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Home , Aissa Maiga, Catherine Hessling, Corinne Marchand, La Strada, Marie Dubois, Paula Beer

Ciné Lumière 3–12

Beyond Words Festival 13

Talks 14–15

Walter Presents: Reborn + Q&A Heal the Living Wrong Elements + Q&A Music 15 with actor Bruno Debrandt 28 Apr – 10 May with director Jonathan Littell 26 Apr p.5 29 Apr p.7 p.7 Kids & Families 17

We Support 18

We Recommend 19

French Courses 20

My Life as a Courgette Beyond Words Live French James Thierrée: The Toad Knew La Médiathèque 21 5 – 21 May Literature Festival 3 – 7 May p.5 11 – 16 May p.18 p.13 Sadler’s Wells General Information 23–27

front cover image: Frantz by François Ozon Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases

UK/RUS/UKR/USA | 2016 | 85 mins | dir. Steven Cantor, with Foroushandeh CHL/ARG/FRA/ESP/USA | 2016 | 107 mins | dir. Pablo Larraín, Sergei Polunin, Jade Hale-Christofi | cert. 12 | doc IRN/FRA | 2016 | 125 mins | dir. Asghar Farhadi, with Shahab with Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro | cert. 15 in English, Russian & Ukrainian with EN subs Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi Tari, Mina Sadati in Spanish & French with EN subs cert. 12A | in Farsi with EN subs Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin It’s 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile. An took the dance world by storm and became the Royal In Tehran, a married couple, is forced to move out of their inspector (Gael García Bernal) is assigned to hunt down Ballet’s youngest ever principal, but resigned at the peak apartment which threatens to collapse. They quickly find the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in of his career, aged 25. Urban rebel, iconoclast, airborne a new flat, but when an incident having to do with the his own country for joining the Communist Party. In this angel, Sergei is transforming the shape of ballet as we previous tenant occurs, their life is turned upside down. story of a persecuted poet and his implacable adversary, know it. But virtuosity comes at a high cost. Here is an Asghar Farhadi’s latest film, The Salesman won the Best Neruda becomes aware of his own heroic possibilities: a unprecedented look into the life of a complex young man Screenplay and Best Actor award (for Shahab Hosseini) chance to become both a symbol for liberty and a literary who has made ballet go viral. in Cannes last year and the 2017 Best Foreign Language legend. Film Oscar. Mon 3 Apr 6.30pm Fri 7 Apr 4pm, 8.50pm Fri 14 Apr 6.30pm Tue 4 Apr 6.30pm Mon 3 Apr 8.30pm Sat 8 Apr 6.15pm Sat 8 Apr 4pm, 8.50pm Sat 15 Apr 4pm Wed 5 Apr 8.50pm Tue 4 Apr 8.40pm Sun 9 Apr 8.30pm Sun 9 Apr 6.20pm Sun 16 Apr 8.50pm Thu 6 Apr 4pm Wed 5 Apr 3.45pm, 6.20pm Tue 11 Apr 8.40pm Mon 10 Apr 8.30pm Mon 17 Apr 4.20pm Thu 6 Apr 6.15pm, 8.45pm Thu 13 Apr 8.40pm Tue 11 Apr 6.30pm Wed 19 Apr 6.30pm Fri 7 Apr 6.20pm Wed 12 Apr 4pm, 8.40pm Thu 20 Apr 6.15pm Thu 13 Apr 6.30pm

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Grave Cézanne et moi FRA/USA | 2016 | 93 mins | dir. Raoul Peck, with Samuel L. FRA/BEL | 2016 | 99 mins | dir. Julia Ducournau, with FRA | 2016 | 117 mins | dir. Danièle Thompson, with Jackson | cert. tbc | doc | in English Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Gallienne, Alice Pol | cert. tbc cert. 18 | in French with EN subs in French with EN subs With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of Everyone in Justine’s family is a vet and a vegetarian. This 19th century period drama charts the long friendship the book Baldwin never wrote. A radical narration about At 16, she’s a brilliant and promising student. When and eventual fallout between impressionist artist Paul race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations she starts at veterinary school, she enters a decadent, Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne), who was born into a of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the wealthy family but struggled to make a living as a painter, and Medgar Evers. Whilst it is partly anchored in the freshers week, she undergoes a carnivorous hazing and Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet), who came from a struggle for equality in the 50s and 60s, I Am Not Your ritual, and an unbidden taste for raw meat begins to grow modest family but achieved fame and prosperity as a Negro is about what it means to be black in America in her… politically-engaged novelist. today.

