November 11Th-22Nd 2020 IFI French Film Festival IFI@HOME November 11Th-22Nd 2020

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IFI French Film Festival November 11th-22nd 2020 IFI French Film Festival IFI@HOME November 11th-22nd 2020

IFI Principal Funder This year, the IFI is delighted to also present the IFI French Film Festival on IFI@Home. Launched in July, IFI@Home is the IFI’s video- on-demand platform, bringing the very best of the IFI’s insightful and engaging cinema programming to homes across the Republic of Ireland.

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Tickets Temple Bar tickets cost Membership: Membership 1 Browse the IFI French Film Festival page on IFI@Home. €12.50 each. is required for all Temple Bar 2 Select the film you want to watch. screenings. Daily membership 6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 3 Click the film’s RENT button – the RENT button will also show the price of the rental. Please note that capacity in Temple costs €1.50 and annual 4 On the next page, enter your credit or debit card details and click ‘Rent’. Bar is strictly limited. Please see our membership just €35. Annual @IFI_Dub #IFIFrenchFest 5 You can start watching the film straight away or you can wait until later and find it in your Library. Covid-19 visitor guidelines at Membership entitles the bearer You can return to your current films by clicking “Signed in as… ” in the top right-hand corner of your www.ifi.ie/covid19-safety. to discounts on screenings, free facebook.com/irishfilminstitute IFI@Home home screen, and selecting ‘My Library’ from the dropdown menu.

