Le Programme August – September 2017 02 Contents/Highlights

Home , Bob le flambeur, Le Doulos, Sara Forestier

Ciné Lumière 3–9

Talks & Special Events 10

Kids & Families 11

We Support 12 The Odyssey Jean-Pierre Melville Season Open House 25 Aug – 10 Sept 25 Aug – 1 Oct 16 & 17 Sept p.3 pp.8-9 p.10 We Recommend 13

French Courses 14

La Médiathèque 15

General Information 16–19

London Spanish Film Festival Valerian and the City of a Jane Birkin Thousand Planets preceded by a 21 – 24 Sept 26 Sept talk with Jean-Claude Mézières p.7 Barbican Centre & Pierre Christin p.13 30 Sept pp.6&10

front cover image: Back to Burgundy by Cedric Klapisch Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases

1946. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his family live a dream From the acclaimed director of Pot Luck and Russian Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. life in their house overlooking the Mediterranean sea. But Dolls, comes this touching family chronicle. After a When she encounters young Sacha, a child with Jacques yearns for adventures beneath the sea. With his decade touring around the world, Jean (Pio Marmaï) is problems, she is ready to do everything to help him, to the invention, the aqualung, his vessel, the Calypso, and a called back to his hometown in Burgundy to the bedside point of neglecting her own children, her own life, and of crew of free-spirited adventurers, he is ready to cross the of his terminally ill father. It’s the end of the summer and questioning her vocation. Little by little, Florence realises world’s oceans. But is this odyssey worth the sacrifices? the approaching grape harvest gives Jean the opportunity that there is no age limit to learning. With stunning images, a haunting soundtrack and a to reunite with his sister Juliette (Ana Girardot) and his superb cast including a magnetic Lambert Wilson as the brother Jérémie (François Civil) to agree on the future of Fri 8 Sept 8.40pm famous ocean explorer, The Odyssey is worth the journey. the family vineyard. Sat 9 Sept 4pm Tue 12 Sept 8.40pm Fri 25 Aug 4pm, 8.50pm Sat 2 Sept 6.20pm Fri 1 Sept 4pm, 8.50pm Thu 7 Sept 8.50pm Thu 14 Sept 4pm Sat 26 Aug 6.30pm, 8.50pm Sun 3 Sept 8.40pm Sat 2 Sept 2pm, 8.50pm Fri 8 Sept 4pm Sun 27 Aug 8.50pm Mon 4 Sept 6.20pm Sun 3 Sept 4.10pm, 6.25pm Sat 9 Sept 8.40pm FRENCHFILMFIRST Mon 28 Aug 4.10pm, 8.40pm Tue 5 Sept 8.45pm Mon 4 Sept 8.45pm Sun 10 Sept 8.40pm EXCLUSIVE Tue 29 Aug 6.20pm, 8.40pm Wed 6 Sept 4pm Tue 5 Sept 6.30pm Wed 13 Sept 3pm Wed 30 Aug 4pm, 6.25pm Thu 7 Sept 6.25pm Wed 6 Sept 6.30pm, 8.45pm Thu 14 Sept 8.40pm Thu 31 Aug 8.40pm Sun 10 Sept 6.15pm Fri 1 Sept 6.30pm 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases

A Journey Through Seven Days In Between French Cinema Sette giorni Bar Bahar ITA/CHE | 2016 | 96 mins | dir. Rolando Colla, with Bruno PSE/ISR/FRA | 2016 | 102 mins | dir. Maysaloun Hamoud, with Voyage à travers le cinéma français Todeschini, Alessia Barela, Gianfelice Imparato | cert. tbc Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura | cert. 15 FRA | 2015 | 190 mins | dir. Bertrand Tavernier, with Bertrand in Italian & French with EN subs in Hebrew & Arabic with EN subs Tavernier, André Marcon | cert. tbc | doc | in French with EN subs On a small Sicilian island, Ivan and Chiara have seven Winner of the Young Talents Award in the Women in days to prepare a wedding for his brother and her best Motion selection in Cannes this year, In Between follows A must for film lovers, this documentary charts the friend. Despite Ivan’s fear to repeat his previous failed the lives of three strong, independent minded Israeli- history of French cinema from the 1930s to early 1970s. relationship and Chiara not wanting to put her own Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. Delving into French classics and including interviews marriage at risk, the pair fall in love. Together they decide Away from the constraints of their families and enforced from Jean Renoir, Claude Sautet, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis to set an expiration date for their affair – the day the tradition, they find themselves ‘in between’ the free Malle and François Truffaut, Bertrand Tavernier explores wedding guests arrive. But love is not easily tamed… and unfettered lives they’re aspiring to lead and the the films that inspired him and showcases long lost restrictions still imposed on them by a blinkered society. movies that he has discovered during his researches. Fri 15 Sept 9.20pm Sat 16 Sept 9pm Wed 20 Sept 6.30pm Tue 26 Sept 6pm Fri 15 Sept 6pm Wed 20 Sept 3pm Mon 18 Sept 6pm Fri 22 Sept 8.50pm Wed 27 Sept 4pm Sat 16 Sept 3.15pm Sat 23 Sept 3.45pm Tue 19 Sept 6.30pm Sat 23 Sept 7.10pm Thu 28 Sept 8.40pm Sun 17 Sept 4pm Tue 26 Sept 8pm Wed 20 Sept 8.50pm Sun 24 Sept 4.20pm Fri 29 Sept 4pm Mon 18 Sept 7.50pm Thu 28 Sept 3pm Mon 25 Sept 8.30pm Sat 30 Sept 9pm

The screening on 20 Sept will be followed by a Q&A with director Maysaloun Hamoud Ciné Lumière New Releases Did You Miss It?

Insyriated On Body and Soul Alone in Berlin From the Land of BEL/FRA | 2017 | 85 mins | dir. Philippe Van Teströl és lélekröl UK/FRA/GER | 2016 | 103 mins | dir. Vincent the Moon Leeuw, with Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou HUN | 2017 | 116 mins | dir. Ildikó Enyedi, Perez, with Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas with Géza Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Brendan Gleeson | cert. 12 | in English Mal de pierres cert. 15 | in Arabic with EN subs Zoltán Schneider | cert. tbc | in Hungarian FRA/BEL | 2016 | 120 mins | dir. Nicole with EN subs When their son is killed in service, Otto Garcia, with Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, In war-torn Syria, a mother of three tries (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Emma Alex Brendemühl | cert. 15 | in French & to maintain a semblance of daily routine Marking a singular return for Hungarian Thompson) begin to write postcards Spanish with EN subs as she is trapped inside her house in a writer-director Ildikó Enyedi after an denouncing the Nazis and distribute them city under siege. Offering a safe haven to 18-year gap, On Body and Soul tells the across Berlin. As their silent anti-Nazi In this handsomely crafted adaptation of family and neighbours, she soon faces intriguing story of two slaughterhouse campaign builds momentum across Milena Agus’s novel, Marion Cotillard is the threat of bomb and sniper attacks. workers who live an unusual love story Berlin, they enter into a deadly game of Gabrielle, a sensual, independent-minded This nerve-wracking war drama won the in their shared dreams as a doe and a cat and mouse with Gestapo inspector woman. Married to a man she didn’t Panorama Audience Award at the 2017 deer. When their oneiric affair is revealed (Daniel Brühl). choose and vowed never to love, she Berlinale. to them by the company’s occupational becomes ill and is sent away to a cure in psychologist, they struggle to make their Sat 26 Aug 2pm the Alps. There, she meets André (Louis Fri 22 Sept 4pm dreams come true. Winner of the Golden Mon 28 Aug 6.30pm Garrel), a dashing injured veteran of the Sat 23 Sept 9.10pm Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Indochina war, who rekindles the passion Mon 25 Sept 6.30pm Festival 2017. buried in her. Wed 27 Sept 6.30pm Thu 28 Sept 6.30pm Fri 29 Sept 6.30pm Sat 26 Aug 4.10pm Fri 29 Sept 8.50pm Sun 27 Aug 6.30pm Sat 30 Sept 3.45pm Continues in October Wed 30 Aug 8.50pm