Viewer discretion advised: strong and realistic depictions Fri 14 Apr 2pm, 8.50pm Sun 23 Apr 8.40pm Fri 21 Apr 6.30pm of sex, nudity, violence and gore. Sat 15 Apr 8.40pm Wed 26 Apr 8.50pm Sat 22 Apr 6.30pm Sun 16 Apr 4.25pm Thu 27 Apr 6.30pm Mon 24 Apr 8.30pm Fri 14 Apr 4.30pm Wed 19 Apr 8.45pm Mon 17 Apr 2pm, 8.30pm Mon 1 May 6.15pm Tue 25 Apr 8.40pm Sat 15 Apr 6.30pm Thu 20 Apr 4pm Wed 19 Apr 4pm Thu 4 May 8.40pm Wed 26 Apr 4pm Sun 16 Apr 6.45pm Sat 22 Apr 4.15pm Fri 21 Apr 4pm Sat 6 May 9pm Thu 27 Apr 8.50pm Mon 17 Apr 6.30pm Mon 24 Apr 6.30pm Sat 22 Apr 8.40pm Sun 7 May 6pm Tue 18 Apr 8.50pm Thu 27 Apr 4pm Ciné Lumière New Releases

Heal the Living Suntan My Life as a Courgette

Réparer les vivants GRE/GER | 2016 | 104 mins | dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Ma vie de courgette FRA | 2016 | 104 mins | dir. Katell Quillévéré, with Tahar with Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Dimi Hart FRA/CHE | 2016 | 66 mins | dir. Claude Barras, with Gaspard Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval | cert. 12A cert. 18 | in Greek & English with EN subs Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud | cert. tbc | in French in French with EN subs with EN subs As the newly appointed doctor of a tiny island, middle- Adapted from Maylis de Kerangal’s acclaimed novel, aged Kostis spends a dreary winter alone. When summer Critically acclaimed and adapted for the screen by Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a gripping, complex arrives, the island has turned into a thriving, wild vacation Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Tomboy), Claude Barras’s ensemble drama with a superb cast, about lives spot with nude beaches and crazy parties. He meets first animated feature is a funny, engaging film with connected by an organ transplant case. After an accident, Anna, a young and flirty tourist who lets him hang out an unexpected depth and sense of beauty for kids and 19-year-old Simon is in a coma, brain-dead and kept with her group of hard partying friends, and becomes adults alike. After his mother’s disappearance, Courgette alive by machines at a hospital in Le Havre. Meanwhile, in obsessed with her. moves into a foster home with orphans of his age. At Paris, a woman awaits an organ transplant that will give first struggling to find his place in this strange, at times her a new lease on life. Fri 28 Apr 6.30pm Wed 3 May 6.30pm hostile, environment, Courgette eventually learns to trust Sat 29 Apr 3.50pm Thu 4 May 4pm others and might find true love. Fri 28 Apr 4pm, 8.40pm Fri 5 May 8.30pm Mon 1 May 4.10pm Fri 5 May 4pm Sat 29 Apr 9pm Sat 6 May 6.50pm Tue 2 May 8.40pm Sat 6 May 3.20pm Fri 5 May 6.30pm Thu 11 May 4pm Sun 30 Apr 6.40pm, 8.50pm Sun 7 May 8.30pm Sat 6 May 2pm*, 5.30pm Sat 13 May 2pm* Mon 1 May 2pm, 8.40pm Mon 8 May 8.30pm Sun 7 May 11am*, 4.30pm Tue 16 May 6.45pm Tue 2 May 6.30pm Tue 9 May 6.30pm Mon 8 May 7pm Wed 17 May 4pm Wed 3 May 4pm, 8.40pm Wed 10 May 8.30pm Tue 9 May 8.40pm Thu 18 May 4.15pm Thu 4 May 6.30pm Wed 10 May 4.20pm, 7pm Sun 21 May 11am*

See also Corniche Kennedy, p.8 and Beyond Words * Screenings as part of CinéKids (£5) Festival, p.13 05 06 Ciné Lumière New Releases

