Le Programme February – March 2020 02 Contents/Highlights

Home , Amarcord, Emily Beecham, For Sama, Ludivine Sagnier, Niels Arestrup, Oleg Yankovsky

Ciné Lumière 3-13

Semaine de la Francophonie 14-15

Talks 16-17

Music 18 Overlapping Perspectives on Portrait of a Lady on Fire International Women’s Day Dora Maar From 14 Feb 6 – 8 Mar 12 Feb p.4 pp. 4, 5, 11, 17 Kids & Families 19-21 P.16 We Support / We Recommend 22-23

La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 24

French Courses 25

General Information 26-31

In the Belly of the Organ of Semaine de la Francophonie Picasso and Paper Notre-Dame 18 – 20 Mar Until 13 Apr Introduced by Ken Follett pp 14-15 Royal Academy of Arts 12 Mar p.23 p. 7

front cover image: Parasite by Bong Joon-ho Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases

Talking about Trees Mr Jones Parasite A Paris Education

FRA/GER/QAT/SDN/CHA | 2019 | 93 mins UKR/POL/UK | 2019 | 119 mins KOR | 2019 | 132 mins | dir. Bong Joon-ho, Mes Provinciales dir. Suhaib Gasmelbari | doc | cert. PG | in dir. Agnieszka Holland, with James Norton, with Song Kang-ho, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Sun- FRA | 2018 | 137 mins | dir. Jean-Paul Arabic, English and Russian with EN subs Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard | cert. 15 kyun | cert. 15 | in Korean with EN subs Civeyrac, with Andranic Manet, Diane Rouxel, in English, Ukrainian, Russian and Welsh Gonzague Van Bervesseles, Corentin Fila In Sudan, a government controlled by with EN subs Nominated for 6 Academy awards and cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Islamic fundamentalists for the past winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2019 three decades leads to the demise of an 1933. Gareth Jones (James Norton) is an Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s partly autobiographical entire film industry and heritage, with ambitious young Welsh journalist who (Snowpiercer, Okja) returns with this black drama, gorgeously shot in black and only a few remaining theatres screening gained fame after his report on being the comedy about wealth, greed and class white, tells the story of Etienne, a young Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters first foreign journalist to fly with Hitler. discrimination. Kim Ki-teak's family are impressionable man who goes to Paris in central Khartoum. In this context, a Whilst working as an advisor to Lloyd all unemployed and living in a squalid to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He group of retired directors hope to reopen George, he is now looking for his next big basement. When his son gets a tutoring meets Mathias and Jean-Noël who share a cinema and revive their country’s love of story. The Soviet “utopia” is all over the job at the lavish home of the Park family, his passion for films, and soon falls under film. Winner of the audience & original news, and Jones is intrigued as to how the Kim family's luck changes. the thrall of the seductive Mathias. documentary awards at the Berlin Film Stalin is financing the rapid modernisation Festival. of the Soviet Union. Preview on Mon 3 Feb at 6.30pm From 14 Feb

From 31 Jan From 7 Feb From 7 Feb Valentine’s Day special screening on 14 Feb at 6pm * 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 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases

© Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Portrait of a Lady Little Joe Midnight Family Toni Morison: on Fire UK/AUT/GER/FRA | 2019 |105 mins | dir. MEX | 2019 | 85 mins | dir. Luke Lorentzen The Pieces I Am Jessica Hausner with Emily Beecham, Ben doc | cert. 15 | in Spanish with EN subs Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Whishaw, Kerry Fox | cert. 12 | in English USA | 2019 | 120 mins | dir. Timothy Greenfield- FRA | 2019 | 119 mins | dir. Céline Sciamma, In Mexico City’s wealthiest Sanders | doc | cert. tbc | in English with Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Valeria Winning Emily Beecham the Best Actress neighbourhoods, the Ochoa family runs a Golino | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs award in Cannes last year, Little Joe private ambulance, competing with other Offering an artful and intimate meditation is a chilling drama about the genetic for-profit EMTs for patients in need of on the life and works of the legendary A hit at Cannes last year which received manipulation of plants, ambiguously urgent help. As they try to make a living writer and Nobel prize-winner Toni a Queer Palm and the Best Screenplay perched between sci-fi, paranoia and in this cutthroat industry, the Ochoas Morrison, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s Award, Céline Sciamma’s film depicts realism. Single mother Alice (Emily struggle to keep their financial needs from documentary draws back from her the impossible romance in 18th century Beecham) is a dedicated senior scientist compromising the people in their care. childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio Brittany between Héloïse, a reluctant who has just developed a special to 1970s-era book tours with Muhammad bride to be, and Marianne, a painter species of flower that, if kept in the right From 21 Feb Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis commissioned to do her wedding portrait. conditions, can make people happy. But to her own riverfront writing room, on an as the flower grows, so do her suspicions exploration of race, America, history and From 28 Feb that her new creation may not be as the human condition. harmless as she initially thought. Valentine’s Day preview on As part of International 14 Feb at 6.20pm From 21 Feb Women’s Day

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Bacurau Cunningham The Truth Radioactive

BRA/FRA | 2019 | 131 mins | dir.s Juliano GER/FRA/USA | 2019 | 93 mins | dir. Alla La Vérité UK/HUN | 2019 | 109 mins | dir. Marjane Dornelles & Kleber Mendonça Filho, with Kovgan | doc | cert. tbc | in English FRA/JAP | 2019 | 106 mins | dir. Hirokazu Satrapi, with Rosamund Pike, Anya Taylor- Bárbara Colen, Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Kore-eda, with Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Joy, Sam Riley | cert. 12A | in English Thomás Aquino | cert. 18 | in Portuguese with Follow Merce Cunningham’s artistic Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Ludivine Sagnier EN subs evolution over three decades of risk cert. PG | in French with EN subs Based on Lauren Redniss’s award- and discovery (1944–1972), from his winning graphic novel, Rosamund Pike Winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes early years as a struggling dancer in Fabienne (Catherine Deneuve) is a star of stars as two-time Nobel Prize–winning last year, Bacurau follows Teresa, who postwar New York to his emergence as French cinema. She reigns amongst men scientist Marie Curie, highlighting the travels back home for the funeral of her one of the most visionary and influential who love and admire her. As she publishes groundbreaking discoveries she made grandmother. She discovers that the dusty choreographers worldwide. Shot over her memoirs, her daughter Lumir with her husband, Pierre (Sam Riley). As little town of Bacurau, that used to happily seven years and mixing archival material (Juliette Binoche) returns from New York they push their scientific investigation embrace misfits, whores, hippies and with contemporary re-staging by the to Paris with her husband and young forward, the Curies unlock forces far queers, has been wiped clean off the map Centre National de Danse Contemporaine child. The reunion between mother and beyond their control in this audacious and by the middle-class elite from the north, d’Angers of some of his most complex daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: compelling drama. too eager to ingratiate themselves with the work, the film is both dazzling and truths will be told, accounts settled, loves rich Europeans and Americans at all cost. enriching. and resentments confessed. Preview screening on 8 March followed by a recorded Q&A with director Marjane From 13 Mar From 20 Mar From 20 Mar Satrapi on the occasion of International Women’s Day

