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Night of Ideas 15

Before the Night 16-18

Little Night 19 The Wolf's Call William Christie, un art de Tribute to Delphine Seyrig From 6 Dec donner 1 Dec - 4 Feb p.3 9 Dec pp.10-12 Talks & Special Events 20-21 p.22 Music 22-23

Kids & Families 24-26

We Support / We Recommend 27-28

French Courses 29

Before the Night Night of Ideas Orchestre de Lille – UK Tour La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 30 24-29 Jan 30 Jan 28 Jan - 1 Feb p.16-18 p.15 p.27 General Information 31-35 various venues across UK

front cover image: Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia by Ulrike Ottinger Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases

La Belle époque Shooting the Mafia The Wolf’s Call The Cave

FRA | 2019 | 115 mins | dir. Nicolas Bedos, UK/ITA | 2019 | 94 mins | dir. Kim Longinotto Le Chant du Loup DNK/SYR | 2019 | 95 mins | dir. Feras Fayyad, with Guillaume Canet, Daniel Auteuil, Fanny doc | cert. 15 | in Italian with EN subs FRA | 2019 | 115 mins | dir. Antonin Baudry, with Amani Ballour, Salin Namour | cert. tbc Ardant, Pierre Arditi | cert. 15 | in French with François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu in Arabic with EN subs with EN subs Selected at the Berlin and Sundance Film Kassovitz, Reda Kateb | cert. 15 | in French Festivals, this documentary celebrates with EN subs Oscar nominated director Feras Fayyad Victor (Daniel Auteuil), a disillusioned the ground-breaking and committed (Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his native, sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside work of the free-spirited and charismatic Featuring a stellar cast, including Omar war-torn Syria to follow a dedicated team down when Antoine (Guillaume Canet), photojournalist Letizia Battaglia. Through Sy and Mathieu Kassovitz, submarine of female doctors who tirelessly treat a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him the interviews, news footage, clips from Italian thriller The Wolf’s Call follows in the casualties in an underground hospital with chance to relive a period of his past. He films and some of her extraordinary cinematic tradition of such titles as The limited resources while battling systemic chooses the most memorable week of images, we get a sense of both Battaglia Hunt for Red October and Das Boot. With sexism. his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, herself and the social landscape of Russia heading towards conflict with he met the great love of his life (Fanny organised crime in Italy. Europe, the stakes are high and a young From 6 Dec Ardant)... His hope is that by replaying submarine sonar technician has a crucial the past he might change the present. From Fri 29 Nov and nail-biting role to play. Fasten your seat belts – the tension is palpable! From Fri 22 Nov From 6 Dec

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USA | 2019 | 125 mins | dir. Fernando FRA | 2018 | 107 mins | dir. Mikhaël Hers, ITA | 1960 | 174 mins | dir. Federico Fellini, Chanson douce Meirelles, with Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan with Vincent Lacoste, Isaure Multrier, Stacy with Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, FRA | 2019 | 120 mins | dir. Lucie Borleteau, Pryce | cert. 12 | in English Martin, Ophélia Kolb | cert. 15 | in French with Anouk Aimée | cert. 12 | in Italian with EN with Karin Viard, Antoine Reinartz, Leïla EN subs subs | Digital 4K Restoration Bekhti | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Travelling from the streets of Buenos Aires to the hallowed halls of the Vatican, In his early twenties, David (Vincent Marcello Mastroianni, joined iconically by Lucie Borleteau’s second feature outing, Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) has Lacoste) is just beginning to figure out Anita Ekberg, plays a gossip columnist Chanson Douce, is an adaptation of Leila become disillusioned with the direction of life when his sister dies abruptly, leaving who journeys through Rome in search of Slimani’s eponymous novel. Myriam, a the Catholic Church, even though he’s a behind her 7-year-old daughter. The stories, love and happiness. At the time, mother of two, decides to return to work rumoured contender for the top job. When grief-stricken David must assume new the film’s atmosphere of moral frustration despite her husband’s reservations. They Joseph Ratzinger (Anthony Hopkins) responsibility as a potential guardian for and sexual candidness created a popular find Louise (Karin Viard), a babysitter who gets the gig, becoming Pope Benedict his niece. A touching story of resilience sensation, introducing the audience to the immediately wins the affections of the XVI, Bergoglio is relieved. However, when deepened by delicately nuanced world of paparazzi. La Dolce Vita went on children. Soon, however, a co-dependent the two men are brought together for a performances. to win both the Palme d’Or and an Oscar. relationship ensues and an eventual few days over one summer, their clash tragedy. of ideologies makes for passionate and From 3 Jan From 10 Jan enlightening discussion and debate. From 10 Jan

From 13 Dec Followed by a Q&A with actress Karin Viard on 10 January For full runs (days & times): Visit www.institut-francais.org.uk Pick up the Cinema Weekly Calendar available at the box office every Wednesday (or download the pdf online) InstitutFrancaisLondon ifru_london Sign up to our weekly cinema e-newsletter and follow us on our social media for regular updates Ciné Lumière New Releases Did You Miss It?

