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Le Programme
October –
November 2013
Contents/Highlights
Ciné Lumière
04–31
Kids & Families
32–35
Talks
French Courses
36
37
BFI London Film Festival
Skylab
10 – 20 Oct
pp.12 – 19
25 Oct – 21 Nov
p.4
Preview Screening: The Past
French Film Festival
1 Nov
p.25
7 – 21 Nov
pp.20 – 24
La Médiathèque & Culturethèque 38–39
We Recommend
40–41
Cheese & Wine Tasting
43
General Information
45
front cover image: Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche
Programme design by dothtm
Thrills and Chills
The Institut français will be the place to get your thrills and chills these two coming
months as you navigate your way through a host of festivals and exciting events. First up
The Nun with a striking central performance by Isabelle Huppert, followed by Kechiche's
deeply affecting Cannes winner Blue Is the Warmest Colour. Also on the agenda are
Daniel Auteuil's adaptations of Pagnol's Marius and Fanny, whose preview screenings
on 18 November will be introduced by Auteuil himself.
Get ready for an emotional roller-coaster in the coming weeks as the BFI London
Film Festival invites you to Laugh, Love and Thrill your way through an awe-inspiring
selection of premieres, including the latest offerings from the brilliant French directors
Lanzmann, Ozon, Klapisch, Dumont, Breillat, and Fontaine. Looking further afield, make
sure you catch the heart-stopping delights of the Spanish Film Festival, the Jewish Film
Festival, the Iranian Film Festival, Film Africa, the Portuguese Film Festival, and the
Nordic Film Festival.
The French Film Festival comes of age this year, celebrating its 21st edition with a jampacked programme of extraordinary French films, including the UK premiere of Sylvain
Chomet's first live action film, Attila Marcel, and a screening of the superb, newlyrestored Lola, Jacques Demy's debut feature.
Special Screening: Lola + Q&A with
Anouk Aimée
Marius & Fanny + Q&A with Daniel
Auteuil
15 Nov
p.20
18 & 29 Nov – 21 Dec
p.6
South Ken Kids Festival
Blue Is the Warmest Color
18 – 24 Nov
pp.34 – 35
22 Nov – 21 Dec
p.5
There will be something for the kids to look forward to as well, as we launch the 16th
edition of the South Ken Kids Festival from 18 to 24 November, featuring the best
authors and illustrators from France and the United Kingdom. Patron Quentin Blake will
be joined this year by an extraordinary array of A-listers and up-and-comers, with events
as diverse as can be: drawing duos, workshops, films, and even Impro!, a live drawing
and piano improvisation extravaganza with Karol Beffa.
As the holiday season gathers momentum, make sure you plan your parties early
with our wine & cheese tastings, which will help you choose the best pairings for
your celebrations, the most sensational presents for those hard-to-shop-for family
members, and help you pick up a few interesting facts for those awkward Christmas
party moments when the conversation lulls.
With so many glorious films and compelling events, there'll be no time for boredom at
the Institut!
Laurent Burin des Roziers, Director of the Institut français
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Ciné Lumière New Releases
Like Father Like Son
Skylab
Nénette
Soshite chichi ni naru
Japan | 2013 | col | 120 mins | dir. Hirokazu Koreeda,
with Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki
cert. tbc | in Japanese with English subtitles
France | 2011 | col | 113 mins | dir. Julie Delpy, with Julie
Delpy, Noémie Lvovsky, Bernadette Lafont | cert. 15 | in
French with English subtitles
Demi-soeur
France | 2013 | col | 90 mins | dir. Josiane Balasko, with
Michel Blanc, Josiane Balasko, Brigitte Roüan | cert. tbc
in French with English subtitles
Would you choose your natural son, or the son you
believed was yours after spending 6 years together?
Koreeda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of
Nobody Knows, Still Walking and I Wish, returns to the big
screen with a heart-rending exploration of the meaning
of parenthood. Ryota believes nothing can stop him from
pursuing his perfect life as a winner. When he receives
a phone call from the hospital where his son was born,
he is forced to make a life-changing decision. Seeing his
wife’s devotion to Keita, their 6-year-old son, even after
learning his origin, Ryota also starts to question himself:
has he really been a ‘father’ all these years?
Jury Prize, Cannes Festival 2013
Fri 25 Oct
Sat 26 Oct
Sun 27 Oct
Mon 28 Oct
6.15pm
6.30pm
5.00pm
8.40pm
Tue 29 Oct
Wed 30 Oct
Thu 31 Oct
6.15pm
6.15pm
8.40pm
Oscar-nominated for co-writing Before Sunset, Julie Delpy
writes, directs and stars in a sweetly autobiographical
and fearlessly bawdy comedy about a family's boozy
get-together in Normandy. It’s the summer of 1979. High
above the earth, the space station Skylab is out of control.
And somewhere in Brittany, so is Albertine, a precocious
eleven-year-old making her transition into teenage life
and love while her extended family drinks, dances, fondles
and fights all around her. This award-winning comedy
– part Wes Anderson, part Truffaut – is like a miniature
French summer holiday in the dark of a London autumn.
Fri 25 Oct
Sat 26 Oct
Sun 27 Oct
Mon 28 Oct
Tue 29 Oct
Wed 30 Oct
Thu 31 Oct
3.00pm | 8.40pm
9.00pm
8.00pm
6.15pm
8.40pm
3.00pm | 8.40pm
3.00pm | 6.15pm
Fri 15 Nov 3.00pm
Wed 20 Nov 3.00pm
Thu 21 Nov 3.00pm
FRENCHFILMFIRST
EXCLUSIVE
Josiane Balasko's latest film, in which she reunites with
Michel Blanc, is a touching portrait of familial bonds,
and features stunning central performances. Nénette
(Josiane Balasko) is a little girl aged 60. A problem at
birth made her different. Nénette has a mental age of
eight, and has always lived with her mother, who raised
her alone. She has a job as a cleaner in the village
school, and her best friend is a tortoise. But when her
mother dies, everything changes, and Nénette has to go
into a retirement home. The home doesn’t allow pets
so Nénette heads off with her suitcase and her tortoise
to look for her father. When Nénette finally arrives at
the address, she discovers a pharmacy, and not her
father but her father’s son, Paul Bérard (Michel Blanc),
an uptight pharmacist who is thrown into a panic by the
arrival of his half-sister.
Sat 26 Oct
2.00pm
FRENCHFILMFIRST
EXCLUSIVE
The Nun
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
La Religieuse
France | 2013 | col | 103 mins | dir. Guillaume Nicloux, with Pauline Etienne, Isabelle
Huppert, Louise Bourgoin | cert. tbc | in French with English subtitles
La Vie d'Adèle
France | 2013 | col | 179 mins | dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, with Léa Seydoux, Adèle
Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche | cert. tbc | in French with English subtitles
Guillaume Nicloux's adaptation of Diderot's classic novel is a visually elegant and
engaging period piece with a terrific central performance. It tells the story of a young
woman trying to resist imposed religious values, revealing the dehumanizing effect of
cloistered life. France, in the 1760s. Born into a bourgeois family, Suzanne is a beautiful
young girl with a natural talent for music. She is dismayed when her parents send her
off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. She soon wants to escape the religious
path until she meets the new Mother Superior (Isabelle Huppert), who develops an
inappropriate affectionate bond with her…
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Blue Is the Warmest Colour
is a minutely detailed, searingly erotic three-hour study of first lesbian love. At 15, Adele
doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever when she meets
Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert
herself as a woman and as an adult.
Fri 1 Nov
Sat 2 Nov
Sun 3 Nov
Mon 4 Nov
Tue 5 Nov
Wed 6 Nov
Thu 7 Nov
3.00pm | 6.15pm
2.00pm | 6.15pm
4.20pm | 6.45pm
6.15pm
8.50pm
3.00pm | 8.50pm
3.00pm
Fri 8 Nov
Sat 9 Nov
Sun 10 Nov
Mon 11 Nov
Tue 12 Nov
Wed 13 Nov
Thu 14 Nov
3.00pm | 6.15pm
2.00pm | 4.30pm
3.50pm | 8.40pm
6.15pm | 8.40pm
6.15pm
3.00pm
3.00pm | 6.15pm
Fri 22 Nov
Sat 23 Nov
Sun 24 Nov
Mon 25 Nov
8.00pm
8.00pm
7.00pm
4.00pm | 7.45pm
Tue 26 Nov
Wed 27 Nov
Thu 28 Nov
Fri 29 Nov
4.30pm | 8.00pm
2.30pm | 8.40pm
2.30pm | 8.40pm
2.30pm
Continues in December
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Marius
Fanny
France | 2013 | col | 93 mins | dir. Daniel Auteuil, with Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël
Personnaz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Victoire Belezy | cert. tbc | in French with English
subtitles
France | 2013 | col | 102 mins | dir. Daniel Auteuil, with Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Belezy,
Raphaël Personnaz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin | cert. tbc | in French with English
subtitles
Written and originally adapted to the screen by Marcel Pagnol, the now-classic version
is brilliantly directed by Daniel Auteuil, with graceful performances and beautifully
rendered scenery. Marius only dreams of discovering the South Seas. But Fanny, who
has been secretly in love with Marius since childhood, will do her best to prevent him
from leaving...
Fanny is the second part of Daniel Auteuil’s Marseilles Trilogy revival, which begins
where Marius ended. In love and abandoned, Fanny discovers that she is expecting a
child from Marius. She finally decides to marry a prosperous merchant from the Old
Port. Marius, who realises that he is in love with Fanny as he sails the seven seas,
comes home and tries to win her back... Like its predecessor, Fanny features glowing
performances from Auteuil, Belezy and Darroussin.
Mon 18 Nov
6.15pm | preview screening
Fri 29 Nov
6.30pm
Sat 30 Nov
7.30pm
The preview screening on Monday 18 November, as part of the French Film Festival,
will be introduced by Daniel Auteuil
Marius preview: £12, conc. £10 | double bill with Fanny preview: £20, conc. £15
regular screenings: £10, conc. £8 | double bill with Fanny: £15, conc. £12
Mon 18 Nov
8.40pm | preview screening
Fri 29 Nov
8.40pm
Sat 30 Nov
9.30pm
The preview screening on Monday 18 November, as part of the French Film Festival,
will be followed by a Q&A with Daniel Auteuil
Fanny preview: £12, conc. £10 | double bill with Marius preview: £20, conc. £15
regular screenings: £10, conc. £8 | double bill with Marius: £15, conc. £12
Ciné Lumière London Spanish Film Festival
Colombiana
La estrella
Nadie conoce a nadie
France | 2011 | col | 108 mins | dir. Olivier Megaton, with
Thandie Newton, Jordi Mollà, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis
cert. 15 | in English
Spain | 2013 | col | 95 mins | dir. Alberto Aranda, with
Ingrid Rubio, Carmen Machi, Fele Martínez | cert. tbc
in Spanish & Catalan with English subtitles | UK
premiere
Nobody Knows Anybody
Spain | 1999 | col | 108 mins | dir. Mateo Gil, with
Eduardo Noriega, Jordi Mollà, Natalia Verbeke, Paz
Vega | cert. tbc | in Spanish with English subtitles | UK
premiere
After witnessing her parents' murder in Colombia, a little
girl decides to become a skilled killer so she can take
revenge. The young woman she becomes is a ruthless,
sexy assassin who nonetheless manages to awaken our
sympathy and who won't stop until she achieves her
revenge. Mollà delivers a virtuoso performance as the
merciless and vicious criminal. Written and produced by
Luc Besson, the creator of Nikita, the film is actionpacked and will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Tue 1 Oct
6.15pm
www.londonspanishfilmfestival.com
Essentially optimistic, Alberto Aranda's debut feature
focuses on Estrella, a cheerful young woman living in
the suburbs of Barcelona, but also examines the abuse
of women – a current concern in Spain. Benefiting from
the excellent performances of the lead actors, the film
touches upon Estrella's relationship with her ambitious
boyfriend, Salva, and with Trini, her best friend. The
simplicity of Estrella's life, with her desire to help and love
of music, spreads happiness to those around her.
Tue 1 Oct
8.30pm | £12, conc. £10
Followed by a Q&A (tbc)
Based on Juan Bonilla's book and set in the spectacular
festivities of Seville's Holy Week, among Nazarenes
and Madonnas, this first feature film by Director Mateo
Gill, a regular collaborator of Alejandro Amenábar, is a
compelling and gripping thriller. Simon is an aspiring
writer struggling with his job composing crosswords for
a newspaper. When he receives an enigmatic message
on his answering machine requesting, under threat, the
inclusion of a certain word in a future crossword, he gets
entangled in a complex, confusing and dangerous game,
that will isolate him from Sapo, his flatmate, and from
Ariadna, his girlfriend.
Wed 2 Oct
6.15pm | £8, conc. £6
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Los mundos sutiles
Fin
La Banda Picasso
Subtle Realms
Spain | 2012 | col | doc | 85 mins | dir. Eduardo Chapero
Jackson, with Joaquín Abella, Amaia Pardo, Miguel
Ballabriga | cert. tbc | in Spanish with English subtitles
UK premiere
The End
Spain | 2012 | col | 90 mins | dir. Jorge Torregrossa,
with Daniel Grao, Maribel Verdú, Clara Lago, Andrés
Velencoso, Montserrat Roig de Puig, Blanca Romero
cert. tbc | in Spanish with English subtitles | London
premiere
Picasso's Gang
Spain | 2012 | col | 101 mins | dir. Fernando Colomo, with
Ignacio Mateos, Pierre Bénézit, Jordi Vilches, Stanley
Weber, Raphaëlle Agogué | cert. tbc | in French &
Spanish with English subtitles | UK premiere
Through Antonio Machado's poems, Chapero Jackson
leads us through the poet's life in an exceptional
documentary, subtly mixing poetry and contemporary
dance. One of the most respected poets in Spain and
one of the leading figures in the literary movement
known as the Generation of '98, Antonio Machado grew
up in a country in decline, humiliated after losing its
last colonies. However, he was inspired by the spirit of
men of letters such as Rubén Darío and Oscar Wilde,
who yearned to live an aesthetic existence in order to
foreground the soul in the face of growing materialism.
