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Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival November 19th – 30th 2014 www.ifi.ie IFI Principal Funder Lead Partner Title Sponsor Sponsors and Partners BooKiNG iNfoRMATioN Tickets cost €9.50 each*, Membership: is required for all except for the opening films. Daily membership costs film which includes a post- €1 and annual membership screening reception and costs just €25. Annual Membership €15.*Unless otherwise stated. entitles the bearer to discounts on screenings, free preview Packages €40 for 5 films.€ 70 screenings of selected films 6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 for 10 films. Both packages throughout the year, one exclude the opening film. complimentary ticket and a host @IFI_Dub of other benefits. by director Mathieu Amalric by Loyalty: Get your free loyalty facebook.com/irishfilminstitute See page 20 for more details card from box office and earn on IFI Membership. points every time you spend at Programme Notes: Marie-Pierre Richard (MPR), the IFI. Box office Michael Hayden (MH), Antoine de Baecque (ADB), Alicia McGivern (AM) Blue Room The Free list suspended for Carte 01 679 3477 Festival Director’s Notes: Noire IFI French Film Festival. www.ifi.ie/frenchfest Marie-Pierre Richard (MPR) Cover 2 Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival 2014 design: verso.ie by director Pascale Ferran director Pascale by Carte Noire IFI Bird People French Film Festival Mathieu Amalric, Bruno Dumont, Pascale Ferran, Benoit Jacquot, the Larrieu brothers; their films are defined by audacious stories, atypical formal characteristics, rigorous direction and vibrant performances, and by their filiation with previous cinema generations. inema is a mental journey; Things I Know About Her (1967) and his ruptured, full of movement, latest, Goodbye to Language (3D); the displacement and discontinuity. screening of masterwork Hiroshima mon C Films bring about self- amour in tribute to Alain Resnais and the realisation and self-examination, Marguerite Duras centenary. depicting characters under pressure and the vitality of life. We sincerely thank all our guests for travelling here to show their work and we In this year’s Festival, now in its 15th hope you’ll get to share time with them year, we see fresh perspectives and along the way. formal freedom; work which flirts with genres and cinema’s past (40-Love; Les The Festival is made possible with the Combattants; Eastern Boys; Eat Your enduring support of the Embassy of Bones; Fool Circle; Girlhood; Tonnerre); France in Ireland and I extend my the remarkable and powerful School of gratitude to the French Ambassador in Babel and Timbuktu; The Kidnapping of Ireland and his team. We thank all our Michel Houellebecq, and Li’l Quinquin sponsors, supporters and partners: the originally created for TV but obviously Institut Français and Unifrance Films, and with their home in the cinema; comedies, the IFI’s principal funder, the Arts Council. but not in a conventional sense (Elle And finally the Festival’s title sponsor, l’adore; If You Don’t, I Will; Paris Follies; Carte Noire. The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodiles). Bon Festival! Detours to the Nouvelle Vague: the Marie-Pierre Richard wonderful contribution of Antoine de Festival Director Baecque; two Godards! Two or Three www.ifi.ie3 Schedule (Calendrier / Programme du Festival) WedNesdAy (MERCREDI) 19 MoNdAy (LUNDI) 24 20.00 Girlhood (Bande de filles) 18.30 The Blue Room (La Chambre bleue) Followed by reception (Suivi d’une réception) This is an IFI french film club screening where IFI and Alliance française members ThuRsdAy (JEUDI) 20 pay €7 a ticket. Please ask at IFI Box office. 18.30 Les Combattants (Séance avec le Ciné-Club Français de l’IFI. 20.45 Tonnerre Les membres de l’IFI et de l’Alliance Française payent le billet €7. fRidAy (VENDREDI) 21 Renseignez-vous à la billetterie de l’IFI.) 18.30 The Blue Room (La Chambre bleue) 20.20 Eastern Boys + Q&A with Mathieu Amalric (Présentation et rencontre: Mathieu Amalric) TuesdAy (MARDI) 25 20.30 Two in the Wave (Deux de la vague) 18.15 School Of Babel (La Cour de Babel) introduction by Antoine de Baecque 20.30 Eat Your Bones (Mange tes morts) (Séance présentée par Antoine de Baecque) + Inupiluk SatuRdAy (SAMEDI) 22 WedNesdAy (MERCREDI) 26 12.00 Event: Antoine de Baecque 18.30 The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq on Nouvelle Vague and Cinephilia (L’Enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq) (Rencontre avec Antoine de Baecque: 20.30 Elle l’adore Nouvelle Vague et Cinéphilie) 13.30 Mississippi Mermaid ThuRsdAy (JEUDI) 27 (La Sirène du Mississipi) 18.15 Fool Circle/The Lizards introduction by Antoine de Baecque (Tristesse club/Les Lézards) (Séance présentée par Antoine de Baecque) 20.30 Paris Follies (La Ritournelle) 16.00 If You Don’t, I Will (Arrête ou je continue) Alliance française screening + Q&A with Mathieu Amalric (Séance avec l’Alliance Française) (Présentation et rencontre: Mathieu Amalric) 18.15 Bird People fRidAy (VENDREDI) 28 + Q&A with Pascale ferran 