Midnight Traveler Be Natural: The Talking about Yves Saint USA/UK/QAT/CAN | 2019 | 86 mins | dir Untold Story of Trees Laurent: The Last Hassan Fazili | doc | cert. tbc | in Persian and English with EN subs Alice Guy-Blaché FRA/GER/QAT/SDN/CHA | 2019 | 93 mins Collections dir. Suhaib Gasmelbari | doc | cert. tbc | in In 2015, a death threat from the Taliban FRA | 2018 | 103 mins | dir. Pamela B. Green, Arabic, English and Russian with EN subs Célébration saw Afghan director Hassan Fazili, his with Alice Guy-Blaché, Jodie Foster, Julie FRA | 2018 | 74 mins | dir. Olivier Meyrou wife Fatima Hussaini, also a filmmaker, Delpy, Ava DuVernay | cert. tbc | in English In Sudan, a government controlled by cert. PG | in French with EN subs and their two daughters Nargis and Islamic fundamentalists for the past Zahra, flee from their homeland to distant When Alice Guy-Blaché completed her three decades leads to the demise of an In the late 1990s, director Olivier Meyrou Europe in search of safety. En route, first film in 1896 Paris, she was not only entire film industry and heritage, with spent several years filming behind the during long and uncertain stays in various the first female filmmaker, but one of the only a few remaining theatres screening scenes as Yves Saint Laurent worked refugee camps, they draw strength from first directors ever to make a narrative film. Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters on his final collection. He reveals the documenting their difficult situation on Narrated by Jodie Foster, this documentary in central Khartoum. In this context, a power dynamics between an ageing mobile phones. Despite adversities and follows her rise from Gaumont secretary group of retired directors hope to reopen and reclusive Saint Laurent and an setbacks, they never once lose their to her appointment as head of production a cinema and revive their country’s love of overbearing Pierre Bergé. Shot in 16mm, humanity. a year later, and her subsequent illustrious film. Winner of the audience & original alternating between B&W and colour, 20-year international career. documentary awards at the Berlin Film this is a unique, beautifully textured and From 17 Jan Festival. imaginative testament to Saint Laurent’s From 17 Jan visionary legacy. From 31 Jan For full runs (days & times): From 1 Dec Visit www.institut-francais.org.uk Pick up the Cinema Weekly Calendar available at the box office every Wednesday (or download the pdf online) InstitutFrancaisLondon ifru_london Sign up to our weekly cinema e-newsletter and follow us on our social media for regular updates 05 06 Ciné Lumière Did You Miss It?

Singing in the The Irishman So Long My Son The Kingmaker Rain! USA | 2019 | 209 mins | dir. Martin Scorsese, CHN | 2019 | 185 mins | dir. Wang Xiaoshuai, USA | 2019 | 101 mins | dir. Lauren with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci with Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei, Qi Xi, Wang Greenfield, with Imelda Marcos | cert. tbc USA | 2019 | 103 mins | dir.s Stanley Donen & cert. 15 | in English Yuan | cert. tbc | in Mandarin with EN subs in English Gene Kelly, with Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds | cert. U | in English Based on the book I Heard You Paint Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Actor Centered on the indomitable character Houses by Charles Brandt, Martin and Best Actress at the Berlinale, Wang of Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker by It’s 1927 in Hollywood and Don Lockwood Scorsese's epic saga follows Frank ‘The Xiaoshuai's acclaimed drama chronicles Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles) (Gene Kelly), a stuntman-turned-matinee- Irishman’ Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a the lives of two families over three examines, with intimate access and idol star of Monumental Pictures, is union official with connections to the decades of social, political and human outstanding archival footage, the Marcos caught in the bumpy transition from mafia, and who allegedly murdered his upheaval in China. Following the loss of family’s history and improbable return to silent films to talkies. When the studio’s friend and controversial union leader, a child in a tragic accident, their paths power in the Philippines. attempts to make their own talkie Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), at the behest of separate and fortunes are transformed turn disastrous, it’s down to Don, his the Bufalino crime family. under the impact of a country's changing From 5 Jan songwriter best friend Cosmo (Donald face. O'Connor) and ingénue love interest Kathy From 14 Dec (Debbie Reynolds) to save the day… by From 3 Jan turning the film into a musical!

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The Lady with an Ermine, c. 1489-1490, Leonardo da Vinci, National Museum, Kraków Marriage Story Leonardo: A Flea in Her Ear The Captive USA | 2019 | 136 mins | dir. Noah Baumbach, The Works Theatre Broadcast from the Comédie- La Captive with Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Française FRA | 2000 | 118 mins | dir. Chantal Akerman, Dern | cert. 15 | in English UK | 2019 | 102 mins | dir. Phil Grabsky | doc with Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud cert. tbc | in English La Puce à l’oreille cert. 15 | in French with EN subs | Digital 2K Academy Award nominated director FRA | 140 mins | author: Georges Feydeau Restoration Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha and Mistress Marking the 500th anniversary of the dir. Lilo Baur, with the troupe of la Comédie- America) unites on screen Scarlett death of Leonardo da Vinci and on the Française | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Loosely inspired by Proust’s The Prisoner, Johansson and Adam Driver as Nicole occasion of a new major exhibition at Akerman’s hypnotic exploration of erotic and Charlie, a couple whose dissimilarities the Louvre, Phil Grabsky’s documentary With its impressive construction and obsession circles around the relationship in their desires and expectations become explores key works of the world acclaimed incredible inventiveness, La Puce à l’oreille between the seemingly pliant Ariane and a chasm. Noah Baumbach gives there artist including The Mona Lisa, The Last (A Flea in the Ear) marked Belle Epoque the disturbingly jealous Simon. an incisive and compassionate look at a Supper, Lady with an Ermine, Ginevra de’ iconic playwright Feydeau's triumphant slowly collapsing relationship. Benci and many others, shining a new light return to vaudeville in 1907. Fickle Sun 8 Dec 4.30pm on da Vinci’s inventiveness, sculptural husbands feature alongside jealous wives. Fri 13 Dec 8.15pm From 5 Jan skills, military foresight and his ability to Doors slam. A classic comedy of morals navigate the treacherous politics of the played by the actors of the Comédie- Special screenings preceded by an day. Française. introduction by Adam Robert (A Nos Amours) on 8 Dec and a talk by Pr Edward Mon 2 Dec 6.30pm Wed 4 Dec 8.30pm Hughes (Queen Mary University London) Sun 5 Jan 4pm * on 13 Dec at 7pm (see p.20). Marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of A l’Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, awarded the Prix Goncourt the Screenings in Ciné Lumière II same year. * 07 08 Ciné Lumière Special Screenings