Wed 2 Oct
8.15pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Eduardo Chapero
Jackson
Torregrossa's first feature is an engaging thriller with a
sci-fi streak, fascinating and enticing in turns. The End
starts with a reunion of old friends after a long time
apart. Nothing seems to have changed between them,
but a series of strange incidents in their remote mountain
house brings to light an obscure episode that has been
haunting them for years...
Preceded by Meeting with Sarah Jessica
(dir. Vicente Villanueva, 2013, 20 mins)
Thu 3 Oct
Tue 8 Oct
6.30pm
8.15pm | £12, conc. £10
The screening on Tue 8 Oct will be followed by a Q&A
with actors Andrés Velencoso
An exquisite recreation of Bohemian Paris, this highly
entertaining film by Colomo, a Spanish director who is
well known for his fresh, unpretentious comedies, also
benefits from José Luis Alcaine's splendid photography.
The recipe is simple: take Picasso, Apollinaire, Manolo,
Braque, Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein, and mix in the
robbery of the 'Mona Lisa' from the Louvre. The result is a
good-humoured view of the jealousies and intrigues that
can arise between very colourful characters...
Thu 3 Oct
8.30pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Fernando Colomo
Mapa
Map
Spain | 2012 | col | doc | 85 mins | dir.
León Siminiani, with León Siminiani
cert. PG | in Spanish with English
subtitles
A fictive documentary with tinges of
road movie narrated in the first person
with a subtle sense of humour and
self-deprecation, this film is definitely an
engaging trip. After losing his scriptwriting
job for a TV channel, a series of fairly
successful shorts and some unsuccessful
attempts at feature films, the director
takes us on a personal journey through
his confused thoughts, ruminations,
and search for real love, starting in the
director's apartment in Madrid, and then
to various places in Spain and on to India.
Fri 4 Oct
6.15pm
Followed by a Q&A with director León
Siminiani
World Film
Locations:
Barcelona
Book Presentation
Barcelona is not only one of the world's
most beautiful cities, it also has a long and
rich cinematic legacy, and has attracted
national as well as international filmmakers. This book, edited by Helio San
Miguel and Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano,
explores the cinematic history of the
Catalan city through a number of essays
and reviews. The presentation will be led
by editor Torres Hortelano, and illustrated
with images and film clips.
Fri 4 Oct
6.30pm | free entry
Los últimos días
Frontera
The Last Days
Spain | 2013 | col | 100 mins | dir. David
and Alex Pastor, with Quim Gutiérrez,
José Coronado, Marta Etura | cert. tbc
in Spanish & Catalan with English
subtitles | UK premiere
Frontier
Spain | 2012 | col | 76 mins | dir. Manuel
Pérez, with Christian Dolz, Aida Oset,
Juan Carlos Aparicio, Alicia González
cert. tbc | in Spanish with English
A mysterious epidemic spreads around
the world, with victims unable to venture
into the open, causing irrational fear and
eventually death. As chaos engulfs the
city of Barcelona, Marc sets off on a quest
to find his girlfriend Julia with the help of
Enrique, a seemingly ruthless consultant
who has arrived at Marc's company
as part of a restructuring plan. This
apocalyptic thriller features impressive
views of Barcelona, and exquisite
performances by Coronado and Gutiérrez.
A theatre group is rehearsing a play when
they're suddenly interrupted by the sound
of an alarm that leaves them isolated and
with no possibility to communicate with
the exterior. An interesting exercise born
of the collaboration between real actors
and prisoners from the Quatre Camins
prison in Barcelona, this film, shot in
the prison, explores the fear of losing
one's freedom of movement as well as
the conflicts that come up within a group
of people, and the subjectivity of guilt or
innocence.
Fri 4 Oct
8.30pm | £12, conc. £10
UK premiere courtesy of Metrodome
Sat 5 Oct
3.00pm
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El cuerpo
The Body
Spain | 2012 | col | 108 mins | dir. Oriol
Paulo, with Hugo Silva, José Coronado,
Belén Rueda, Aura Garrido | cert. tbc | in
Spanish with English subtitles | preview
screening
Alex's wife's body disappears from the
morgue. Inspector Jaime must investigate
how a corpse can vanish from a freezer
without a trace. With his own past haunting
him, Jaime's only suspect is the widower,
Alex, who maintains his innocence while
struggling with inner demons that won't
remain hidden for long. This dark and
fascinating thriller from the producers
of the haunting and unforgettable The
Orphanage and Julia's Eyes will keep you on
the edge of your seat.
Sat 5 Oct
5.30pm
Preview screening courtesy of
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
Jordi Mollà in
Conversation
One of Spain’s most exportable talents,
Mollà started acting in 1988 and shortly
afterwards his career took off when he
starred in what was soon to be considered
a cult movie, Jamón, jamón alongside
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. His
performances, invariably compelling and
authentic, range from dark characters
with nuanced perverse twists to shy,
tormented types and have won him
several awards both at home and abroad,
making him one of the most outstanding
and versatile international actors.
Followed by the screenings of Walter
Peralta and Jamón, jamón
Sat 5 Oct
8.00pm
Conversation + Jamón, jamón + Walter
Peralta: £12, conc. £10
Jamón, jamón
Els nens salvatges
Spain | 1992 | col | 95 mins | dir. Bigas
Luna, with Javier Bardem, Penélope
Cruz, Jordi Mollà | cert. 18 | in Spanish
with English subtitles
The Wild Ones
Spain | 2012 | col | 100 mins | dir. Patricia
Ferreira, with Alex Monner, Marina
Comas, Albert Baró | cert. 15 | in Catalan
& Spanish with English subtitles | London
premiere
Shot in the aridity of Zaragoza's desert,
Jamón, jamón – which juxtaposes erotic
desire and food – explores the complex
relationship between Silvia (Cruz), the
daughter of a roadside prostitute, her
boyfriend José Luis (Mollà), son of the
richest man in town, and Raúl (Bardem),
a would-be bullfighter attracted to Silvia.
It also lays bare the aspirations and
frustrations of their parents. The film
was a big break for the three lead actors,
the then extremely young Jordi Mollà,
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
Preceded by an on-stage interview with
Jordi Mollà and the short Walter Peralta
Walter Peralta
(dir. Jordi Mollà, 1993, 13 mins)
With her usual subtlety, Patricia Ferreira
takes a striking view of the three-way
relationship between teenagers, parents
and teachers, who seem to inhabit three
different worlds, with a marked lack of
communication between them. Alex, Gabi
and Oki are three teenagers attending
the same school. As they try to deal with
parents and teachers - both those who try
to understand them and those who just
try to control them - they become close
friends.
Sun 6 Oct
4.30pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Patricia
Ferreira
The Labèque Way Hijos de las nubes El amor no es lo
Sons of the Clouds
que era
Félix Cábez, with Alessandro Baricco,
Insensibles
A beautiful documentary, produced by
Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo, benefiting
from Cábez's talent, Baricco's sensuous
writing and the Labèque sisters' amazing
performances. The legendary piano duo
constituted by the French sisters Katia
and Marielle Labèque goes beyond the
boundaries between classic and avantgarde music, and between European
countries. Cábez follows the sisters
through London, Valladolid and Rome
marveling at their prodigious talent.
Medina's debut film is an absorbing
horror-thriller. From the Spanish Civil
War through to the 60s, an isolated
asylum attempts to rehabilitate children
who are mysteriously unable to feel pain.
Meanwhile, in present day Spain, surgeon
David loses his wife in a car accident and
discovers that he has a terrible illness.
The film goes back and forth, intertwining
both stories.
Marielle and Katia Labèque, Semyon
Bychkov | cert. PG | in English, Italian,
French & Spanish with English subtitles
UK premiere
Sun 6 Oct
7.00pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Félix
Cábez
Alvaro Longoria, with Javier Bardem,
Elena Anaya, Carlos Bardem, Manu Chao,
Felipe González | cert. tbc | in Spanish,
English & French with English subtitles
UK premiere
This poignant documentary shows the
consequences of irresponsible policies
in Western Sahara, and reveals how
the dedication of an individual can help
stave off despair by attracting attention
to a forgotten issue. The process of
decolonisation in Western Sahara in the
1970s left the Sahrawis living in refugee
camps in the Algerian desert. This
documentary follows Javier Bardem and
other film professionals in their effort to
attract the attentions of both the Spanish
government and the UN.
Mon 7 Oct
Wed 9 Oct
8.30pm
6.15pm
Love Is Not What it Used to Be
Spain | 2013 | col | 89 mins | dir. Gabriel
Ochoa, with Alberto San Juan, Aida Folch,
Petra Martínez, Nicolás Coronado, Blanca
Romero | cert. tbc | in Spanish with
English subtitles | UK premiere
A reflection on the opportunities offered by
love, El amor no es lo que era tells us three
different love stories in the same city: a
re-encounter between two old lovers, two
youngsters trying to make a relationship
work and two others whose life together
does not make sense anymore. Playing
with the mathematical principle of
the hyperbola, according to which two
bodies will never go back to their point of
origin, the director tries here to show the
opportunities love and relationships give to
go on or to change direction.
Tue 8 Oct
6.15pm
Painless
Spain/France/Portugal | 2012 | col | 100
mins | dir. Juan Carlos Medina, with Alex
Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Juan
Diego | cert. 18 | in Catalan & Spanish
with English subtitles | preview screening
Wed 9 Oct
8.15pm | £12, conc. £10
Followed by a Q&A with actor Alex
Brendemühl
Preview courtesy of Metrodome
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Ciné Lumière BFI London Film Festival
London's biggest cinema showcase, the 57th BFI London
Film Festival (9-20 Oct), comes to Ciné Lumière with a
fantastic selection of French and world cinema.
To help festivalgoers navigate their way through the
200-feature strong programme, films are clustered
around themes such as Love, Debate, Dare, Laugh, Thrill,
Cult, and Journey. Highlights of this year's selection
include François Ozon's Jeune et Jolie (Dare), Grand
Central with Tahar Rahim and Léa Seydoux (Love), Abuse
of Weakness with Isabelle Huppert (Official Competition),
Klapisch's Chinese Puzzle (Laugh), 11.6 with Intouchables
star François Cluzet (Thrill), Claude Lanzmann's The Last
of the Unjust (Debate), On My Way with Catherine Deneuve
(Love), and Nicolas Philibert's La Maison de la radio
(Documentary Competition). Whichever strand strikes
your fancy, you can be sure that it's going to be a wild ride,
so get ready, and in the words of Clare Stewart: see you
in the dark.
Weekday matinee (screenings starting prior to 5.00pm): £9
Evening and weekend screenings: £12.50
BFI London Film Festival Booking:
020 7928 3232 or bfi.org.uk/lff
On My Way
Bad Hair
Elle s'en va
France | 2013 | col | 116 mins | dir. Emmanuelle Bercot,
with Catherine Deneuve, Nemo Schiffman, Gérard
Garouste | cert. tbc | in French with English subtitles
Pelo Malo
Venezuela/Peru/Germany | 2013 | col | 93 mins
dir. Mariana Rondón, with Samuel Lange, Samantha
Castillo, María Emilio Sulbarán | cert. tbc | in Spanish
Bettie (Catherine Deneuve) is a former beauty queen
in her sixties. She runs a local bistro and lives with her
elderly mother. She learns from her the humiliating
news that her married lover has left his wife for another,
younger woman. The next day, still smarting from the
revelation, she gets into her car and starts driving. With
nods to Truffaut, Téchiné and Dupeyron, On My Way is
a love letter to screen icon Deneuve, although director
Emmanuelle Bercot doesn’t let her obvious infatuation
distract, grounding the film in a vérité style and employing
a contemporary soundtrack to reflect Bettie’s resilience
and capacity for joy.
Thu 10 Oct
Love
6.15pm
Nine-year old Junior lives with his frazzled, irritable
single mother and baby sister. He longs for straight hair
that he hopes will help her to love him but she doesn’t
appear interested in his efforts. Junior and his friend
then try to secure the funds to have their school photos
taken in their idealised roles – as crooner and beauty
queen. Mariana Rondón offers a distinctive and highly
engaging commentary on motherly love grounded in a
trio of committed performances from Samuel Lange
as the enterprising Junior, María Emilio Sulbarán as
his unnamed lippy friend, and Samantha Castillo as his
stressed out mother.
Wed 10 Oct
Love
9.00pm
May in the Summer Grand Central
Jordan/Qatar/US | 2013 | col | 97 mins
dir. Cherien Dabis, with Cherien Dabis,
Hiam Abbas, Aliaa Shawkat | cert. tbc
in English
France | 2013 | col | 94 mins | dir.
Rebecca Zlotowski, with Tahar Rahim,
Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet, Denis
Ménochet | cert. tbc | in French with
English subtitles
Writer-director Cherien Dabis makes
her big screen acting debut in May in the
Summer, a charming comedy drama about
a Christian Arab-American returning to
her native Jordan to marry her Muslim
boyfriend, much to her mother’s chagrin.
Dabis emits a breezy charisma in the title
role of May, the successful New York writer
torn between satisfying her mother’s
religious traditions while continuing to
maintain the independence she has
worked so hard to achieve. Dabis skilfully
avoids any sense of cliché or dramatic
stereotype by focusing on the abundant
humour in the culture clash.
Rebecca Zlotowski follows her impressive
2010 debut Belle Epine with a punchy,
compelling workplace drama. Tahar
Rahim plays Gary, who signs on for work
in a nuclear power plant. He’s inducted
into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and
hard-bitten veteran Toni, only to discover
that radiation contamination is not just a
risk factor but an everyday hazard. This
politically charged, somewhat Loachian
drama has the intensely satisfying
narrative drive of a Zola novel, as well as
echoing classic Hollywood blue-collar
dramas in the Howard Hawks vein.
Fri 11 Oct
Fri 11 Oct
Love
6.30pm
Love
9.00pm
Ladder to
Damascus
2 Autumns, 3
Winters
Lebanon/Syria/Qatar | 2013 | col | 95
mins | dir. Mohamad Malas, with Najla El
Wa’za, Bilal Martini, Gianna Aanid | cert.
tbc | in Arabic with English subtitles
2 Automnes, 3 hivers
Sébastien Betbeder, with Vincent
Macaigne, Maud Wyler, Bastien Bouillon,
Audrey Bastien | cert. tbc | in French with
English subtitles
The previous years have seen Syria go from
being one of the most politically stable
regimes in the Arab world to one that has
been torn apart by civil war. Malas initially
appears not to touch on the trauma of his
country, focusing instead on a love story.