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IFI@Home screenings cost €7.50 films throughout the year, one @irishfilminstitute Remember, you have 72 hours to press play. Once you press play, you have a 48-hour window each for a three-day rental. complimentary ticket and a host Cover in which to watch the film. of other benefits. Festival Director: Visit www.ifihome.ie for more Marie-Pierre Richard information on great value multi- Box Office film packages. 01 679 3477 Programme Notes: Questions or comments? Email us on [email protected] - we’re happy to help! Alternatively, see the help sections on the Marie-Pierre Richard (MPR) IFI@Home website. www.ifi.ie/frenchfest David O’Mahony (DOM) www.ifihome.ie Alicia McGivern (AMG) Please note that we are unable to refund or extend any rentals. design: verso.ie design: 2 IFI French Film Festival 2020 www.ifi.ie • www.ifihome.ie 3 IFI TEMPLE BAR SCHEDULE IFI@HOME SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH All IFI French Film Festival titles are now available to For example, if you pre-order The Big Hit before the start pre-order on www.ifihome.ie. If you pre-order titles of the festival, the film will go live in your library at 18.00 on 18.20 The Big Hit (Un Triomphe) 18.15 The Squad (Les Joueuses) individually or as part of a bundle, they will go live in your Wednesday 11th, and you will have until 17.59 on Saturday 20.40 Thalasso library as per the schedule below and you will have 14th to start watching it. If you rent The Big Hit at 20.00 on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH 72 hours to press PLAY on the rental. Once you press PLAY, Saturday 14th, you will have until 19.59 on Tuesday 17th you will have 48 hours to finish watching the film. to start watching the film. If you were to then press play at 18.00 Adolescents (Adolescentes) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH 15.00 on Sunday 15th, you must finish watching the film by 21.00 Red Soil (Rouge) 18.10 A Son (Bik Eneich: Un fils) During the festival, the films below will be available to rent 14.59 on Tuesday 17th. for the specified three-day period, after which they will no 20.40 Margaux Hartmann (L’étreinte) longer be available. If you rent the film during any of the We regret that unwatched rentals and incomplete viewings FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH periods below, you will have 72 hours to press PLAY on the cannot be refunded or extended. 18.15 Lola (Lola vers la mer) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH film from the time of rental, and 48 hours to finish. 20.40 Perfumes (Les parfums) 18.15 The Salt of Tears (Le sel des larmes) TITLE RENT FROM RENT TO SEE PAGE 20.45 Perfumes (Les parfums) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH The Big Hit (Un Triomphe) 18.00 on Wednesday 11th 22.00 on Saturday 14th 6 13.00 The Woman Who Dared (Le ciel est à vous) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST Adolescents (Adolescentes) 18.00 on Thursday 12th 22.00 on Sunday 15th 6 15.40 Slalom 13.00 Summer Light (Lumière d’été) Red Soil (Rouge) 18.00 on Thursday 12th 22.00 on Sunday 15th 7 18.10 Enormous (Énorme) 15.50 Slalom Lola (Lola vers la mer) 18.00 on Friday 13th 22.00 on Monday 16th 7 20.45 Night Shift (Police) 18.20 French Tech (Les deux Alfred) The Woman Who Dared (Le ciel est à vous) 12.00 on Saturday 14th 22.00 on Tuesday 17th 15 20.45 My Donkey, My Lover and I Enormous (Énorme) 12.00 on Saturday 14th 22.00 on Tuesday 17th 8 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) Love Affair(s) 12.00 on Saturday 14th 22.00 on Tuesday 17th 8 13.00 Stormy Waters (Remorques) (Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait) 15.30 Josep SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND Night Shift (Police) 12.00 on Saturday 14th 22.00 on Tuesday 17th 9 17.45 Mama Weed (La daronne) 11.00 Calamity Stormy Waters (Remorques) 12.00 on Sunday 15th 22.00 on Wednesday 18th 15 20.30 Perfumes (Les parfums) (Calamity, une enfance de Martha Jane Cannary) Josep 12.00 on Sunday 15th 22.00 on Wednesday 18th 9 13.30 DaÏnah la Métisse Mama Weed (La daronne) 12.00 on Sunday 15th 22.00 on Wednesday 18th 9 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH 15.20 Looking for Gilles Caron (Histoire d’un regard) All Hands on Deck (À l’abordage) 18.00 on Monday 16th 22.00 on Thursday 19th 10 18.10 All Hands on Deck (À l’abordage) 18.00 Slalom Those Who Work (Ceux qui travaillent) 18.00 on Monday 16th 22.00 on Thursday 19th 10 20.40 Those Who Work (Ceux qui travaillent) 20.30 Delete History (Effacer l’historique) The Nest 18.00 on Tuesday 17th 22.00 on Friday 20th 10 (Pingouin et Goëland et leurs 500 petits) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH #IAmHere (#JeSuisLà) 18.00 on Tuesday 17th 22.00 on Friday 20th 11 18.00 The Nest The Squad (Les Joueuses) 18.00 on Wednesday 18th 22.00 on Saturday 21st 11 (Pingouin et Goëland et leurs 500 petits) Thalasso 18.00 on Wednesday 18th 22.00 on Saturday 21st 11 20.45 #IAmHere (#JeSuisLà) A Son (Bik Eneich: Un fils) 18.00 on Thursday 19th 22.00 on Sunday 22nd 12 Margaux Hartmann (L’étreinte) 18.00 on Thursday 19th 22.00 on Sunday 22nd 12 The Salt of Tears (Le sel des larmes) 18.00 on Friday 20th 22.00 on Monday 23rd 12 My Donkey, My Lover and I 12.00 on Saturday 21st 22.00 on Tuesday 24th 13 (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) Looking for Gilles Caron (Histoire d’un regard) 12.00 on Sunday 22nd 22.00 on Wednesday 25th 13 Calamity (Calamity, une enfance 12.00 on Sunday 22nd 22.00 on Wednesday 25th 14 de Martha Jane Cannary)

4 IFI French Film Festival 2020 www.ifi.ie • www.ifihome.ie 5 Red Soil (Rouge) In this gripping thriller that pits the tireless underdog against forces of corporate greed, Nour (Zita Hanrot), an ER nurse, starts a new job in the infirmary at the chemical factory where her father works, and uncovers long hidden secrets and corruption, involving toxic waste that causes an infamous ‘red soil’. French- Algerian director Farid Bentoumi’s second feature is a social thriller in the vein of Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich. Honest and direct, with an autobiographical dimension, this father-daughter confrontation plays out the complex dilemma that faces Nour IFI Temple Bar: as a whistleblower, clashing with unions, politicians, industry Thursday, November 12th (21.00) leaders, and her own family. MPR IFI@Home: Available to rent until Sunday 15th at 22.00 Director: Farid Bentoumi 88 mins • France-Belgium • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled

Lola The Big Hit (Lola vers la mer) (Un Triomphe) Just as 18-year-old transgender Lola (Mya Bollaers, in her first role) learns she can finally have surgery, her mother, her only Opening film Étienne (Kad Merad), a passionate, if frequently-out of-work financial support, passes away. Abiding by her last wishes, actor, runs a prison theatre workshop where he introduces an Lola and her estranged father Philippe (Benoît Magimel) travel IFI Temple Bar: unlikely troupe of would-be actors to the challenging work of to the Belgian coast and learn to re-read their family history Wednesday, November 11th (18.20) Samuel Beckett. Encouraged by the raw talent he uncovers in in light of the other’s experience, getting a chance to try and IFI@Home: the disparate group of prisoners, Étienne conceives an idea make peace with a traumatic past that they’ll finally be able Available to rent until Saturday 14th at 22.00 to perform Waiting for Godot on a real theatre stage, outside to share. Belgian director Laurent Micheli explores the anger Director: Emmanuel Courcol the prison walls. Based on actual events, Emmanuel Courcol’s and provokes an authentic energy, while revealing tough truths 105 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled delightful comedy-drama is an ode to friendship and the IFI Temple Bar: in quite exceptional ways. Micheli, served by a wonderful redemptive nature of art. DOM Friday, November 13th (18.15) duo of actors, captures the complexity and delves into the IFI@Home: conflicting relationship between a transgender daughter and Available to rent until Monday 16th at 22.00 her overwhelmed dad, who had always rejected her, unable to Director: Laurent Micheli accept the loss of the son he once had. MPR 90 mins • Belgium-France • 2019 • Digital • Subtitled

Adolescents Perfumes (Adolescentes) (Les parfums) This new documentary by Sébastien Lifshitz (The Invisibles; In this charming comedy drama, Guillaume (Grégory Montel of Little Girl; Bambi) follows best friends Emma and Anaïs over Netflix series Call My Agent!), a hapless chauffeur, trys to gain a five-year period from the time they start secondary school. custody of his daughter after a recent divorce. He stumbles Both a personal story and a collective history, it chronicles into a new job driving for the temperamental Anne Walberg the two girls’ friendship and the transformative teenage years (Emmanuelle Devos) who, it transpires, is a perfumier of great where radical change and first times punctuate daily life, while renown trying to reinvent herself as a solo operator after a investigating the social and cultural pressures on France’s number of personal setbacks. Anne’s outrageous, diva-like young. This unique and fascinating documentary is a gift, getting behaviour at first exasperates the sheepish Guillaume, yet right to the heart of Emma and Anaïs’s lives. MPR the odd couple gradually form a bond that leads to a highly IFI Temple Bar: IFI Temple Bar: Friday, November 13th (20.40) successful professional partnership. DOM Thursday, November 12th (18.00) IFI Temple Bar: Sunday, November 15th (20.30) IFI@Home: IFI Temple Bar: Friday, November 20th (20.45) Available to rent until Sunday 15th at 22.00 Director: Grégory Magne Director: Sébastien Lifshitz 100 mins • France • 2019 • Digital • Subtitled 135 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled

6 IFI French Film Festival 2020 www.ifi.ie • www.ifihome.ie 7 Slalom Night Shift (Police) 15-year-old Lyz Lopez (Noée Abita) has been accepted at the prestigious ski training academy in Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Fred This devastating new drama from stalwart Anne Fontaine, (Jérémie Renier), an ex-champion turned coach, decides to portrays 24 hours in the life of a Paris police department, as make Lyz his shining star after she wins her first race, and puts a seen from the different perspectives of three characters (a gruelling training programme in place for her. stellar cast played by Virginie Efira, Grégory Gadebois and Omar Sy) who need to decide the fate of Tajikistani asylum seeker, Slalom is a sensitive and topical coming-of-age story, which Tohirov (Payman Maadi), as they escort him to Charles de Gaulle examines issues of sexual abuse in the sports world. Adapted airport for deportation. As they try make an unbearable decision from her real-life experience, director Charlène Favier admirably on his fate, we get a glimpse into their personal lives away from describes Lyz’s inner intimate and immediate world and the the daily incidents of violence in homes and on the streets. IFI Temple Bar: Saturday, November 14th (15.40) strong, dangerous psychological (and physical) pressures that IFI Temple Bar: IFI Temple Bar: Saturday, November 21st (15.50) Fred imposes. MPR Saturday, November 14th (20.45) Versatile director Anne Fontaine (The Innocents; Pure as Snow), IFI Temple Bar: Sunday, November 22nd (18.00) IFI@Home: in adapting the book Police by Hugo Boris, draws imposing Director: Charlène Favier Available to rent until Tuesday 17th at 22.00 and sensitive performances from her actors, and with brilliant, 90 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled Director: Anne Fontaine atmospheric photography by Yves Angelo, brings us an 98 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled immersive night-lit climax of rare intensity and emotion. MPR