© Les Films du Bal Atlantics Moulin Rouge Joan of Arc I Know Where I’m Atlantique UK | 1952 | 119 mins | dir. John Houston, with Jeanne Going! FRA/SEN | 2019 | 104 mins | dir. Mati Diop, José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon FRA | 2019 | 138 mins | dir. Bruno Dumont, with Mame Bineta Sane, Ibrahima Mbaye cert. PG | in English | 4K Digital Restoration with Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jean-François UK | 1945 | 91 mins | dir.s Michael Powell Sope, Traore | cert. tbc | in Wolof and French Causeret, Daniel Dienne, Fabien Fenet | cert. and Emeric Pressburger, with Roger Livesey, with EN subs Winning two Oscars, John Houston’s tbc | in French with EN subs | UK Premiere Wendy Hiller, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie Moulin Rouge follows artist Toulouse- cert. U | in English Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Lautrec who tends to forget his worries Presented at this year’s Un Certain regard Film Festival, Mati Diop’s Atlantics is a by drinking and mingling at the Moulin section in Cannes, Bruno Dumont’s latest The war is a distant backdrop in this hypnotic, genre-shifting portrait of a girl’s Rouge in Paris, sketching the ambience film celebrates the strength and sense of unconventional romance largely set in awakening in today’s Senegal. Ada and behind the scenes. Lonely and convinced freedom of women shackled by societies the Scottish Hebrides, where a city girl is Souleiman are in love. Souleiman, tired that his crippled state means he will be and archaic rules by reimagining the story transplanted into a rural environment and of not getting paid for his work on the alone forever, he is delighted to meet of Joan of Arc. comes to question her preconceptions. gleaming towers of Dakar, sets out across Marie, a young girl in need of help. The It was perhaps Powell and Pressburger’s the Atlantic with his friends, leaving Ada to two become lovers, but even the fate of Thu 9 Jan 8pm most personal film to date: a metaphysical face impending marriage to another man. bohemian lovers can be cruel… love story which confirmed their continuing Preceded by a masterclass with director departure from Britain's realist tradition. Sat 14 Dec 5.30pm Mon 6 Jan 7pm Bruno Dumont, led by Kieron Corless Wed 8 Jan 6.50pm * (Sight & Sound), illustrated with film clips, Mon 27 Jan 7.30pm Special screening on the occasion of at 6.30pm / £5 Pre-recorded intro and Q&A with director the Exhibition Into the Night, Cabarets & Preceded by Powell’s and Pressburger’s Mati Diop Clubs in Modern Art at the Barbican (until Island Stories, a free lecture 19 Jan), followed by a Q&A with Angela by Professor Ian Christie Allen, Moulin Rouge’s script supervisor (Gresham College) at 6pm Ciné Lumière Ukrainian Film Days

Mr Jones Homeward Swan Lake: The Zone

UKR/POL/UK | 2019 | 119 mins | dir. Agnieszka Holland, with UKR | 2019 | 97 mins | dir. Nariman Aliev, with Akhtem USSR/CAN/USA/SWE | 1990 | 96 mins | dir. Yuri Ilyenko, with James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard | cert. tbc Seitablayev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barihashvili, Anatoliy Victor Solovyov, Lyudmila Yefimenko, Maia Bulgakova, Pylyp in English, Ukrainian, Russian and Welsh with EN subs Marempolskiy | cert. tbc | in Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, Ilyenko | cert. tbc | in Ukrainian with EN subs Russian and Arabic with EN subs 1933. Gareth Jones (James Norton) is an ambitious Based on a screenplay by famous filmmaker Sergey young Welsh journalist who gained fame after his report Having lost his eldest son in the war between Russian Parajanov, this story was shot in 1990, a year before the on being the first foreign journalist to fly with Hitler. Whilst and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body Soviet Union collapsed. A convict on the run hides within working as an advisor to Lloyd George, he is now looking to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, Mustafa and a hammer and sickle monument. When a woman comes for his next big story: the rapid modernisation of the his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly to his aid, romance ensues. Startling imagery, complex Soviet Union under Stalin. In official competition at the mark their relationship. Featured in the Un Certain storytelling and a haunting performance by the lead actor 2019 Berlin Film Festival. regard programme of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. are a lasting testament to Yuri Ilyenko’s brilliant talent and skill as a director. Thu 5 Dec 7.30pm Fri 6 Dec 6.30pm Sun 8 Dec 7pm www.ukrainianinstitute.org.uk Preceded by an introduction by Luke Harding, Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian Followed by a discussion with Ian Christie (Birkbeck College), chaired by Marina Pesenti, director of the Ukrainian Institute, London

09 10 Ciné Lumière Tribute to Delphine Seyrig

From being a film icon to supporting emerging women directors, Delphine L’ Année dernière India Song Peau d’Âne Seyrig (1932-1990) increasingly got involved in the women’s rights and social à Marienbad FRA | 1975 | 120 mins | dir. Marguerite Duras, Donkey Skin struggles of her times, both in France and with Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, FRA | 1970 | 91 mins | dir. Jacques Demy, internationally, especially via the making Last Year at Marienbad Mathieu Carrière | cert. tbc | in French with with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, of activist videos with her collective ‘Les FRA | 1961 | 94 mins | dir. Alain Resnais, with EN subs | 35mm Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle, Delphine Insoumuses’ (Defiant Muses) and through Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Seyrig | cert PG | in French with EN subs co-founding the Simone de Beauvoir Pitoëff | cert. U | in French with EN subs Delphine Seyrig plays the bored and Audiovisual Centre in Paris. promiscuous wife of a French diplomat in Jacques Demy’s ode to the classic fairy Not just a defining work of the French Marguerite Duras' 1930s Calcutta based tale by Charles Perrault stars Catherine Our selection of films, videos and talks New Wave but one of the great, lasting drama. The tedium of her existence is Deneuve, as a princess who must go into reflects the current importance of Seyrig, mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ relieved when she embarks on a string of hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend celebrated in two major exhibitions in epochal L’Année dernière à Marienbad affairs, all of which are known but ignored off an unwanted marriage proposal from France and in Spain. This celebration of became the international breakout role for by her husband. Duras creates a world in her own father, the king (Jean Marais). Seyrig the actor, director and activist, is actress Delphine Seyrig. Written by Alain which the off-screen voice represents the This epic tale overflows with dazzling ever more relevant within the current Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or ghostly presence of a time that once was. colours, an enchanting score by Michel context of the #metoo movement and the nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with Legrand and features Delphine Seyrig as idea that the personal is political. the present. Sun 8 Dec 2pm a fashionable fairy godmother. Tue 10 Dec 7.45pm Sun 1 Dec 2pm Sun 15 Dec 2pm Tue 3 Dec 6.30pm The screening on 10 Dec will be Tue 17 Dec 6.30pm introduced by Professor Richard Dyer Sat 11 Jan 2pm (1pm workshop) (King’s College London) Sun 12 Jan 11am * In partnership with The screening on 11 Jan will be preceded * Screenings in Ciné Lumière II Another Gaze by a Magic Cake baking workshop for kids (see p.25) Ciné Lumière Tribute to Delphine Seyrig

