Cultural Newsletter July/August 2008

Rachid Taha in concert - PAGE 07

Cinematheque presents French films - PAGE 09

Une Vieille Maîtresse in Toronto’s theatres - PAGE 13 Transe Express’ “Mobile-homme” p. 04

Editorial Contents

Sun or rain, indoors/outdoors, do you head to the Thousand Lakes, Festival - PAGE 04 the Great North or the Riviera ? How to take decisions on life’s Exhibitions - PAGE 05 pecular daily issues ? Here come good surprises:the ’s stop over gathers more than just and . The 2008 BBC Music - PAGE 06 Award highlights for his Clash’s « Rock El Casbah » cover, his unique art of mixing which started with Algerian raï from the 80ies Books - PAGE 08 (when traditionnal instruments combined with synthetizer, amplified Cinema - PAGE 09 drums and bass brought back to life old lyrics). Mick Jagger recommends « The Music Masters of Jajouka » for sure. Television - PAGE 14 Right after Transe Express company sends men and women out to the sky for their « Moving-Men » performance, French Caribbean band « Zouk » helps you to end July in the appreciation of music. Cinematheque presents big names from Film Pantheon with Eustache, Resnais and Robbe-Grillet, while you may enjoy the release of intricated love affairs “Une vieille maîtresse”, by Catherine Breillat Why would you leave Toronto ?

Joël Savary, Cultural Attaché Cultural Calendar - July/August 2008 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6 “Customer Service” (books - p.8)

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 9:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm Rachid Taha “The mother and “Bad company”, (music - p.7) the whore” “Santa Claus has (cinema - p.10) blue eyes” “Les misérables” (cinema - p.10) “Vie française” (books - p.8)

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm “My little loves” “The pig”, “The lost “A dirty story”, (cinema - p.10) sorrows of Jean “Photos of Alix” Eustache”, “The (cinema - p.10) garden of delights of hieronymus Bosch” (cinema - p.10)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 7:00 pm 5:00 pm “Mobile-homme” “Mobile-homme” (street arts - p.4) (Arts de rue - p.4)

7:00 pm “Last 8:00 pm year...” 8:45 pm “Hiroshima my “The immortal...” love” (cinema - “Une vieille maît...” p.11) (cinema - p.11, 13) 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 9:00 pm “”, “Jules and Jim” “Jules and Jim” Kassav’ (music “Trans-Europ “Muriel” (cinema - p.13) (cinema - p.13) p.6) Express” (cinema - (cinema - p.11) 7:00 pm “Eden and p.11) after” 9:00 pm , “Last year...” “Jules and Jim” (cinema - p.11, 13)

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7:00 pm “The man who lies” (cinema - p.11)

2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 7:00 pm “”, “Night and fog” (cinema - p.12)

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 7:00 pm “Guernica”, “My American oncle” (cinema - p.12)

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Just For Laughs festival: Transe Express' "Mobile-homme" above Toronto Supplier of imagination, Transe Express plays in open spaces in order to meet with the public. With no limits, the troup uses all kind of arts and mode of expressions. Music, dance, practical arts, circus, fire, literature, insulation... and theatre, which is the melting pot of everyone of these art forms. Either on stage or in unconventional spaces, Transe Express creates ex - traordinary creations, intrigues and adventures to creep up on the public.