Ghalia is inhabited by the soul of Zeina, a
girl who drowned the day she was born.
Haunted by Zeina’s past life, Ghalia travels
to Damascus to study acting. There she
meets a filmmaker who is fascinated by
her duality. Soon the events in the streets
begin to encroach on their love affair.
Sat 12 Oct
Love
1.00pm
Comic and tender in equal measure, this
fresh, no-frills feature is a comedy drama
about love, chance and storytelling that
gives the Nouvelle Vague an idiosyncratic
21st-century spin. Vincent Macaigne plays
the hirsute, self-effacing Arman, hoping
to change his life at 33, when he literally
bumps into Amélie and never looks back.
Inarguably a guys'-eye view of life and
love but also winning, literate and very
distinctive.
Sat 12 Oct
Love
3.30pm
13
14
Me, Myself and
Mum
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !
Guillaume Gallienne, with Guillaume
Gallienne, André Marcon, Diane Kruger
cert. tbc | in French with English subtitles
Shame
Styd
Russia | 2013 | col | 90 mins | dir. Yusup
Razykov, with Maria Semenova, Elena
Korobeynikova, Helga Filippova | cert. tbc
in Russian with English subtitles
Stop the Pounding Adore
Heart
Australia/France | 2012 | col | 100 mins
dir. Anne Fontaine, with Robin Wright,
Belgium/Italy/US | 2013 | col | 100 mins
dir. Roberto Minervini, with Sara Carlson,
Colby Trichell | doc | cert. tbc | in English
Coming-of-age films are rarely as
enjoyable, or as mischievous, as the
surprise audience hit of this year’s Cannes
Festival. Guillaume Gallienne shows what
it’s like to grow up as a boy when everyone
is convinced that you’re really a girl – or
should have been. Gallienne resembles
a cherubic cross between Harpo Marx
and Pee-Wee Herman, but with wit and
literacy à la Stephen Fry, and overall
proves a winning and unpredictable screen
presence.
A community of women await the return of
their submariner husbands at a rundown
military base on the Kola peninsula in
Russia. At the heart of the film is Lena,
who seems indifferent towards others
and, although she has been married only
a few months, has taken a lover. Ekaterina
Mavromatis’s screenplay, clearly inspired
by the Kursk tragedy, provides a sensitive
and understanding portrait of the waiting
women. Yusup Razykov’s Shame is a
profound and moving portrait of the human
reality behind a disaster that resonated
throughout the world.
The third part of filmmaker Roberto
Minervini’s loose Texan trilogy (after The
Passage and Low Tide) is a powerful drama
documentary. Set in a rural community
in southern Texas, the film focuses on
two real families, the Carlsons, who are
goat farmers with very strong religious
beliefs, and the Trichells, a less puritan
family whose passions are guns and rodeo
riding. At the heart of the film’s drama
is the burgeoning Romeo-and-Juliet
romance between the mildly rebellious
teenager Sara Carlson and her bull-riding
neighbour, Colby Trichell.
Sat 12 Oct
Sat 12 Oct
Sun 13 Oct
Laugh
6.30pm
Dare
9.00pm
Love
1.00pm
Naomi Watts, Xavier Samuel | cert. tbc
in English
Roz (Robin Wright) and Lil (Naomi Watts)
have been best friends since childhood.
Now the proud mothers of two beautiful
grown-up sons, they work together and
enjoy a hedonistic existence. Absent
fathers reinforce the bond between the
four, until one night the latent sexual
attraction between Roz and Lil’s son is
consummated. French director Anne
Fontaine is known for her disquieting
observations on unconventional bourgeois
relationships, and this subversive and
visually evocative drama doesn’t dwell on
morality for long.
Sun 13 Oct
Love
3.30pm
Jeune et jolie
Honey
Ida
Chinese Puzzle
François Ozon, with Marine Vacth,
Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot,
Charlotte Rampling | cert. tbc | in French
Miele
Italy/France | 2013 | col | 100 mins | dir.
Valeria Golino, with Jasmine Trinca, Carlo
Cecchi, Libero de Rienzo | cert. tbc | in
Italian with English subtitles
Poland/Denmark | 2013 | b&w | 80 mins
dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, with Agata
Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid
Ogrodnik | cert. tbc | in Polish with
English subtitles
Casse-tête chinois
France | 2013 | col | 120 mins | dir. Cédric
Klapisch, with Romain Duris, Audrey
Tautou, Kelly Reilly | cert. tbc | in French
François Ozon returns with the story of
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student. After
losing her virginity during a brief holiday
romance, Isabelle returns home and, over
the course of the following year, embarks
on a secret life of prostitution. Jeune et jolie
explores the effects of rebellious teenage
behaviour on the moral ideologies of the
bourgeois family. Ozon’s unsensational
approach perfectly compliments the
youthful irreverence of his main character.
Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film is an elegy
for his homeland and an intimate, poetic
exploration of the limits of faith. Orphaned
during WWII, Anna was brought up in a
rural convent and in early 60s Poland is a
young novice preparing to take her vows.
When the Mother Superior insists she
make contact with her last remaining
relative, she meets her aunt Wanda,
a free-living intellectual working as a
judge and secretly annihilating painful
memories with a heady mix of sex and
booze. Their encounter lifts the shroud off
the dark secret of their family’s past.
Third time out, Xavier, now 40 and newly
divorced, follows his English ex-wife Wendy
(Reilly) to New York to be near their kids,
trying, yet again, to start over. Without
missing a beat, Cédric Klapisch picks up
his freewheeling relationship saga, the
Big Apple proving fruitful terrain for his
whimsical look at life, love, art and culture
clashes. Klapisch’s trademark inventive
visuals frame both slapstick melodrama
and soulful sincerity.
Screening with Likeness (dir. Rodrigo
Prieto, 2012, 9 mins)
Actress Valeria Golino makes her debut
as film director with this impressive
topical drama. Irene, aka Honey, is
an independent young woman with a
seemingly uncomplicated life and a large
social network. But, in fact, it’s all a sham:
a front for a complex secret existence
‘helping’ terminally ill people to end their
lives. When she is called to an assignment
where all her convictions are challenged,
everything changes. Honey is a carefully
balanced, distinctive movie that avoids
being agitprop for either side of the
euthanasia debate.
Sun 13 Oct
Sun 13 Oct
Mon 14 Oct
Dare
6.30pm
Debate
9.00pm
6.30pm
Official Competition
Mon 14 Oct
8.45pm
Additional screening on Thu 21 Nov at
8.40pm as part of the French Film Festival
Laugh
15
16
Le Grand cahier
Camille Claudel
1915
La Maison de la
radio
France | 2013 | col | 97 mins | dir. Bruno
Dumont, with Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc
Vincent, Emmanuel Kauffman | cert. tbc
France | 2012 | 103 mins | dir. Nicolas
Philibert, with Jean-François Achilli,
Evelyne Adam, Jean-Claude Ameisen
A loving family is forced apart by the
outbreak of World War II but, before
leaving to fight, the father gives his twin
13-year-old boys a notebook and instructs
them to write down their everyday
experiences. They are left with their
grandmother in a Hungarian border village
but the bitter old woman takes a hostile
attitude towards them and they experience
the violence of local life. The film shows
how the children, transformed by their
negative experiences, deliberately inure
themselves to physical and emotional pain.
A portrait rather than a biopic, Camille
Claudel 1915 depicts the troubled sculptor
(Juliette Binoche) as an inmate of an
asylum near Avignon. Camille lives a
seemingly uneventful life among the other
inhabitants of the institution with whom
she enjoys a quietly tender intimacy. Then
she receives a visit from her brother,
visionary Catholic poet Paul Claudel. Their
relationship and Camille’s internment
form the basis of a challenging inquiry
into madness, the clinical system and the
nature of religious and artistic inspiration.
Structured as a day-in-the-life in the
workings of Radio France, this latest gem
from the great French documentarist
Nicolas Philibert provides illuminating
access into a mysterious world. As
his perceptive camera observes the
preparation and recording of the news and
sports reports, drama and documentaries,
quizzes and concerts, chat shows and DJ
sessions broadcast by the station’s various
channels, it’s funny, touching and visually
exhilarating.
Tue 15 Oct
Tue 15 Oct
A nagy füzet
Germany/Hungary/Austria/France
2013 | col | 110 mins | dir. János Szász,
with András Gyémánt, László Gyémánt,
Piroska Molnár | cert. tbc | in German
Debate
6.15pm
Dare
9.00pm
Wed 16 Oct
6.30pm
Documentary Competition
Tonnerre
Guillaume Brac, with Vincent Macaigne,
Solène Rigot, Bernard Menez | cert. tbc
'Tonnerre' is the town where semi-failed
rock musician Maxime (Vincent Macaigne)
goes to spend time with his father
(Bernard Menez). When he falls for a local
girl (Solène Rigot), the attraction is mutual
and headily romantic. The problem is,
she’s way too young for him, and things
can’t possibly work out well. Tonnerre
is a powerful and engaging showcase
both for the bear-like Macaigne (French
independent film’s man of the moment)
and for talented up-and-comer Rigot,
while it also marks the burgeoning of a
very distinctive and appealing new auteur
voice in Guillaume Brac.
Wed 16 Oct
Journey
9.00pm
11.6
France/Belgium | 2012 | col | 100 mins
dir. Philippe Godeau, with François
Cluzet, Bouli Lanners, Corinne Masiero
In 2009, armoured car driver Tony Musulin
made international headlines with a daring
bank robbery. How Musulin did it, and
why, forms the basis of this immensely
enjoyable crime thriller, in which the
strait-laced Musulin – played with superb
stone-faced gravitas by Intouchables star
François Cluzet – becomes increasingly
frustrated by the penny-pinching tactics of
his corporate employers. This is no mere
Robin Hood story, however, and Philippe
Godeau’s handsome, sleekly tantalising
slow-feed heist story soon opens out in
unexpected ways.
Thu 17 Oct
Thrill
6.30pm
Abuse of
Weakness
Abus de faiblesse
Catherine Breillat, with Isabelle Huppert,
Kool Shen, Laurence Ursino | cert. tbc | in
Isabelle Huppert plays director Maud who,
partly paralysed, chooses an unlikely lead
actor – Vilko – for her next project, an
inveterate con man turned literary star.
The pair’s relationship becomes a fraught
battle for control as Maud finds herself in
thrall to Vilko, writing endless cheques to
fund his lifestyle. Breillat leaves the viewer
to determine whether Maud truly is weak
or whether the exploitation she willingly
undergoes is her way of exercising power
and control.
Thu 17 Oct
9.00pm
Official Competition
Suzanne
Bends
France/Belgium | 2013 | col | 94 mins
dir. Katell Quillévéré, with Sara Forestier,
François Damiens, Adèle Haenel | cert.
tbc | in French with English subtitles
Hong Kong | 2013 | col | 92 mins | dir.
Flora Lau, with Carina Lau, Chen Kun
Suzanne isn’t just the subject but also
the troublesome centre of this ambitious
and fascinatingly slippery family drama.
Over several years the film follows the
lives of Suzanne and her younger sister
Maria, daughters of a widowed lorry driver.
Constantly surprising, the film makes a
series of unexpected leaps in time, all the
better to remind us that real life never
follows a straight narrative path. Terrifically
performed, and written and directed with
mesmerising confidence, Suzanne brings a
poetry and fierce intelligence to the French
cinema of everyday intimacy.
Fri 18 Oct
Love
6.30pm
Flora Lau’s debut feature is a beautifully
formed, subtle film that focuses on the
lives of two people with very different
prospects – a wealthy Hong Kong
woman and her mainland Chinese
chauffeur – both trying to cope with
life’s unexpected dramas. While their
daily routines intersect, their fates only
momentarily converge and Lau elegantly
critiques the social contradictions at play
by paralleling their predicaments rather
than constructing drama between the
two protagonists. Christopher Doyle’s (In
the Mood for Love) cinematography lucidly
captures the Hong Kong/Shenzhen border
setting.
Fri 18 Oct
Journey
9.00pm
17
18
The Kids from the The Ravine of
Port
Goodbye
Los chicos del puerto
Spain | 2013 | col | 78 mins | dir. Alberto
Morais, with Omar Krim, Blanca Bautista,
Mikel Sarasa | cert. 12A | in Spanish with
English subtitles
Sayonara Keikoku
Japan | 2013 | col | 117 mins | dir.
Tatsushi Omori, with Yoko Maki, Shima
Onishi, Mayu Tsuruta | cert. tbc | in
Japanese with English subtitles
Alberto Morais’ second feature offers a
telling take on contemporary Spain, as
seen through the eyes of his teenage
protagonist Miguel as he roams the
streets with his two close friends Lola and
Guillermo. When his elderly grandfather,
kept under lock and key in the family
home, finds he cannot attend an old
friend’s funeral, he asks Miguel to take
his place. So begins a journey that takes
Miguel, Lola and Guillermo both into the
past and through a suburban landscape.
Tatsushi Omori’s breakthrough film starts
with the arrest of a mother suspected of
killing her child, but the focus is on her
neighbours, Shunsuke Ozaki and his wife
Kanako. There’s a rumour that Ozaki
had an affair with the arrested woman.
It turns out that Ozaki has a black hole
in his past: as a student he was involved
in the gang rape of a young woman. But
what relevance could this history have to
present circumstances?
Sat 19 Oct
Family
1.00pm
Sat 19 Oct
Debate
3.30pm
La Paz
The Rooftops
Argentina | 2013 | col | 73 mins | dir.
Santiago Loza, with Lisandro Rodríguez,
Andrea Strenitz, Fidelia Batallanos
Michel | cert. tbc | in Spanish with English
subtitles
Es-Stouh
France/Algeria | 2013 | col | 92 mins
dir. Merzak Allouache, with Nassima
Belmihoub, Ahcene Benzerari | cert. tbc
Liso has recently been released from a
psychiatric clinic. He is vulnerable and
insecure, but is trying to adapt to life
back at home. His overbearing mother
and his distant father offer one model of
family life, while his grandmother and
the family’s Bolivian servant present an
alternative vision. Encounters with two exgirlfriends suggest possible violence and,
certainly, unpredictable behaviour, but the
film refuses to pass any kind of judgement
on Liso. Rather, the focus is on showing
this young man trying to make some kind
of sense of his life.