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The Painted Bird Cyrano de Bergerac A Streetcar Elephant Man CZE/SLO/ UKR | 2019 | 169 mins | dir. Václav FRA | 1990 | 138 mins | dir. Jean-Paul Named Desire USA/UK | 1980 | 125 mins | dir. David Lynch, Marhoul, with Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Rappeneau, with Gérard Depardieu, Anne with John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Keitel, Barry Pepper | cert. 18 | in Czech, Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber USA | 1951 | 127 mins | dir. Elia Kazan, with Bancroft, Freddie Jones, John Gielgud | cert. German, Russian and Latin with EN subs cert. U | in French with EN subs | 4K digital Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, PG | in English | 4K digital restoration restoration Karl Malden | cert. 12A | in English Set towards the close of WWII, the film An ambitious young doctor (Anthony follows the journey of a boy entrusted by Gérard Depardieu excels as the seventeenth- In the sticky heat of New Orleans’s Hopkins) sets out to help a man shunned his Jewish parents to an elderly foster century Gascon swordsman and braggart French Quarter, Blanche DuBois (Vivien by Victorian society as he is affected with mother in an effort to escape persecution. whose unsightly nose prevents him from Leigh), a small-town beauty who feels a terrible disability, and discovers a man Following a tragedy, the boy is soon on his confessing his love to his cousin Roxane. her best years are behind her, arrives of sensibility and kindness beneath the own and wanders through the desecrated Showered with awards throughout the at the modest apartment of her sister surface. David Lynch’s classic take on countryside. Beautifully shot in 35mm and world and celebrating its 30th anniversary, (Kim Hunter) and her explosive husband the moving and unforgettable true story in black & white, The Painted Bird has been Rappeneau’s film is a genuine cinematic (Marlon Brando). Elia Kazan's legendary of cruelty, humanity and survival of John deemed ‘a monumental piece of work’ by triumph, as visually as it is verbally adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play is Merrick (John Hurt), the elephant man, is Xan Brooks in The Guardian. dazzling: the grace and pace of Rostand’s famed for the brute and unruly power of released in a new 4K restoration. text is matched by the energetic camera- Brando’s performance. From 27 Mar work and elegant mise-en-scène. From 13 Mar From 7 Feb From 31 Jan

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The State against Les Fourberies Memoirs of a In the Belly of Mandela and the de Scapin Geisha the Organ of Others Theatre Broadcast from La Comédie- USA / JAP | 2005 | 145 mins | dir. Rob Notre-Dame Française Marshall, with Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, L'État contre Mandela et les autres 120 mins | Molière | Stage director: Denis Gong Li, | cert 12 | in English and Japanese FRA | 2015 | 52 mins | dir. Isabelle Julien FRA | 2018 | 52 mins | dir. Nicolas Podalydès | Costume: Christian Lacroix with EN subs doc | cert tbc | in French with EN subs Champeaux & Gilles Porte | doc | cert. tbc with the actors of the Comédie-Française in French and English with EN subs Comedy in 5 acts | in French with EN subs Winner of 3 Academy awards, including Olivier Latry, organist of the Great Organ Best Cinematography and Costume of Notre-Dame, takes us on a journey César for Best Documentary Feature in Octave and Léandre’s amorous intentions Design, the iconic Memoirs of a Geisha is an through the mechanism of his beloved 2019, this film lifts the veil on the historic are thwarted by their authoritarian aesthetical bewilderment. A fishing girl is instrument, a witness of history’s Rivonia trial in 1963 and 1964. It transports fathers who have just returned from a trip sold by her impoverished family to a geisha incredible twists and turns. us back into the thick of the courtroom determined to marry their sons to two house and eventually becomes one of the battles when Nelson Mandela seized strangers. The young men place their fate most celebrated geishas of her time. Introduced by Ken Follett, who has just centre stage, among eight others who, like in the hands of the wily Scapin. published Notre-Dame: A Short History of him, faced the death sentence. Together, Tue 3 Mar 6.30pm the Meaning of Cathedrals, the proceeds they stood firm and turned the tables on Mon 10 Feb 8pm of which will go to La Fondation du South Africa's apartheid regime. Preceded by an introduction by Anna Patrimoine in aid of the restoration work Followed by a Q&A with actor Benjamin Jackson, curator of the exhibition following the Notre-Dame fire. Thu 6 Feb 8.30pm * Lavernhe Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at the V&A Thu 12 Mar 8pm

Screenings in Ciné Lumière II * 07 08 Special Screening | Did You Miss It?