In “Mobile-homme”, seven musicians and one trapeze artist will perform in the air. Just imagine a mobile made of real drum majors, hung under an arch, a canopy or a crane… Imagine a thin trapeze and Gilles Rhode (author, artist performing in the middle of The second edition of the Just for scenograph and director). this picture and bring a crazy touch Laughs Festival will take place from Specialized in sky art, Transe to it. Imagine drum beats and drum July 24 to 26 in Toronto and will Express has become internationally rolls made by this band of flying present a selection of some of the famous with its show "Mobile- drum players. biggest names of comedy, as well homme", performed during the as free outdoor events. Albertville's Olympic Games opening in 1992, with "Roue-Ages" The Festival is having a street party on the Champs Elysees for new and the entire city is invited! The year's eve 1999, or with "Les 2000 world’s most prestigious comedy Coups de Minuit", celebrating the festival will be transforming new millemium in Beaubourg, . Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square and an additional two city blocks "Le kiosque à coulisses", based in a into a wonderland of colour, sound park in Crest, Drome, is the and light on July 25 and 26. headquarter where the troup develops its creative work. The These must-see events will feature production's team represents about some of the most astounding 60 artists, actors, acrobats, bell- performance troupes from across ringers, dancers, drump players, the globe. Among them will be singers, violinists, spot welders, Transe Express, with its show stage-managers and scrap “Mobile-homme” performed in the merchants, who work regularly on sky, accompanied in music by the projects for the troup: temporary local Burlington Teen tour band. creations or aerial and ambulatory The Transe Express' troup was shows. founded in 1982 by Brigitte Burdin (dancer, choregraph and musician)

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Friday July 25 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm and Saturday July 26 from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Dundas Square Free admission

Information: Just for Laughs Beside its great oginality, the Festival or Compagnie Transe success of this show comes from its Express ability to create a spectacular picture, which suits perfectly to big crowds. Being the first flying mobile ever made, “Mobile-homme” has

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Gens de Provence 1951-1961, by Anthony Harting “In the hearts of millions of people, ranging collection of candid, the lively spirit of those times. young and old from all over the revealing portraits that are an With these pictures I celebrate the world, the name Provence holds a original, joyous, thought- enchanting heart of the land of special place, full of affection and provoking, but above all honest glorious light and present a loving fascination. historical documentary record of look at the people of captivating Provence, the playground of From 1951 to 1966, I spent many Southern France.” (Toni Harting ) summers in Provence as a strolling musician. During these years, I An exhibition presented by the made thousands of black-and-white Alliance Française of Toronto. Texts photographs of numerous colourful by Daniel Soha, a writer and characters from many walks of life. translator originally from Provence, I observed these people while they will accompany the photos. lived their lives on the streets and the beaches, in the bars and at the bullfights and the pétanque fields, when embracing each other or Until Thursday July 31, 2008 sleeping in the heat of the day, just AFT (24, Spadina Road) being themselves. Free admissio n

Working in the photographic www.alliance-francaise.ca / perspective called humanistic reportage, I put together a wide- 5 “The street belongs to all of us !” How to share the street? The street Organized by the Paris-based IVM, narratives, illustrations and explo - is somewhere we walk, live, work, Institut pour la ville en mouvement rations, architectural and urban parade, sometimes jostle, [City on the Move] and produced design projects, and more than a sometimes even collide; a for North America by the Design hundred photographs from the multitude of activities that intersect Centre at the University of Quebec archives of the big international and intercept, making it a place of at Montreal, the exhibition asks the press agencies. encounter and of conflict: for better fundamental question: How do we and for worse! share the street (which belongs to The exhibition is supported by the And in all the cities of the world, the all of us!)? It explores the cities of City of Montreal, and the Toronto same questions: Who is the street the five continents through an presentation is facilitated by the for? Who does it belong to? Who audiovisual installation, personal Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, decides, controls, oversees? How and Design at the University of can we reconcile all the speeds, all Toronto and the Consulate General the methods of transport, the of France in Toronto. needs of residents and passersby, of shopkeepers...? How do we Until Thursday October 2, 2008 make it readable, fluid? In how far Eric Arthur Gallery, UofT (230 should advertising, business, College Street) freedom of expression, art, be able Free admission to have their say in the street, take www.ald.utoronto.c a or possession of the street? www.larueestatous.com