Enormous Josep (Énorme) February 1939. Serge is a gendarme on the French border, Famous, self-absorbed pianist Claire Girard (Marina Foïs) is when some 500,000 Spaniards seek refuge in France during the excessively ‘handled’ by husband Frédéric (Jonathan Cohen), Spanish Civil War. Confined in appalling conditions in camps who manages her career but also siphons away her choice and built by the French government, they barely have access to freedom. Although the couple have no plans to have children, water and food. The gendarmes, many of whom are racist, call Frédéric unexpectedly assists in delivering a baby on a plane, the Spanish ‘Red, Communist scum’. However, Serge is kind, and prompting an excessive and uncontrollable urge to have a child. befriends refugee Josep. Sixty years later, in Paris, Serge tells his Determined to get his way, he starts by tampering with Claire’s story to grandson Valentin, vividly recreated here in captivating contraception. What starts out as an unnerving film on toxic animation. Editorial journalist, and award-winning cartoonist masculinity morphs into a wacky comedy aided by director Aurel’s (aka Aurélien Froment) debut feature is inventive and IFI Temple Bar: Sophie Letourneur’s choice to shoot in square format perfectly IFI Temple Bar: beautiful, inspired by the life and work of the late Catalan Saturday, November 14th (18.10) expresses the couple’s claustrophobic sense of confinement. Sunday, November 15th (15.30) illustrator and caricaturist Josep Bartolí, a Republican fighting IFI@Home: Masterfully swapping gender roles, Letourneur plays with the IFI@Home: against Franco’s regime. MPR Available to rent until Tuesday 17th at 22.00 unacceptable to touching, hilarious, and often absurd effect. MPR Available to rent until Wednesday 18th at 22.00 Director: Sophie Letourneur Prix Jean Vigo 2020 Director: Aurel 100 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled 72 mins • France-Spain • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled

Love Affair(s) Mama Weed (Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait) (La daronne) Daphné (Camélia Jordana), three months pregnant, is on Isabelle Huppert is Patience Portefeux, a French-Arabic translator, vacation in the French countryside with boyfriend François specialising in wire-taps for the drug squad. Her mother, who (Vincent Macaigne, Festival Guest 2019). When François has lives in a nursing home, is nursed by Khadija, the mother of Afid, to leave urgently for Paris to cover for a sick colleague, Daphné who we learn is involved in a major dope deal… only the dope finds herself alone to welcome François’s cousin Maxime (Niels has disappeared. And so, Khadija and Patience decide to team Schneider). He and Daphné go sightseeing, and as they talk, an up. Using information Patience aquires through her translation intimate bond forms. Emmanuel Mouret’s (Lady J) tenth feature job, she assumes the identity of a drugs wholesaler known as is a stunner: carefully-written, elegantly composed and framed, Mama Weed. Based on the book La Daronne by Hannelore Cayre, and beautifully nuanced. The film is a treat of delicacy, of joyful this zany comedy blends fast-moving action in a contemporary IFI@Home: observation, filled with twists and turns. MPR IFI Temple Bar: portrait of Paris’s many melting-pot communities. As the film Available to rent until Tuesday 17th at 22.00 Sunday, November 15th (17.45) poster suggests ‘Isabelle Huppert is 50% cop, 50% drug dealer, Director: Emmanuel Mouret IFI@Home: 100% pure’. MPR 122 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled Available to rent until Wednesday 18th at 22.00 Director: Jean-Paul Salomé 106 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled

8 IFI French Film Festival 2020 www.ifi.ie • www.ifihome.ie 9 All Hands on Deck #IAmHere (À l’abordage) (#Jesuislà) A summer’s night along Paris’s quays, and people are dancing. In this charming romatic comedy, Stéphane (Alain Chabat), a 20-something Félix (Eric Nantchouang) and Alma (Asma divorced chef in his 50s, has taken over his father’s restaurant Messaoudene) meet, and wake together next morning in a in the Pays Basque. He lives a quiet, satisfying life until one park. Alma says goodbye and runs to catch a train to meet her day however, he decides, quite irrationally, to travel to Seoul family in the south of France. Félix, smitten and desperate to to meet Soo, a mysterious Korean lady he has fallen for on see Alma again, convinces pal Chérif (Salif Cissé) to accompany Instagram. Scheduled to meet at Seoul airport, things naturally him to Valence, in the hopes of finding her. They leave Paris don’t go to plan. Eric Lartigau directs this colourful, charming, courtesy of a car share with reluctant driver Edouard (Edouard feel-good romcom, co-written with Thomas Bidegain. Chabat Sulpice). Director Guillaume Brac has made a magical film, full of perfectly seizes the character of a man who is both confident IFI Temple Bar: Rohmer-esque comedy. Both a sensitive chronicle and delicate IFI Temple Bar: and vulnerable as he wanders the airport terminals becoming Monday, November 16th (18.10) portrait of today’s youth, his fresh cast of new faces fills us Thursday, November 17th (20.45) something of a local celebrity. This great adventure is a catalyst IFI@Home: with romance and friendship while tempers fray and arguments IFI@Home: for Stéphane to become for a time a ‘French Lover’, an odyssey Available to rent until Thursday 19th at 22.00 erupt. MPR Available to rent until Sunday 20th at 22.00 which ultimately reconnects him with his loved ones. MPR Director: Guillaume Brac Director: Eric Lartigau 95 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled 98 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled

Those Who Work The Squad (Ceux qui travaillent) (Les Joueuses) Frank (Olivier Gourmet) is consumed with his work chartering Olympique Lyonnaise is one of the best soccer teams in the world cargo ships for major international companies – night and day, having, since 2011, won a collective 26 national and European he’s on his phone, putting out fires. Faced with a crisis situation, titles. And yet, they are less recognisable than contemporary Frank makes a brutal decision, and is subsequently fired. Feeling clubs such as Real Madrid or Chelsea, most likely on account shaken to his core, and betrayed by a system to which he has of their being a women’s soccer team. Stéphanie Gillard’s given everything, Frank is forced to reassess his life and values illuminating behind-the-scenes feature documentary presents in order to save the only relationship that still counts in his eyes, a welcome corrective to this male-centric view of the sport. the one he has maintained with his youngest daughter, Mathilde. With intimate access to her engaging subjects, we get to know DOM these exceptional players both on and off the pitch, from training IFI Temple Bar: IFI Temple Bar: sessions to competitive matches, from failures to victories. DOM Monday, November 16th (20.40) Wednesday, November 18th (18.15) IFI@Home: IFI@Home: Available to rent until Thursday 19th at 22.00 Available to rent until Saturday 21st at 22.00 Director: Antoine Russbach Director: Stéphanie Gillard 102 mins • France-Switzerland-Belgium • 2018 88 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled Digital • Subtitled

The Nest Thalasso (Pingouin et Goëland et leurs 500 petits) Director Guillaume Nicloux reunites ultra-mediatised Director Michel Leclerc’s mother and her friends (and legendary provocateur Michel Houellebecq and larger-than-life Gérard mime Marcel Marceau) were amongst 500 World War II orphans Depardieu at the laboratory-like seawater spa in Cabourg, and foster kids raised by Yvonne & Roger Hagnauer, aka Goëland Normandy where they undertake a strict health regime. Denied and Pingouin, code names for these strong-willed Resistance his usual vices of smoking and drinking, the writer finds solace members. Between 1941-1970 at their school ‘Maison de in the bacchanalian and gargantuan presence of France’s most Sèvres’, they dedicated their lives to innovative educational famous actor, with the two casually shooting the breeze amid all methods to help the children heal and blossom. Leclerc, through their algae wraps, mud massages and cryotherapy treatments, archive footage and interviews, uncovers in this fascinating, while sneaking in cigarettes and alcohol whenever they can. rich documentary a remarkable couple who left an indelible Nicloux relishes the game here, playing with the real and fictional IFI Temple Bar: mark in all these children’s hearts. Beginning with the story of IFI Temple Bar: identities of Houellebecq and Depardieu. Documentary, fiction, Tuesday, November 17th (18.00) his mother Léa, Leclerc gives us a unique account of freedom, Wednesday, November 18th (20.40) truth and lies collide in the brilliantly comic, tragic and grotesque IFI@Home: education and openness, and something of what people lived IFI@Home: Thalasso. MPR Available to rent until Friday 20th at 22.00 and experienced during the war. MPR Available to rent until Saturday 21st at 22.00 Director: Michel Leclerc Director: Guillaume Nicloux 109 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled 93 mins • France • 2019 • Digital • Subtitled