Algerian filmmaker Merzak Allouache
continues his creative purple patch with
The Rooftops, a vividly drawn portrayal of
a day in the life of his native capital city
Algiers. Allouache employs an ingenious
structure by focusing on five iconic
rooftops set across the five different daily
Muslim calls to prayer. Setting all the
action above the bustling streets allows
Allouache to subvert the usual sense of
claustrophobia and urban confinement
and instead to paint Algeria’s myriad civil
tensions against a seemingly clear sky.
Sat 19 Oct
Dare
6.30pm
Sat 19 Oct
Debate
8.45pm
The Last of the
Unjust
France/Austria | 2013 | b&w | 218 mins
dir. Claude Lanzmann | doc | cert. tbc
In French, German & English, with
English subtitles
Salvo
Italy | 2013 | col | 105 mins | dir. Fabio
Grassadonia, with Saleh Bakri, Sara
Serraiocco, Luigi Lo Cascio | cert. tbc | in
Italian with English subtitles
In 1975 Claude Lanzmann interviewed
Benjamin Murmelstein. Aged 70 and
living in exile in Rome, Murmelstein
was the only surviving ‘Jewish Elder’
appointed by the Nazis to run the ghetto
camp at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia.
Condemned after the war as a
collaborator, Murmelstein explains, the
terrible accommodation he had to strike
with a murderous regime. In this new
documentary, Lanzmann shows the
same unblinking, sorrowful precision that
marked Shoah.
An intelligent, distinctive spin on the
gangster thriller, Salvo is already an
award-winning film, that received the
Semaine de la Critique top prize at this
year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film
begins, explosively, albeit traditionally,
when a Mafia hitman (the eponymous
‘hero’ Salvo himself) is ambushed and
decides to seek murderous revenge on
the Sicilian boss who has ordered his
assassination. In the process of executing
his enemy, Salvo is confronted by Rita,
a young, apparently blind, girl whom
he cannot face killing so instead takes
hostage.
Sun 20 Oct
Sun 20 Oct
Debate
12.00pm
4.30pm
First Feature Competition
A Long and Happy Stranger by the
Life
Lake
Dolgaya Schastlivaya Zhizn
Russia | 2013 | col | 77 mins | dir. Boris
Khlebnikov, with Aleksandr Yatsenko,
Anna Kotova, Vladimir Korobeynikov
cert. tbc | in Russian with English
subtitles
France | 2013 | col | 97 mins | dir. Alain
Guiraudie, with Pierre Deladonchamps,
Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao
Khlebnikov conceived his seventh film as
a Russian take on High Noon. Khlebnikov’s
Wild West is a Russian village on the
Tersky coast, where former city-boy Sasha
employs a small group of locals to work
his land. When his local council’s corrupt
development plans mean he has to sell
up, his initial anger turns to acquiescent
defeat. But after an act of betrayal sparks
a sudden disbandment, Sasha is forced to
engineer his own solo showdown.
In the picturesque locales of southern
France, a handsome romantic named
Franck frequents his local cruising spot
each day. Franck’s sexual interest is piqued
by the mysterious Michel, but Franck’s
desire turns to unease when, late one
night, he witnesses an act of violence and
finds himself drawn into an enticing web
of danger that could put his life in jeopardy.
Alain Guiraudie’s enigmatic meditation on
love, sex and murderous desire is a deeply
unconventional thriller distinguished by a
deceptive and hypnotic tranquillity.
Sun 20 Oct
Sun 20 Oct
Dare
7.00pm
Galas
9.00pm
19
20
Ciné Lumière French Film Festival
Attila Marcel
Lola
France | 2013 | col | 106 mins | dir. Sylvain Chomet,
with Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny, Hélène Vincent,
Bernadette Lafont | cert. tbc | in French with English
subtitles
France | 1961 | col | 85 mins | dir. Jacques Demy, with
Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott,
Elina Labourdette | cert. 15 | in French with English
subtitles | restored print
The passing of New Wave muse Bernadette Lafont is
marked with screenings of Attila Marcel and Paulette,
and Daniel Auteuil returns to London in person with
his latest Pagnol adaptations (Marius and Fanny). There
are romantic hits such as Love is in the Air with Ludivine
Sagnier, Jean-Pierre Améris' adaptation of Victor Hugo's
The Man Who Laughs (shown in his presence), and the
auspicious debut of Louis Malle's daughter Justine. To
cap it all watch out for the much anticipated final part of
the Pot Luck (L'Auberge espagnole) trilogy Chinese Puzzle
from Cédric Klapisch - and so much more.
This first live action feature from Belleville Rendez-Vous
director Sylvain Chomet is a charming comedy full of
wry humanism and musical interludes. Guillaume Gouix
plays Paul, a sweet man-child who lost his memory
and the ability to speak when he witnessed the death
of his parents at a very young age. Now 33, he still lives
with his two eccentric aunts..Paul leads a monotonous
life until his upstairs neighbour offers him a concoction
that unlocks repressed memories. With nods to Buster
Keaton and Jacques Tati, Chomet's graceful feature
is a whimsical comedy about time passing, memories
recalled, and the ephemeral beauty of life.
Jacques Demy's debut feature is a bittersweet ode to
first love and missed opportunities. Beautifully shot by
Raoul Coutard (shortly after his work on Breathless)
in widescreen and luminous black and white, the film
stars a radiant Anouk Aimée, a cabaret-dancer forced
to choose between a trio of lovers. Rediscover Demy's
masterpiece in a newly restored version.
www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk
Opening night
The 21st French Film Festival UK comes to Ciné
Lumière from 7 to 21 November with many delights in
store, including the UK premiere of Sylvain Chomet's
charming new offering Attila Marcel, special close-ups
on the revered Maurice Pialat and the madcap Louis de
Funès, the beautifully restored version of Jacques Demy's
Lola, and Tavernier's Life and Nothing But, as chosen by
eminent critic Philip French.
Thu 7 Nov
8.40pm | £12, conc. £10
In the presence of director Sylvain Chomet, actor
Guillaume Gouix and producer Claudie Ossard (tbc)
Fri 15 Nov
8.30pm | £12, conc. £10
Followed by a Q&A with Anouk Aimée
The film has been restored by Ciné-Tamaris, the
Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage and
Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema
Photo © 2012 Ciné-Tamaris
– Fondation Groupama Gan –
Fondation Technicolor
Jappeloup
Paulette
A Lady in Paris
France | 2013 | col | 130 mins | dir. Christian Duguay,
with Guillaume Canet, Daniel Auteuil, Marina Hands
cert. 12A | in French with English subtitles
France | 2013 | col | 87 mins | dir. Jérôme Enrico, with
Carmen Maura, Bernadette Lafont and Dominique
Lavanant | cert. 15 | in French with English subtitles
Written by and starring Guillaume Canet, this polished
period drama is a moving account of the titular French
show jumper’s rise from underdog to Olympic champion.
Loosely based on Karine Devilder’s non-fiction account
Crin Noir, as well as on events from Canet’s own
biography, this French Seabiscuit follows the rise to fame
of cavalier Pierre Durand and his steed, Jappeloup.
Paulette, played by former Nouvelle Vague muse the late
Bernadette Lafont, lives alone in a housing project in the
Paris suburbs. She struggles to make ends meet on her
meagre pension. Since everyone around her appears to
be making easy money by dealing in drugs, she decides
to start selling cannabis. By combining her flair for
commerce with her skill as a cook, she soon manages to
make a success of her new venture, but she has tough
competition…
Une Estonienne à Paris
France | 2012 | col | 94 mins | dir. Ilmar Raag, with
Jeanne Moreau, Laine Magi, Patrick Pineau | cert. 15 | in
Wed 13 Nov
Food & wine tasting: 7.00pm | film: 8.40pm
£12, conc. £10
Preceded by a tasting of Dordogne food and wine,
courtesy of The Dordogne Departmental Council.
Jappeloup was shot in the Dordogne in 2011 with the support
of the Dordogne Film Fund.
Fri 15 Nov
Sun 17 Nov
6.15pm
8.30pm
With tongue-in-cheek charm, A Lady in Paris is an
intimate comedic portrait of two very different women.
Anne (Laine Mägi) is provincial and comes from Estonia.
She is hired to take care of wealthy Frida (Jeanne Moreau)
by Frida's much younger former lover Stéphane. Frida
doesn't want any help from mousey Anne, but Stéphane
is desperate for Anne to stay and look after her, even
against the old lady's will. In this conflict of strangers,
they find their own ways to come together. A moving and
elegant film about age, character, loss, and love.
Tue 12 Nov
8.40pm
21
22
De Funès Forever
Jeunesse
The Man Who Laughs
France | 2013 | col | 90 mins | dirs. Gregory Monro
and Catherine Benazeth, with Louis de Funès, Jamel
Debbouze, Alexandre Astier | doc | cert. tbc | in French
France | 2013 | col | 75 mins | dir. Justine Malle, with
Esther Garrel, Didier Bezace, Emile Bertherat | cert. tbc
L’Homme qui rit
France | 2012 | col | 93 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Améris,
with Gérard Depardieu, Christa Théret, Marc-André
Girondin, Emmanuelle Seigner | cert. 15 | in French with
English subtitles
De Funès Forever is the engaging portrait of a multitalented man whose only wish was "to make adults
laugh as much as children." Louis de Funès not only kept
France laughing during his 40-year career but his fan
base continues to exist today all over the world. As only
a great comedian can, he had the talent to make people
laugh about the serious or the tragic of human life, and
even turn those subjects into comedy classics. Known
as 'the man with 40 faces a minute', Louis de Funès is
remembered in this documentary by his collaborators,
his family and especially by those comedians, among the
most successful today, who were inspired by him to go
into comedy.
Sat 16 Nov
2.00pm
From the daughter of legendary French auteur Louis
Malle, Youth is an affectionate, sincere and occasionally
endearing memoir of the last summer in her father's life,
and a tribute to the French New Wave. This tender feature
centres on a slightly fictionalised version of Justine Malle,
twenty-year-old Juliette (interpreted by Esther Garrel,
daughter of Philippe Garrel and sister of Louis Garrel)
who tries to maintain good grades while falling for a
selfish intellectual, and is caught up in the woes of youth.
As she stumbles on her way to adulthood, her father
is diagnosed with a fatal degenerative disease. Though
there may be a death at the center of it, Youth is ultimately
about finding something to live for.
Sat 16 Nov
4.15pm
From the director of Romantics Anonymous comes a
gloriously theatrical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic
novel, The Man Who Laughs. Gwynplaine has a scar on his
face, giving him a kind of permanent smile. Abandoned by
the Comprachicos, who had kidnapped and slashed his
face a few years earlier, he is taken in by Ursus together
with a beautiful blind girl, Déa. They move from village to
village, performing a show whose star is the now grownup Gwynplaine, until they discover that he is the heir to a
large and noble family. Giddy with this sudden wealth and
the carnal passions of a duchess, he distances himself
from the only two people who have ever loved him for
what he is.
Sat 16 Nov
6.15pm | £12, conc. £10
Followed by a Q&A with director Jean-Pierre Améris
Love Is in the Air
Le Démantèlement Loulou
Amour & turbulences
Alexandre Castagnetti, with Ludivine
Sagnier, Nicolas Bedos, Jonathan Cohen
cert. U | in French with English subtitles
Sebastian Pilote, with Gabriel Arcand,
Lucie Laurier, Sophie Desmarais, Gilles
Renaud, Dominique Leduc | cert. 15 | in
On her way back from New York to Paris,
where she's soon to be married, Julie
finds herself sitting next to Antoine, an
attractive cad whom she dated 3 years
earlier. She'll do everything she can to
avoid him, whereas he's counting on
the 7-hour flight to win her back! It's an
opportunity for us to travel back in time
and witness their encounter, their love
affair, their break-up...
An elegantly simple family farming drama,
Le Démantèlement is a pastoral tale about
the end of an era. Gaby is a farmer, rearing
beautiful lambs on his family property, La
Ferme Gagnon. His two daughters, raised
like princesses, live far away in the big
city. When the eldest asks for money to
avoid the loss of her home, Gaby decides
to liquidate his beloved farm: the house,
the tools, the lambs and the land. Le
Démantèlement is a beautifully observed
narrative film, but more significantly it is
the heart-breaking record of a way of life
that is dissolving before our eyes.
Sat 16 Nov
8.40pm | £12, conc. £10
Followed by a Q&A with lead actress
Ludivine Sagnier (tbc)
In association with
Sun 17 Nov
6.15pm
Maurice Pialat, with Isabelle Huppert,
Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand
cert.18 | in French with English subtitles
Maurice Pialat's character study
eschews traditional plot development in
its examination of the power of sex and
passion to overturn class restrictions and
social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is
Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife,
married to possessive husband André
(Guy Marchand). When she meets street
thug Loulou (Gérard Depardieu), her
middle-class respectability is thrown
out the window and she leaves André
for Loulou. Loulou, who has no job and
resorts to robbery to survive, is more than
willing to live off Nelly's money. But André
won't give her up and, in the mind-set of a
middle-class bourgeois, tries to convince
her to return.
Sun 17 Nov
4.15pm
Life and Nothing
But
La Vie et rien d'autre
Bertrand Tavernier, with Philippe Noiret,
Sabine Azema, Frédéric Pierrot | cert. 15
Deemed a 'masterpiece' by Philip French,
Life and Nothing But is one of director
Bertrand Tavernier's most ambitious
films. Philipe Noiret portrays a French
major who is supervising the gruesome
task of counting and identifying the
corpses still strewn over the battlefield.
With this impressively photographed
anti-war epic, Tavernier examines the
emotional hurdles that separate rich from
poor, men from women, history from truth
and regret from hope.