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Zouk music band Kassav in concert LIP Entertainement presents Now, after 30 years, about 20 Kassav’s concert in Toronto. and many musical awards Originally from French West Indies, later, the band is still on the musical this band invented zouk music. All scene and its music continues to musical influences are mixed with make people from all over the funk and rock to create an world dance. explosive and dancing music style. Thursday July 31 at 8:00 pm Kassav (from the name of a typical At the Docks club dish from the West Indies) was 11 Polson Street founded in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Tickets: $45 Décimus and Freddy Marshall. They Booking: www.experiencecre - decided to renew and modernize ole.com the music they used to play. Being “Love and Ka Dance” in November, very attached to popula carnival which was released in the music, Decimus tried to adapt it to beginning of the following year. A modern musical technics. The two new musical style was born: zouk men hired guitarist Jacob music. New sounds, bass, Desvarieux, bass player Georges keyboards and brass instruments Décimus (Pierre-Edouard’s give to this music a modern and brother), as well as others festive tone. Zouk is a music to live musicians. The band took shade and dance. gradually. It recorded a first , 6 Rachid Taha in concert with Small World Music Taha”, released in 1993, lyrics become sharper and music makes a link between the African and European continents. A third album entitled « Olé Olé » is released in 1995. It is a mix of and ethnic music, with various influences (from Algerian chaabi to Mexican mariachis). In 1998, Taha launches “Diwan”, an album with songs from popular North African artists such as or Farid El Atrache. Two years later, the release of “Made in Medina”, an album with rock, electro and traditional influences results in good media reviews. Then in 2004, Taha records the album “Tékitoi?” between Paris, London and Le Caire, with songs dealing with world issues, corruption, war, racism, etc. Still between tradition and modernism, Taha came back in 2006 with “”, a second album with covers from popular North-african singers. Throughout its « Summerworld 2008 BBC World Music award and music » series, from July 8 to July recent cover of 's "Rock El 18, the Small World Music Society Casbah" have kept this boundary- Small World Music Society was presents a unique evening featuring breaking icon at the forefront of the founded in 1997. Its experience can singer Rachid Taha, who will be scene. range from international giants of accompanied by DJ medicineman. traditional and contemporary world Born in 1958 in , Algeria, music in the city’s grandest Rachid arrives in France at the age performance venues, to emerging of 10 and sets up with his family in local artists in intimate club the North-eastern part of France. In settings. Small World Music Society 1981 in Lyon, he meets Mohammed presents roughly 50 concerts (guitarist) and Moktar (bassist) annually, with the annual Small with whom he begins to sing. In World Music Festival being one of 1983 they found the band “Carte de the highlights of Toronto’s busy Fall séjour” (which means “residence arts calendar. permit”) and record a first album entitled “Rhoromanie” in which they Tuesday July 8 at 9:00 pm laud integration and tolerance Phoenix Concert Theatre toward immigrants. Then in 1986 410 Sherbourne Street their second album “Deux et demi” Tickets : $30 in advance (Two and a half) is realesed. One of www.smallworldmusic.com/ the songs of this album, “Douce France”, originally by Charles Small World Music also present Trenet, had been remixed with the Master Musicians of Rachid Taha is a French-Algerian Arabic-style music, which resulted Jajouka . singer and musician who lives in in large media coverage. In concert on Tuesday July 15 France. His protest lyrics against at the Phoenix Concert Theatre racism and discrimination, as well In 1991, Rachid Taha goes solo and as his music (inspired by various records his first album, “Barbès” "One of the most musically styles such as raï, chaabi, techno, (from the name of a Parisian inspiring groups still left on the rock ‘n’ roll and punk) make him a district, where many immigrants planet.” - Mick Jagger unique and mix-styled artist. His live). In his second album “Rachid 7 BBooookkss

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo : new translation by Julie Rose In this major new rendition by the protagonist, Jean Valjean, a quin - acclaimed translator Julie Rose, tessential prisoner of conscience Victor Hugo’s tour de force, Les who languished for years in prison Misérables, is revealed in its full for stealing bread to feed his unabridged glory. A favorite of starving family, Les Misérables readers for nearly 150 years, and depicts one of the grand themes in the basis for one of the most literature–that of the hunted man. beloved stage musicals ever, this Woven into the narrative are the stirring tale of crime, punishment, prevalent social issues of Hugo’s justice, and redemption pulses with day: injustice, authoritarian rule, life and energy. Hugo sweeps social inequality, civic unrest. And readers from the French provinces this new translation brings to the back alleys of Paris, and from astonishing vivacity and depth to the battlefield of Waterloo to the Hugo’s immortal dramatis bloody ramparts of Paris during the personae–the relentless police Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo uprising of 1832. detective Javert, the saintly bishop Translation: Julie Rose Myriel, the tragic prostitute Fantine Pages: 1376 First published in 1862, this and her innocent daughter, Cosette, Publisher: Random House sprawling novel is an extravagant the dashing lover Marius, and many Publishing Group historical epic that is teeming with others whom Jean Valjean Release date: Tuesday July 8 harrowing adventures and unfor - encounters on his path to sublime gettable characters. In the sacrifice.