Baisers volés Delphine Seyrig Sois belle et Delphine Seyrig Stolen Kisses and her Legacy tais-toi ! and Video Activism FRA | 1968 | 90 mins | dir. François Truffaut, with Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Symposium: Between Cinema and Be Pretty and Shut Up! This programme presents short films, Claude Jade | cert. 15 | in French with EN Feminist Video FRA | 1976 | 115 mins | dir. Delphine Seyrig directed by Delphine Seyrig and others, subs | 35mm cert. tbc | in French and English with EN subs from the archives of the Simone de Inspired by Delphine Seyrig’s video activism, Beauvoir Audiovisual Centre in Paris, and The delightful Oscar nominated Stolen academics, curators, archivists and video Delphine Seyrig interviews 24 French representing different ways of addressing, Kisses is Truffaut’s third instalment in the makers, including Ros Murray (King’s and North American actresses, including in an often humourous fashion, social, Antoine Doinel series. It is 1968, and the College London), Giovanna Zapperi (co- Jane Fonda, Maria Schneider and Anne political and feminist issues through the mischievous and perpetually love-struck curator of Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig Wiazemsky, about their professional use of the then newly available portable Doinel has been dishonourably discharged and the Feminist Video Collectives in France experience as women in cinema, the video camera. Films range from S.C.U.M from the army. He stumbles into the in the 1970s and 1980s at the Museo Reina parts they played and their relations Manifesto to Y’à qu’à pas baiser! as well unlikely profession of private detective and Sofía, Madrid), Nicole Fernandez Ferrer with directors and crew. An illuminating as two different homages to Simone de embarks on a series of misadventures, (Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir) film pointing out to the film industry’s Beauvoir by Seyrig herself and by Kate one of them being of falling madly in love and Pascale Obolo (director and artist) stereotyping and alienation of women. Millet. with the extraordinarily attractive Madame look at video and feminism in France and Tabard (Delphine Seyrig). the UK from the 1970s to the present day. Sat 11 Jan 7pm * Sun 12 Jan 4pm * Sun 5 Jan 2pm Sat 11 Jan 2-6pm * Followed by Q&A with Nicole Fernández Introduced by Nicole Fernández Thu 9 Jan 6.30pm * £10, members £8, students £5 Ferrer, director of Simone de Beauvoir Ferrer, director of Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Centre Audiovisual Centre Organised in partnership Screenings in Ciné Lumière II with * 11 12 Ciné Lumière Tribute to Delphine Seyrig

Maso et Miso vont Le Charme discret Jeanne Dielman, 23 Johanna d’Arc of en bateau de la bourgeoisie Quai du commerce, Mongolia Maso and Miso Go Boating The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1080 Bruxelles FRA/GER | 1989 | 165 mins | dir. Ulrike FRA | 1975 | 55 mins | dir.s Carole Roussopoulos FRA | 1972 | 102 mins | dir. Luis Buñuel, Ottinger, with Delphine Seyrig, Badema, Ioana Wieder, Delphine Seyrig, Nadja Ringart with Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine FRA | 1975 | 202 mins | dir. Chantal Akerman Christoph Eichhorn | cert. tbc | in French with cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Seyrig, Stéphane Audran | cert. 15 | in French with Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri EN subs with EN subs Storck | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs 1975. France had proclaimed it ‘National In Delphine Seyrig’s last film, set on the Women’s Year’ and the collective This Oscar-winning comedy of manners, Chantal Akerman details the daily routine Trans-Siberian railway, seven Western ‘Les Insoumuses’, made of Carole written by Jean-Claude Carrière, sends an of a middle-aged widow (Delphine Seyrig), women are kidnapped by a mysterious Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig, Ioana elegant cast of six middle-class people on whose chores include making beds, cooking Mongolian princess and her companions Wieder and Nadja Ringart, had decided an increasingly frustrating – and bizarrely for her son and turning the occasional trick. and are forced to join their caravan on a to take on an infamous TV programme by eventful – search for a meal. Buñuel Whether seen as an exacting character journey through inner Mongolia into the Bernard Pivot. Broadcast on 30 December surrealistically skewers the conventions of study or as one of cinema’s most hypnotic unknown. 1975 with Françoise Giroud, Secretary society and offers a wicked social satire, and complete depictions of space and of State for Women’s Rights as guest of turning the establishment, from the police time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing Sun 26 Jan 2pm honour, it was entitled One More Day and forces to the politicians, into criminals. and ground-breaking film. Tue 4 Feb 6.30pm Women’s Year is over, Thank Goodness! Enough was said to provoke the wrath of Sun 12 Jan 2pm Sun 19 Jan 2pm The screening on 26 Jan will be followed Les Insoumuses… Tue 14 Jan 6.40pm * Thu 23 Jan 6.45pm by a Q&A with director Ulrike Ottinger Sun 12 Jan 6.15pm * The screening on 12 Jan will be followed The screening on 23 Jan will be by a discussion with Nick Walker introduced by Professor Laura Mulvey (Rochester Kino Cinema Club) (Birkbeck College, University of London) Ciné Lumière Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand

The Umbrellas of Lola Michel Legrand: Cherbourg FRA | 1961 | 90 mins | dir. Jacques Demy, with Anouk Aimée, Let the Music Play Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott, Elina Labourdette Les Parapluies de Cherbourg cert. PG | in French with EN subs FRA | 2019 | 52 mins | dir. Greogory Munro | doc | cert. tbc FRA | 1964 | 93 mins | dir. Jacques Demy, with Catherine in French with EN subs Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo | cert. U | in French with EN subs Beautifully shot by Raoul Coutard in widescreen and New print luminous black and white, the film stars a radiant Anouk Three-time Oscar winner Michel Legrand composed Aimée as the title character, a cabaret-dancer forced to some of the most famous soundtracks of all time. Carried Guy, an auto mechanic, has fallen in love with Geneviève, choose between a trio of lovers. Demy’s debut feature is along by Legrand’s own tunes, as well as film clips and who works in her mother’s chic umbrella shop. Before a bittersweet ode to first love and missed opportunities. some surprising archive footage, this documentary, Guy is to leave for a tour of combat, the two share a nominated for the 2019 International Emmy Award, is passionate night. Winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes Sun 15 Dec 4pm a moving dialogue between an artist and his passion. An 1964, Jacques Demy’s visually intoxicating 'film in song' Sat 4 Jan 6.30pm exhilarating portrait with an unusual and iconoclastic pays homage to the Hollywood musical and is a major Thu 16 Jan 6.20pm * style, just like Michel Legrand himself! influence on directors including Damien Chazelle and Wes Anderson. The screening on 4 Jan will be introduced by a discussion Sun 8 Dec 4pm * with Misha Donat (Music Producer and writer) Sat 4 Jan 5pm * From 6 Dec

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Screenings in Ciné Lumière II * 13 14 Ciné Lumière MELODIA!