Tue 19 Nov
6.15pm
Introduced by film critic Philip French
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The Other Son
Apaches
Tenderness
Henri
Le Fils de l’autre
Lorraine Lévy, with Jules Sitruk, Mehdi
Dehbi, Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé,
Areen Omari, Bruno Podalydès | cert. 15
France | 2013 | col | 82 mins | dir. Thierry
de Peretti, with Aziz El Hadachi, FrançoisJoseph Cullioli, Hamza Mezziani, Maryne
Cayon, Joseph-Marie Ebrard | cert. 15 | in
La Tendresse
France | 2013 | col | 81 mins | dir. Marion
Hansel, with Marilyne Canto, Olivier
Gourmet, Adrien Jolivet, Sergi Lopez |
cert. 15 | in French with English subtitles
Yolande Moreau, with Pippo Delbono,
Candy Ming, Jackie Berroyer | cert. 15
Screened at the Directors' Fortnight
strand of Cannes 2013, Thierry de Peretti's
film is a quietly engrossing tale of crime
and punishment. Loosely based on
real events, Apaches takes place at the
southern tip of the Mediterranean island
of Corsica, birthplace of the film’s director.
Full of hormones, half-naked pool parties
and rash teenage decisions, this sexy
adolescent thriller centres on the theft
of an antique double-barreled shotgun,
drawing the viewer into an ever-tightening
noose of creeping dread and impending
tragedy.
Marion Hansel's delicate and richly
sincere road movie is a magnificently
mature piece of work driven by thoughtful
and engaging performances by Marilyne
Canto and Olivier Gourmet. Separated
for 15 years, 50-somethings Frans and
Lisa immediately drop everything when
they hear news that their son Jack has
fractured his leg. They set off for the
day-long drive from Brussels. There is
little animosity between the two, but as
the journey commences, old irritations
and habits begin to surface. What do they
still feel for one another? Indifference,
rancour, jealousy? Or perhaps complicity,
friendship… and, who knows, love?
Lorraine Lévy's third feature is a moving,
emotionally concise human drama
played with warmth and convinction
by a cast including stars Emmanuelle
Devos and Pascal Elbé. As he prepares
to join the Israeli army for his national
service, Joseph discovers he is not his
parents’ biological son, but that he was
inadvertently switched at birth with Yassin,
the son of a Palestinian family from the
West Bank. This revelation turns the
lives of these two families upside-down,
forcing them to reassess their respective
identities, their values and their beliefs.
Tue 19 Nov
8.40pm
Wed 20 Nov
6.15pm
Wed 20 Nov
8.40pm
Popular Belgian actress Yolande Moreau's
Henri was the closing film of the Directors'
Fortnight at Cannes. Henri and his wife
Rita run a small restaurant on a side road
in Belgium. Henri drinks beer as he works
and drinks some more with his friends,
under his wife’s disapproving gaze. When
Rita dies suddenly of a brain aneurysm,
Henri's life is turned upside down, leaving
him all alone to run the restaurant. On
the advice of a friend, he hires Rosette, a
handicapped young girl. With her youth,
enthusiasm and singular way of seeing
the world, she will stir Henri and bring
him back to life.
Selection, Director's Fortnight, Cannes 2013
Thu 21 Nov
6.15pm
Ciné Lumière UK Iranian Film Festival
The Past
Meeting Leila
France | Iran | 2013 | col | 130 mins
dir. Asghar Farhadi, with Bérénice Bejo,
Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa | cert. tbc | in
French and Persian with English subtitles
Iran | 2012 | col | 88 mins | dir. Adel
Yaraghi, with Leila Hatami, Bahareh
Rahnama | cert. tbc | in Persian with
English subtitles
Asghar Farhadi returns with this subtle
and beautiful new film starring Bérénice
Béjo (The Artist) in a performance which
won her the Best Actress Award at this
year Cannes Festival. Following a four year
separation, Ahmad comes back to Paris
from Tehran, upon his French wife Marie’s
request, in order to finalise their divorce.
Ahmad discovers the conflicted nature of
Marie’s relationship with her daughter,
unveiling soon a secret from their past...
In part a romantic comedy, Meeting Leila
follows a young woman – a perfume tester
with an acute sense of smell – who tries
to persuade her fiancé, Nader, to quit
smoking before their marriage. Kicking
this habit proves extremely challenging
for Nader, because he works as an
advertising agency’s 'idea man', and
because he believes smoking has become
inextricably linked to his creative thought
process. The film takes us through
Nader's gently comical struggles while
providimg a charmingly honest look at the
compromises and negotiations required in
any relationship.
Opening night
Fri 1 Nov
8.50pm | £15, conc. £12
www.ukiff.org.uk
Sat 2 Nov
4.30pm | £12, conc. £10
The Snow on the
Pines
Iran | 2013 | col | 97 mins | dir. Payman
Maadi, with Saber Abbar, Mahnaz Afshar,
Vishka Asayesh, Bahare Riyahi | cert. tbc
in Persian with English subtitles
Having uncovered her husband’s shocking
secret, Roya, a piano teacher, realises
that her marriage has fallen into a
crisis. Burdened with this news, she
continues her life under new conditions.
In the meantime, however, she meets a
young musician who helps her to reach
a new understanding of life. This film’s
beautiful portrayal of Roya's hardship and
subsequent journey has been linked by
its director Payman Maadi to a childhood
experience of wintertime.
Sat 2 Nov
8.50pm | £12, conc. £10
Nowhere Nobody
Iran | 2012 | col | 93 mins | dir. Ebrahim
Sheibani, with Saber Abar, Mahnaz
Afshar, Mohammadreza Fortutan, Babak
Karimi, Reza Kianian | cert. tbc | in
Persian with English subtitles
Nowhere Nobody tells a beautiful story of
interconnected characters who chase a
dream of happiness provided by money,
only to become more isolated and lose a
further sense of identity on their journey.
Mehran works as a cashier in a restaurant
and is stricken by the misery of his simple
life. Encouraged by his ex-wife Marjan,
he plans a robbery and a kidnapping,
and convinces his friend Davood, a pizza
maker who is similarly dissatisfied with
his life, to assist him. However, their plans
are threatened when Davood's wife, Yalda,
joins them on their journey...
Sun 3 Nov
8.50pm | £12, conc. £10
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Ciné Lumière UK Iranian Film Festival
I Am His Wife
Another Day
The Wedlock
Iran | 2012 | col | 100 mins | dir. Mostafa
Shayesteh, with Mitra Hajjar, Niki Karimi,
Maryam Shirazi | cert. tbc | in Persian
Iran | 2011 | col | 97 mins | dir. Hassan
Fathi, with Hedieh Tehrani | cert. tbc | in
Persian with English subtitles
Iran | 2013 | col | 82 mins | dir. Rouhollah
Hejazi, with Hami Farrokhnejad, Taraneh
Alidoosti, Hengameh Ghaziani, Payman
Ghasemkhani, Tarlan Parvaneh | cert. tbc
in Persian with English subtitles
An intense and powerful portrayal of an
Iranian family, a very personal exploration
of womanhood in post-revolutionary
Iran, this film deals with the trials of a
marriage, and at the most basic level, it
examines the lived experience of a young
and at times unhappy woman. The film
centres on this woman's marriage with
a nose surgeon, a deeply cynical and
cantankerous man. Upon discovering his
infidelity after twelve years of marriage,
she tries to take revenge on the cheating
husband by making him jealous of her
relationship with her first suitor.
Mon 4 Nov
8.50pm | £12, conc. £10
The loss of 7,000 euros, intended as rent
money for the young Siavash and his
mother, is a catalyst for charting a day in
the lives of intricately linked individuals
living in Paris. As the money, contained in
a brown envelope, unexpectedly passes
briefly through the hands of an array of
colourful characters, including an ex heavy
weight boxer, an illegal immigrant, a hit
man and the young Martha, compelling
use for the money is quickly established.
The film covers themes of loss, love,
loyalty, lost time, revenge and retribution,
all potentially solved, at least for the day,
by the use of the money to pay debts,
bribe, save and take lives, repent and buy
time. A thought provoking film, portraying
the raw complexities of life.
Fri 8 Nov
8.50pm | £12, conc. £10
Thoughtful, compelling and slickly shot,
The Wedlock is an exquisite and subtle
exploration of marriage in contemporary
Iran. Mansoor, Mohadeseh and their
fourteen-year-old daughter, Negin, appear
to be a normal Iranian urban family,
living by traditional values. However,
after Mohadeseh's trendy niece and her
husband arrive in a blur of fast cars,
cigarettes and Western music to remodel
their dated house, the family's domestic
stability is thrown into chaos. It is revealed
that nobody is quite as they seem, and
both couples must confront the secrets
and shames that have been lingering
under the surface of their marriages.
Sat 9 Nov
7.00pm | £12, conc. £10
The Shallow
Yellow Sky
Iran | 2013 | col | 80 mins | dir. Bahram
Tavakolli, with Mohammad-Reza
Azarang, Saber Abar, Sahar Dolatshahi,
Saied Changizian | cert. tbc | in Persian
This film tells the story of couple Ghazal
and Mehran whose relationship becomes
intensely complicated by her mental
breakdown after her entire family die in
car accident. No longer able to appreciate
beauty or to engage with reality without
fear, Ghazal seeks to protect a frozen
image of a time before the crash – at the
peak of beauty where she is reminded
of the poem The Shallow Yellow Sky. The
poem intertwines with the narrative,
drawing stunning poetic parallels
between nature and the couple's failing
relationship.
Sat 9 Nov
8.50pm | £12, conc. £10
Ciné Lumière UK Jewish Film Festival
Where We Grew
Up
Rue Mandar
France | 2012 | col | 95 mins | dir. Idit
Cebula, with Sandrine Kiberlain, Richard
Berry, Emmanuelle Devos | cert. tbc | in
Charles, Rosemonde and Emma, a
brother and two sisters, find themselves
back at their childhood home, in Paris,
after meeting up at an incredible funeral.
Drama, or farce, ensues, as a family who
don’t know how to express their feelings
for each other are forced to confront each
other again.
+ short Reflections
Tue 5 Nov
6.30pm
£15, con. £12
ukjewishfilm.org
Inheritance
Héritage
France/Israel/Turkey/ Palestine | 2012
col | 88 mins | dir. Hiam Abbass, with
Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass | cert. tbc | in
Arabic, English & Hebrew with English
This insightful drama offers a unique
glimpse into the lives and dilemmas facing
today’s Israeli Arabs. Against the backdrop
of Israel-Lebanon war, a family living in
an Israeli-Arab village in Northern Galilee
gathers to celebrate a family wedding. The
youngest daughter’s scandalous revelation
that she is in love with an Englishman
triggers an internal war that threatens to
tear the family apart.
It Happened in
Saint-Tropez
Des gens qui s’embrassent
Danièle Thompson, with Monica Bellucci,
Eric Elmosnino, Kad Merad | cert. tbc | in
+ short Scheherazade and the Kosher
Delight
Unashamedly romantic, this comedy of
manners begins with a family wedding
and funeral. Roni, a gauche, successful,
irreligious diamond dealer who lives
in the present, is the polar opposite to
brother Zef, a classical musician, cultured
and observant. Bound by their decrepit,
elderly father and beautiful daughters,
the family experiences fall-outs, fall-ins
and fall-overs. Danièle Thompson’s film
is a veritable chocolate box of familial
complications. Can the brother’s conflicts
be resolved, betrayals forgiven and illicit
loves let flourish?
Thu 7 Nov
Wed 13 Nov
Official Selection, Venice Festival 2012
6.30pm | £15, conc. £12
6.30pm | £15, conc. £12
The Great Dictator
USA | 1940 | b&w | 125 mins | dir. Charles
Chaplin, with Charles Chaplin, Jack
Oakie, Reginald Gardiner | cert. U | in
English & Esperanto
Charlie Chaplin's first talkie, made over
a decade after the introduction of sound,
stands as a brave and controversial piece
of filmmaking. Entering production in
1937, at a time when many Americans
saw Hitler as an ally rather than an enemy,
the film was first released in 1940, prior
to the United States' entry into the Second
World War.
Followed by Charlie Chaplin – From
Comedy to Politics, a discussion focusing
on The Great Dictator's political impact
across Europe including its influence
on French and British cinema. Panelists
include Ginette Vincendeau, professor of
film studies at King's College.
Thu 14 Nov
8.30pm | £10, conc. £8
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Ciné Lumière Film Africa
Portuguese Film Festival
The Virgin, the
Copts and Me...
Grigris
The Great Kilapy
They'll Come Back
France/Chad | 2013 | col | 101 mins
dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, with
Souleymane Démé, Anaïs Monory, Cyril
Guei | cert. tbc | in Arabic & French with
English subtitles
O Grande Kilapy
Portugal/Angola/Brazil | 2012 | col | 100
mins | dir. Zézé Gamboa, with Lázaro
Ramos, Pedro Hossi, João Lagarto | cert.
tbc | in Portuguese with English subtitles
Eles Voltam
Brazil | 2012 | col | 100 mins | dir. Marcelo
Lordello, with Maria Luiza Tavares,
Geórgio Kokkosi, Elayne de Moura | in
Portuguese with English subtitles
Charming, visually lush and consistently
surprising, Grigris is Haroun’s most
optimistic film to date. Despite his
paralysed leg, the eponymous hero (Démé)
dreams of being a dancer. What appears to
be the simple story of one man’s unlikely
achievement ultimately embodies an
utopian vision that reaches into a wider
discussion of the state of Africa.
Almost a decade after winning the Grand
Jury Prize at Sundance with The Hero,
Zézé Gamboa brings us a sardonic
historical drama about Joãozinho, a
good-hearted, apolitical con man who
pulls off a massive swindle at the expense
of the Portuguese colonial administration
the day before the Angolan independence
in the 70s. Soon after, he finds himself
hailed as a hero of the national liberation
struggle.
Lordello’s internationally acclaimed debut
feature follows the journey of an upper
middle class teenager, Cris, as she tries
to find her way back home in Recife after
being dropped off at a country road by her
parents. Mysteriously, her parents do not
come back for her. Best Film at Brazilia
Festival 2012 and Tiger Award nominee
at Rotterdam IFF 2013, They’ll Come Back
is a delicate tale on class, race and the
changing landscapes of Brazil.
Wed 27 Nov
Thu 28 Nov
La Vierge, les coptes et moi…
Egypt | 2011 | col | 85 mins | dir. Namir
Abdel Messeeh, with Siham Abdel
Messeeh, Namir Abdel Messeeh | cert.
tbc | in Arabic & French with English
This meditation on the roots of religious
faith and cultural heritage centers on the
French-Egyptian filmmaker’s journey to
Cairo to investigate the apparitions of the
Virgin Mary witnessed by his mother and
thousands of other Coptic Christians.
