendelssohnBruch at TSO
Alain Trudel: conductor
Jacques Israelievitch: violin
November 1 at 8 pm
November 2 at 3 pm
At Royal Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe St. (corner of
King St. and Simcoe St.)
www.tso.ca
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ElodieO
November 21
“elodieO’s cinematic live sound
is…both organic and very contemporary, groovy and evocative…you could not not listen or be unmoved.”
–Boston Globe
The Parisian chanteuse elodieO
is emerging from the Nublu
electro scene of New York City’s
Lower East Side to release her
seductive debut album, Stubborn.
Born and raised in Paris, Elodie
Ozanne’s early talent for all
things artistic led her to the
classrooms of some of France’s
most respected cello, dance and
musical theater programs, including the renowned drama
school of the Paris National Theater of Chaillot.
Seemingly
destined for a life in the more
traditional arts, a young Elodie
arrived in New York, where she
discovered the evocative Nublu
David B
scene that had nurtured kindred
musical spirits Kudu and The
Brazilian Girls. Quickly falling in
love with the sensual beats and
whispered harmonies of synthpop, Elodie formed minimalist
pop band Elm with multi-instrumentalist Manuel Bienvenu. In
only two years, Elm released
two albums and won stellar reviews for their delicately sensual
pop and engaging live performances while opening for Cat
Power and traveling the French
Conferences
Please join us in welcoming internationally acclaimed graphic novelist David B on the occasion of the
release of his newest work, Epileptic. The evening will include a slide
presentation of the author work, an
on-stage discussion and a question
and answer session moderated by
The Beguiling’s Owner Peter Birkemoe beginning at 7:00pm. Following the presentation the author will
be available to sign his book.
David B. is a founding member of
L’Association, a group of French
cartoonists who banded together as
publishers in 1990 and have
festival circuit.
Determined
to
compose,
arrange, produce and perform
her debut solo album all on her
own, elodieO has created an expression of self with Stubborn
that wraps her vivid personal
musings on love, loss and longing around an ethereal core of
carefully chosen strings, harps,
melodicas, guitars and drums.
Don’t miss her unique concert,
on November 21st, at the Drake
Hotel!
ElodieO
November 21
At the Drake Hotel
1150 Queen Street West
Toronto
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cited as European Cartoonist of the
Year in 1998 by The Comics Journal. His works published in North
America include Epileptic, Babel,
and several stories in the anthology
Mome.
Lecture
DAVID B
revolutionized European comics
with their approach to format, subject matter, and style. He has received many awards, including the
French Alph’ Art award for comics
excellence in 2000, and he was
Saturday November
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At 7:00 PM
Rocco’s Plum Tomato
585 Bloor Street W,
(Plum Room, entrance off
Markham St)
Mariette Job
November 18
of “The Journal of Hélène Berr”,
by David Bellos.
For sixty years, the manuscript
was only considered as heavy
family legacy. Until one day of
2002, Mariette Job, Hélène’s
niece, decided to entrust the
precious document to the Shoah
« Hélène began her Journal in
the spring of 1942. Despite
nearly two years of German occupation; life among the élite of
French youth seemed almost
unchanged, at east on the surface. Up to that time Hélène had
not wanted to admit even to
herself that the persecution of
Jews was affecting her. As
spring turned to summer, however, increasingly flagrant acts
of oppression opened her eyes
to reality. Her personal diary becomes a precious, horrified and
horrifying eyewitness account of
the means by which the Nazis’
“Final Solution to the Jewish
Question” was implanted in
France.”
Extract of the introduction part
Professor Marrus is one
of the world’s most respected
scholars on Holocaust studies
with special concern for the history of French Jewry and antisemitism.
His book, The
Holocaust in History, is a wellregarded historiographical survey.
Professor Doris Bergen is the
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe
Chair in Holocaust Studies. Professor Bergen specializes in
20th-Century German history,
with an emphasis on the Nazi
era and the Holocaust and European women's history.