10 IFI French Film Festival 2020 www.ifi.ie • www.ifihome.ie 11 A Son French Tech (Bik Eneich: Un fils) (Les deux Alfred) It is summer 2011 in Tunisia, and wealthy couple Fares (Sami Alexandre (Denis Podalydès), unemployed with his bank account Bouajila) and Meriem (Najla Ben Abdallah) are holidaying in the blocked, has to care for his two children while his wife is away – south of the country with their son Aziz. Accidentally caught on a top-secret mission in a nuclear submarine. He succeeds at up in an ambush, their car gets hit and Aziz is shot. At the local a job interview with start-up ‘The Box’, but the job comes with the hospital in need of a liver transplant, a long-concealed family strict policy of ‘No kids’. Alexandre meets the friendly Arcimboldo secret is unearthed. Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui’s first (Bruno Podalydès) while dropping his daughter at daycare, who feature is a tense, sensitive and troubling drama set to the agrees to help Alexandre keep the secret of his split identity from backdrop of political and social upheaval, just months after the his new super-tough boss Séverine (Sandrine Kiberlain). Director fall of Ben Ali and weeks before that of Gaddafi in Libya. The Bruno Podalydès once again teams with brother Denis to concoct IFI Temple Bar: story brings questions of masculinity, paternity, the place of IFI Temple Bar: this wonderful, witty comedy portraying the new corporate world Thursday, November 19th (18.10) women, and trafficking of human organs to the fore. Haunting Saturday, November 21st (18.20) of modern technologies that goes beyond the protagonists’ IFI@Home: music from Amine Bouhafa and elliptical narrative structures Director: Bruno Podalydès understanding. Playful and dreamy, the film spins us through Available to rent until Sunday 22nd at 22.00 combine to slowly reveal the family’s unspoken past. MPR 92 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled situations like a merry-go-around through satire, slapstick, and Director: Mehdi Barsaoui absurdity. MPR 95 mins • France-Tunisia-Lebanon-Qatar • 2020 Digital • Subtitled

Margaux Hartmann My Donkey, My Lover and I (L’étreinte) (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) 50-something Margaux (Emmanuelle Béart) returns to her School teacher Antoinette Lapouge (a luminous Laure Calamy) hometown near Versailles to reconnect with her sister Marianne is secretly in love with Vladimir (Benjamin Lavernhe), the father (Eva Ionesco) following the death of her older husband. Having of one of her students. Having organised a week away together, married young and with no children, for Margaux being alone is a Vladimir’s wife unexpectedly books a holiday hike with the family new experience. When she takes up studies in German literature in the Cévennes. Antoinette decides to set off to the Cévennes with a view to becoming a translator, she meets a group of students too, but on a very stubborn donkey named Patrick, who is and befriends one of them. Béart makes a luminous comeback, reluctant to move. Antoinette confides in him, talking as if he subtly capturing Margaux’s grief, and isolation, reaching out to was her therapist, which amusingly is the catalyst for him to retake possession of her life. Beautifully shot on film, framing move. Set in the scenic and sunny south, and inspired by Robert IFI Temple Bar: the longing and the passing of time at a measured pace, we feel IFI Temple Bar: Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece Travels With a Donkey in the Thursday, November 19th (20.40) immersed, as night-time scenes and landscapes perfectly mirror Saturday, November 21st (20.45) Cévennes, Caroline Vignal’s delightful film is an enchanting story IFI@Home: Margaux’s inner world. MPR IFI@Home: about liberation and being fearless. MPR Available to rent until Sunday 22nd at 22.00 Available to rent until Tuesday 24th at 22.00 Director: Ludovic Bergery Director: Caroline Vignal 100 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled 97 mins • France • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled

The Salt of Tears Looking for Gilles Caron (Le sel des larmes) (Histoire d’un regard) Luc (Logann Antuofermo) is a young, serial lover: first Djemila French photojournalist Gilles Caron disappeared in Cambodia (Oulaya Amamra), then Geneviève (Louise Chevillotte), and then in 1970, aged 30, at the height of a brilliant career, with more Betsy (Souheila Yacoub). In parallel, he is seeking his vocation than 100,000 photographs to his name. With honesty and in life and coming to terms with his relationship with his father rigour, Caron covered high profile and dramatic conflicts from (André Wilms). Vietnam to Biafra, Nigeria to Paris May ’68, and to the Derry of 1969 where he took 1,200 photos in just three days. Filmmaker Veteran filmmaker Philippe Garrel, whose films are regularly Mariana Otero offers us a resonant and moving portrait as she screened at the IFI French Film Festival, is back with the latest investigates and reflects on the ambiguous role and presence of instalment in a cycle of films which began in 2013. Working with the documentary photographer in scenes of conflict. MPR IFI Temple Bar: regular collaborators – screenwriters Jean-Claude Carrière and IFI Temple Bar: Friday, November 20th (18.15) Arlette Langmann, cinematographer Renato Berta, and composer Sunday, November 22nd (15.20) The online rental of Looking for Gilles Caron will include a IFI@Home: Jean-Louis Aubert – this pared-back cinema, using a minimum of IFI@Home: bonus talk with Director Mariana Otero and Martin McCabe Available to rent until Monday 23rd at 22.00 resources, reminds us very much of the cinema of Maurice Pialat Available to rent until Wednesday 25th at 22.00 (Lecturer, BA Photography, TU Dublin). Director: Philippe Garrel and Jean Eustace. A cinema which is emotional and instinctive. Director: Mariana Otero 100 mins • France-Switzerland • 2020 • Digital MPR 93 mins • France • 2019 • Digital • Subtitled Subtitled • Black and White 12 IFI French Film Festival 2020 www.ifi.ie • www.ifihome.ie 13 Jean Grémillion focus We are delighted to present rare screenings of four University Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux, and author important works by director Jean Grémillon (1901–59). of Jean Grémillon Le Ciel est à vous (2012). The talk will Vastly under-rated outside France, Grémillon started be moderated by Douglas Smith, Associate Professor, directing documentaries, making two features during School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, the silent era, before directing over 20 features with University College Dublin. See IFI@Home for details. sound. Filled with humanity and modernity, his films explore themes of obsession and inner conflicts, with This programme is organised with the support of strong, independent female characters, and carefully the Institut Français, Paris and the French Embassy observed depictions of working class society. in Ireland. A very special thanks to Christine Houard, Institut Français; Cultural Services of the French The festival will feature a talk with French film historian Embassy in Ireland; Gaumont; TF1 International; and Geneviève Sellier, Professor of Film Studies at the MK2 Films.