Finding a connection with his long-lost
relatives and their rural life, Messeeh
comes to a deeper understanding of the
ever-dwindling minority community to
which his family belongs.
Wed 6 Nov
6.30pm
www.filmafrica.org.uk
Winner of the Vulcan Award for Best
Cinematography, Cannes 2013
Closing night
Sun 10 Nov
6.15pm
Followed by a Q&A
6.20pm
Followed by a Q&A with dir. Zézé Gamboa
Curated by Filmville
www.filmville.org
6.20pm
Followed by a Q&A with dir. Marcelo
Lordello
Ciné Lumière Did You Miss It?
Hannah Arendt
Metro Manila
France/Germany | 2013 | col | 113 mins
dir. Margarethe von Trotta, with Barbara
Sukowa, Axel Milberg | cert. 12A | in
German with English subtitles
UK/Philippines | 2013 | col | 115 mins
dir. Sean Ellis, with Jake Macapagal,
Althea Vega, John Arcilla | cert. 15 | in
Tagalog with English subtitles
Barbara Sukowa reteams with director
Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new
biopic of influential German-Jewish
philosopher and political theorist Hannah
Arendt. Arendt's reporting on the 1961
trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The
New Yorker introduced her now-famous
concept of the 'Banality of Evil'. Using
footage from the actual Eichmann trial
and weaving a narrative that spans three
countries, von Trotta beautifully turns
the often invisible passion of thought into
immersive, dramatic cinema.
Part of the Official Selection of Sundance
Film Festival 2013, Sean Ellis's latest
feature is a poetic migrant drama that
gradually turns into an intense thriller.
Seeking a brighter future in megacity
Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family flee
their impoverished life in the rice fields of
the northern Philippines. But the capital’s
bustling intensity overwhelms them, and
they fall prey to the manipulations of its
hardened locals. Oscar is offered steady
work for an armoured truck company, but
soon, the reality of his work forces Oscar
to confront the perils he faces in his new
job and life.
Mon 21 Oct
Tue 22 Oct
Wed 23 Oct
Thu 24 Oct
Sat 26 Oct
6.15pm
8.40pm
3.00pm | 6.15pm
8.40pm
4.00pm
Mon 21 Oct
Tue 22 Oct
Thu 24 Oct
8.40pm
6.15pm
3.00pm
Nordic Festival
A Magnificent
Haunting
Italy | 2013 | col | 105 mins | dir. Ferzan
Özpetek, with Elio Germano, Margherita
Buy, Vittoria Puccini | cert. tbc | in Italian
Ferzan Özpetek, the director of the award
winning comedy Loose Cannons, returns
with A Magnificent Haunting, an exciting
tale of a young man whose life is turned
upside down when he overcomes his
deepest fears to help a ghostly group
break free of their eternal prison. 28-year
old Pietro has just moved to Rome with
a new job. When he finds a beautiful
apartment at a low rent because it is badly
in need of repair, he thinks he’s struck
lucky. However, objects start mysteriously
moving about and strange noises are
heard in seemingly empty rooms…
Wed 23 Oct
Thu 24 Oct
8.40pm
6.15pm
NWR
France | 2011 | col | 60 mins | dir. Laurent
Duroche, with Nicholas Winding Refn,
Ryan Gosling, Mads Mikkelsen, Alejandro
Jodorowsky | doc | cert. tbc | in English/
Danish/French with English & French
subtitles
Laurent Duroche offers a behind the
scenes insight into the world of the
controversial Danish filmmaker, Nicolas
Winding Refn, featuring in-depth
interviews with the two actors who have
almost become synonymous with Refn
himself, Mads Mikkelsen and Ryan
Gosling. Bursting onto the film scene
with Pusher, Drive, and Only God Forgives,
Refn talks of his inspirations and his own
personal journey in film.
Sat 30 Nov
6.00pm
www.day-for-night.org/
nordic-film-festival
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Ciné Lumière Sunday French Classics
Z
L'Horloger de Saint-Paul César et Rosalie
France/Algeria | 1969 | col | 127 mins | dir. CostaGavras, with Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis
Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François
Périer | cert. 15 | in French with English subtitles
France | 1974 | col | 105 mins | dir. Bertrand Tavernier,
with Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis
cert. PG | in French with English subtitles
France | 1972 | col | 110 mins | dir. Claude Sautet, with
Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey | cert. 12 | in
The first film from former film critic Bertrand Tavernier,
this moving story of a man forced to fight against the
press, public opinion and his friends on behalf of his
estranged son won a Special Jury Prize at Berlin in 1974.
Michel Descombes is a watchmaker, whose tranquil life
is shattered when he learns that his son is wanted for
murder. Michel must ask himself if his son's behavior is
the result of stifling under the bourgeois lifestyle that he
has always championed.
Claude Sautet's romantic drama César et Rosalie
stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful vivacious
young woman involved with a charming, successful
businessman called César (Yves Montand). He is crazy
about her and his exuberant vitality satisfies Rosalie’s
terrific lust for life. One day out of the blue Rosalie’s
old flame David appears, desperate to win back her
affections. César’s intense jealousy shocks Rosalie and
she ends up running into the arms of David and the pair
are separated. Rosalie however begins to doubt that she’s
made the right choice, until fate ends up deciding for her.
Set in an unnamed country, standing in for Greece of
the 1960s, Z is a great political thriller and an attack
on Greece under military dictatorship. Costa-Gavras'
masterpiece, co-written with Jorge Semprún, was
showered with prizes, including the Jury Prize at Cannes
and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Sun 6 Oct
2.00pm
Sun 27 Oct
2.00pm
Followed by a Ciné Salon
Sun 3 Nov
2.00pm
Ciné Lumière Sunday French Classics
La Gueule ouverte
La Folie des grandeurs
France | 1974 | col | 82 mins | dir. Maurice Pialat, with
Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard
cert. 12 | in French with English subtitles
France | 1971 | col | 108 mins | dir. Gérard Oury, with
Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch | cert. tbc
Few filmmakers could rival Maurice Pialat's facility for
transforming autobiographical material into the stuff of
Art, and his third feature-film, La Gueule ouverte, stands
as one of the director's most intensely personal and most
lacerating works. Monique Mélinand portrays a woman
in the late stages of terminal illness. She and her prone
body become the locus around which gather her son
Philippe, his wife Nathalie, and Monique's husband Roger.
In short order, Monique recedes into the background of
Philippe's and Roger's network of respective adulteries.
But as the final, crushingly eloquent succession of shots
starts to unreel, we are once more reminded that, in
the work of Maurice Pialat, that which seems absent
ultimately makes its presence felt with terrible force.
This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on
Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas, benefits greatly from having
Louis de Funès and Yves Montand in the roles of Saluste
and Blaze. Saluste is a nobleman who has been exiled
from court and sent to collect taxes in the countryside.
Blaze is his assistant, who manages to help the overtaxed
peasants behind his boss's back. When Saluste decides
to resume meddling in the monarch's affairs using Blaze
as his henchman, his schemes backfire badly.
Sun 10 Nov
2.00pm
As part of the French Film Festival
Sun 17 Nov
2.00pm
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Kids & Families French Tales Ciné Kids
Les Sorcières by
Pierre Gripari
Watch out for the witch from the rue
Mouffetard in Paris. Bats, bubbling
cauldrons, black cats, old books and magic
spells are all set for a time to remember!
Grab your broomstick and practice your
cackle for a fantastic adventure.
Kids Tale: Sat 12 Oct | 11.00am | Ages 3-5
Baby Tale: Sat 5 Oct, Sat 19 Oct
11.00am | Ages 0-3
45 mins | in (easy) French | £7, members
and kids £5, including a glass of juice
early reservation recommended
Les Contes du
chat perché by
Marcel Aymé
Put your clogs on and rediscover the
incredible adventures of Les Contes du chat
perché. Follow Delphine and Marinette into
a spiral of risky events including opening
the door of the family house, meeting Mr.
Wolf and rescuing a stag on the loose.
Kids Tale: Sat 16 Nov | 11.00am | Ages 3-5
Baby Tale: Sat 30 Nov | 11.00am | Ages 0-3
45 mins | in (easy) French | £7, members
and kids £5, including a glass of juice
early reservation recommended
Further dates for your diary include:
7 & 14 Dec
From Up on Poppy March of the
Hill
Penguins
Japan | 2011 | col | 91 mins | dir. Goro
Miyazaki | cert. U | in English | 6+
From Academy Award winner Hayao
Miyazaki and director Goro Miyazaki
comes this uniquely inspired coming-ofage story. Set in Yokohama in 1963, the
film centers on Umi and Shun, two high
school kids caught up in the changing
times. But a buried secret from their past
emerges to cast a shadow on the future
and pull them apart....
Sat 5 Oct
11.00am | £5
La Marche de l’empereur
France | 2005 | 80 mins | dir. Luc Jacquet
cert. U | in English | 6+
This award-winning documentary tells the
extraordinary story of Emperor penguins
during their annual journey where
they find love, experience dangerous
adventures and prove their bravery in one
of the most remote parts of the world: the
Antarctica.
Sat 26 Oct
11.00am | £5
Kids & Families Ciné Kids | South Ken Kids Festival
La Sorcière dans
les airs
The King & the
Mockingbird
Room on the Broom
UK | 2012 | 45 mins | dirs. Jan Lachauer,
Max Lang | cert. U | in French | 4+
Le Roi et l’oiseau
France | 1980 | 83 mins | dir. Paul
Grimault | cert. tbc | restored print | in
French with English subtitles | 3+
From bestselling author Julia Donaldson
and illustrator Axel Scheffler comes a
story about a kind witch who invites a
surprising collection of animals to join
her on her broom. The gang ultimately
saves the witch from a fearsome dragon,
and in gratitude she rewards them with a
magnificent new broom which has room
for everyone.
Screening with two animated shorts
(Juste un petit peu and Un Jour merveilleux)
Sat 23 Nov
10.00am | £5
Based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian
Andersen and written by Jacques Prévert,
the Prix Louis Delluc-winning Le Roi et
l’oiseau is regarded as a masterpiece
of French animation. The hated king is
in love with the painting of a beautiful
shepherdess, but when she runs away
with the chimney sweep from another
painting, a wild chase across frames
ensues...
Sun 24 Nov
10.00am | £8, conc. £6
My Mommy is in
America and She
Met Buffalo Bill
Aya de Yopougon
Ma maman est en Amérique, elle a
rencontré Buffalo Bill
France | 2013 | 75 mins | dirs. Marc
Boreal, Thibaut Chatel | cert. tbc | in
Adapted from the popular comic book
series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément
Oubrerie, Aya follows the adventures of a
19-year-old girl living in Yopougon, Ivory
Coast, at the end of the 1970s. Aya is a
serious girl who works hard and never gets
in trouble, but when she accidentally falls
pregnant, her life is turned upside down...
Based on Jean Regnaud and Emile Bravo's
touching picture book, this film follows
Jean, a six-year-old boy who has just
started primary school. When the teacher
asks the students what their parents do, he
panics and says his mother is a secretary.
But actually, she travels around the world
and sends him postcards. Unless the reality
is quite different – which he soon starts to
discover...
Sun 24 Nov
France | 2013 | 84 mins | dirs. Marguerite
Abouet, Clément Oubrerie | cert. tbc | in
Sun 24 Nov
4.00pm | £8, conc. £6
2.00pm | £8, conc. £6
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The Line-Up
Competition
Do you love drawing and telling stories? Here’s
your chance to shine with our nationwide contest in
partnership with Eurostar… and to win amazing prizes!
All you need to do is create an illustrated book about your
adventures aboard a magical train. What would you do?
Where would you go? Would it take you to the centre of
the Earth, or to faraway galaxies? Would it enable you
to go with your friends on a wonderful journey to distant
lands filled with strange creatures and scary monsters?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, take out your best
book signing pens, your first-class workshop markers,
and your favourite dance-with-joy shoes, because the
South Ken Kids Festival is just around the corner!
All participants – as well as their supporters – are invited
to join us for the prize ceremony on Friday 22 November
at 5.00pm to find out the nominees… and the glorious
winners!
From 18 to 24 November, families can explore the
wonders of children's literature and learn and play the
whole day away!
Please visit
our website for
full details of the
programme, to book
an event, or to enter
our competition: www.
southkenkidsfestival.
co.uk
Check out what our guests said about us…
'The South Ken festival is one of my favourite literary
events and I always find it inspiring both to attend
and to take part in.' Lauren Child
'I enjoyed my visit at the French Institute, as I have always
enjoyed my visits there. Would I go again? Mais oui!'
Tony Ross
'The South Ken Kids Festival: original, so friendly and
welcoming – I love it!' Joann Sfar
The best and brightest children's authors and illustrators
from France and the UK will descend on the Institut
français for a flurry of events including workshops,
drawing duos and once-in-a-lifetime experiences:
Nicholas Allan (The Queen’s Knickers), Marion Billet
(Whizzy Wheels: London Bus), Quentin Blake, Claudia Boldt
(Melvin the Luckiest Monkey), Lucille Clerc (Flip Fashion),
Philippe Dumas (Odette: A Springtime in Paris), Roland
Garrigue (How to Outwit Witches), Debi Gliori (No Matter
What), Christian Heinrich & Christian Jolibois (Les P’tites
Poules), Ben Newman (Professor Astro Cat), Anne Plichota
& Cendrine Wolf (Oksa Pollock), Chris Riddell (Ottoline),
and Mathieu Sapin (Akissi).
Special Treats
For Schools
Have you ever wished you knew how to draw like your
favourite author? Come and learn how to sketch out
Christian Heinrich’s chicks, design the building of your
dreams with Lucille Clerc, explore astrophysics with
Ben Newman, draw some scary characters with Debi
Gliori and indulge in a magical Christmas mood with
Nicholas Allan. Other highlights include the Drawing
Duo with Rolland Guarrigue and Nicholas Allan, Chris
Riddell talking about his latest book and Anne Plichota &
Cendrine Wolf unveiling Oksa’s secrets… not to forget our
amazing ‘Create your own ebook’ workshop!
Who says the South Ken Kids Festival is only for South
Ken? Last year, we worked with more than 30 schools all
across London, from nursery to secondary. And for this
year’s edition, we’ve expanded our offer with five days of
workshops, films and interactive events! Whether you’d
like to have an artist visit your school or take your class
on a trip to the Institut français, we have the right option
for you. So why not treat your pupils by booking one of our
fun and educational activities?