Frantz The Red Turtle The Other Side of Hope

Mainly filmed in sumptuous black and white, François Through the story of a shipwrecked sailor on a tropical Winner of the Silver Bear in Berlin, Aki Kaurismäki’s new Ozon's romantic drama follows a young German woman island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds, The Red film tells two stories that eventually converge. Khaled, mourning daily her fiancé Frantz who was killed in battle Turtle evokes the main stages of the life of a human a Syrian refugee, ends up in Helsinki where he applies in France during WWI. One day, a young Frenchman being, paradoxically struck by isolation and freedom. for asylum without much hope of success. Wikström is a (Pierre Niney) also lays flowers at his grave and his Presented in Cannes' Un Certain Regard selection, it is travelling salesman who leaves everything behind to run presence so soon after the German defeat ignites the first international co-production for famed Japanese a restaurant in a remote corner of Helsinki. The Other Side passions. animation house Studio Ghibli. of Hope is one of Aki Kaurismäki’s typical communities- bound-together-by-fate stories, which demonstrates that Fri 12 May 4pm, 6.20pm Mon 22 May 6.30pm Sat 1 Apr 2pm Tues 30 May 6.30pm the world could and should be a better place. Sat 13 May 9pm Tue 23 May 8.50pm Fri 26 May 6.45pm Wed 31 May 8.40pm Sun 14 May 6.30pm, 8.45pm Wed 24 May 4pm Sat 27 May 2pm*, 6.30pm Thu 1 June 4pm Fri 26 May 4pm, 8.40pm Mon 15 May 6.20pm, 8.40pm 8.50pm Sun 28 May 11am*, 4.30pm Sat 27 May 4pm, 8.40pm Tue 16 May 8.30pm Thu 25 May 6.20pm Mon 29 May 2pm, 6pm Sun 28 May 6.15pm, 8.30pm Wed 17 May 9pm 8.40pm Mon 29 May 4pm, 8pm Thu 18 May 6.30pm, 8.50pm * Screenings as part of CinéKids (£5) Tue 30 May 8.40pm Fri 19 May 4pm, 8.50pm Wed 31 May 4pm, 6.30pm Sat 20 May 4.10pm, 8.50pm The preview screening on 1 Apr is part of All About Piano! Thu 1 June 6.30pm, 8.40pm Sun 21 May 4pm, 8.40pm festival (p.15) Continues in June Continues in June Ciné Lumière Special Screenings

L’Embarras du choix Le Repenti FRA/BEL/GER | 2016 | 133 mins | dir. Jonathan Littell FRA | 2016 | 95 mins | dir. Eric Lavaine, with Alexandra Lamy, FRA | 2010 | 90 mins | episode 1 of 2 | dir. Olivier Guignard, cert. tbc | doc | in Acholi, English & French with EN subs Arnaud Ducret, Jamie Bamber | cert. tbc | in French with EN with Bruno Debrandt, Aurélien Recoing, Natacha Lindinger, UK Premiere subs | UK Premiere Élisabeth Vitali, Alexandre Defer | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs | UK Premiere Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel forms the Lord’s French fries or salad? Friends or lovers? Right or left? Resistance Army, a movement against the government Life is full of decisions to take, and Juliette is completely For the second time, we are happy to partner with that grew by abducting teenagers – more than 60 000 unable to make the tiniest choice. Even at 40, she Channel 4’s Walter Presents to showcase the first over 25 years. Geofrey, and his friends were among them. relies on her father and her two best friends to decide episode of Reborn, a dark, addictive French TV story of Today, at the same time victims and murderers, they try to everything for her. When her love life crosses paths betrayal and revenge. 6 years after he was left for dead, rebuild a normal life. French-American writer Jonathan with Paul, then Etienne, both as charming as they are burned and wounded by his best friend Victor whom he Littell (The Kindly Ones, Prix Goncourt 2006) delivers different, no one can make up her mind for her. betrayed, Alexis returns to Le Havre to work undercover a powerful documentary about Ugandan former child at Victor’s docks. After significant reconstructive surgery soldiers, the "wrong elements" that society struggles to Thu 20 Apr 8.30pm and a changed identity, he is unrecognizable but struggles accept. to stay away from his ex-family. Followed by a Q&A with actress Alexandra Lamy Sat 29 Apr 6pm Wed 26 Apr 6.30pm Followed by a Q&A with Jonathan Littell Preceded by an on-stage conversation with actor Bruno Debrandt (Spiral) and Walter Iuzzolino (Walter Presents)