The Woman Who Dared Summer Light (Le ciel est à vous) (Lumière d’été) The Gauthier family – Starring Madeleine Pierre, his wife Thérèse, Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, their two children, and Madeleine Robinson, Delete History Thérèse’s mother – Paul Bernard, and (Effacer l’historique) leave the old country Georges Marchal, garage they have been Summer Light begins running for years to with explosions on IFI Temple Bar: Three neighbours struggle with the negative consequences settle in a nearby town. the landscape. Some Sunday, November 22nd (20.30) of all-pervasive social media networks in another wildly Thérèse suddenly develops a passion for flying, aided by of the explosions are literal, the film is set against the Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern inventive and timely comedy from the makers of Mammuth Pierre, a former fighter pilot. With a screenplay by Charles background action of the construction of a dam in the 110 mins • France-Belgium • Digital • 2020 and Saint Amour. Marie (Blanche Gardin) is afraid of losing her Spaak, The Woman Who Dared is inspired by real-life Haute Provence region, while others are metaphorical, Subtitled son’s respect because of a leaked sex tape; Bertrand (Denis aviatrixes. Beautifully shot in a realistic documentary as the film explores the predicament of a young woman Podalydès), who cannot refuse the allure of advertising, is style, it is considered by many to be Grémillon’s who finds herself torn between the competing attentions trying to protect his daughter from cyberbullies; and Christine masterpiece. The film includes wonderful performances of three emotionally volatile men: a self-destructive artist, (Corinne Masiero), having lost everything due to an addiction from Madeleine Renaud and Charles Vanel. a decadent aristocrat and a heroic engineer. This second to TV series, wonders why her ratings as an Uber driver are not IFI Temple Bar: Saturday, November 14th (13.00) collaboration between director Grémillon and scriptwriter improving. DOM IFI@Home: Available to rent until Tues Nov. 17th at 22.00 Jacques Prévert is a powerful social melodrama. 105 mins • France • 1944 • Digital • Subtitled • Black & White IFI Temple Bar: Saturday, November 21st (13.00) 110 mins • France • 1943 • 35mm • Subtitled • Black & White Stormy Waters (Remorques) Daïnah la Métisse IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL FAMILY SCREENING André Laurent (Jean Grémillon’s second Gabin), captain of a feature talkie is an exotic, Calamity tugboat, is husband hypnotic detective (Calamity, une enfance de Martha Jane Cannary) to the frail Yvonne, story by Charles Spaak. who suffers from a Beautiful mixed-race Winner of the Cristal Award at the 2020 Annecy International heart complaint. One Daïnah travels with Animation Festival, this is a gorgeous family feature from stormy night, a wedding her magician husband French animator Rémi Chayé (The Secret of Kells), bringing his party is interrupted by aboard a luxury liner. She recognisable hand-drawn style to the Wild West. It’s 1863 and an SOS, and a rescue operation ensues during which flirts with several white men, before strolling the outside young Martha Jane Cannary is riding along with a convoy of André meets the beautiful Catherine (Michèle Morgan). deck where she attracts the ship worker Michaux. wagons headed west. When circumstances force her to care for Based on the novel by Roger Vercel with dialogue by She pushes him away and, the following day, Daïnah the horses, she scandalously cuts off her hair and dons trousers, Jacques Prévert, this lyrical melodrama began shooting disappears overboard… The distributors and producers the better to function in a man’s world. Gaining in strength as in France in 1939 as war broke out. Released in 1941, detested the original version and drastically cut it to a she drives west, Martha Jane’s encounters with danger and it was eventually banned as Gabin had joined the Free less than an hour, a version disavowed by Grémillon. IFI Temple Bar: adventure lead to her growing up as the frontierswoman and French Forces. Groundbreaking in its modernity, the film Restored in 2018 by Gaumont Pathé Archives, they noted, Sunday, November 22nd (11.00) heroine, Calamity Jane. AMG contains complex and compelling staged storm scenes, ‘We will probably never know what the original cut of IFI@Home: filled with dramatic tension. Daïnah La Métisse was like’. Available to rent until Wednesday 25th at 22.00 Age recommendation: 10+ IFI Temple Bar: Sunday, November 15th (13.00) IFI Temple Bar: Sunday, November 22nd (13.30) Director: Rémi Chayé IFI@Home: Available to rent until Wed. 18th at 22.00 55 mins • France • 1932 • 35mm • Subtitled • Black & White 85 mins • France-Denmark • 2020 • Digital • Subtitled 84 mins • France • 1941 • Digital • Subtitled • Black & White 14 IFI French Film Festival 2020 www.ifi.ie • www.ifihome.ie 15 IFI FRENCH FESTIVAL MENU Complete your festival experience with some great French food and wine at the IFI Café Bar created by Head of Food & Beverage Julien Caillabet (Formerly of Les Frère Jacques) 2 Plats €19 / 2 Courses €19 3 Plats €25 / 3 Courses €25 LES ENTREES LES PLATS Velouté de petit pois à la tuile de parmesan Cassoulet à la cuisse de poulet confite Cream of Pea Soup with a Parmesan tuile Cassoulet with Confit Chicken Leg ’“ ’“ Saumon poché sur baguette grillée Filet de merlu à la crème de chou frisé avec purée de betteraves et d'artichaut Poached Salmon on Toasted Bageutte Fillet of Hake with Curly Kale with Beetroot Puree and Pickled Artichoke ’“ ’“ Terrine au fromage de chèvre et légumes Légumes d'hiver rôti avec des chips de panais avec vinaigrette aux olives noires et du yaourt Harissa Goat Cheese and Vegetable Terrine Roasted Winter Veg with Parsnip Crisps with Black Olive Dressing and Harissa Yoghurt

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