Memorial. Released at Tallandier
editions in 2008, the book was
immediately a public success.
Recently translated in
English by David Bellos, Mariette
Job will present the Diary, during an exclusive lecture. She will
be accompanied by two historian and Holocaust specialists:
Professors Michael Marrus and
Doris Bergen.
Public Lecture of
Mariette Job
Tuesday, November 18th
at 2:30 pm
Munk Center
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto
(416) 946-8900
Religious buildings : a great source in learning Toronto's history.
The lecture will be given by
Roberto Perin, History Professor
at Glendon College.
Church, at Bloor and Avenue Road
The religious buildings are an
accurate reflection of Toronto's
evolution.
Economic and industrial expansion, social problems due to the
urbanisation, massive arrival of
immigrants from non-British
shores, world wars - all these
phenomena are expressed in
the religious buildings.
Wednesday, November 26
At 6: 30 PM
At the Alliance Française
de Toronto - Spadina
24 Spadina Road
In French
Free admission
Offered by the “Société
d’Histoire de Toronto”
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Exhibitions
France – Canada : a bunch of colors
Born in 1988, Emmanuel
Elkabas-Besnard did his first
painting at the age of six. Very
early, his style was influenced
by Tom Thomson a member of
the Group of Seven, and by
Claude Monet. He frequently
visits Algonquin Park (Ontario)
and travels to France every
summer. He finds inspiration for
the colors of his palette during
his visits to Giverny (Monet’s
house
and
gardens),
to
Provence, and to the island of
Corsica. He has been invited to
exhibit his art in Canada and in
France. He is in his second year
in Visual Arts program in York
University’s Fine Arts Department in Toronto.
Since November 6
Exhibition of the artist
Emmanuel ElkabasBesnard
Since November 6
At the Alliance Française
de Toronto - North York
95 Sheppard Avenue W.
North York
Free Admission
Soldier, by Devin Jeffrey
Devin Jeffrey a Toronto based
photographer and recent graduate from Ryerson Universities
Image Arts Photography program. Devin was awarded this
show, as well as a trip to France
to the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, by Ryerson
University, The Toronto French
Consulate and The Alliance
Francaise de Toronto.
From November 13
Exhibition of the photographer Devin Jeffrey
From November 13 to
December 6
AFT Spadina
24 Spadina Road
Free admission
Television
To discover the TFO November program, click on the following link:
www.tfo.org/television/cineclub
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Theatre
Bashir Lazhar
Do we still want to hear about
reasonable accomodation ?
Yes, if it is to share the life of an
ordinary person like us, who
asks only to find happiness. A
gentle and humorous ode to life,
Bashir Lazhar retraces the journey of a political refugee who
From November 26 to 30
lands in Québec and who at a
moment’s notice fills in for a
grade six teacher. With a passion for teaching young people,
this educator goes against the
current to instruct more about
tenderness and justice than
spelling and grammar. Beyond
the discrepancy between an immigrant’s expectations and his
country of refuge arises a profound reflection on numerous
subjects that touch us all: the
place of schools in our society,
immigration, problems of integration in Canada, and the fear
of foreigners. We laugh, we cry,
we are moved by this piece by
Evelyne de la Chenelière, winner
of the 2006 Governor General’s
Award and author of “Des
fraises en janvier” (Strawberries
in January), presented at TFT
last season.
BASHIR LAZHAR
By Evelyne
de la Chenelière
With Denis Gravereux
Directed by Daniel
Brière
From November 26 to 30
Presented by “Théâtre
Français de Toronto”
26 Berkeley Street
416.534.6604
www.theatrefrançais.com
26, 27 and 28 at 8 pm
29 at 3: 30 pm and 8 pm
30 at 2: 30 pm
Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle
Consulat Général de France à Toronto
2 Bloor Street East - Suite 2200
Toronto, ON, M4C 2T9
Tél.: 416-847-1906
Fax.: 416-847-1901
culturel@consulfrance-toronto.org
www.consulfrance-toronto.org
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