Customer service, by Benoît Duteurtre have to start a very long process of malentendus, La rebelle), a book complaint, dealing with officers on cows and essays on music. His obviously overwhelmed with such unpretentious style as well as his an organization and who had no humorous look at contemporary clue to help you. world made him a one of a kind Through the parable of a man and author among the new French his mobile phone, Benoît Duteurtre literature. Winner of the prestigious highlights with humor dysfunctions Prix Medici Award, and author of 11 of our time, benefit and fast- novels translated in 13 languages, obsessed occidental society. A short Duteurtre has been acclaimed by novel, biting and iconoclastic Milan Kundera for his edgy, incisive against the power of overcommuni - humor, and called "A cultural bomb cation. thrower" for his satiric take on modern life.

From Grocery stores’ cashier to About the author Customer Service, by Benoit airports’ terminals and public Benoît Duteurtre was born in Duteurtre services’ counters, one always had Sainte-Adresse, near Le Havre. In Original title: Service clientèle to wait in lines to ask for 1982 he published his first text in Publisher: Melville House information, to pay, to take out the newspaper Minuit, and then Publishing goods, to board very late on busy lived as a musician and journalist. Release date : airplanes, to drive very slowly in He wrote several novels Tuesday July 1st traffic... And if by any chance you (L'amoureux malgré lui, Tout doit were a special case, you would disparaître, Gaieté parisienne, Les

8 Vie Française, by Jean-Paul Dubois Meet Paul Blick: born in France (but termittent beauty of what living has not Paris); son of a car dealer; become. provincial sociology student-cum- theoretical revolutionary; briefly About the author employed (by his father-in-law); Jean-Paul Dubois was born in 1950 married and soon to discover in Toulouse, where he still lives adultery and other satisfactions of today. The author of many novels a desperate househusband as (Je pense à autre chose, Si ce livre consort of a high-flying wife who pouvait me rapprocher de toi), an conquers the world as CEO of a essay (Eloge du gaucher) and Jacuzzi-manufacturing company. collections of travel writing (L'Amérique m'inquiète), he is also This not-so-extraordinary French- a reporter for Le Nouvel man is delivered to the Observateur. not-so-extraordinary awareness of having arrived in middle age more Vie Francaise, by Jean-Paul a product of his times, his country, Dubois and blind chance than a creature of Original title : Une vie his own free will. Jean-Paul Dubois française gives us a man whose life reflects Pages : 288 the story – the mind and the heart Publisher : Knopf Publishing – of a society coming belatedly, Group poignantly, and often hilariously to Release date: Tuesday July 8 grips with the abiding pain and in -

