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Bulletin Culturel July - August 2009

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DJ Medhi

The Cinematheque Ontario presents The New Wave

UNIVERSAL CODE EXHIBITION AT THE POWER PLANT Gabriel Orozco, Black Kites Perspective

Summer paths lead you through meadows, marshlands and marches. Get rid of the astrolab, forget about GPS, whatever the compass : in such a mess, where is Contents the satellite bending over ? Time spend to cook is pure happiness. During harsh winter, Amélie Nothomb PAGE 4 - Festival shared with us her admiration for her sister Juliette’s recipes : « to please me, PAGE 5 - Exhibitions [she] cooks up, with a lot of humor, theorically freakish dishes, at the end I enjoy PAGE 6 - Theater them so much. Green tea chesnut spread is my favorite, but overall, sweet tooth obliged, is the Mont Fuji cake which remembers me about my descent… »* PAGE 7 - Music Power Plant invites artists dealing with beginnings to end mysteries, the Cine- PAGE 9 - Cinema matheque offers on-going images’ feast. DJ Medhi and M83 go electro.

Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel

* « La cuisine d’Amélie, 80 recettes de derrière les fagots » by Juliette Nothomb. July 2009

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 12 3 4 5 CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA - A woman is a - Alphaville The Nun woman - - Breathless

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA The sign of Leo - To live her life - And God created woman

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CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA THEATER THEATER - Band of Out- Les bonnes Bob le flam- Je serais tou- Je serais tou- siders femmes beur jours là ... jours là ... - All the boys MUSIC are called M 83 Patrick

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CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA Second Breath Léon Morin, - Lola belongs priest /The Brats - A double tour to us THEATER THEATER THEATER THEATER THEATER Je serais tou- Je serais tou- Je serais tou- Je serais tou- Je serais tou- jours là ... jours là ... jours là ... jours là ... jours là ... MUSIQUE: DJ Medhi 27 28 29 30 31 News editor: Joël Savary CINEMA CINEMA Creative writer: Julien Mazéas Made in USA Mr Hulot’s Audiovisual: Pervenche Beurier Holiday Music: Sarah Galau Sub-editor: Virginie Angelliaume Graphist : Coralie Fondeville www.paro-creation.com/ 2 August 2009

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 12 CINEMA CINEMA - The Big Day - - Made in USA - Night Class

3456789 CINEMA CINEMA THEATER CINEMA CINEMA - Made in USA - Je serais tou- Ne touchez pas Army of Sha- - Traffic - A girl cut in jours là ... la hache dow THEATER two MUSIC Je serais tou- Patrick Gallois jours là ... CINEMA - In praise of love - Masculine Feminine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA THEATER CINEMA CINEMA - Parade THEATER The wise guy Je serais tou- - Shoot the - La collection- - Bad company Je serais tou- THEATER jours là ... piano player neuse - Les enfants jours là ... Je serais tou- - My night at - The romance terribles THEATER jours là ... Maud’s of Astrea and Je serais tou- Celadon jours là ...

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA Adieu Philip- Méditerranée/ - Elevator to - The Silence Le doulos pine Suzanne’s Ca- the gallows of the Sea reer/ - Le samourai - Les cousins Love exists

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EUZHAN PALCY SATURDAY JULY 11 NOON AUDITORIUM WILLIAM DOO 45 WILLCOCKS STREET NEW COLLEGE EUZHAN PALCY UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Celebrating its fourth anniversary, integrate the public schools, “The 2001, she was presented with the Caribbean Tales Film Festival, Killing Yard” (2001), “Parcours de Sojourner Truth Award at the Canada’s only standalone event Dissidents”, narrated by Oscar- . In 2004 she offering the best of Caribbean cin- Nominated and esteemed French was the recipient of the famous ema from around the world, pres- actor, Gerard Depardieu, and the French Medal of Honor. ents four exciting days of film French three-hour period pieceset screenings, thought-provoking in the 17th century, “Les Mariées Talk Back sessions, industry pan- de I’isles Bourbon” 2007. Join us for an intimate lunch with els, workshops, a Filmmakers’ Euzhan Palcy, and a screening of Forum and a Youth Day, from July her feature film, A Dry White Sea- 9th to 12th 2009 at New College In 1994, she was honored with the son followed by a Q&A session, on University of Toronto, in the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du July 11th 12:00 p.m. at the William Doo Auditorium. The Mérite (Knight in the National William Doo Auditorium (45 Will- theme, Caribbean Film – A Tool for Order Merit) from French Presi- cocks Street), New College, Uni- Education and Social Change, fea- dent, Francois Mitterrand. In versity of Toronto. tures presentations and screen- ings by filmmakers and producers from Trinidad and Tobago, Ja- maica, Barbados, Antigua, the Eastern Caribbean, the UK, Africa, the U.S., and Canada.