And this year, we are also happy to present worldclass pianist Karol Beffa who will juggle with crochets
and triplets during Impro!, our live drawing and piano
improvisation event! What happens when a musician and
five illustrators draw and play to their hearts' content on
stage?
Animation
Our film programme will make you discover new worlds
and go on epic adventures. Travel to Africa with the
wonderful Aya de Yopougon based on Marguerite Abouet
and Clément Oubrerie’s celebrated comic book series.
See a touching and tender portrayal of childhood and
loss with My Mommy Is in America and She Met Buffalo
Bill, based on Jean Regnaud and Emile Bravo’s touching
picture book. You can also rediscover a timeless classic,
The King and the Mockingbird, in a restored print, and take
to the sky with the adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel
Scheffler’s Room on the Broom!
From Monday 18 to Friday 22 November, 12 renowned
authors and illustrators will give workshops in London
schools: Nicholas Allan, Marion Billet, Claudia Boldt,
Lucille Clerc, Roland Garrigue, Debi Gliori, Ben
Newman, Christian Heinrich, Christian Jolibois, Anne
Plichota & Cendrine Wolf, and Mathieu Sapin. The artists
will draw with the children, tell them about their work,
and introduce them to the creative process of writing or
illustrating a book.
Contact Thuy An To for booking: 020 7073 1345 or
bdl@institutfrancais.org.uk. For more information,
download the schools programme at
www.southkenkidsfestival.co.uk
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Talks
Reading Group
We specialise in French literature, but with an English
twist. Our meetings are held in our prestigious listed
library and are guided by specialised academics. Our
new season brings French classics which have also been
adapted to cinema, which you can discuss whilst sipping
a glass of wine.
Thur 10 Oct
Thur 14 Nov
Barbara Wright:
Translation as Art
7.00pm – 8.30pm | in English and (easy) French
£5, members £3, including a glass of wine courtesy of Vini
Italiani
Participants are entitled to a 5% discount on listed
classics at La Page and to a 10% discount at Vini Italiani
(on presentation of the Reading group ticket)
The evening will present several aspects of Barbara
Wright’s work, and readings by John Phillips and actors
from The Godot Company of some of her translations,
including Queneau’s Exercises in Style, and Pinget’s 15 rue
des Lilas.
Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical
issues in an informal setting, the Institut's Café Philo
meets every Saturday.
6.30pm | preceded by a cocktail
free but booking essential:
H.Scott@westminster.ac.uk
www.institut-francais.org.uk
020 7871 3545
Tartuffe by Molière (1664)
Candide by Voltaire (1759) | Chair: Dr
Adriana Bontea, University of Oxford
The book and the evening pay tribute to Barbara Wright’s
extraordinary achievements in translating Jarry, Queneau,
Sarraute, Pinget and many others who will remain
landmarks of the European literary scene. Edited by
Madeleine Renouard and Debra Kelly, published by Dalkey
Archive Press, the book’s 400 pages include publication of
scholarly studies presented at the colloquium devoted to
Barbara Wright at Birkbeck College, University of London,
and at the Institut français in London, in 2010.
Tue 22 Oct
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Café Philo
Sat 5, 19 Oct, 2, 16 Nov | in English
Sat 12, 26 Oct, 9, 30 Nov | in French
10.30am to 12.15pm | £2
contact: cmichel@cmichel.com
illustration by Charlotte du Jour
French Courses
Courses in
Kentish Town
Living in North London and dreaming of
French? Our new annex in Kentish Town
will open on 5 October and will give north
Londoners the opportunity to enjoy the
flexibility, professionalism and years of
experience that have been available in
South Kensington for over a century.
Join our 30 minute taster classes and
meet our team during our special Open
Day on 5 October from 10.00am to 1.00pm.
For more information about our new
course centre and to book your place,
please call us on 020 7871 3539 or check
our website.
Group Courses
Skype Tuition
Young Learners
Did you miss the September registration
deadline? No need to panic as you are still
in time to register for the October term!
Now's your chance to learn French or to
brush up and make progress with our
highly qualified teachers.
From just one lesson to a whole course,
our Skype tuition makes French learning
accessible to everyone. Your one-toone Skype lessons are conducted by
one of our qualified and highly trained
professionals teachers – so you can enjoy
the convenience of online learning without
compromising on quality. Work on your
listening, speaking, writing and reading
skills with a wide range of activities, and
make progress between lessons with the
coursework assigned to you.
Thinking of helping your child prepare
for exams? We offer revision courses or
remedial tuition for GCSE, AS or A-Level
examinations. Kids and teens on our
revision courses go on to achieve excellent
results at their GCSE, AS or A-Levels as
our teachers encourage them to gain
confidence in French and help them to
make progress where they most need it.
The ideal way to maximise their chances is
to join our next Saturday morning session
starting on 5 October!
With our Skype courses, you can learn
from the comfort of your own home, while
enjoying the professionalism and support
that you can expect from the Institut
français.
Start anytime during the year | £300 for
30 hours over 10 weeks
Our new half day and twice a week
courses start from 7 October. Don't wait
any longer and call us now for a free
assessment.
£295 for 30 hours
Start anytime during the year | from
£40/h
Call us to book a free assessment and
find the right course for you!
Language Centre at the Institut français
020 7871 3535
language-centre@institutfrancais.org.uk
www.institut-francais.org.uk/courses
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La Médiathèque
Get Digitalized at
La Médiathèque
Today, we are proud to offer in our children's and adults
libraries a rich collection of 45,000 physical documents
(including books, DVDs, CD-ROMs, audiobooks) in French
or about French culture. And that's not all! Did you
know that you can also discover more with our online
resources?
Europresse: over 1500 French and international
newspapers, for free!
This free online service offers you to browse and
download thousands of newspapers and magazines.
From Le Monde to L'Express, to specialized magazines
such as Sciences et Vie, there is definitely something for
everyone, including teens.
Culturetheque.org.uk: over 16,000 free resources
Our digital platform gathers thousands of online
resources, all organized in 4 sections: READ, WATCH,
LEARN, LISTEN.
We have videos, ebooks, MP3, audiobooks and French
learning tools. To browse the full content, please sign up
for free and log in every time you visit Culturethèque.
Don't forget to have a look at our blog, newsletter and
Facebook and Twitter accounts for the latest updates!
New Arrivals
New CDs and DVDs
La Confrérie des chasseurs de livres
Raphaël Jerusalmy, 2013, book
Poet François Villon is on a secret mission to convince a
bookseller and printer of Mayence to set up in Paris to
fight censorship and help progressive ideas.
Les Saveurs du palais
Christian Vincent, 2012, DVD, subtitled in French
Christian Vincent tells us the story of Hortense Laborie, a
famous French chef who prepares the French President's
meals.
Immortelles
Laure Adler, 2013, book
This novel deals with youth, hopes, illusions, vagaries and
love at first sight. It's also a beautiful tribute to feminine
friendship.
L'Homme qui rit
Jean-Pierre Améris, 2012, DVD, subtitled in French
The director of the Romantic Anonymous is back with the
adaptation of Victor Hugo's famous novel.
The Knot of Vipers
François Mauriac, 1932, book
Monsieur Louis writes a journal to explain to his family
and to himself why his soul has been deformed, why his
heart appears like a foul nest of twisted serpents.
French in three months: Your essential guide to
understanding and speaking French: Niveau A1
Dorling Kindersley, 2008, book and CD
This guide is aimed at beginners who want to learn
essential French grammar, vocabulary, key phrases and
model sentences.
Le Jour des corneilles
Jean-Christophe Dessaint, 2012, DVD, subtitled in
French
The story of Courge, who is forced to disobey his father
and goes beyond the forest right into the nearest village.
He meets the young Manon who will accompany him in
his adventures.
Zoom
Rachid Taha, 2013, CD
In his latest solo album, the ninth of his 30-year long
career, French-Algerian star of rock'n'raï Rachid Taha
delivers his usual eclectic mix of musical influences.
Culturetheque.org.uk
La Rentrée Littéraire...
Online!
C'est parti for the new season of book releases in France.
We have hand-picked a selection of 30 novels for your
reading pleasure. As always, Culturethèque is free for UK
residents and these books are available to download in
ePub and PDF formats.
Don't know where to start? We recommend:
La Nostalgie heureuse by Amélie Nothomb: The trials and
tribulations of living in Japan as a European.
Immortelles by Laure Adler: Recollections of lost
memories on a hot summer evening.
Une rançon by David Malouf: A re-interpretation of the
ancient Greek poem The Iliad.
culturetheque.org.uk > Read
Any questions?
Email us at: culturetheque@institutfrancais.org.uk
Culturethèque remains free for all UK residents:
www.culturetheque.org.uk
Read Online
For the Kids
Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras
Jules Verne, 1864, eBook
A beautifully illustrated edition of Verne’s classic. Follow
Captain Hatteras on an expedition to the North Pole.
culturetheque.org.uk > Read > Classics
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943, eBook
A pilot crashes in the middle of a desert. His only hope for
survival is to follow the wise words of a little prince.
culturetheque.org.uk > Read > Children
Le Département de musique
Joyce Carol Oates, 2013, eBook
Maggie, a musician in Connecticut, organises
a mysterious evening for her famous friends.
culturetheque.org.uk > Read > Contemporary Fiction
Ariol : Bisbille fait mouche
Emmanuel Guibert, 2009, eBook
A charming and colourful comic book about the
adventures of Ariol: a curious little animal who has many
friends.
Lescop
Artist page, 2013
Read a short biography and listen to Lescop’s music
which tells a story about past experiences, dreams and
the "what if…" feeling.
culturetheque.org.uk > Listen > Music
Getting Started with Primary French
Catherine Cheater and Yves Letournel, 2013, blog
Free resources for teachers all over the UK. In
association with Network for Languages and the
Association for Language Learning.
culturetheque.org.uk > Blog
Bouh !
Christine Palluy, 2005, eBook
Marilou comes across a huge wolf. Despite being very
scared, she pretends to stay confident and tries to act like
a grown-up.
Bravo les amis !
Edouard Manceau, 2007, eBook
A story about friendship and sharing. Capucine has
bought gifts for all her friends, but what should she give
to whom?
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We Recommend
Music
OohLaLA! Le Festival
-M-
EFG London Jazz Festival
Mathieu Chedid returns to London for
his biggest show to date in the UK. The
explosive showman will play songs
from his 6th studio album, Ïl, which is
undoubtedly his most rock-spirited to date.
The London Jazz Festival returns with
established artists and rising stars: Tigran,
Jacky Terrason, Guillaume Perret, Cecile
Bonacina, Ballaké Sissoko and many more.
www.labo-m-music.com
14 Oct
Roundhouse
Charles Aznavour
Aznavour, still working at the age of nearly
90, comes to London for the first time in
25 years. The French-Armenian star has
written and performed some of the most
famous songs in the French language.
www.charlesaznavour-lesite.fr
25 Oct
Royal Albert Hall
Irie Révoltés
Mixing reggae, ska, rap and punk, the
band hails from Heidelberg in Germany
but mixes languages, sometimes
switching into French to deliver its
messages of positivity and protest. A hit
at festivals around Europe, they shouldn’t
be missed for this London date which is
supported by the Goethe Institute.
www.londonjazzfestival.org.uk
15-24 Nov
Various Venues
BBC Symphony Orchestra /
Marc Minkowski
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and
the BBC Singers will be conducted by
Marc Minkowski for an entirely French
programme: Poulenc's Figure Humaine,
and his Concerto for Two Pianos played by
David Kadouch and Guillaume Vincent,
followed by Roussel's Symphony No. 3 and
Mother Goose by Ravel.
www.barbican.org.uk
The festival demonstrates that there are
many more Gallic musical delights to
discover beyond Daft Punk’s shiny masks
and disco balls, with the full OohLaLA!
line-up representing a vibrant array of
sounds issuing from the other side of La
Manche.
26 Oct
21-24 Oct
Barbican
Cédric Tiberghien
Young French pianist Cédric Tiberghien
immerses us in a programme filled with
the heady atmosphere of romantic Liszt,
sensual Szymanowski and glittering Ravel.
International Piano Series.
mamacolive.com/thegarage
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
7 Nov
30 Oct
The Garage
OohlaLA!, the international festival
celebrating the best of modern French
music, is coming to London for the first
time this October, running over three
nights. Having first taken place four years
ago in Los Angeles it is now also being
exported to San Francisco, Montreal and
NYC.
Southbank Centre
Village Underground
Mon 21 Oct ≠ FAUVE, Petit Fantôme,
Moodoïd and Laetitia Sadier
(DJ)
You can catch no wave disco artist Lescop,
fast-rising psychedelic rockers Moodoïd,
popstar-in-the-making Christine and the
Queens, eclectic French-Canadian Mélissa
Laveaux, polemical post-rockers FAUVE,
influential songwriter Dominique A,
inventive electronica from Petit Fantôme.
The line-up also includes dramatic new
wave songwriter ROVER and retro-futurist
pop from Tomorrow’s World, plus DJs
from music websites The Quietus and The
Line of Best Fit and Stereolab/Monade's
Laetitia Sadier.
Tue 22 Oct
Dominique A, ROVER and
Mélissa Laveaux
Thu 24 Oct
Lescop, Tomorrow’s World,
Christine and The Queens,
and The Quietus DJs
www.oohlalafestival.com
Cultural events in the 'We Recommend' section are supported
or recommended by the Institut français and the French
Music Export Office.
We Recommend
Visual & Performing Arts
Robyn Orlin: Moving Into Dance Mophatong
Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris
Celebrate the beauty of 21st-century Africa
with this vibrant spectacle by Robyn Orlin,
featuring dance, text, film and props. In the
framework of Dance Umbrella weekend,
you can expect some haggling, gargling
and chanting.
www.barbican.org.uk
18 – 20 Oct
Stratford Circus
89Plus: Marathon
89Plus is an international research project
co-founded by Simon Castets and Hans
Ulrich Obrist. It is conceived as a mapping
of the generation born in or after 1989.