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French focus at Cinematheque Ontario This summer, Cinematheque Eustache (1938 - 1981), which Ontario, in partnership with the have gained an almost mythical Consulate General of France in status due to their unavailability in Toronto, is offering two series on North America. French film makers. The first one, from July 11 to July 17 will present Influenced by the French New films from , whereas Wave, which he was both a part of the second one, from July 25 to and apart from, Eustache has August 20 will focus on the work of exerted a profound influence on the filmmakers Alains Resnais and Alain following generations of French Robbe-Grillet. filmmakers, with his confessional, often raw and desperately sexual portraits of a generation adrift, Bad company : the films of including the monumental The Jean Eustache mother and the whore. Both tender and vehement, much like their Few retrospectives promise the maker, Eustache’s films provoke revelations of this, a look at one of and inspire in equal measure. postwar cinema’s most legendary bodies of work: the films of Jean His volatile, brilliant career was 9 short-lived; "the most independent Taking a job as a Tuesday July 15 at 7:00 pm of French directors and the least street-corner understood" (David Braun), Santa Claus, he A dirty story , by Jean Eustache Eustache committed suicide at the begins to earn France (1977) – 47 minutes age of forty-three. income and, Starring : Michel Lonsdale, Jean more surpris - Douchet See whole article by James Quandt, ingly, the attention of many young A fascinating Senior Programmer, Cinematheque women taken with his costume. diptych of a man Ontario Saturday July 12 at 7:00 pm relating his obsession with My little loves , by Jean Eustache looking through a The mother and the whore , by France (1974) – 2:03 peephole into a Jean Eustache Starring : Martin Loeb, Ingrid café bathroom. France (1973) – 3:39 Caven Starring : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Just one year Followed by : into high school, Photos of Alix , by Jean Eustache Daniel is France (1980) – 18 minutes uprooted from Alix talks with a his rural country young man life and trans - (Eustache's son planted into the city to live with his Boris) about a mother and her lover. number of her Monday July 14 at 7:00 pm photographs. As she speaks, we slowly realize that The pig , by Jean Eustache and the images she discusses are not Jean-Michel Barjol the ones we see. France (1970) – 53 minutes Thursday July 17 at 7:00 pm Shot in a single The boring existence of young day, The Pig bohemian Parisians who never documents the seem to encounter anything or process by which anybody of any importance. a pig is Memory, montage, modernism Despite spending their days in slaughtered and : & Alain Robbe- drunken stupuors yet their deliber - converted into sausage. Grillet ations and daily lives are littered with meaning. Followed by : Prompted by the availability of a Friday July 11 at 7:00 pm The lost sorrows of Jean number of new prints from France, Eustache , by Angel Diaz the Cinematheque Ontario returns Bad company , by Jean Eustache France (1997) – 52 minutes to the subject of one of its most France (1963) – 42 minutes A beautiful film successful complete retrospectives, Starring: Aristide, Daniel Bart exploring three Alain Resnais, and appends four Two young men themes in impossible-to-see films by recently in a Parisian Eustache’s work: deceased novelist and director Alain suburb looking cinema, absence, Robbe-Grillet to reveal the for fun and and mourning. connections (and differences) whatever trouble between these two artists, welded comes with it. And by : Unsurprisingly, their attention The garden of delights of ultimately falls on a girl. Spurned hieronymus Bosch , by Jean when she decides to go dancing Eustache with someone else, their thoughts France (1979) – 34 minutes quickly turn to revenge. Starring : Jean-Noël Picq Eustache’s col - Followed by: laborator Santa Claus has blue eyes , by Jean-Noël Picq Jean Eustache describes Bosch’s France (1966) – 47 minutes famous painting, Starring : Jean-Pierre Léaud, “The Garden of Gérard Zimmermann Delights,” rejecting traditional Daniel is desperate to buy a new readings in favour of a “pure play of coat but has no money to do so. the eye” over the canvas. 