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© TS Productions © FDC Lift to the Scaffold Corniche Kennedy A Woman’s Life Cannes th Ascenseur pour l’échafaud FRA | 2016 | 94 mins | dir. Dominique Une vie 70 Anniversary FRA | 1958 | 88 mins | dir. Louis Malle, with Cabrera, with Lola Creton, Aïssa Maïga, FRA/BEL | 2016 | 119 mins | dir. Stéphane Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet | cert. PG Moussa Maaskri, Kamel Kadri, Alain Demaria Brizé, with Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre 180 mins approx | in English & French in French with EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs | UK Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud Premiere cert. tbc | in French with EN subs The programme will start with the live As part of the global celebrations for the broadcast of the Cannes Film Festival’s International Jazz Day, we present Louis In this adaptation of the eponymous Judith Chemla offers an unmissable opening ceremony. Follow the stars Malle's mesmering debut, featuring Miles novel by renowned French author Maylis performance in Stéphane Brizé’s climbing the famous stairs of the most Davis's legendary score. ‘Nouvelle Vague’ de Kerangal (Mend the Living, Birth of a compelling adaptation of Guy de glamorous festival on the planet before before such a concept truly existed, this Bridge), the young kids of Marseille defy Maupassant’s classic, Une vie. She plays enjoying the inaugural speech of this year’s richly atmospheric thriller of murder and gravity in the blue of the Mediterranean. Jeanne, a young woman full of childish President of the Jury, Pedro Almodóvar. To mistaken identity unfolds over one restless Girls and boys dive, take risks to dreams and innocence who marries fresh mark the festival's anniversary we’ll then Parisian night. experience life to the fullest. From inside out of the convent. Her husband Julien screen Chacun son Cinema, an anthology her chic villa, Suzanne envies their free soon reveals to be a miserly and unfaithful of 33 short films by the most influential Sun 30 Apr 4.10pm bodies, their excess, and wants to be part man. Little by little, Jeanne’s illusions are directors of our time – from Ken Loach to of them. stripped away. Abbas Kiarostami, from Jane Campion to Preceded by live music and followed by Claude Lelouch, among others – which a Q&A Fri 12 May 8.40pm Sat 13 May 4pm pays tribute to the magic of cinema.

Followed by a Q&A with director As part of Beyond Words Festival, p.13 Wed 17 May 6pm: Opening Ceremony Dominique Cabrera Live Broadcast 7pm: Chacun son Cinema As part of Beyond Words Festival, p.13 See also Heal the Living, p.5 £5 Ciné Lumière 7th Spanish Film Festival Spring Weekend

Paco León (Carmina and Carmina y Amén) comes back Following the death of Queen Isabella la Católica, Joan When Marga, now approching 70, announces to her with another witty, daring, transgressive and, of course, the presumptive heiress to the Kingdom of Castille, is children that she wants to sell the family house to be able sexy comedy. Through five intertwined stories, he caught between her father Ferdinand II of Aragon and her to retire and travel around the world, she doesn't realise explores the sex lives, fetishes and frustrations of some husband the archduke Philip, both claiming the regency. what she's about to trigger... Miguel de Arco, one of the engaging characters. Working with an excellent cast, Based on the history of Spain in the early 16th century, The most popular theatre directors in Spain, gathers some of León manages to keep the tension throughout the film, Broken Crown offers a new perspective on these events. the most coveted actors and flabbergasts us with his first making us laugh while he criticises social assumptions feature film, a family tale full of suprises, little betrayals, about sexuality. Sun 23 Apr 5pm big egos and twists... that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Fri 21 Apr 8.40pm Sun 23 Apr 8pm