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©Christophe Raynaud de Lage Belle de jour Cyrano de Bergerac Valerian and the City of FRA/ITA | 1967 | col | 102 mins | dir. Luis Buñuel, with Theatre Broadcast from la Comédie-Française a Thousand Planets Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli | cert. 18 in French with EN subs | restored print Author: Edmond Rostand | Stage director: Denis Podalydès FRA/USA | 2017 | 137 mins | dir. Luc Besson, with Dane Costume designer : Christian Lacroix | with the troupe and Dehaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen | cert. 12 | in English Séverine is the elegant and privileged wife of a noted actors of the Académie de la Comédie-Française | Heroic doctor. Frigid in all aspects, she is each afternoon the comedy in 5 acts | 185 mins with one interval | in French with A dark force threatens the peaceful existence of Alpha, star attraction in a discreet brothel, behind her husband’s EN subs the city of a Thousand Planets and special operatives back… But how many of her activities are reveries and Valerian (Dane Dehaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) how many actually take place… even Buñuel cannot Cyrano is cursed with a prominent nose but gifted with must race to identify the marauding menace and answer. By the end, the real and imaginary meld… An words. He uses his talent to help handsome Christian win safeguard the future of the universes. Luc Besson (The exquisite tale of self-discovery and tragic passion. Roxane's heart, whom he also secretely loves... "A dream Fifth Element) brings to the screen the groundbreaking of total theatre, a mixture of arts and genres", according comic book by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières. Fri 8 Sept 6.30pm Thu 14 Sept 6.30pm to Denis Podalydès, Edmond Rostand's most popular Sat 9 Sept 6.15pm Fri 15 Sept 3.50pm work is revived by a brilliant production, winner of six Sat 30 Sept 6pm | £12, conc. £10 Sun 10 Sept 4.10pm Sun 17 Sept 8pm Molière awards. Tue 12 Sept 6.30pm Tue 19 Sept 8.40pm Followed by a Q&A with Jean-Claude Mézières and Wed 13 Sept 5.20pm Thu 21 Sept 4pm Wed 13 Sept 7.30pm Pierre Christin

Double bill: talk Valerian & Laureline Disclosed at 4.30pm + screening & Q&A: £15, conc. £13 (see p.10) Ciné Lumière London Spanish Film Festival

Jump in with Penélope (here in The Queen of Spain) on a journey across Spanish cinema! From clammy and gripping thrillers to hilarious comedies, seasoned directors comeback to debut films, all in all, expect glam, thrill and fun with the Spanish Film Festival! ¡Qué bien! > screenings are listed p.19 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: www.londonspanishfilmfestival.com 21-24 September image: The Queen of Spain 08 Ciné Lumière French Classics – Jean-Pierre Melville Season

Le Doulos Les Enfants Quand tu liras Bob le Flambeur FRA | 1962 | 108 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre terribles cette lettre Bob the Gambler Melville, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge FRA | 1955 | 100 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Reggiani, Michel Piccoli | cert. 12 | in French The Terrible Children When You Read This Letter Melville, with Roger Duchesne, Isabelle with EN subs | restored print FRA | 1949 | 105 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre FRA/ITA | 1953 | 113 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Corey, Daniel Cauchy | cert. PG | in French & Melville, with Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Melville, with Juliette Gréco, Philippe English with EN subs Appropriately, in a film devoted to the Dermithe, Renée Cosima | cert. 12 | in French Lemaire, Yvonne Sanson, Daniel Cauchy principle of duplicity, Melville teases the with EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Heist and double-crosses abound in this spectator by reproducing the police station Parisian gangster noir starring Roger from Mamoulian’s City Streets, while his Paris Essence and myth lie in the heart of Thérèse (Juliette Gréco), a would-be nun, Duchesne as the aging, broke and broken features American lamp-posts, call-boxes this story of a brother and young sister must assume charge over her vulnerable gambler who decides to make one last bid and subway entrances. Silien, by repute a who retreat into their imaginery world of younger sister Denise who has fallen under for financial security by robbing a casino. professional informer, plays a dangerous games and illusions never to be caught by the spell of Max (Philippe Lemaire), a This American gangster film à la française, game by keeping up his friendship with reality. Melville has managed to maintain reprobate low-life. First taking advantage of is considered as a precursor of the French both a policeman and a burglar. the poisonous and timeless charm of Denise, Max tries to seduce Thérèse, who, New Wave and has influenced the Ocean’s Cocteau’s novel. not immune to his charms but nevertheless Eleven series, as well as many recent Fri 25 Aug 6.30pm faithful to her religious commitment, gangster films. Sun 27 Aug 4.15pm Sun 27 Aug 2pm determines to save his lost soul. Mon 28 Aug 2pm Sun 10 Sept 2pm Thu 31 Aug 6.30pm Followed by a discussion with Sun 3 Sept 2pm 4.10pm Sat 2 Sept Nick Walker JEAN-PIERRE Followed by a discussion with Nick Walker MELVILLE Thu 7 Sept 4pm