Musicals from Russia and the Caucasus by Valery Todorovsky by Valery image: Hipsters

Melodia! is a thrilling season of classic and contemporary musicals > screenings are listed p.34-35 from Russia and the Caucasus, celebrating the diversity and > see dedicated Festival website: complexity of the genre. Explore the rarely seen musical delights by kinoklassikafoundation.org Eldar Ryazanov, Gerbert Rappaport and Karen Shakhnazarov's and more at Ciné Lumière. 7 - 31 Jan Save the date! The Night of Ideas is back for a fourth edition, taking place simultaneously in Paris, London and other venues worldwide on Thursday 30 January 2020. Are we abandoning nature in our pursuit of progress? In 2017, Sophia became the first robot to be granted The Institut français, the Higher Education and Research While we are facing an unprecedented environmental citizenship, and while some saw in her the possibilities of Department and the Cultural Department of the French crisis, it is essential that we readdress our responsibility the future, others found their worst nightmares realised. Embassy have put together a thought-provoking to the planet, remapping the natural spaces we share Three years on, it seems that reality has caught up with programme of debates, performances and screenings with plants and animals and changing the way we inhabit the fantasies of science-fiction. How can we define the exploring the latest ideas behind the issues central them. role of AI in society, and how far are we willing to go? to our times. Crossing French, British and European perspectives, the next edition of the Night of Ideas will The Night of Ideas will be a forum for scientists, designers Artists and academics share their work with us and engage audiences in free debates with the theme ALIVE! and activists to share their innovative solutions for the discuss the ways in which advances in technology can as the common thread to question today’s challenges. planet. develop our understanding of what it means to be human.

At a time when the natural world is threatened and SIDE EVENTS Looking for something a bit different? technology seems all-powerful, let’s collectively question Alongside the debates, we’ll be hosting a series of the boundaries of our humanity and rethink what we once concerts, screenings, art installations and AI demos took for granted. The Night of Ideas will bring together throughout the Night, so be sure to check out our full scientists, citizens and artists to breathe life into these programme! discussions, mapping out potential solutions and inviting audiences to take matters into their own hands. Full programme: www.nightofideas.co.uk #nightofideas @ifru_london 16

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In the run-up to the night of Ideas on 30 January, a film programme will be exploring different themes ranging All About Yves The Nine Muses from the way we interconnect with nature and the world (Becoming Animal, Uncle Boonmee who Can Recall his Past FRA | 2019 | 107mins | dir. Benoît Forgeard, with William UK | 2012 | 90 mins | dir. John Akomfrah | doc | cert. PG Lives) to the potential effects of the genetic manipulation of Lebghil, Doria Tillier | cert tbc | in French with EN subs in English | 35mm plants (Little Joe), the increasing importance of machines and artificial intelligence in our lives (Yves, Alphaville), as When wannabe rapper Jerem becomes the new product Divided into nine overlapping musical chapters echoing well as the overuse of natural resources and the ‘Shock tester for a smart fridge called Yves, he soon begins to the nine Greek mythological muses and mixing a vast of the Anthropocene’ (Humans – Destroyers of Earth). form a relationship with the appliance. In this eccentric array of archival material, The Nine Muses offers a comedy, Yves soon becomes Jerem’s best friend, modern recasting of Homer’s epic The Odyssey as a The week of screenings and discussions will start with providing everything from lifestyle choices to dating tone poem about journeys, migration, time and space, the UK premiere of Yves by Benoît Forgeard, and, after advice. memory, the power of elegy and our relation to the meandering through various themes and genres of films, environment. will culminate with the special screening of Jessica Fri 24 Jan 6.45pm Hausner’s Little Joe, ahead of its general release later in Sat 25 Jan 6.20pm February. Followed by a Q&A with director Benoit Forgeard Followed by a Q&A

* Screenings in Ciné Lumière II Alphaville Nostalgia for the Light Uncle Boonmee Who FRA | 1965 | 99 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard, with Eddie FRA/CHE/GER | 2010 | 107 mins | dir. Patricio Guzmán Can Recall His Past Lives Constantine, Anna Karina | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs doc | cert. 12A | in Spanish with EN subs THA | 2010 | 103 mins | dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is a secret agent Melding celestial and earthly quests, mutli-awarded cert. 12 | in Isan & Thai with EN subs from the ‘Outlands’ whose aim is to destroy Alpha 60, a documentary Nostalgia for the Light is a gorgeous, machine which controls all the city of Alphaville and its moving, and deeply personal odyssey into astronomy, Eerie, poetic and masterful, 2010 Palme d’or-winning inhabitants through electronic and luminous signals. archaeology, geology and human rights. film Uncle Boonmee creates an enchanted world where Despite the ban on human emotions, there is hope: love fauna and flora converge to convey a magical, sublime comes to Lemmy Caution though the poetry of Paul Sun 26 Jan 4pm * atmosphere. Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his Eluard and Anna Karina’s character, Natasha Von Braun. Tue 28 Jan 8.30pm * final days surrounded by his loved ones in a remote forest, an important place from his childhood and, he Sat 25 Jan 8.30pm * believes, the possible location of his former existences… Wed 29 Jan 6.20pm * Sun 26 Jan 6.15pm * Tue 28 Jan 6.20pm *