Through panels, books, periodicals and
exhibitions, it brings together individuals
from a generation whose voices are only
starting to be heard.
www.serpentinegallery.org
18 – 19 Oct
Serpentine Gallery
A staunch believer in the Republican
cause, a freethinker and chronicler of
everyday life in turbulent 19th century
Paris, Honoré Daumier has left us a
unique testimony of a pivotal time in
France’s history. This exhibition explores
his legacy through 130 works, many of
which have never been seen in the UK
before.
Voila!
LUMIERE 2013
This annual festival celebrates the French
language by presenting French artists and
companies that merge cultures together
through their art form. Over twelve
days, The Cockpit will be hosting plays,
cultural classes, workshops, a resident art
installation, an opera , a live radio show,
and more.
For four nights, 80 local and international
artists, lighting designers and community
groups bring a sprinkle of winter magic
to the city with a breathtaking series
of installations and projections that
illuminate buildings, streets and bridges.
thecockpit.org.uk/France
14 – 17 Nov
28 Nov – 1 Dec
29 Oct – 10 Nov The Cockpit
The Art Writing Library
www.artichoke.uk.com
Durham
Derry
Roger Sala Reyner, Aloun Marchal &
Simon Tanguy: Gerro, Minos and Him
www.royalacademy.org.uk
A public series proposes a shape of
art writing across sound, text, film and
discourse, remaking the AW Library as a
site for praxis: a centre for both research
and production. With among others,
Amélie Mourgue d'Algue, Ian Monk, Sarina
Basta and Franck Leibovici.
26 Oct – 26 Jan Royal Academy of Arts
www.gold.ac.uk/library/exhibitions
Three men are thrown into an empty room
and try to figure out a way to spend their
time together. Their condition shifts from
loneliness to togetherness, from burning
to shining, from shading to renewal. As
part of Currency, a four day festival which
involves European dance, physical theatre
and contemporary circus artists.
Picture credit: Honoré Daumier, 'The Laundress',
1861-63. Oil on wood. 48.9 x 33 cm. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York. Photo © The Metropolitan
Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence )
1 – 31 Oct
www.theplace.org.uk
South London Gallery
19 Nov
The Place
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Le Bistrot
Situated on the ground floor of the Institut
français, Le Bistrot is a French-style caférestaurant serving traditional bistro meals
and lunchtime snacks, plus a wide
selection of French wines and beers in
relaxed and welcoming surroundings.
Corporate
Events
Would you like to host a party or event
in our beautiful art deco building? With
four very different spaces available, the
Institut can accommodate functions of all
types, from large-scale parties to small
group events. It also provides a stunning
backdrop for filming and photoshoots.
Contact us at hire@institutfrancais.org.uk
Members of the Institut enjoy a 10%
discount on all purchases at Le Bistrot.
To book a table, for private events or
general enquiries, call 020 7589 9996
Support Us
Could your business benefit from working
with us? For information about corporate
partnership or sponsorship of upcoming
events and seasons, email:
mailis.renouard@institutfrancais.org.uk
Cheese & Wine Tasting
Can't tell your Chablis from your
Chardonnay? Confused about what to
drink with goat's cheese? Always feel at
a loss in the wine aisle? Our exclusive
wine tasting sessions can help! Not only
will you learn to recognise the distinctive
aromas of French wines thanks to the
guidance of our expert lecturer Sandy
Leckie, but you will also discover many
fascinating facts about the way they are
produced and, during certain sessions,
relish the delicious cheese pairings
provided by our partner Androuet. So
there'll be no more anxiety about choosing
the wine and the cheese for your dinner
parties – and with everything you'll learn
during our sessions, you'll also have a few
conversation pieces lined up!
presents
Each session starts at 7.00pm, lasts about
2 hours, covers six wines and takes place
in our listed library.
Our upcoming sessions are:
An Introduction to Wine Tasting
Mon 21 Oct | Regular Tasting | £30,
members £27
Le Tour de France
Mon 4 Nov | Regular Tasting | £30,
members £27
The Wines of Bordeaux
Mon 25 Nov | Cheese & Wine | £42,
members £39
To check availability and to book your
place, call 020 7871 3522. Early reservation
recommended.
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Join Us!
Institut français members enjoy
– full borrowing rights at la Médiathèque
– concessionary rates at Ciné Lumière
– concessionary rates for the Institut's
events and Wine Tasting sessions
– our free bi-monthly programme by post
– concessionary rates at the BFI
Southbank, ICA and Riverside Studios
– a free set of cinema tickets for two
– 10% discount on all purchases at Le
Bistrot
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October
Tue 1 Oct
Colombiana
6.15pm | film | p.7
La estrella + Q&A
8.30pm | film | p.7
———
Wed 2 Oct
Nadie conocie a nadie
6.15pm | film | p.7
Los mundos sutiles + Q&A
8.15pm | film | p.8
———
Thu 3 Oct
Fin
6.30pm | film | p.8
La banda Picasso + Q&A
8.30pm | film | p.8
———
Fri 4 Oct
Mapa + Q&A
6.15pm | film | p.9
World Film Locations:
Barcelona
6.30pm | talk | p.9
Los últimos días
8.30pm | film | p.9
———
Sat 5 Oct
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
Les Sorcières
11.00am | tales/kids | p.33
From up on Poppy Hill
11.00am | film/kids | p.32
Frontera
3.00pm | film | p.9
El cuerpo
5.30pm | film | p.10
Jordi Mollà in Conversation
+ Jamón, jamón
8.00pm | talk & film | p.10
Sun 6 Oct
Z
2.00pm | film | p.30
Els nens salvatges + Q&A
4.30pm | film | p.10
The Labèque Way + Q&A
7.00pm | film | p.11
———
Mon 7 Oct
Hijos de las nubes
8.30pm | film | p.11
———
Tue 8 Oct
El amor no es lo que era
6.15pm | film | p.11
Fin + Q&A
8.15pm | film | p.8
———
Wed 9 Oct
Hijos de las nubes
6.15pm | film | p.11
Insensibles + Q&A
8.15pm | film | p.11
———
Thu 10 Oct
On My Way
6.15pm | film | p.12
Tartuffe
7.00pm | reading group | p.36
Bad Hair
9.00pm | film | p.12
———
Fri 11 Oct
May in the Summer
6.30pm | film | p.13
Grand Central
9.00pm | film | p.13
Sat 12 Oct
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
Les Sorcières
Ladder to Damascus
1.00pm | film | p.13
2 Autumns, 3 Winters
3.30pm | film | p.13
Me, Myself and Mum
6.30pm | film | p.14
Shame
9.00pm | film | p.14
———
Sun 13 Oct
Stop the Pounding Heart
1.00pm | film | p.14
Adore
3.30pm | film | p.14
Jeune et jolie
6.30pm | film | p.15
Honey
9.00pm | film | p.15
———
Mon 14 Oct
Ida
6.30pm | film | p.15
Chinese Puzzle
8.45pm | film | p.15
Thu 17 Oct
11.6
6.30pm | film | p.17
Abuse of Weakness
9.00pm | film | p.17
———
Fri 18 Oct
Suzanne
6.30pm | film | p.17
Bends
9.00pm | film | p.17
———
Sat 19 Oct
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
Les Sorcières
The Kids from the Port
1.00pm | film | p.18
The Ravine of Goodbye
3.30pm | film | p.18
La Paz
6.30pm | film | p.18
The Rooftops
8.45pm | film | p.18
———
Tue 15 Oct
Le Grand cahier
6.15pm | film | p.16
Camille Claudel 1915
9.00pm | film | p.16
Sun 20 Oct
The Last of the Unjust
12.00pm | film | p.19
Salvo
4.30pm | film | p.19
A Long and Happy Life
7.00pm | film | p.19
Stranger by the Lake
9.00pm | film | p.19
———
———
———
Wed 16 Oct
La Maison de la radio
6.30pm | film | p.16
Tonnerre
9.00pm | film | p.16
Mon 21 Oct
Hannah Arendt
6.15pm | film | p.29
Introduction to Wine Tasting
7.00pm | Wine tasting | p.43
Metro Manila
8.40pm | film | p.29
Tue 22 Oct
Metro Manila
6.15pm | film | p.29
Barbara Wright
6.30pm | talk | p.36
Hannah Arendt
8.40pm | film | p.29
———
Wed 23 Oct
Hannah Arendt
3.00pm, 6.15pm | film | p.29
A Magnificent Haunting
8.40pm | film | p.29
———
Thu 24 Oct
Metro Manila
3.00pm | film | p.29
A Magnificent Haunting
6.15pm | film | p.29
Hannah Arendt
8.40pm | film | p.29
———
Fri 25 Oct
Skylab
3.00pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4
Like Father like Son
6.15pm | film | p.4
———
Sat 26 Oct
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
March of the Penguins
Nénette
2.00pm | film | p.4
Hannah Arendt
4.00pm | film | p.29
6.30pm | film | p.4
Skylab
9.00pm | film | p.4
Sun 27 Oct
L'Horloger de Saint Paul +
Ciné Salon
2.00pm | film | p.30
5.00pm | film | p.4
Skylab
8.00pm | film | p.4
———
Mon 28 Oct
Skylab
6.15pm | film | p.4
8.40pm | film | p.4
———
Tue 29 Oct
6.15pm | film | p.4
Skylab
8.40pm | film | p.4
———
Wed 30 Oct
Skylab
3.00pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4
6.15pm | film | p.4
———
Thu 31 Oct
Skylab
3.00pm, 6.15pm | film | p.4
8.40pm | film | p.4
November
Fri 1 Nov
The Nun
3.00pm, 6.15pm | film | p.5
The Past
8.50pm | film | p.25
———
Sat 2 Nov
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
The Nun
2.00pm, 6.15pm | film | p.5
Meeting Leila
4.30pm | film | p.25
The Snow on the Pines
8.50pm | film | p.25
Thu 7 Nov
The Nun
3.00pm | film | p.5
Inheritance
6.30pm | film | p.27
Attila Marcel + Q&A
8.40pm | film | p.20
———
Fri 8 Nov
The Nun
3.00pm, 6.15pm | film | p.5
Another Day
8.50pm | film | p.26
———
Sun 3 Nov
César et Rosalie + Ciné salon
2.00pm | film | p.30
The Nun
4.20pm, 6.45pm | film | p.5
Nowhere Nobody
8.50pm | film | p.25
Sat 9 Nov
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
The Nun
2.00pm, 4.30pm | film | p.5
The Wedlock
7.00pm | film | p.26
The Shallow Yellow Sky
8.50pm | film | p.26
———
———
———
Mon 4 Nov
The Nun
6.15pm | film | p.5
Le Tour de France
I am his Wife
8.50pm | film | p.26
———
Tue 5 Nov
Where We Grew Up
6.30pm | film | p.27
The Nun
8.50pm | film | p.5
———
Wed 6 Nov
The Nun
3.00pm, 8.50pm | film | p.5
The Virgin, The Copts and
Me...
6.30pm | film | p.28
Sun 10 Nov
La Gueule ouverte
2.00pm | film | p.31
The Nun
3.50pm, 8.40pm | film | p.5
Grigris + Q&A
6.15pm | film | p.28
———
Mon 11 Nov
The Nun
6.15pm, 8.40pm | film | p.5
———
Tue 12 Nov
The Nun
6.15pm | film | p.5
A Lady in Paris
8.40pm | film | p.21
Wed 13 Nov
The Nun
3.00pm | film | p.5
It Happened in Saint-Tropez
6.30pm | film | p.27
Jappeloup
7.00pm | film | p.21
———
Thu 14 Nov
The Nun
3.00pm, 6.15pm | film | p.5
Candide
7.00pm | reading group | p.36
The Great Dictator + Q&A
8.30pm | film | p.27
———
Fri 15 Nov
Skylab
3.00pm | film | p.4
Paulette
6.15pm | film | p.21
Lola + Q&A
8.30pm | film | p.20
———
Sat 16 Nov
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
Les Contes du chat perché
De Funès Forever
2.00pm | film | p.22
Jeunesse
4.15pm | film | p.22
The Man Who Laughs + Q&A
6.15pm | film | p.22
Love Is in the Air
8.40pm | film | p.23
Sun 17 Nov
La Folie des grandeurs +
Ciné Salon
2.00pm | film | p.31
Loulou
4.15pm | film | p.23
Le Démantèlement
6.15pm | film | p.23
Paulette
8.30pm | film | p.21
———
Mon 18 Nov
Marius
6.15pm | film | p.6
Fanny + Q&A
8.40pm | film | p.6
———
Tue 19 Nov
Life and Nothing But + intro
6.15pm | film | p.23
The Other Son
8.40pm | film | p.24
———
Wed 20 Nov
Skylab
3.00pm | film | p.4
Apaches
6.15pm | film | p.24
Tenderness
8.40pm | film | p.24
———
Thu 21 Nov
Skylab
3.00pm | film | p.4
Henri
6.15pm | film | p.24
Chinese Puzzle
8.40pm | film | p.15
Fri 22 Nov
5.00pm – 7.30pm | kids
p.34-35*
8.00pm | film | p.5
———
Sat 23 Nov
10.00am – 6.00pm | kids
p.34-35*
La Sorcière dans les airs
8.00pm | film | p.5
———
Sun 24 Nov
10.00am – 5.30pm | kids
p.34-35*
The King & the Mockingbird
My Mommy is in America
and She Met Buffalo Bill
2.00pm | film/kids | p.33
Aya de Yopougon
4.00pm | film/kids | p.33
7.00pm | film | p.5
———
Mon 25 Nov
4.00pm, 7.45pm | film | p.5
The Wines of Bordeaux
———
Tue 26 Nov
4.30pm, 8.00pm | film | p.5
Wed 27 Nov
2.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.5
The Great Kilapy + Q&A
6.20pm | film | p.28
———
Thu 28 Nov
2.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.5
They'll Come Back + Q&A
6.20pm | film | p.28
———
Fri 29 Nov
2.30pm | film | p.5
Marius
6.30pm | film | p.6
Fanny
8.40pm | film | p.6
———
Sat 30 Nov
Café Philo
10.00am | talk| p.36
Les Contes du chat perché
NWR
6.00pm | film | p.29
Marius
7.30pm | film | p.6
Fanny
9.30pm | film | p.6
*Check out the South
Ken Kids Festival website
for the full programme
southkenkidsfestival.co.uk
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17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT
T. 020 7871 3515
institut-francais.org.uk

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