JEAN - PIERRE Season presented in collaboration with the Jean-Pierre Melville Foundation MELVILLE FOUNDATION and the BFI, on the occasion of Melville centennial celebrations CENTENNIAL Ciné Lumière French Classics – Jean-Pierre Melville Season

Le Silence de la Deux hommes Léon Morin, Le Samouraï mer dans Manhattan prêtre FRA/ITA | 1967 | 105 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, with Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, The Silence of the Sea Two Men in Manhattan Léon Morin, Priest François Perrier | cert. PG | in French with FRA | 1949 | 87 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, FRA | 1959 | 82 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre FRA/ ITA | 1961 | 115 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre EN subs with Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Ami Melville, with Pierre Grasset, Jean Darcante, Melville, with Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Paul Aaröe | cert. U | in French with EN subs Paula Dehelly, Jean-Pierre Melville | cert. tbc Belmondo | cert. PG | in French & English The story of a solitary hit man increasingly in French with EN subs with EN subs ensnared in a web of harassment and An inspiration to the New Wave, Le Silence betrayal Le Samouraï is the most sombre de la mer centres on a cultivated Francophile Delmas and Moreau, two French Set during occupied France, Barny and poetic of all Melville’s gangster German officer billeted in a village outside journalists, are on the trail of a story – a (Emmanuel Riva), a faithless woman, finds films, and its final remains one of the Paris at an elderly Frenchman and his French diplomat has disappeared from herself inexorably falling in love with the most stunning yet enigmatic twists ever daughter’s, who defiantly remain mute the U.N. for no apparent reason. As they village’s radical, and above all, handsome commited to celluloid. in his presence. As the officer delivers wander through the city tracking down priest Léon Morin (Jean-Paul Belmondo). idealistic monologues about a new the reason for the disappearance, the Impervious to her provocations, the priest Sun 1 Oct 2pm Europe, he gradually realises how absurd journalists eventually discover that the makes it his mission to steer her onto the such a belief can be. diplomat has met with foul play… right path.

Introduced by Laurent Grousset, president Sun 17 Sept 2pm Sun 24 Sept 2pm of the Jean-Pierre Melville Foundation.

Preceded by 24 heures dans la vie d'un clown (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1964, 18 mins).

Sat 16 Sept 6.35pm 09 10 Talks & Special Events

©Delphine Jouandeau Open House Valerian & Laureline Reading Group Guided Tours & Archives Exhibition Disclosed The Reading Group will be back in October for a brand new season of discussing and reviewing French literature. Led by our team, discover the renovated Art Deco library, Jean-Claude Mézières & Pierre Christin in Conversation Save the date and join us for a literary discussion with a and everything you always wanted to know about the little French twist! Institut and its best kept secrets! The extensive and otherworldly work of Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin is one of the most Thu 12 Oct | Based on a True Story, by Delphine de Vigan Through guided tours and a special archives exhibition, influential in the whole sci-fi world as we know it. In 1967, (2017) - tr. G. Miller we will take you on a journey back in time, from Sonia they created the Valerian & Laureline comic book series, Delaunay to Charles de Gaulle while showing you the which tackles social and philosophical issues with a 7pm | 1h30 | in English & (easy) French | £5, members £3, Institut’s great architectural features. strong dose of mid-century radicalism and has just been including a glass of wine courtesy of Sud de France adapted into a film by Luc Besson. They will share and Sat 16 & Sun 17 Sept | from 12pm | free (registrations on discuss with the audience what makes their collaboration the day only) unique, between political commentary and colourful art.

La Médiathèque will be operating a full service from Sat 30 Sept 4.30pm Café Philo 12pm to 6pm, on Sun 17 Sept. 1h | in English | £7, members & conc. £5 Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical Double bill: talk + screening of Valerian and the City of a issues in an informal setting, the Institut’s Café Philo Thousand Planets & Q&A: £15, conc. £13 (see p. 6) meets every Saturday.