18.15 Three Hearts (3 Coeurs) (Présentation et rencontre: Pascale Ferran) 20.30 Timbuktu 21.00 Love is the Perfect Crime (L’Amour est un crime parfait) SatuRdAy (SAMEDI) 29 + Q&A with Mathieu Amalric 12.00 Li’l Quinquin (P’tit Quinquin) (Présentation et rencontre: Mathieu Amalric) 16.00 Love in the Afternoon (L’Amour l’après-midi) suNdAy (DIMANCHE) 23 18.00 The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodiles 12.00 Masterclass with Pascale Ferran (Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles) (Masterclass avec Pascale Ferran) + Q&A with cécile Telerman 14.00 Lady Chatterley (Présentation et rencontre: Cécile Telerman) + Q&A with Pascale Ferran Kronenbourg 1664 screening (Présentation et rencontre: Pascale Ferran) (Séance avec Kronenbourg 1664) 16.30 Two or Three Things I Know About Her… (Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle...) suNdAy (DIMANCHE) 30 18.30 Goodbye to Language (3D) 11.00 IFI Family: (Adieu au langage) Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (3D) + introduction by artist Gerard Byrne (Minuscule: La Vallée des fourmis perdues) (Séance présentée par l’artiste Gerard Byrne) 16.00 Hiroshima mon amour 20.15 Diplomacy (Diplomatie) 18.00 40-Love (Terre battue) 4 Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival 2014 Girlhood (Bande de filles) Gala Opening Wednesday 19th November, 20.00 director: céline sciamma 112 minutes // france // 2014 directors’ fortnight selection, cannes international film festival 2014 With Water Lilies and Tomboy, céline sciamma established herself as an intriguing and committed filmmaker, presenting stories about young women in a distinctive style that is observational, unobtrusive and refreshingly sincere. Girlhood is a potent coming-of-age story measured out in chapters, focusing on a quartet of black girls living in the tower blocks of Paris. At the centre of the film is Marieme (a captivating, evolving performance from Karidja Touré), who has troubles at home, limited job prospects and is intimidated by the boys in her neighbourhood. This all changes when she is drawn to an uncompromising, wilful teenage girl gang who eventually take her seriously. (Mh) The screening will be followed by a reception. Director’s Note: The rise of female identity and desire are told through precise direction and sumptuous imagery. www.ifi.ie5 i r i s h p r e m i e r e s Les Combattants It’s summer and Arnaud begins work for the family business, building garden sheds with his brother. Meeting under unusual circumstances, he becomes fascinated with the surly Madeleine. Obsessed by survival and gripped by prophecies of doom, Madeleine determines to join an elite commando unit. Arnaud follows. As they begin at an army training camp, their bodies and emotions are put to the test. Cailley, part of a new scene in French cinema alongside Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) and Zlotowski (Grand Central) brings us an improbable mix of teen-movie, rom-com, and pre-apocalypse film, stretching the limits of Thursday 20th November 18.30 each genre. (MPR) Director: Thomas Cailley 98 minutes // france // 2014 Director’s Note: A manifesto of love, with radiant Winner: Art Cinema Award; SACD Prize; performances, Madeleine (Adèle Haenel) and Arnaud Europa Cinemas Label; FIPRESCI award, (Kévin Azaïs) are as much ‘clenched fists’ as ‘balls of Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2014 emotion’. The Blue Room (La Chambre bleue) Julien (Mathieu Amalric) and Esther (Stéphanie Cléau), both married to other people, indulge in an illicit sexual tryst. The affair leads to Julien being arrested and interrogated by the police, questioned for motives and alibis. But what has he been accused of? A clever, knowing noir, The Blue Room is an adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel, co-scripted by Amalric and Cléau. Amalric’s direction is sparing and unfussy, as is his performance, while Grégoire Hetzel’s striking score contributes to this assured elegant film. (MH) Director and actor Mathieu Amalric will participate in a post-screening Q&A on Friday 21st November. Friday 21st November, 18.30 Monday 24th November, 18.30 Director’s Note: A stunning adaptation, concise and intense Director: Mathieu Amalric with highly stylised acting and imagery. 76 minutes // France // 2014 Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, IFI French Film Club screening on November 24th Cannes International Film Festival 2014 with Alliance Française. See schedule (p 4). If You Don’t, I Will (Arrête ou je continue) Amidst a schedule of art openings, sessions with their personal trainer, social events and hiking, middle-aged couple Pomme and Pierre spend their time bickering. During one of their woodland walks an argument erupts: Pomme, tired of always trying to patch things up, snatches Pierre’s rain-coat, fleece and backpack and flees into the forest to spend the night. Not knowing what to do, Pierre goes home… Through the colourful pairing of Devos and Amalric, writer-director Fillières blends slapstick and farce with agile and inventive dialogue in this tragic-comic tale.