This year the Festival honours the career of award-winning French director Euzhan Palcy, who be- came the first woman of African descent to direct a Hollywood movie, with MGM’s (1989), starring , and . Her other works include “Ruby Bridges” (1998) the compelling story of the little New Orleans girl who was the first to 4 UNIVERSAL CODE THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY exhibitions HARBOURFRONT CENTRE 231 QUEENS QUAY WEST UNIVERSAL CODE FREE ENTRANCE UNTIL AUGUST 30 For the fourth year running, The maining cultural characteristics day materials and images into un- Power Plant is pleased to an- that distinguish different regions expected, charged, and some- nounce that it will be offering from one another. times shocking artistic free gallery admission all summer. declarations. He pulls freely from This year, the gallery’s featured Mircea Cantor myriad sources- personal, social, summer exhibition is ‘Universal and political- to create a visual Code,’ a largescale group exhibi- language that is simultaneously tion presenting responses from a rich and economical, sensitive and broad range of contemporary controversial, radical and mun- artists to cosmology and ideas of dane. the universal in our current infor- Thomas Hirschhorn mation age. ‘Universal Code’ con- Thomas Hirschhorn came to in- siders the response of artists to ternational attention with his per- these relationships in the after- ishable monuments. Neglecting math of globalization, reflecting material worth, his work encom- the current complexity of the passes diverse sculptural models world we inhabit. Ultimately their in an impoverished taste for the response is poetic, positioning the product wrappings of consumer universe as a void full of potential Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a vi- industry such as aluminum foil, but also as a field riddled by eli- sual artist who has received plastic, cardboard and plywood. sion and enigma.In addition to a wideacclaim for his subtle com- Following a logic of ephemerality, work of Gabriel Orozco, a Mexican mentary on issues of contempo- artist often in Paris, this exhibi- rary society. This includes, on a tion is an opportunity to discover larger scale, the positives and four major artists currently living negatives of globalization. His in France. work follows in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp in that he em- Tania Mouraud ploys Readymade objects or iconography to elicit the ambigui- ties of everyday life in this post- modern era of cultural overlap with the disintegration of cultural boundaries.

Adel Abdessemed Hirschhorn’s perishable monu- Abdessemed transforms every- ments to Benedict de Spinoza (Amsterdam,1999), Gilles Deleuze Mouraud reveals the identity of (Avignon, 2000), Georges Bataille the different environments she (2002, Kassel) and Antonio Gram- visits through a close examination sci,reflected upon communalcom- of the site’s distinctive tempera- mitment and “the quality of ment and its inhabitants’ ways of internal beauty” thinking. In an increasingly global society, she is interested in the re- 5 DES VOSGES AU LUXEMBOURG BY C. INGLIS THE ALL SUMMER Des Vosges au Luxembourg based on four broad themes: reading, lazing about, con- A walk through the parks, gardens versation and inhabited nature. and squares of Paris From June 6 until September 26, AFT SPADINA Photos by Clarissa Inglis Galerie Pierre-Léon, 24 Spadina Road This exhibit is not a collection of postcard-type images of Free entrance Paris. Rather, it casts a sociologist’s eye upon the manner in which Parisians occupy spaces that are both « natural» and deeply rooted in the urban fabric. The exhibit is