09 10 Ciné Lumière Restored Classics | Sunday French Classics

Ali: Fear Eats La Strada La Fille de l’eau Bold Women of the Soul ITA | 1954 | 108 mins | dir. Federico Fellini, Whirlpool of Fate French Cinema with Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard with live accompaniment by John Sweeney Angst essen Seele auf Basehart | cert. PG | in Italian with EN subs FRA | 1925 | 71 mins | dir. Jean Renoir, with Co-curated with Ginette Vincendeau GER | 1974 | 93 mins | dir. Rainer Werner restored print Pierre Philippe, Catherine Hessling, Maurice (Professor in Film Studies at King’s Fassbinder, with Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Touze | cert. tbc | silent with EN intertitles College), this season is meant to celebrate Salem, Barbara Valentin | cert. 12A Over sixty years after it won the first and analyse both the participation of in German & Arabic with EN subs Academy Award for Best Foreign One of the first films directed by Renoir, women to French filmmaking and their restored print Language Film, Fellini’s La Strada is featuring his first wife Catherine Hessling, representation on screen. Throughout returning in a new digital restoration. In La Fille de l’eau takes place in the late 19th French film history strong, memorable Hailed as a masterpiece, Ali: Fear Eats a story of true outsiders, Giulietta Masina century, in an age of canals and barges. portrayals of women have been mainly the Soul is one of the most powerful films plays Gelsomina, a naïve young woman Reduced to poverty and left alone after the the work of male filmmakers. Since by the great German auteur Fassbinder. sold by her desperate mother to boorish loss of her father, she falls back upon her its beginning, French cinema has An unlikely whirlwind romance blossoms strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) own resources to eke out a simple living produced its own star-system, with many between Emmi, a 60-year old German to be both his wife and performance by stealing until a classic case of mistaken performers who evolved a meaningful widow and Ali, a Moroccan migrant worker assistant as he tours central Italy. identity leads to her being accused of a and influential persona – among them in his 30s. When they marry it shocks and crime and forced to flee. Brigitte Bardot, Simone Signoret, Jeanne disgusts those around them. Fri 19 May 6.30pm Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Sat 20 May 6.30pm Sun 2 Apr 2pm Huppert, Juliette Binoche – to name the Sun 9 Apr 4.20pm Sun 21 May 6.20pm most famous. Our intention is to enable Mon 10 Apr 6.30pm Mon 22 May 8.50pm Preceded by Fernand Léger's short film spectators to examine these stars’ Wed 12 Apr 6.30pm Wed 24 May 6.30pm Le Ballet mécanique (12 mins), with live performances, and discuss their social Thu 13 Apr 4pm Thu 25 May 4pm accompaniment by John Sweeney and cultural significance.

As Part of All About Piano! (p.15) See opposite page Ciné Lumière French Classics – Bold Women

Les Diaboliques L’Été meurtrier Le Diable au corps Jules et Jim

Michel is a sadistic headmaster who Isabelle Adjani stars as Elle, a beautiful, During World War I, Marthe (Micheline Perhaps Truffaut’s most celebrated film, treats his wife and mistress with equal moody and extremely feisty 19-year-old Presle) falls in love with a much younger cited by Scorsese as a stylistic influence malfeasence. United by their growing hate who returns to her hometown in Provence man (Gérard Philipe) while her husband on Goodfellas, this offered Jeanne Moreau in the man, the two women join forces to look after her ailing father and German is at the Front. They begin an extramarital one of her most memorable roles as to wreak murderous revenge upon him. mother. Her arousing presence shakes affair, regardless of other people’s opinion Catherine, a free spirit who captivates two A classical psychological thriller, often up the usually quiet village, enthralling and potentially tragic consequences. close male friends in the early years of the imitated, but never surpassed. the young men; one, Pin Pon in particular. Based on Raymond Radiguet’s novel, the 20th century. All three become involved in Using a shifting voice-over narration, an film created a scandal when released in a triangular relationship that will change Sun 9 Apr 2pm elaborate psychosexual mystery is woven post-war France and offered Micheline their lives forever. which slowly uncovers Elle’s obsessions Presle one of her best roles. Introduced by Ginette Vincendeau and her manipulative streak. Sun 30 Apr 2pm Tue 18 Apr 6.20pm Sun 16 Apr 2pm Sun 23 Apr 2pm Followed by a Ciné Salon with Nick Walker The screening on 23 Apr will be followed by a Q&A with Ginette Vincendeau See also Lift to the Scaffold, p.8

