Bulletin Culturel July - August 2009 focus 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 - Jules and Jim - Breathless 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA The sign of Leo Pierrot le fou - To live her life - And God created woman 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 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 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA CINEMA Second Breath Léon Morin, The 400 blows - Lola Paris 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 - Playtime - Made in USA - Night Class 3456789 CINEMA CINEMA THEATER CINEMA CINEMA - Made in USA - Le beau Serge 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 Mon oncle 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 24/31 25 26 27 28 29 30 3 festival 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- Cannes Film Festival. 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 A Dry White Season (1989), starring Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon. 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.