Theater

JE SERAI TOUJOURS LÀ POUR TE TUER FROM JULY 18 UNTIL AUGUST 16

Pure Cassis Productions presents without warning. But she chickens out and I’LL ALWAYS BE THERE TO KILL YOU wants a delay - Give me one more week. (JE SERAI TOUJOURS LÀ POUR TE TUER) I am not relaxed enough to die yet... In- trigued, Simon decides to play the game. At the Hamilton Fringe Festival (July 16- 26) and at the SummerWorks Theatre Fes- How often can you see two versions of tival in Toronto (Aug 6-16) the same show during the same run! This is your chance to see both the French and A play by Sophie Tonneau, directed by- the English production of this fantastic Patricia Marceau, with Geneviève Trilling, Parisian play!! Christian Smith and Manuel Verreydt. Stage manager Gabriel Dubé- Set design Hamilton Theatre Inc. - 140 MacNab Dominic Manca Street North, Hamilton Factory Studio Theatre - 125 Bathurst St English translation by Geneviève Trilling July 18: 4:30pm (at Adelaide), Toronto July 19: 3:30pm August 6: 4pm (English) A romantic thriller that will make you July 22: 9:00pm August 8: 8pm (French) quiver! July 23: 7:30pm August 10: 6pm (French) July 24: 9:00pm August 12: 10pm (English) His name is Simon, she calls him Alfred. July 25: 6:00pm (this show will be in August 15: 6pm (English) This funny lady is Helen. French) August 16: 12pm (French) She wants to die and hired Simon to do July 26: 12:00 noon Tickets: $10 - advance $12 - the job. Simple, he keeps her company, Tickets: $9 - www.hamiltonfringe.ca www.summerworks.ca lets her live a while and then kills her, 6 Music

M83..WELCOME BACK ! JULY 17

It’s at the beginning of the millen- Today more into electronic music nium, in the room of a teenager pas- their remix are just as awesome as sionate about Sonic Youth and Mogwa their own creation. The band is cur- that M83 was created. Since then the rently doing the first part of the De- band knows a huge success and in five peche Mode Tour but will be back in albums, Anthony Gonzalez has learnt Toronto on July 17 at the Phoenix. to affirm his sound modern and dream-like, influenced by Tangerine 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto Dream and My Bloody Valentine. Tel: 416-323-1251

KASSAV JULY 24

Kassav, the zouk group par excel- lence, which invented zouk, has be- come a living legend. All the Caribbean musical influences inter- mingle with funk and rock to produce an unusual, rhythmic cocktail. Enough to make the entire planet dance. The fan of rythmics night will be able to go practices some zouk moves on July 24 at the Phoenix Theater at 9pm.

7 DJ MEDHI @ TIME FESTIVAL JULY 25

DJ Medhi has started to spin his various music influence as reggae, Francisco) and will make elec- vinyl as soon as he jumped into jazz and rock’n roll. Tree years tronic music fans happy in rap music during summer 1987. In later, in April 2005, DJ Medhi re- Toronto, where he will play for 1992, he became a member of leased his second EP “Des Frian- the Time Festival on July 25 at IdealJ, a band that quickly be- dises pour ta bouche”, made in Sound Academy. came a reference in French Hip collaboration with the very Hop. He was, at the same time, polemical Romain Costas Gravas producing tracks from well estab- (director). In 2006, DJ Medhi knew lished artists as MC Solaar and a real consecration with his EP both album of the 113 Band (the Lucky Boy which has been a huge second one have been certified success. platinum and rewarded two Vic- toire of French Music Award). As a part of the Ed Banger crew (as long with Justice, Busy P, Se- DJ Medhi’s first EP, Espion re- bastian..), he is spinning around leased in 2002, respects all ele- the entire world ( from Ibiza to mentary rap’s codes and is full of Los Angeles, Coachella or San

TIME FESTIVAL SATURDAY, JULY 25 11 POLSON ST., TORONTO INFOS : 416 649-7437 WWW.TIME-FESTIVAL.COM

PATRICK GALLOIS AT THE TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL AUGUST 8