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Courtesy BFI Becoming Animal Humans: Destroyers Little Joe CHE/UK | 2018 | 78 mins | cert. tbc | dir. Emma Davie & Peter of Earth UK | 2019 | 105 mins | dir. Jessica Hausner, with Emily Mettler | in English Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox | cert. 12A | in English L’Homme a mangé la Terre Shot in Grand Teton National Park, this immersive FRA | 2019 | 98 mins | Jean-Robert Viallet | doc | cert. tbc Single mother Alice (Emily Beecham) is a dedicated essay film draws together the distinct sensibilities in French with EN subs senior scientist who has just developed a special species of filmmakers Emma Davie (I Am Breathing), Peter of flower that can make people happy. When she takes a Mettler and environmental philosopher David Abram Global warming, deforestation, floods and dwindling flower home to her son, she realises that it may not be as to encounter the spaces where humans and animals resources are addressed with an extraordinary breadth harmless as she initially thought. A chilling drama about meet. A subversive nature film in which we pique our of archives in this documentary by Jean-Robert Viallet the genetic manipulation of plants, ambiguously perched senses to witness the so-called natural world—which in – based on The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, between sci-fi, paranoia and realism that won Emily turn witnesses us, tracing how we sense the 'more than History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean- Beecham the Best Actress Prize in Cannes in 2019. human' world and exploring how it also senses us. Baptiste Fressoz - that goes back to the beginning of the environmental crisis. Wed 29 Jan 6.30pm Mon 27 Jan 6.40pm * Tue 28 Jan 6.30pm Followed by a Q&A with Emily Beechman and scriptwriter Géraldine Bayard Followed by a Q&A with historian and writer Jean- Baptiste Fressoz (EHESS)

* Screenings in Ciné Lumière II In the run-up to and opening the Night of Ideas, the Little Night offers our youngest the opportunity to From Nature to Budding Inventors develop their imagination, sharpen their creativity Public Workshop and express themselves through a series of Machines interactive multimedia events and projects. Let’s get creative with the theme of this year’s Night School Projects of Ideas: ALIVE!. In this hands-on design workshop, led by Mélanie Terrade, kids will design and build What is our relationship to plants, animals and their own machines, using soft circuits, e-textiles Full programme on: www.nightofideas.co.uk machines? and recycled materials. This is the perfect activity #nightofideas @ifru_london for aspiring inventors to get their creative minds in Several British and French schools across the gear, mixing science, technology, design and arts UK will be inviting their pupils to examine the and crafts. main topics of the Night. They will participate in the debates by using mixed media to explore the 30 Jan 4pm language of the natural world, our relationship to AI, 2h | Bilingual & easy French | free | open to kids and the future of food, sending special ambassadors only | ages 8+ to the Night’s panels to present their work.

Others will be designing “living” maps charting our ecological footprint and drawing new paths for a better world.

In addition, a selection of French and British primary schools in London will join schools in Brussels, Dublin, and The Hague in creating original games to reflect upon the themes of the Night, sharing their work via live video stream.

drawings, videos and maps available on www.www.nightofideas.co.uk from mid-January

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A Prize for Proust: the The Great Upheaval French Play Party 1919 Prix Goncourt in French Politics: Powered by GamePad Lecture by Edward Hughes What’s Next? Gaming today is more inclusive than ever! Men, women, from all ages, and families from diverse cultural In December 1919, Marcel Proust won the prestigious When President Macron came to power in France in backgrounds all enjoy video games. Whether you’re Prix Goncourt for A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, the 2017, his election blew a wind of change in the domestic experienced or new to the gaming world, join us for second volume in what would later emerge as one of political landscape. His willingness to reform the country an afternoon of video games demos, tournaments, VR the great novels of the twentieth century, A la recherche was however challenged a year ago when the Yellow experiences, multilingual escape games, French learning du temps perdu. Professor Edward Hughes (Queen Mary Vests crisis erupted, revealing a deep social and territorial through board games and fun for everyone with Mayamada/ University London) explores the context in which Proust divide in the country. To comment on this issue, two of GamePad. was working in 1919, the coverage given to the award and France’s leading columnists and political commentators, how A l’ombre can be read as the novel of modernity. Nicolas Baverez, economist and lawyer, and Olivier Sat 14 Dec 12noon-5pm | 5h | in English and French Duhamel, president of Sciences Po and member of the As part of a wider initiative taking place all over the UK: independent public policy think-tank Institut Montaigne’s £9, £7 members | Buy 2 tickets, get the 3rd one for free The Choix Goncourt UK. Board of Directors, will share their understanding of the current and future trends in French politics. Fri 13 Dec 7pm | in English | Free Mon 13 Jan 6.30pm | in French | Free event but early See also the screening of The Captive, adapted from booking recommended Proust’s The Prisoner at 8.15pm (p.7) Talks & Special Events

Dining Out with the Free Reading Group French in Wartime Every month we are exploring the best of French literature in translation and its original version: the rendezvous for London all francophiles. The Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture Thu 12 Dec - The Baby (Le Bébé) by M. Darrieusecq, tr. by Penny Hueston At the same time as bringing rupture and change in the Thu 9 Jan - Season of the Shadow (La saison de l’ombre), by composition of the French 'colony' in London, the Second L. Miano, tr. by G. Walker World War provides a pivotal point that looks backwards to the London French restaurant culture established in 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French the 19th and early 20th centuries, and also forwards to £5, members £3, including a glass of wine The European Bookshop, the twenty-first. Professor Debra Kelly (University of 123 Gloucester Road, Westminster) will discuss how familiar war-time tales London SW7 4TE of culinary privations mask other stories of plenty and Café Philo paradox, and not least when we sit down at the table with Opening hours: the Free French in war-time London. Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical Monday to Friday 9:30 - 18:30 issues in an informal setting. Mon 13 Jan 6pm | in English | Free Saturday 10:00 - 18:30 Sat 7 & 14 Dec; 11 & 18 Jan | in English Sunday 12:00 - 17:00 Sat 4 & 24 Jan | in French europeanbookshop.com 10.30am to 12pm - £2 Email: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Telephone: 020 7734 5259 Music

