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2 November to 17 December 2017 Bon anniversaire! www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk welcome BIENVENUE and welcome to of Knowledge (screened to mark INDEX the 25th silver jubilee edition the 150th anniversary of the first of the French Film Festival UK female Nobel prizewinner’s birth). FILMS AT A GLANCE 5 –9 Keep a close eye on the website For any cultural endeavour to reach a PANORAMA 11 – 24 (www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk) for HORIZONS quarter century is a milestone worth other guest appearances or updates. celebrating. Your 25th French Film DISCOVERY 25 – 29 Festival UK marks a significant notch Two titles honour great French HORIZONS on its calendar with a programme that artists Rodin and Gauguin incarnated is even richer and more comprehensive respectively by those great actors DOCUMENTARIES 30 / 31 than ever before. Involving leading Vincent Lindon and Vincent Cassel ANIMATION 33 independent cinemas around the while two explorations delve into the Michel Ocelot profile country from Glasgow and Edinburgh lives and times of diverse musical CLASSICS 35 – 43 to London, from Inverness to Dundee legends Barbara and Dalida. and Belfast, from Warwick and Thousands of pupils will watch CLAUDE BERRI 36 / 37 Leicester to Chichester and Bristol, especially curated programmes MASTERPIECES and so many more places in between for schools, giving them a first JEANNE MOREAU 38 – 40 watch out for the crème de la crème taste of films with subtitles and an TRIBUTE of contemporary and classic understanding of the cultures of our French-speaking cinema from 2 European neighbours and those French REGIS WARGNIER 42 / 43 November to 17 December 2017. speaking countries further afield. PROFILE With the support of a BFI Audience Patron Sylvain Chomet ( Belleville LEARNING 44 / 45 Rendez-vous, The Illusionist, Atilla Fund award, programmers have SHORT CUTS 46 chosen more than than 40 diverse Marcel ) sent a jubilee message of titles for all tastes including boulevard good wishes: “Congratulations for YANNIK RUAULT 47 hits, auteur choices, documentaries, an amazing 25 years to this gem of a WORKSHOPS animation and shorts as well as key Festival of which I became patron while TIMETABLES 48 – 51 films from the past including glorious making The Illusionist in Edinburgh. restorations of Indochine by Régis I love the informal atmosphere and the GUESTS 54 / 55 Wargnier (screened in the very first warm welcome guests always receive CAST & CREW 56 / 57 French Film Festival in 1992), and from the enthusiastic audiences. Claude Berri’s magnificent Jean This Festival deserves support and TICKETS & BOOKING 59 – 61 de Florette and Manon des Sources encouragement from everyone.” for the first time in cinemas for The late Jeanne Moreau, a previous POSTER EXHIBITION 63 Festival patron, receives a special many a year. HOT TICKETS 64 / 65 homage in the year of her passing. Among the guests scheduled to SPONSORS 66 attend are the Oscar-winning Régis A chorus of “grand merci” as ever is Wargnier for the anniversary due to sponsors, advertisers, funders, screening of Indochine ; second time supporters, cinema colleagues, director Blandine Lenoir and stellar distributors, sales agents, and the talent Agnès Jaoui for Aurora ; dedicated Festival team without Cover image: Louis Garrel & acclaimed Belgian director Lucas whom none of it would happen – Stacy Martin in Redoubtable Belvaux for the hugely topical This is and that would be so triste! by Michel Hazanavicius Our Land ; exciting new talent Nicolas Bon Festival à tous! Certificates in this brochure are advisory Fleureau for the nail-biting social except when the film has been classified by the BBFC. thriller Corporate ; return guests Abel Richard Mowe, and Fiona Gordon for the hilarious Director French Film Festival UK Lost in Paris ; Lisa Azuelos for the Ilona Morison, musical biopic Dalida ; and Marie Co-director French Film Festival UK Noëlle for Marie Curie: the Courage FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL UK 2017 3 At A glANcE what’s on where 150 Milligrams (p.12) Barbara (p.13) Belper Ritz Cinema Chichester Cinema at New Park Chichester Cinema at New Park Dundee Contemporary Arts Edinburgh Filmhouse Edinburgh Filmhouse Inverness Eden Court Glasgow Film Theatre London Ciné Lumière London Ciné Lumière Northampton Errol Flynn Stirling Macrobert Arts Centre Bay of Angels (p.39) Abrahadabra (p.47) Dundee Contemporary Arts Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Edinburgh Filmhouse Hull University London Regent Street Cinema All the Boys Are Called Patrick (p.46) Before Summer Ends (p.30) Edinburgh Filmhouse Edinburgh Filmhouse Falmouth The Poly Glasgow Film Theatre London Ciné Lumière Hull University London Regent Street Cinema Aurora (p.26) Edinburgh Filmhouse Corniche Kennedy (p.13) Glasgow Film Theatre Edinburgh Dominion Hereford Courtyard Glasgow Film Theatre Hull University Ipswich Film Theatre Inverness Eden Court