Patrick Gallois is one of those French He is invited on a regular basis by Walter hall, Edward Johnson Build- artists that are part of the interna- the most prestigious European and ing University of Toronto, 80 Queen's tional scene. Asian orchestras and in all classic Park, Toronto music festivals. Beside his love for ro- When he was 17, he entered into the mantic music he is always pleased to Infos et tickets: www.tsmaf.ca/ Conservatory of Music of Paris and be- interpret contemporary concertos. came, at 21, first flute of the national orchestra of France under the direc- The famous flutist will be on stage tion of Lorin Maazel. He stayed in the with the pianist from Sweden Cecilia orchestra until 1984 when he started Löfstrand on August 8, 2009, at the a soloist international career that Walter Hall for the Toronto Summer made him travel the entire World. Music Festival.

8 Cinema All screenings take place at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West THE , THEN AND NOW

One of the two most important and BREATHLESS (A BOUT DE SOUFFLE) THE NUN (LA RELIGIEUSE) influential movements in postwar by Jean-Luc Godard, 1959, 90mins By , 1966, 137 mins film – the other is Italian neorealism, With Jean Seberg, J.-P. Belmondo With et Liselotte Pulver to which it is closely related – the Folllowed by Sunday, July 5, 7:00 pm nouvelle vague or French New Wave inspired independent cinema in coun- (UNE HISTOIRE D’EAU) THE SIGN OF LEO () tries from Asia to Latin America, cre- by J.-L. Godard and François Truffaut By Éric Rohmer, 1959, 92mins ating enough new waves to make an 1958, 18mins, avec J.-C. Brialy With Jess Hahn, Michèle Girardon ocean. The brash young directors of Friday, July 3, 8:45 pm Followed by the nouvelle vague (Godard, Chabrol, THE GIRL AT THE MONCEAU BAKERY Rivette, Rohmer, Truffaut) reinvented ALPHAVILLE (LA BOULANGÈRE DE MONCEAU) and reinvigorated not only French By Éric Rohmer, 1962, 23mins cinema, but the world’s in the Monday, July 6, 7:00 pm process (and continue to do so; “new wave” remains the term of choice to PIERROT LE FOU name any new or rejuvenated na- By Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 110mins tional cinema, Romania, Mexico, and With J.-P. Belmondo, Anna Karina Argentina being recent examples). Tuesday, July 7, 7:00 pm Having just reached its half-century mark, this key movement receives a TO LIVE HER LIFE major appraisal in this summer-long By Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 98mins (VIVRE SA VIE) series, which features many essential With Anna Karina et Eddie Constantine By Jean-Luc Godard, 1962, 85mins classics, but also many rarities, in- Saturday, July 4, 7:00 pm With Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot cluding works by directors either lit- Thursday, July 9, 7:00 pm tle known here or considered fellow travellers or outliers of the New JULES AND JIM (JULES ET JIM) AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Wave. Fortunately, many of the cen- By François Truffaut, 1967, (ET DIEU CRÉA LA FEMME) tral figures of the New Wave are still 104mins By Roger Vadim, 1956, 92mins going strong, indeed producing some With et Oscar With Brigitte Bardot, Curt Jugens of their best work, so the Cinemath- Werner Thursday, July 9, 8:45 pm eque Ontario has included four of Saturday, July 4, 9:00 pm their recent films to illustrate this in- spiriting persistence of vision. (James Quandt)

A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME) By Jean-Luc Godard, 1961, 84mins With Anna Karina, J.-P. Belmondo Friday, July 3, 7:00 pm