10 forever in the history of cinema by are never mentioned – but to their epochal collaboration, Last participate in baroque parlour Year at Marienbad, and by their games in this vast “palace of shared reputations as masters of mirrors.” Their sado-erotic rituals modernism. are interrupted by the appearance of an older stranger, whose tales of Africa inspire Violette, the most See whole article by James Quandt, beautiful denizen of The Eden, to Senior Programmer, Cinematheque meet him at a sinister industrial Ontario site. Djerba! Thursday July 31 at 7:00 pm has a one-night stand with Lui. As , by Alain she recalls the city's history, she Trans-Europ Express , by Alain Resnais reconsiders her own life and past Robbe-Grillet France/Italy (1961) – 1:34 experiences, while growing ever France/ (1968) – 1:40 Starring : Delphine Seyrig, Sacha closer to Lui. Starring : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pitoëff Saturday July 26 at 9:00 pm Marie-France Pisier A writer-director, Statues also die , by Alain Resnais and his producer and and secretary France (1953) – 27 minutes spin a story set This film, more on the train from apposite than Paris to Antwerp ever, explores that involves Elias, a cocaine European smuggler. As the story of the drug culture’s misuse runner gets revised, deconstructed, of African art, and emended by the trio of particularly sacred art. creators, Elias becomes a morph, changing his looks and demeanour Did X really meet A last year at Followed by : at will. Marienbad, or is he merely trying to Murie l, by Alain Resnais Friday August 1st at 9:00 pm seduce A away from her sinister France/Italy (1963) – 1:56 husband M with a false story (and is Starring : Delphine Seyrig, Jean- The man who lies , by Alain M really A’s husband anyway)? Pierre Kérien Robbe-Grillet Friday July 25 at 7:00 pm and A middle-aged France/ Czechoslovakia (1968) – Thursday July 31 at 9:00 pm widow living in 1:35 an antique- Starring : Jean-Louis Trintignant, The immortal woman , by Alain stuffed Dominique Prado Robbe-Grillet apartment in Boris Varissa, France/Italy/Turkey (1963) – 1:40 Boulogne apparently shot Starring : Françoise Brion, Jacques summons her ex-lover from Paris. down by the Doniol-Valcroze As she attempts to recapture the Germans, arrives Shortly after (illusory) happiness of their past, in a small town arriving in her stepson is driven to violence in which is in Istanbul, N, a a futile attempt to extinguish the mourning for a local resistance young teacher, memory of his role as a soldier in hero, Jean Robin, who disappeared meets L, a pretty the Algerian War. before the end of the war and is young woman Monday July 28 at 7:00 pm presumed dead. No one recognizes who becomes his guide… and his Boris, though he claims to have lover, but refuse to tell more about Eden and after , by Alain Robbe- been Jean’s assistant and saviour. her identity. Grillet Wednesday August 6 at 7:00 Friday July 25 at 8:45 pm France/ Czechoslovakia (1970) – pm 1:38 Hiroshima my love , by Alain Starring : Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Stavisky , by Alain Resnais Resnais Zimmer France/Italy (1974) – 2h00 France/Japan (1959) – 1:31 Parisian students Starring : Jean- Starring : Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji gather at a café Paul Belmondo, Okada ironically called Charles Boyer, Elle is visiting Hiroshima to play a The Eden not to Gérard nurse in an anti-war movie. During plot protests and Depardieu her time in the city she meets, and utopias – politics The true story of 11 the embezzler Serge Stavisky, who bribed his way into the centre of French political power and brought the government to the verge of collapse just before the Second Cinematheque Ontario World War. at Jackman Hall Art Gallery of Ontario Followed by : 317 Dundas Street West Night and fog , by Alain Resnais 416 968 3456 France/Italy (1955) – 30 minutes www.cinemathequeontario.ca Laborit expounds his behaviorist theories. These theories throw some light on, and echo the manner in which the three characters handle the situations life throws their way. Wednesday August 20 at 7:00 pm