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Cléo de 5 à 7 Hiroshima mon La Cérémonie Le Mépris Cleo from 5 to 7 amour FRA/GER | 1995 | 112 mins | dir. Claude Contempt FRA/ITA | 1961 | 90 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, Chabrol, with Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle FRA/ITA | 1963 | 103 mins | dir. Jean-Luc with Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, FRA | 1959 | 92 mins | dir. Alain Resnais, with Huppert, Jacqueline Bisset | cert. 15 Godard, with Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Dominique Davray | cert. PG | in French with Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dallas in French with EN subs Jack Palance, Fritz Lang | cert. 15 | in French EN subs cert. 12 | in French with EN subs with EN subs An illiterate maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) Cleo, a young pop singer, wanders the A cornerstone film of the French New hired by a well-meaning bourgeois family, Unusually cast and playfully shot, Godard’s streets of Paris while awaiting the results Wave and one of the most influential forms a dangerous relationship with a masterly hymn to cinema features Michel of a medical test that may indicate films of all time, Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima bitter postal clerk (Isabelle Huppert). The Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot as a couple cancer. A lively mix of melodrama mon amour, written by Marguerite Duras, older woman instils her protégée with a whose marriage begins to fall apart and cinéma vérité, the film features revealed Emmanuelle Riva to the world hatred of the bourgeoisie, and together while they are both on the island of Capri beautiful bleached-out photography, an with this landmark role of a French they slowly and unpleasantly, begin to during the shooting of a film directed by excellent score by Michel Legrand and an actress who engages in a brief, intense vent their frustration. Beautifully shaped Fritz Lang. As Camille, Bardot splendidly unforgettable performance by Corinne affair with a Japanese architect in post- and paced, Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful chips the male clichés over women in this Marchand as a narcissistic pop star war Hiroshima. thriller is a bleak observation on class legendary part. gradually unveiling another self, no longer power play which won Isabelle Huppert a woman as object but as subject. Sun 14 May 2pm the Best Actress César Award in 1996. Sun 28 May 2pm Tue 23 May 6.30pm Sun 7 May 2pm Sun 21 May 2pm Followed by a Ciné Salon with Nick The screening on 23 May will be followed Walker by a Q&A with Ginette Vincendeau Beyond Words Live French Literature Festival

11-16 May The Line-Up Words and Beyond French literature, live, loud and proud! The festival’s all-star line-up includes two Goncourt The Words in this festival will be as bilingual as we can Prepare for the new Live French Literature Festival at Prize-winning writers, freshly translated new talents, make them, using all that live literature can bring to go the Institut français – a six-day programme packed with musicians turned writers, graphic novelists, enlightened Beyond the printed pages and out into a world that spans guest appearances of French-language writers recently translators, stage and film directors inspired by the from France to Mauritius and from Spain to the Far East, translated into English, and English writers who have a written word, and one Children’s Laureate. crossing through decades of History. special love affair with France. We will welcome Alexis Jenni, Lydie Salvayre, Delphine From book to stage, from page to score, from script to It's been an intense year, and it's time for words, fiction, de Vigan, Emmanuelle Pagano, Ananda Devi, Mathias screen, and beyond... amongst our exciting series of history, romance, poetry… and for some live literature Malzieu, Michael Rosen, Frank Wynne, Ben Faccini, staged reading performances, writers' talks, musical performances. Erica Jarnes, Dominique Cabrera, Richard Brunel, and encounters, film adaptations, and collective poetry Jonathan Coe, and celebrate the works of Mathias Enard, experiments, don't miss highlights such as a live staged Demandez le programme ! Maylis de Kerangal and Edouard Louis - not to forget a performance of Edouard Louis' acclaimed The End of few classics such as Baudelaire, Emile Zola, Georges Eddy, the launch of Dionysos lead singer's Diary of a Bernanos, Marguerite Duras, Guy de Maupassant or la Vampire in Pyjamas, and exceptional London appearances Comtesse de Ségur. of leading voices of the French literary scene Delphine de Vigan, Lydie Salvayre, and Alexis Jenni.

With special thanks to the Friends of the French Institute trust for their support to this brand new festival.

See our dedicated printed brochure and website for the full programme: www.beyondwordslitfest.co.uk Stay connected: @ifru_london #BeyondWordsFest 13 14 Talks

© Samuel Gassmann, © Alexis-Lecomte, © Parasolerie-Heurtault Poetry Reading – Digital Kids Métiers d’art Alain-Fournier The use of digital devices and social media is ubiquitous We are delighted to welcome three of the finest French in the environment of 21st century children. From an early craftsmen for a lively discussion on their process and Best known for his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a age, they are surrounded by media and technology. techniques as well as innovation and tradition. posthumous classic, Alain-Fournier was killed in battle in 1914. His poems suspend a pre-war French idyll of warm La Souris Grise provides parents and carers with advice Known for working with exotic materials to make bespoke evenings and rained-on orchards, silk-banded straw hats, and helps them understand the role of technology and bags, Serge Amoruso formerly worked in Hermès’s lamp-lit farmhouses – and young love reaching out ‘in the media in children’s lives. Come and learn how to pick the trunk department, and now manages his own brand. frightening dark, with timid fingers’. right apps, games or resources to better meet the needs Michel Hertault provides a restoration service for vintage of your kids. umbrellas and creates contemporary couture pieces. For the launch of the first ever comprehensive translation Reviving the tradition of dressing for the occasion, Samuel of Fournier’s poetry (Carcanet Press), join translators Thu 27 Apr 7pm Gassmann, has created his collection of cufflinks. Anthony Howell and Anthony Costello for a reading and conversation. in French & English | £9, members & conc. £7 Event chaired by Simon Crompton, founder of permanentstyle.com, organised as part of the London Sat 22 Apr 4pm Craft Week, in collaboration with the Institut National des Métiers d’Art. in French & English | £5, members & conc. £3 Wed 3 May 7pm