London Regent Street Cinema London Ciné Lumière Richmond The Station Cinema Corporate (p.26) Chichester Cinema at New Park A Bag of Marbles (p.12) Edinburgh Filmhouse Chichester Cinema at New Park Glasgow Film Theatre Edinburgh Filmhouse London Ciné Lumière Hereford Courtyard London Ciné Lumière (Jewish Film Festival) London Reel Borehamwood Dalida (p.14) (Jewish Film Festival) London Ciné Lumière Manchester Cineworld Didsbury (Jewish Film Festival) Warwick Arts Centre Other screenings for schools – see Learning pages 44 / 45 FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL UK 2017 5 At A glANcE what’s on where The Double Lover (p.14) Golden Years (p.16) Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Chichester Cinema at New Park Belfast Queen’s Film Theatre Edinburgh Dominion Bristol Watershed London Regent Street Cinema London Watermans Arts Centre Chichester Cinema at New Park Edinburgh Filmhouse Indochine (p.43) Glasgow Film Theatre Chichester Cinema at New Park Inverness Eden Court Edinburgh Filmhouse London Ciné Lumière Glasgow Film Theatre Stirling Macrobert Arts Centre Ismaël’s Ghosts (p.17) Félicité (p.15) Bristol Watershed Chichester Cinema at New Park Belfast Queen’s Film Theatre Edinburgh Filmhouse Bristol Watershed (Afrika Eye) Glasgow Film Theatre Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre (Watch Africa) London Regent Street Cinema Chichester Cinema at New Park Richmond The Station Cinema South London Gallery (Film Africa) Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess The Fire Within (p.39) (p.33) Belfast Queen’s Film Theatre Dundee Contemporary Arts Glasgow Film Theatre Glasgow Film Theatre (Take 2) Other screenings for schools The Firemen (p.15) – see Learning pages 44 / 45 Edinburgh Dominion Jean de Florette (p.36) London Regent Street Cinema Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Richmond The Station Cinema Belper Ritz Cinema Chichester Cinema at New Park Foreign Body (p.16) Edinburgh Filmhouse London Ciné Lumière (Film Africa) Glasgow Film Theatre Gauguin (p.27) Hereford The Courtyard Chichester Cinema at New Park Inverness Eden Court Edinburgh Dominion Leicester Phoenix Cinema London Ciné Lumière Glasgow Film Theatre Northampton Picturehouse Inverness Eden Court Warwick Arts Centre London Ciné Lumière London JW3 Just To Be Sure (p.17) London Watermans Arts Centre Edinburgh Filmhouse Richmond The Station Cinema Glasgow Film Theatre Warwick Arts Centre London Ciné Lumière FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL UK 2017 6 At A glANcE what’s on where A Kid (p.18) Marie Curie: Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse The Courage of Knowledge (p.19) Edinburgh Filmhouse Chichester Cinema at New Park Ipswich Film Theatre Dundee Contemporary Arts Richmond The Station Cinema Edinburgh Dominion Hereford Courtyard Ladies (p.27) London Ciné Lumière Edinburgh Dominion London JW3 London Ciné Lumière Stirling Macrobert Arts Centre Lost in Paris (p.18) Warwick Arts Centre Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Chichester Cinema at New Park Mercenary (p.28) Dundee Contemporary Arts Leicester Phoenix Cinema Dunoon Film Festival London Regent Street Cinema Edinburgh Filmhouse Stirling Macrobert Arts Centre Glasgow Film Theatre Leicester Phoenix Cinema London Watermans Arts Centre Mr & Mrs Adelman (p.28) Northampton Errol Flynn Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Richmond The Station Cinema Chichester Cinema at New Park Glasgow Film Theatre Lover for a Day (p.19) Inverness Eden Court Dundee Contemporary Arts London Ciné Lumière (Jewish Film Festival) Edinburgh Dominion Glasgow Film Theatre London Everyman Barnet (Jewish Film Festival) London Ciné Lumière Mr Klein (p. 40) The Lovers (p.40) London Ciné Lumière Glasgow Film Theatre Inverness Eden Court The Paris Opera (p.30) Manon of the Spring (p.37) Chichester Cinema at New Park Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Glasgow Film Theatre Belper Ritz Cinema London Ciné Lumière Chichester Cinema at New Park Edinburgh Filmhouse Problemos (p.21) Glasgow Film Theatre Hereford Courtyard Leicester Phoenix Cinema Inverness Eden Court London Ciné Lumière Leicester Phoenix Cinema London Ciné Lumière Northampton Errol Flynn Warwick Arts Centre FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL UK 2017 7 At A glANcE what’s on where Redoubtable (p.21) Step by Step (p.29) Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse Edinburgh Filmhouse Belfast Queen’s Film Theatre Stirling Macrobert Arts Centre Bristol Watershed Chichester Cinema at New Park The Teacher (p.29) Edinburgh Filmhouse Chichester Cinema at New Park Falmouth The Poly Other screenings for schools Glasgow Film Theatre – see Learning pages 44 / 45 Leicester Phoenix Cinema London Ciné Lumière This is Our Land (p.23) Warwick Arts Centre Belfast Queen’s Film Theatre Chichester Cinema at New Park Rodin (p.22) Edinburgh Filmhouse Belper Ritz Cinema Glasgow Film Theatre Chichester Cinema at New Park Leicester Phoenix Cinema Dundee Contemporary