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Le Programme December 2018 – January 2019 CS5-DEC18-JAN19-le-programme-PRINT.indd 1 21/11/2018 17:13 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3-13 Night of Ideas 14 Before the Night 15 The Little Night 16 Game-On Comedies Made in France Sink or Swim 4 - 8 Dec 2 - 20 Dec 5 - 16 Jan Kids & Families 17 p. 18 - 20 p.13 p.3 Game On – The Geek Week 18-20 Talks & Music 21 We Support 23 We Recommend 24 Best of 2018 Night of Ideas The London International Mime La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 25 18 - 26 Jan 31 Jan Festival p. 9 - 10 p. 14 9 Jan - 3 Feb p. 23 French Courses 26 various venues in London General Information 29 front cover image: Return of the Hero by Laurent Tirard Programme design by dothtm CS5-DEC18-JAN19-le-programme-PRINT.indd 2 21/11/2018 17:13 Ciné Lumière New Releases © Casa Azul Films - Ecran Noir Suspiria The Image Book Sink or Swim ITA/USA | 2018 | 152 mins | dir. Luca Guadagnino, with Le Livre d’image Le Grand bain Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Doris FRA/CHE | 2016 | 84 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard | cert. 15 FRA | 2018 | 123 mins | dir. Gilles Lellouche, with Mathieu Hick | cert. 18 | in English, German & French with EN subs in Arabic, English, French & Italian with EN subs Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs A darkness swirls at the centre of a world-renowned Following his most recent full-length work, Goodbye to dance company, one that will engulf the artistic Language, Jean-Luc Godard pushes his exploration of A group of 40-something guys decide to form their local director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving words, sounds and images to vivid new extremes in this pool’s first ever synchronised swimming team – for men. psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. complex, dizzying mosaic of film, essay and collage. This Braving skepticism and ridicule, the group set out on an Others will finally wake up. Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By polyphonic discourse about the contemporary condition unlikely adventure. This huge Box-Office hit in France is a Your Name) pays tribute to Dario Argento’s 1977 horror shows Godard, at 87, as intransigently and vitally moving comedy about dreams that can come true even if film Suspiria with an exquisite, almost exclusively female confrontational as ever and won him a Special Palme we don’t dare believe in them. cast including Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson and Chloë d’Or in Cannes this year. Grace Moretz. Wed 5 Dec 6.30pm* Thu 10 Jan 4pm, Sun 2 Dec 4pm Fri 14 Dec 8.40pm* 6.20pm Sat 1 Dec 6pm Sat 8 Dec 4.10pm Fri 4 Jan 8.50pm Fri 11 Jan 8.40pm Mon 3 Dec 8.30pm Mon 17 Dec 6.30pm Sat 5 Jan 4pm, 8.50pm Sat 12 Jan 6.30pm Wed 5 Dec 3.15pm Sun 6 Jan 4pm Sun 6 Jan 7.45pm Sun 13 Jan 4.20pm Mon 7 Jan 6.15pm Mon 14 Jan 6.20pm See also Bande à part by Jean-Luc Godard (p.14) Tue 8 Jan 8.50pm Tue 15 Jan 8.40pm Wed 9 Jan 8.50pm Wed 16 Jan 3.45pm *Preview screenings as part of the Comedies Made in France season (see p.11) 03 CS5-DEC18-JAN19-le-programme-PRINT.indd 3 21/11/2018 17:13 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases Return of the Hero Disobedience An Impossible Love Le Retour du héros ARG/USA | 2017 | 115 mins | dir. Sebastiàn Lelio, with Rachel Un amour impossible FRA/BEL | 2018 | 90 mins | dir. Laurent Tirard, with Jean Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola | cert. 15 FRA | 2018 | 135 mins | dir. Catherine Corsini, with Virginie Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, Noémie Merlant | cert. 12 in English Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth | cert. tbc | in French with in French with EN subs EN subs From Sebastián Lelio (Academy Award-winning A A charming comedy romp starring the ever-amusing Fantastic Woman) comes this powerful tale set at the Based on a book by controversial French novelist Jean Dujardin as a swashbuckling swindler who tries to crossroads of personal desires and the demands of faith. Christine Angot, Catherine Corsini’s (Summertime) film take advantage of an aristocratic family. Captain Neuville When her estranged rabbi father suddenly passes away, begins in the 1950s, as office worker Rachel (Virginie vanished during one of Napoleon’s wars while engaged Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns from New York to the north Efira) falls for the dashing Philippe (Niels Schneider). to Elisabeth’s (Mélanie Laurent) sister. Elisabeth forged London Orthodox Jewish community. Ronit’s presence They embark on a passionate relationship but he won’t letters from Neuville to cheer her sister up, but when immediately courts controversy when she runs into Esti share his life with her, and she raises their daughter a cowardly and dishevelled Neuville returns, both are (Rachel McAdams), the woman for whom she shared Chantal alone. Years later, the darker side of Philippe’s caught up in the lies. an illicit attraction in their childhood. This reunion soon nature emerges shockingly... reignites the two women’s burning, long-unrequited Fri 7 Dec 4pm, 6.30pm Fri 14 Dec 6.30pm passions. Fri 4 Jan 6.20pm Thu 10 Jan 8.40pm Sat 8 Dec 8.40pm Sun 16 Dec 7.30pm Sat 5 Jan 6.20pm Fri 11 Jan 3.45pm Sun 9 Dec 8.30pm Wed 19 Dec 6.30pm Fri 7 Dec 8.40pm Fri 14 Dec 4pm Sun 6 Jan 5pm Sat 12 Jan 4pm Mon 10 Dec 9pm Thu 20 Dec 4pm, 8.30pm Sat 8 Dec 6pm Sat 15 Dec 8.40pm Mon 7 Jan 8.40pm Sun 13 Jan 8.45pm Wed 12 Dec 6.15pm Wed 2 Jan 6.30pm Sun 9 Dec 6.15pm Sun 16 Dec 5pm Tue 8 Jan 6.20pm Wed 16 Jan 6.20pm Thu 13 Dec 8.50pm Thu 3 Jan 8.45pm Tue 11 Dec 8.40pm Wed 19 Dec 8.30pm Wed 9 Jan 3.45pm, 6.20pm Thu 17 Jan 3.30pm Wed 12 Dec 4pm See also Comedies Made in France Season (p.11) CS5-DEC18-JAN19-le-programme-PRINT.indd 4 21/11/2018 17:13 Ciné Lumière New Releases The House by the Sea Colette One Nation, One King La Villa UK/HUN/FRA | 2017 | 112 mins | dir. Wash Westmoreland, Un peuple et son roi FRA | 2017 | 107 mins | dir. Robert Guédiguian, with Ariane with Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona FRA | 2017 | 121 mins | dir. Pierre Schoeller, with Gaspard Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan | cert. tbc Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson | cert. 18 | in English Ulliel, Adèle Haenel, Olivier Gourmet, Louis Garrel | cert. tbc in French with EN subs in French with EN subs Colette is the story of a woman who has been denied By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa her voice by an overbearing man, and who goes to In this inspirational and epic drama Pierre Schoeller (The owned by an old man. His three children have gathered extraordinary lengths to find it, becoming one of France’s Minister) conveys the scale of events of the 1789 French by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh best-selling authors (still to this day). This battle of the Revolution from the point of view of ordinary people, who, up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and sexes at the very beginning of the modern age, when for the first time, were able to power events and develop the community spirit he created in this magical place. seismic shifts were taking place in the roles of men and a national consciousness instead of remaining passive The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people women, is delivered by Wash Westmoreland, Oscar- victims. will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil. winning director of Still Alice, and stars a sensational Guédiguian offers a deeply humanist and melancholic Keira Knightley. Fri 25 Jan 6.20pm* tale supported by wonderful actors. Sat 26 Jan 8.40pm Fri 18 Jan 8.50pm Thu 24 Jan 6.30pm Sun 27 Jan 6pm Fri 11 Jan 6.30pm Thu 17 Jan 9.10pm Sat 19 Jan 4pm, 8.50pm Fri 25 Jan 9pm Mon 28 Jan 6.30pm Sat 12 Jan 8.50pm Fri 18 Jan 4pm Sun 20 Jan 8.55pm Sat 26 Jan 4pm Sun 13 Jan 6.40pm Sun 20 Jan 6.50pm Mon 21 Jan 6.20pm Sun 27 Jan 8.20pm * Screening as part of Before the Night (see p.15), Mon 14 Jan 8.40pm Thu 24 Jan 8.40pm Tue 22 Jan 8.40pm Tue 29 Jan 6.30pm followed by a Q&A with director Pierre Schoeller Tue 15 Jan 6.30pm Wed 23 Jan 8.40pm Wed 23 Jan 4pm Wed 16 Jan 8.50pm See also Marius et Jeannette and Marie-Jo et ses deux amours (pp.12&13) 05 CS5-DEC18-JAN19-le-programme-PRINT.indd 5 21/11/2018 17:13 06 Ciné Lumière Special Screenings Lucrèce Borgia Mug General Henri Capernaum Theatre Broadcast from la Comédie- Twarz Mathias Berthelot. Capharnaüm Française POL | 2018 | 91 mins | dir. Malgorzata LEB/USA | 2018 | 125 mins | dir. Nadine Author: Victor Hugo | Stage director: Denis Szumowska, with Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, The Battle for Labaki, with Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Podalydès | Costume designer: Christian Agnieska Podsiadlik, Malgorzate Gorol Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole Lacroix | with the troupe and actors of the cert.