in English | £12, conc. £10 Talks Music

Brutalist Paris Reading Group Café Philo All About Piano! Map Every month, we focus on the latest Open to everyone interested in discussing Start April with brio! All About Piano! translated works of acclaimed French philosophical issues, the Institut’s Café continues over a weekend of music Join architectural critic Robin Wilson and authors. Join our unique bilingual literary Philo meets every Saturday in the salons. extravanganza taking the audience artist-photographer Nigel Green for a talk discussion with a little French twist! through all kinds of repertoires and about the best examples of awe-inspiring, Sat 8 & 29 Apr, 20 May | in French events, from solo recitals to concerts for futuristic, concrete buildings in Paris. Thu 13 Apr | Street of Thieves, by Mathias Sat 15 & 22 Apr, 6, 13 & 27 May | in two pianos or four hands, from cine- Marking the publication of Brutalist Paris Énard (2012) – tr. C. Mandel (Fitzcarraldo, English concerts and masterclasses to free Map they will take us through their work 2015) tuitions and kids’ activities. compiling the most striking examples Thu 18 May | Ladivine, by Marie NDiaye 10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 of Brutalist architecture in the French (2013) – tr. J. Stump (MacLehose, 2016) contact: [email protected] The festivities include recitals by Barry capital. Douglas, Marcela Roggeri, François 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French Please note that there will be no Café Chaplin, Ivan Ilic, Cédric Pescia, Tristan Thu 25 May 7pm £5, members £3, including a glass of wine Philo on Sat 1 Apr Pfaff, Ismaël Margain & Guillaume courtesy of Sud de France Bellom, as well as a show revisiting in English | £5, members & conc. £3 | 1h modern classics with the acclaimed Piano Brothers. Original photos by Photolanguage (Nigel Green and Robin Wilson) will be exhibited 31 Mar – 2 Apr in the Reading Room of La Médiathèque from the end of April. For the full programme, visit: www.itsallaboutpiano.co.uk

15 The fun-packed comedy musical that makes learning French exciting!

Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 May 2017 the beggar the ticket collector the bag lady Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 June 2017 Tuesday – Friday 10.30, 13.30 Saturday 14.00, 16.30 Running time: 1 hour Paris Pinot Blanc les cosaques le policier Box Office: 0844 871 7646* www.atgtickets.com/wimbledon *Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge

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The Institut offers a great many activities for kids (and parents!) from film screenings, workshops, talks and much more! image: My Life as a Courgette image: My Life

CinéKids Screenings From Zip and Zap (Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang) to Courgette (My Life as a Courgette), it’s not always easy to be a newcomer or an outsider, but thankfully they all manage to make friends in the end! Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am Kids Activities Tales, workshops, games and more for kids > All Kids & Families activities are listed pp.26-27 from 0 to 12. Budding artists or inventors can > See our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website: learn exciting new skills! www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families 18 We Support

Parlour Sounds The Pulverised / Alexandra Badéa The Toad Knew – Compagnie du Edinburgh International Children’s Hanneton / James Thierrée Festival