Discover Valerian and Laureline on Culturethèque. Sat 26 Aug, 2, 16 & 23 Sept | in English Sat 9 & 30 Sept | in French

10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | contact: [email protected] Kids & Families

Although September comes with bad news – it’s the end of the summer holidays – we will give you reasons to rejoice with a programme packed with exciting activities! image: Zarafa

CinéKids Screenings This month, cross deserts and meet pirates with Zarafa, or follow unlikely friendships leading to great adventures with My Life as a Courgette and Billy and Buddy. Our films for kids (and family) will cheer you up! Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am

Kids Activities Adding up to our tales for kids and babies and a big variety of workshops, come a series of game sessions (from board to > all Kids & Families activities are listed p.19 video games) and even a French learning lab for kids! > see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website: From 0 to 12 years old, our programme covers it all! www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families 12 We Support

Artificial Sensibility Oui Love #3 Medea Katinka Bock

Oui Love returns with the best of music made in France. Warming up for Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, it focuses on France's thriving psych scene, with Aquaserge, the woozy pop of Marietta and young shoegazers Dead Sea.

www.birthdaysdalston.com © Richard Haughton 21 Sept Birthdays The first UK show of French collective This autumn, UK audiences will have As part of The Traces Commissions at of artists, It's Our Playground, offers a Solo Exhibition: Mimosa Echard the opportunity to witness the English Siobhan Davies Studios, Paris-based reflection around Artificial Intelligence, language premiere of Jean René artist Katinka Bock’s new work aims when machines mimic human cognitive Lemoine’s startling contemporary re- to experiment with a new method for functions. imagining of the classic legend of passion creating meaningful encounters between and revenge, Medea, translated and visual artists and the dance practices. www.boningtongallery.co.uk directed by Neil Bartlett. www.siobhandavies.com 9 Sept – 21 Oct Bonington Gallery www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk 30 Sept – 22 Oct Siobhan Davies 28 – 29 Sept The Marlborough Studios Theatre

Cell Project Space presents the first Bloomberg New Contemporaries UK solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Mimosa Echard, which stems across the French artist Maïa Régis will showcase artist’s personal history to the experiences five pieces at Bloomberg New and contradictory sensations of modern Contemporaries, the annual touring life. exhibition offering a compelling snapshot of new works being made by some of the www.cellprojects.org most interesting artists emerging from UK fine art courses. 21 Sept – 5 Nov Cell Project Space Cultural events in the 'We Support' and www.newcontemporaries.org.uk 'We Recommend' sections are supported or recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art Projects, Diaphonique and the 29 Sept – 3 March New Contemporaries French Music Export Office. We Recommend

Isabelle Faust & Pablo Heras-Casado at Jim Jarmusch Revisited Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burell Quatuor Van Kuijk BBC Proms Artists including father of Ethio jazz The exhibition offers a rare opportunity Mulatu Astatke, Camille O'Sullivan, Franz to see stunning paintings, pastels and Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and a French drawings by leading French Impressionist string section of cellist Gaspar Claus and Edgar Degas: a unique insight into the violinist Carla Pallone (Mansfield TYA) practices and preoccupations of a complex pay tribute to Jarmusch's films and their and intensely private artist. soundtracks. www.nationalgallery.org.uk www.barbican.org.uk 20 Sept – 1 Apr The National 20 – 21 Sept Barbican Centre Gallery Winners of the Wigmore Hall’s prestigious French violinist Isabelle Faust with string quartet competition in 2015, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra brings Papooz Jane Birkin young French ensemble Quatuor Van Kuijk authentic period-instrument colour are currently BBC New Generation Artists. to three of Mendelssohn’s best-loved They will perform Mendelssohn's String orchestral works in a Proms matinee Quartet Op.44 n°2 and Ravel's String directed by rising young conductor Pablo Quartet in F major. Heras-Casado. www.stratfordmusicfestival.com www.bbc.co.uk 29 Sept Stratford on Avon 3 Sept Royal Albert Hall Music Festival ©Soko French Design Trail Based around the duo of Ulysse Cottin Birkin is still finding ways of bringing French designers are known around the and Armand Penicaut, Papooz pair jangly new life to Serge Gainsbourg's classic world for their talent, their sophistication guitars with brisk, danceable rhythms songs. Latest album Birkin/Gainsbourg: and above all for their creativity. This and an uncanny knack for memorable Le Symphonique, features lush symphonic year, 15 French showrooms are offering hooks. This year UK audiences have been interpretations, which for this London date an exclusive opportunity to explore the catching on to the likes of Anne Wants to she'll be performing with the Heritage inspiration and creative genius brought to Dance. Orchestra. London. www.mothclub.co.uk www.barbican.org.uk www.events-export.businessfrance.fr 25 Sept Moth Club 26 Sept Barbican Centre 17 – 25 Sept Various venues in London 13 14 French Courses

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