9 THE FRENCH NEW WAVE, THEN AND NOW (2)

BAND OF OUTSIDERS (BANDE À PART) À DOUBLE TOUR THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS By Jean-Luc Godard, 1964, 92mins By , 1959, 110mins (NE TOUCHEZ PAS À LA HACHE) with Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur WIth J.-P. Belmondo, M. Robinson By Jacques Rivette, 2007, 137mins Followed by Saturday, July 25, 8:45 pm With J. Balibar, Guillaume Depar- ALL THE BOYS ARE CALLED PATRICK dieu (TOUS LES GARÇONS S’APPELLENT Sunday, August 9, 7:00 pm PATRICK) (PARIS NOUS APPARTIENT) By Jean-Luc Godard, 1957, 21mins By Jacques Rivette, 1960, 140mins THE WISE GUY With J.-C. Brialy, Anne Colette With Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito (LES GODELUREAUX) Monday, July 13, 7:00 pm Sunday, July 26, 7:00 pm By Claude Chabrol, 1961, 100mins With J.-C. Brialy, MADE IN USA Monday, August 10, 7:00 pm By Claude Chabrol, 1960, 102mins By J.-L. Godard, 1966, 90mins With Bernadette Lafont, Stéphane With Anna Karina, J.-P. Léaud Audran Thursday, July 30, 7:00 pm (TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE) Thursday, July 16, 8:45 pm Saturday, August 1, 8:45 pm By François Truffaut, 1960, 84mins Thursday, August 6, 7:00 pm With , THE 400 BLOWS Thursday, August 13, 7:00 pm (LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS) LE BEAU SERGE By François Truffaut, 1959, 99mins By Claude Chabrol, 1958, 97mins MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S With J.-P. Léaud, Albert Rémy With Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy (MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD) Followed by Friday, August 7, 7:00 pm By Éric Rohmer, 1968, 110mins, THE BRATS () With J.-L. Trintignant, Françoise By François Truffaut, 1957, 23mins A GIRL CUT IN TWO Fabian, M.-C. Barrault With Gérard Blain Bernadette Lafont (LA FILLE COUPÉE EN DEUX) Thursday, August 13, 8:45 pm Thursday, July 23, 9:00 pm By Claude Chabrol, 2007, 115mins With Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel LOLA Friday, August 7, 9:00 pm By , 1961, 91mins With Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel IN PRAISE OF LOVE Saturday, July 25, 7:00 pm (ÉLOGE DE L´AMOUR) By J.-L. Godard, 2001, 98mins With Bruno Putzulu,Cécile Camp Saturday, August 8, 7:00 pm By Éric Rohmer, 1966, 85mins MASCULINE FEMININE With Haydée Politoff, Patrick Bachau (MASCULIN FÉMININ) Friday, August 14, 7:00 pm By J.-L. Godard, 1966, 110mins With Jean-Pierre Léaud, ChantalGoya THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND Saturday, August 8, 9:00 pm CELADON (LES AMOURS D´ASTRÉE ET DE CELADON) By Éric Rohmer, 2007, 109mins With Andy Gillet, Cécile Cassel Friday, August 14, 8:45 pm 10 THE FRENCH NEW WAVE, THEN AND NOW (END)

BAD COMPANY MÉDITERRANÉE LES COUSINS (LES MAUVAISES FRÉQUENTATIONS) By Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963, 45mins By Claude Chabrol, 1953, 103mins By , 1963, 42mins Followed by With Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy With Aristide, Daniel Bart SUZANNE’S CAREER Saturday, August 22, 8:45 pm Followed by (LA CARRIÈRE DE SUZANNE) SANTA CLAUS HAS BLUE EYES By Éric Rohmer, 1963, 52mins (LE PÈRE NOËL A LES YEUX BLEUS) With Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzin By Jean Eustache, 1966, 47mins Followed by With J.-P. Léaud, Gérard Zimmer- LOVE EXISTS (L´AMOUR EXISTE) mann By , 1960, 20mins Saturday, August 15, 7:00 pm Tuesday, August 18, 7:00 pm