1955: At the request of the committee for Second World War history, Alan Resnais goes to the scene where thousands of men, women and children lost their lives in Orianenbourg, Auschwitz, Dachau, Ravensbruck, Belsen, Neuengamme and Struthof. With the help of Jean Cayrol and various archived documents, he looks back on the painfully slow ordeal of the deportees. Thursday August 14 at 7:00 pm

Guernica , by Alain Resnais France (1950) – 12 minutes “A powerful cinematic exploration of Picasso’s painting of the Spanish village bombed by Franco in 1937, accompanied by readings from Paul Eluard’s poem on the disaster” (Peter Cowie).

Followed by : My American oncle , by Alain Resnais France (1980) – 2:05 Starring : Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia The stories of the lives of three people are told: René, a technical manager at a textile factory, Janine, a self-made actress/stylist and Jean, an ambitious politician /author: meanwhile Professor Henri 12 Film release in Toronto : Une vieille maîtresse, by Catherine Breillat remain faithful to his wife Hermangarde, a highly regarded young woman of the French aristocracy. When tempestuous Spanish mistress Vellini (Asia Argento) reappears in Ryno's life, offering him the passion and emotional connection he lacks in his marriage, he falls to temptation. His reluctant obsession with Vellini eventually overtakes his conscience, as he succumbs to the it's an arthouse treat." – BBC Films deceitful path of infidelity. "It's Breillat's strongest effort since "Full of gilded dialogue, opulent À ma soeur!, giving the insane but costumes and some philosophical riveting Asia Argento her juiciest musings about the nature of desire, role to date as the bitter ex-lover of a newly betrothed aristocrat." – Une vieille maîtresse, by Catherine The daily telegraph Breillat France (2007) – Drama – 1:50 Release on July 25 Starring : Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida Distributed in Canada by : Mongrel

In 19th century France, distin - guished, well-bred Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Ait Aattou) attempts to

Jules and Jim, by François Truffaut at Bloor Cinema black-and-white imagery, the story war, they settle into a quiet begins in 1920s Paris when Jules existence in the French and Jim first meet and become countryside. But Catherine is friends. As young single men, they restless and unfaithful. Jim reunites gallavant about Paris, chasing with his oldest and closest friends, women or studying ancient art, and Catherine makes room for him always animated, curious, and in their house, asking him to move charming. When they meet the equally energetic Catherine, whose impulses range from dressing up as a man to taking midnight plunges into the Seine, their circle is complete. But when World War II erupts, with Jules and Jim fighting on opposite sides, everything changes. Jules marries Catherine before going off to battle. After the Jules and Jim, by François Truffaut in and become her lover. Jim France (1961) – Dramatic comedy complies, as he wants nothing – 1:45 Starring : Jeanne Moreau, more than to please his friend Oskar Werner, Henri Serre Jules, who agrees to the plan.

The lifelong friendship between two Screening at the Bloor Cinema writers, French novelist Jim and (506 Bloor street west) Austrian children's author Jules, From July 29 to 31 and their mutual love for the http://bloorcinema.com/ eccentric Catherine. With artful 13 DVD releases The witnesses, by André Téchiné falls hard for Mehdi. Mehdi and get revenge for a childhood prank. France (2007) – Drama – 1:52 Manu start a torrid sexual affair, but The object of his revenge is down Starring : Michel Blanc, when Manu becomes ill with a on his luck fashion photographer Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila mysterious disease, the complex Vincent, currently broke and going entanglement between the four Sarah, a children's book author has protagonists--as well as Sandra, a just had her first child with husband prostitute who befriends Manu, and Mehdi, a vice cop. Sarah's doctor Julie, Manu's sister who wants to and close friend, Adrien, has fallen become an opera star--threatens to in love with the much younger tear everything apart. Sarah Manu, who enjoys being taken care discovers while writing her first of by the doctor but prefers a adult novel that she is not cut out platonic relationship--and instead to be a mother. Meanwhile, Adrien wants to be more than just a father figure to Manu. through a nasty divorce, his luck Le serpent , by Eric Barbier drops further when a model dies France (2006) – Thriller – 1:59 while in his care... Starring : Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Minna Haapkyla "Superior thriller adapted from a novel by Ted Lewis, the Get Carter A dark thriller about a man with a man, seamlessly relocated to con - snake tattoo that is determined to temporary France. " –