© Richard Haughton In partnership with the Conservatoire When work has no borders, what’s the National Supérieur de Paris, Red Note cost? Alexandra Badea‘s captivating Six characters emerge in a strange fairy- The Edinburgh International Children’s Ensemble presents a live multimedia drama is a powerful and disturbing tale lair. A woman transforms into a lizard, Festival showcases two French event using innovative electronics to portrait of globalisation and its far- a piano plays itself, and plates magically companies, Arcosm and Bob theatre. transform and invent instruments in reaching effects on our lives. appear and disappear. In the middle of it Bounce, a dance piece exploring how we an imaginative exploration of women's all James Thierrée works his magic with react to the unexpected and Nosferatu, the relationship to technology - from the www.arcolatheatre.com the aid of a squat servant. A Sadler’s Wells story of Dracula, humorously told through advent of home hi-fi to the smartphone. co-production with Crying Out Loud. light bulb puppets. 2 – 27 May Arcola Theatre www.sciencefestival.co.uk www.sadlerswells.com www.imaginate.org.uk European Literature Night 13 Apr Edinburgh International 3 – 7 May Sadler’s Wells 27 May – 5 June Various venues in Science Festival Author A L Kennedy gives a keynote Edinburgh address reflecting on the future of Messe de Liverpool by Pierre Henry European authorship in a post-Brexit A Date with History: Did you Say Europe? context. She is then joined in conversation Messe de Liverpool had been by two authors from the continent hand- commissioned to Pierre Henry in 1967 for Save the date for A Date with History in picked by the EUNIC London selection the opening of Liverpool’s Metropolitan York. In its first year, this event will bring committee, Clemens Meyer from Cathedral of Christ the King, but was together leading historians from France Germany and Francesca Melandri from never played. The work will be premiered and the UK to discuss European identities. Italy. Chaired by Arifa Akbar. This event is on the occasion of the 300th birthday of A Date with History is a new collaboration followed by a reception. the Bluecoat building. with York – festival of Ideas.

www.bl.uk www.thebluecoat.org.uk 9 June York Cultural events in the 'We Support' and 'We Recommend' sections are supported or recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art 10 May British Library 13 May Liverpool Metropolitan Projects and the French Music Export Office. Cathedral We Recommend

Les Talens Lyriques: Bach et la France Jean Rondeau Oui Love Maître Gims

Christophe Rousset’s acclaimed ensemble A rap superstar in France (and beyond), perform the French dance rhythms of the erstwhile member of Sexion d'Assaut Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 and the has had a glittering solo career so far, like Orchestral Suite from Rameau’s opera cohorts Maska and Black M. Now he's Castor et Pollux, presenting each work with bringing anthems like Sapés comme jamais instrumental concertos of terrific virtuosity and Bella to a London audience. and spirit. www.academymusicgroup.com www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 18 May O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire 9 Apr Wigmore Hall Rising virtuoso Jean Rondeau explores Oui Love is a club night shedding light the flamboyant, poetic and compelling on the most exciting new music and cult Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal Mélanie Pain fantasy world of the late-flowering French acts coming out of France. The French harpsichord repertoire, and European music scene has never been as exciting or As well as being a member of the extended Baroque and traditional Persian musical diverse, and the evening's entertainment Nouvelle Vague family, Pain has been worlds in two concerts as part of the will feature a dazzling array of styles and releasing her own albums of classy pop. London Festival of Baroque Music. performers including Fishbach. Last year's Parachute was still something of a surprise though, lushly arranged and www.lfbm.org.uk www.ouilove.co.uk underpinned by sophisticated beats. 13 May St Peter's Eaton Square & 17 May Birthdays www.the100club.co.uk St John's Smith Square Adam Naas 13 Apr 100 club Agar Agar The Franco-Malian kora-and-cello Joining the line-up of the Serious Space duo's second album, 2015's Musique de Her Hailing from the outskirts of Paris and festival, bright young soul star Naas has Nuit, draws on the well of West African signed to hip French label Cracki, techno a modern, soulful sound with touches of troubadour songs and the heritage Her have been making waves since the pop duo Agar Agar combine exquisite James Blake and The XX but also with of baroque music but has a clearly release of their first EP and the instant melancholy, sensuality and aggression, classic soul and R&B influences (from modern sensibility. Support comes from anthem Five Minutes. Their subtly funky, both in Armand Bultheel's production and Nina Simone to Lauryn Hill) coming contemporary pianist Koki Nakano. modern take on blue-eyed soul will the captivating voice and lyrics of singer through strongly. be showcased on their first full-length Clara Cappagli. www.cadoganhall.com release in May in Island Records. www.richmix.org.uk www.mothclub.co.uk 25 May Cadogan Hall www. theborderlinelondon.com 17 May Rich Mix 16 May Moth Club 26 Apr The Borderline 19 20 French Courses

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21 COMPAGNIE XY PRESENTS IT’S NOT YET MIDNIGHT… 10 – 23 APRIL 2017

French acrobatic troupe Compagnie XY bring their poetic and jaw-dropping circus show Il N’est Pas Encore Minuit to London for its UK premiere.

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Over 200 young people attended our Street Circus outreach sessions last year, helping to build their skills, ﬁtness and conﬁdence. A Taste of France

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