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Bertrand Chamayou FRA I 2019 I 52 mins I dir. Jarmila Buskova,MJ with William Christie I cert tbc I in French only Join world-acclaimed pianist Bertrand CJ Chamayou, musicologist Nigel Simeone Harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist CMJ and Gramophone’s editor-in-chief James and teacher, the career of the multi-

Jolly to a lively musical discussion faceted William Christie is closely linkedN exploring 20th century French piano to France, as he started one of the most repertoire. Bertrand Chamayou will give remarkable musical adventures when he musical illustrations, performing extracts discovered baroque music and founded in from his album Saint-Saëns, Concertos 2 1979 the world-acclaimed ensemble Les & 5, Solo Piano Works, winner of the 2019 Arts Florissants based in Caen. This film Gramophone Recording of the Year and retraces the career of this monstre sacré. Concerto Awards. Mon 9 Dec 8pm Tue 3 Dec 11am £15, members £13, students £5 In the presence of William Christie, Paul Agnew and director Jarmila Buzkova. Followed by a CD signing by Bertrand Chamayou

ERATO Music

Tribute to Clara Schumann Pianist Ismaël Margain and violinist Louisa Staples were not twenty years old when they distinguished themselves at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competition in 2011 and 2018. Their talent, musicality and maturity unite them around a repertoire they particularly cherish. To celebrate Clara Schumann’s 200th birthday they imagined a recital combining masterpieces from German romanticism: compositions from the Schumann couple and their friend Brahms.

Thu 5 Dec 7.30pm | £15, members £13, students £5

The concert will be introduced by Dr Natasha Loges (Royal College of Music) and pianist Heike-Angela Moser, Schumann’s great-great-granddaughter. bﬁ .org.uk | Open 7 days a week at As part of Les Salons en Musique, a chamber music BFI Southbank, Belvedere Rd, London ORDER NOW FROM concerts series supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet SE1 8XT shop.bﬁ .org.uk 020 7815 1350 24 Kids & Families CinéKids

Christmas Frozen II Aïlo’s Journey in Asterix: The La Reine des Neiges 2 Lapland Secret of the & Co USA | 2019 | 99 mins | dir. Chris Buck, Santa & Cie Jennifer Lee | cert. tbc | in English | 7+ Aïlo – Une Odysée en Laponie Magic Potion FRA | 2017 | 99 mins | dir. Alain Chabat FRA | 2019 | 86 mins | dir. Guillaume cert. PG | in French with EN subs | 7+ The secret of Elsa’s powers continues to Maidatchevsky | cert. tbc | in English | 6+ Astérix et le secret de la potion magique threaten the people of Arendelle. FRA | 2018 | 85 mins | dir. Alexandre Astier, Disaster! Christmas is on its way and the To find out clues on the origins of those A tale with the tenderness of Bambi, the with the voices of Christian Clavier, Guillaume whole 92,000 Christmas elves in charge menacing gifts, she sets out on a humorous creatures of Ice Age, the sense Briat, Alex Lutz, Alexandre Astier, Élie Semoun of manufacturing the toys for the children perilous journey together with Anna, of adventure of March of the Penguins and cert. tbc | in French with EN subs | 6+ have become ill at the same time! Tough Kristoff, Olaf and Sven. the scripted narrative of Two Brothers, time for Santa who is left with no other Ailo’s awakening to the wild world will Our favourite Gauls, Asterix, Obelix and choice than making an emergency trip to Sat 14 Dec 2pm | Frozen Magic Show enchant the whole family! Miraculix set out to find a druid to whom the Earth to find a remedy and save the 2.30pm screening Miraculix could pass on the mystery of magic of Christmas. Sun 15 Dec 11am Sat 18 Jan 2pm * his magical potion. While the three seek Sun 5 Jan 11am a worthy successor, the evil Heretix works Sat 7 Dec 2pm * out a dark plan to get hold of the highly- (see: Kids French Lab Snow Flakes at The screening on 14 Dec will be praised recipe. 11am on the same day) preceded by a Frozen-themed Sun 8 Dec 11am * magic show and followed by an Olaf Sat 4 Jan 2pm appearance! Sun 19 Jan 11am

* Screenings in Ciné Lumière II Kids & Families CinéKids & Workshops

Peau D’Âne The Bears' Famous Babies Corner Donkey Skin Invasion Ages 0-4 FRA | 1970 | 91 mins | dir. Jacques Demy | cert. PG | in French with EN subs | 6+ La Fameuse Invasion des Ours en Sicile Read, play, sing, grow! Whether you love drawing, reading, FRA/ITA | 2019 | 82 mins | dir. Lorenzo Mattotti | cert. tbc clapping or dancing there will be something to enjoy The classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault stars Catherine in English | 7+ on Wednesdays & Saturdays! From nursery rhymes to Deneuve, as a princess whose father, the King, seeks her enchanting tales, kids aged up to 4 years-old can join hand in marriage. This epic tale overflows with dazzling To find his long-lost son and some food to survive the our Babies Corner at Bibliothèque Quentin Blake. These colour, elaborate costumes and an enchanting score by winter, the great bear king leads his clan down from the interactive sessions will bring a touch of magic to their Academy Award winning composer Michel Legrand. mountains and into the world of men. After escaping mornings, with fun, educational and exciting discoveries terrible monsters and defeating an evil duke, the bears ahead. Sat 11 Jan 1pm Magic Cake workshop and men live together in peace – for a time. (2pm screening) Snow Flake Sun 12 Jan 11am * Sat 25 Jan 10.30am *, 2pm * Wed 4 Dec | Baby Comptines Sun 26 Jan 11am * Sat 14 Dec | Baby Tales The screening on 11 Jan will be preceded by a Magic Cake baking workshop in partnership with Café The 10.30am screening on Sat 25 Jan is a relaxed Teddy Bear Tangerine! Bring your cake home after the screening screening tailored for those who may be on the autism Wed 8 Jan | Baby Comptines (£10). spectrum or with sensory difficulties. Sat 18 Jan | Baby Tales

More screenings of Peau d’Ane p.10 As part of the Little Night 11am | 45 mins | in easy French | ticket for carer: £3, ticket for kids: £7, £5 members early booking recommended

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Art Club French Lab Game Lab T(h)inker Club