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Programmation de TFO Une affaire de femmes , by 1:39 Thursday July 10 Monday July 7 France (1988) – Drama – 1:43 Laisse tes mains sur mes Tuesday July 1st Betty , by Claude Chabrol hanches , by Chantal Lauby France (1992) – Drama – 1:39 France (2003) – Comedy – 1:51 Le souffle au cœur , by Tuesday July 8 Saturday July 12 France (1971) – Drama – 1:59 Thursday July 3 Le quai des brumes , by Marcel Carné Nettoyage à sec , by Anne France (1938) – Drama – 1:27 Fontaine Sunday July 13 France (1997) – Drama – 1:33 Saturday July 5 La voie lactée , by Luis Bunuel France (1969) – Comedy – 1:37 L’air de Paris , by Marcel Carné Monday July 14 France (1954) – Comedy drama – 1:39 Merci pour le chocolat , by Claude Sunday July 6 Betty Chabrol Switzerland/France (2000) – Drama Cet obscur objet du désir , by – 1:36 Luis Bunuel Lacombe Lucien , by Louis Malle Tuesday July 15 France (1977) – Comedy drama – France (1974) – Drama – 2:15 14 Black moon , by Louis Malle Grillet 1:29 France (1975) – Fantasy – 1:40 France (1983) – Fantasy – 1:24 Wednesday August 13 Thursday July 17 Saturday August 2 L 627 , by Bertrand Tavernier Les cahiers bleus , by Serge Leroy Le dimanche de la vie , by Jean France (1992) – Detective – 2:20 France (1991) – Drama – 1:23 Herman Thursday August 14 Saturday July 19 France (1967) – Comedy drama – 1:30 L’enclos , by Armand Gatti Les tricheurs , by Marcel Carné Sunday August 3 France/Yugoslavia (1960) – Drama Italie/France (1958) – Comedy – 1:38 drama – 1:58 Les misérables , by Josée Dayan Sunday August 17 Sunday July 20 France (2000) – Drama – 5:57 A 4 episodes series Classe tous risques , by Claude Le charme discret de la Mondays August 4, 11, 18 and 25 Sautet bourgeoisie , by Luis Bunuel France (1960) – Detective – 1:43 France (1972) – Comedy drama – Le pacha , by Georges Lautner Tuesday August 19 1:37 France (1968) –Detective – 1:21 Monday July 21 Tuesday August 5 La fille de d’Artagnan , by Bertrand Tavernier Le mouton noir , by Jean-Pierre France (1994) – Aventure – 2:04 Moscardo Thursday August 21 France (1979) – Detective – 1:34 Tuesday July 22 L’opéra de quat’sous , by Georg Wilhelm Au revoir les enfants , by Louis Germany/France (1931) – Musical Malle – 1:47 France (1987) – Drama – 1:43 Friday August 22 Thursday July 24 Les espions , by Henry-Georges Peau d’ange , by Vincent Perez Le Pacha Clouzot France (2002) – Drama – 1:40 Italy/France (1957) – Comedy Saturday July 26 drama – 2:17 Avec tout mon amour , by Amalia Sunday August 24 Remorques , by Jean Grémillon Escriva France (1941) – Drama – 1:19 France (2001) – Drama – 1:22 Soleil , by Roger Hanin Sunday July 27 Wednesday August 6 France/Italy (1996) – Drama – 1:40 Tandem , by Patrice Leconte Une semaine de vacances , by Tuesday August 26 France (1987) – Comedy drama – Bertrand Tavernier 1:26 France (1980) – Comedy drama – Kilomètre zéro , by Hiner Saleem Tuesday July 29 1:47 France/Iraq (2005) – Drama – 1:25 Thursday August 7 Wednesday August 27 Milou en mai , by Louis Malle France (1990) – Comedy drama – Nocturne indien , by Alain Capitaine Conan , by Bertrand 1:47 Corneau Tavernier Thursday July 31 France (1989) – Drama – 1:44 France (1996) – War – 2:06 Saturday August 9 Thursday August 28 La belle captive , by Alain Robbe- Les barbouzes , by Georges Cent jours à Palerme , by Lautner Giuseppe Ferrara France (1964) – Comedy – 1:52 France /Italy (1984) – Drama – Sunday August 10 1:32 Saturday August 30 French cancan , by Jean Renoir France (1955) – Comedy drama – Manon , by Henri-Georges Clouzot 1:39 France (1949) – Drama – 1:40 Tuesday August 12 Sunday August 31

Oublier Cheyenne , by Valérie All films are scheduled

Les misérables Minetto at 9:00 pm France (2005) – Comedy drama – www.tfo.org/horaire 15 Fall’s Highlights:

Lo cor de la plana in Toronto International Master Class with concert in Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) artist Orlan

European Film Festival International festival of “On ne badine pas avec Authors l’amour”, Théâtre Français

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