ADIEU PHILIPPINE ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS By Jacques Rosier, 1962, 106mins (ASCENSEUR POUR L´ÉCHAFAUD) With J.-C. Almimi, Yveline Cery By , 1957, 90mins Monday, August 17, 7:00 pm With Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet Thursday, August 20, 7:00 pm THE FRENCH CONNECTION: JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE In one of the more unfortunate THE RED CIRCLE (LE CERCLE ROUGE) LE SAMOURAI mishaps of film history, the French By J.-P. Melville, 1970, 140mins By J.-P. Melville, 1967, 109mins New Wave became famous among With Yves Montand, Alain Delon With Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon North American critics and cinephiles, Sunday, July 19, 7:00 pm Thursday, August 20, 8:45 pm while the man who fathered the movement, Jean-Pierre Melville, lan- SECOND BREATH THE SILENCE OF THE SEA guished in coterie obscurity. With the (LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE) (LE SILENCE DE LA MER) imprimatur of Tarantino, Woo, and By J.-P. Melville, 1966, 150mins By J.-P. Melville, 1947, 88mins Scorsese, and the recent re-release of With Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse With Howard Vernon, Nicole such films as Le Doulos and the phe- Tuesday, July 21, 7:00 pm Stéphane nomenally successful Army of Shad- Saturday, August 22, 7:00 pm ows, this major director has finally LÉON MORIN, PRIEST received some of the attention here By J.-P. Melville, 1961, 117mins LE DOULOS he has long deserved. A figure of ines- With J.-P. Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva By J.-P. Melville, 1962, 108mins timable importance, Melville is the Wednesday, July 22, 7:00 pm With J.-P. Belmondo, Serge Reggiani French connection, the central nexus Sunday, August 23, 7:00 pm between American and French cin- ARMY OF SHADOWS ema, between the tradition which (L´ARMÉE DES OMBRES) preceded him and the nouvelle By J.-P. Melville, 1969, 145mins vague. (James Quandt) With Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret Tuesday, August 4, 7:00 pm BOB LE FLAMBEUR By J.-P. Melville, 1956, 97mins LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES With Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey By J.-P. Melville, 1949, 105mins Friday, July 17, 7:00 pm With É. Derminthe, Nicole Stéphane Saturday, August 15, 8:45 pm 11 SCATTERBRAINED ANGEL: THE FILMS OF

A complete retrospective of one of MR. HULOT’S HOLIDAY the greatest artists in all cinema, in (LES VACANCES DE ) THE BEGINNING AND END OF new 35mm prints imported from By Jacques Tati, 1953, 90mins TATI’S CAREER: France by the Consulate General of With Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud France in Toronto. Friday, July 31, 7:00 pm PARADE

This retrospective chronicles the ca- reer of the “scatter-brained angel” who, with a small body of work, deci- sively transformed both the tradition of film comedy and the conventions of cinematic space, framing, narra- tive and sound. Just as Jacques Tati can be placed in any number of line- ages – from Buster Keaton to Mr. Bean By Jacques Tati, 1974, 75mins and Pee Wee Herman, Mack Sennett With Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer to Blake Edwards, to Preceded by Jacques Rivette – his films can be in- THE BIG DAY (JOUR DE FÊTE) THE SCHOOL FOR POSTMEN terpreted and enjoyed in diverse By Jacques Tati, 1949, 90mins (L´ÉCOLE DES FACTEURS) ways. For many, his work is pure, ab- With Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur By Jacques Tati, 1947, 18mins stract slapstick, full of delightful vi- Saturday, August 1, 7:00 pm and sual wit, droll physical humour and SOIGNE TON GAUCHE Gallic irony. For others, the films are PLAYTIME By , 1936, 20mins “contradictory texts:” Cartesian By Jacques Tati, 1967, 123mins Saturday, August 15, 4:00 pm comedies that argue against order With Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek and logic; works centred on accidents Friday, July 31, 7:00 and anarchy – his last film was going Followed by MON ONCLE to be called Confusion – whose fastid- NIGHT CLASS () By Jacques Tati, 1958, 116mins ious designs allow little contingency; By Jacques Tati et Nicolas Ribowski, With Jacques Tati, J.-P. Zola critiques of modernism and technol- 1953, 90mins Tuesday, August 11, 7:00 pm ogy that revel in modernism and rely Sunday, August 2, 7:00 pm (spectacularly) on technology; satires that champion humanity over mecha- TRAFFIC nisms and individuality over unifor- By Jacques Tati, 1971, 100mins mity, but whose mise en scène With Jacques Tati, Maria Kimberly determinedly (and delightedly) sub- Thursday, August 6, 8:45 pm jugates humans to decor, design, ar- chitecture, mazes and machinery. (James Quandt)

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