Ages 8-12 Ages 3-6 Ages 6-12 & 8-12 Ages 9-12

What about creating colourful mosaics A fun-filled approach to learning French A great occasion for the kids to discover This workshop aims to spark critical and cubist inspired pieces? Discovering for kids, through songs, games and a series of playful, recreational & thinking and creative problem solving, by the Renaissance paintings or the art of storytelling. We offer a collective and instructional digital sessions, where we using artistic creation to investigate and collage? Children can explore art history informal way of French language discovery explore the potential that video games and explore scientific phenomena. Children and develop their creative skills with these focusing on different themes and new apps may hold. The sessions encourage can create their own design and devise hands-on workshops where they will words on each session. collaborative and collective gameplay and their own machine by using soft circuits be experiencing various mediums and game literacy for kids aged between 6 and (electronic and paper), e-textile and techniques. Sat 7 Dec | Snow Flake 12. They can expect new games each time! recycled materials. This is the perfect Sat 25 Jan | Teddy Bear workshop for little inventors to experiment Thu 5, 12 & 19 Dec | Thu 9, 16 & 23 Jan Gaming Sessions | ages 6-12 with science, technology, design, arts and 4pm | 1h30 | Bilingual & easy French | £9, 11am | 45 mins | in easy French | £9, £7 Sat 11 Jan 2.30pm | 1h | French | free crafts. £7 members | open to kids only members - Combine a session with a same day film for £12, £10 members Gaming Workshop | ages 8-12 Sat 18 Jan | Cardboard Automata & Gear We recommend booking the whole term in open to kids only Sat 25 Jan | Lego Movie: Make your own Box advance to ensure participants can learn, stop-motion short movie 2.30pm | 2h | Bilingual & easy French | £9, enjoy and create in the best conditions. 2.30pm | 2h | Bilingual & easy French £7 members | open to kids only open to kids only | £9 non-members, £7 members

With the App of the Week, budding geeks can also discover a new app every week! See website for details. We Support

Dying on Stage 3D by Compagnie HMG Optraken by Galactik Ensemble Orchestre de Lille – UK Tour

Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and With a specially created new piece of This wonderfully inventive and original Under the inspirational conductor dancer Jean Capeille present a new circus equipment, the 3D, acrobat/ piece of physical theatre is a battle in Alexandre Bloch, the Orchestre National version of the performance Dying on Stage, wire-walker Jonathan Guichard brings which every movement matter for survival de Lille performs in 5 cities for the biggest exploring the order of literal, metaphorical thrills up close as you have never before as five fantastic acrobats pit themselves UK tour of a French orchestra in 2020, and symbolic deaths on the stage, as well experienced. Presented as part of the against a hostile environment. As part of featuring the 1st prize of the 2018 Leeds as the philological concept of 'tragic irony', Mime Festival. the Mime Festival. International Piano Competition, pianist through readings, videos and dance. Eric Lu. www.jacksonslane.org.uk www.sadlerswells.com www.serpentinegalleries.org www.onlille.com 10 - 12 Jan Jacksons Lane 29 Jan – 1 Feb Sadlers Wells 7 Dec Conway Hall 28 Jan in Birmingham, 29 Jan in London, Tria Fata by La Pendue Workshop – Jacques Lecoq School 30 Jan in Newcastle, 31 Jan in Sheffield What’s Next for British Democracy? and 1 Feb in Leeds Featured at the Mime Festival Tria Fata The famous Jacques Lecoq School comes Professor Pauline Schnapper (Université shows the intriguing relationship a puppet to London in the form of a 4-day workshop Sorbonne Nouvelle) reflects on the can develop with its creator/handler, its for theatre graduates and professional far-reaching consequences that Brexit is surprising liberty and independence. performers. It provides an introduction to imposing not only on the UK parliamentary the pedagogy of the School, examining the democracy but also across Europe. www.jacksonslane.org.uk relationship between the performer, the body and space. www.uk.ambafrance.org/ 17 - 19 Jan Jacksons Lane What-s-Next-for-British-Democracy www.mimelondon.com

9 Dec Europe House 6-9 Dec Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London

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Bertrand Chamayou – Saint-Saëns, Picasso and Paper Bells and Spells Dora Maar Fauré, Chabrier

French music, contemporary music and the music of Liszt are amongst the specialities of French pianist Bertrand Chamayou, who includes Réminiscences de Don Juan S418, alongside a work by Wolfgang Rihm. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

2 Dec Wigmore Hall Bringing together 300 of Picasso’s works, Bells and Spells follows Aurélia Thierrée’s Featuring over 200 works from a career both on and with paper, this exhibition peculiar journey as an incurable spanning more than six decades, this A Baroque Odyssey – 40 years of les Arts spans his entire prolific career and kleptomaniac who is at the mercy of the exhibition shows Dora Maar’s eye for the Florissants represents a significant chapter in objects that she steals. A coat hanger unusual. modern art. starts to walk, chairs and a table slide and Born out of a belief that Baroque music slip away and a dress suddenly takes on a www.tate.org.uk should make its audiences want to laugh, www.royalacademy.org.uk life of its own. cry and dance, Les Arts Florissants Until 15 March Tate Modern celebrate their 40th birthday, powered by 25 Jan – 13 April Royal Academy of Arts www.thecoronettheatre.com an unquenchably Gallic joie-de-vivre. Artificialis Henri Matisse, Master of Line 2-14 Dec The Coronet Theatre www.barbican.org.uk French artist Cyril de Commarque One of the undisputed masters of 20th Cézanne at the Whitworth presents a multi-media installation 8 Dec Barbican century art, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) drawing from the Anthropocene era is renowned for the exquisite delicacy of This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary then meditating on the effect technology Les Talens Lyriques – Christophe Rousset his drawn line as much as for the intense collection of drawings and prints by Paul and scientific advancement will have on brilliance of his colour. Cézanne that has been gifted and placed humankind and the environment. The famous ensemble dedicates its on long-term loan to the Whitworth by Christmas programme to Marc-Antoine www.holburne.org gallerist, collector, author and publisher www.saatchigallery.com Charpentier, one of the composers it has Karsten Schubert. championed longest. Until 5 Jan The Holburne Museum, Until 23 May Saatchi Gallery Bath www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Until 1 March The Whitworth, 17 Dec Wigmore Hall Manchester

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