Pierrot le fou Little Women A Hidden Life 1917

FRA/ITA | 1965 | dir. Jean-Luc Godard, with USA | 2019 | 135 mins | dir. Greta Gerwig, with GER/USA | 2019 | 174 mins | dir. Terrence UK/USA | 2019 | 119 mins | dir. Sam Mendes, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina | cert 15 Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Malick, with August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, with Dean-Charles Chapman, George in French, English and Italian with EN subs Florence Pugh, Meryl Streep, Timothée Bruno Ganz | cert 12A | in English MacKay, Colin Firth | cert 15 | in English, Chalamet | cert U | in English French and German with EN subs Dissatisfied with his marriage and Paris, Based on real events, from visionary Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) heads Greta Gerwig’s take of Louisa May Alcott’s writer-director Terrence Malick, A Hidden Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Spectre and for the south of France with old flame beloved story of the March sisters, with Life is the story of an unsung hero, Franz American Beauty), brings his singular Marianne (Anna Karina), a gangster’s a total of 12 nominations to both BAFTAs Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the vision to his World War I epic shot in moll. Based on Lionel White’s novel and Academy Awards, is both timeless Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian one take. At the height of the conflict, Obsession, but mostly improvised as and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, peasant farmer is faced with the threat of two young British soldiers, Schofield Godard was inspired by locations on route and Beth March – four young women execution for treason, it is his unwavering (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean- to the South, this is a bewildering blend of each determined to live life on their own faith and his love for his wife Fani and Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly genres and visual styles. terms – the film stars Saoirse Ronan, children that keeps his spirit alive. impossible mission. In a race against Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza time, they must cross enemy territory and Special screenings paying tribute to the Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their From Sat 1 Feb deliver a message that will stop a deadly late Anna Karina neighbour Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake’s and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. own brother among them. Introduction by Prof. Ginette Vincendeau (King’s College, London) on 26 Mar From Fri 24 Jan From Fri 28 Feb

Sun 22 Mar 2pm Thu 26 Mar 6.10pm Ciné Lumière Best Of 2019

Apollo 11 For Sama La Belle époque Pain and Glory

USA | 2019 | 93 mins | dir. Todd Douglas UK/SY | 2019 | 97 mins | dir. s Waad al- FRA | 2019 | 115 mins | dir. Nicolas Bedos, Dolor y gloria Miller, with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Khateab, Edward Watts | doc | cert. 18 | in with Guillaume Canet, Daniel Auteuil, Fanny SP | 2019 | 113 mins | dir. Pedro Almodóvar, Buzz Aldrin | doc | cert. U | in English Arabic with EN subs Ardant, Pierre Arditi | cert. 15 | in French with with Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz EN subs cert. 15 | in Spanish with EN subs Crafted from a newly discovered trove Winner of L'Oeil d'or for Best of 70mm footage, and more than 11,000 Documentary at the 2019 Cannes Victor (Daniel Auteuil), a disillusioned In Almodóvar’s most personal film to hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Film Festival and Nominated for Best sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside date, Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of Documentary Feature at the Academy down when Antoine (Guillaume Canet), Cannes 2019 Best Actor), a film director NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one Awards, For Sama is an intimate and epic a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him to facing ill health, takes us through his that first put men on the moon. journey into the female experience of war, relive a period of his past. He chooses the recollection of love, breakups, art, cinema, a love letter from a young mother to her most memorable week of his life: the one mothers, the act of writing and making Sat 8 Feb 4pm * daughter. We follow Waad al-Kateab’s life where, 40 years earlier, he met the great a film, and importantly the experience Mon 17 Feb 6.20pm * through five years of the uprising in Aleppo love of his life (Fanny Ardant)… His hope is of desire and pleasure that seem lost in Syria, where she falls in love, gets that by replaying the past he might change to him. A ‘sensuous and deeply personal married and gives birth to Sama. the present. gem’ (The Guardian), nominated for Best International Film at the Oscars this year. Sun 9 Feb 8.30pm * Sat 29 Feb 4pm Wed 19 Feb 6.20pm * Wed 18 Mar 8.40pm Wed 5 Feb 8.30pm * Fri14 Feb 8.40pm *

Screenings in Ciné Lumière II * 09 10 Ciné Lumière Best Of 2019

© Cine Tamaris The Souvenir Amazing Grace Once Upon a Time The Beaches UK/US | 2019 | 120 mins | dir. Joanna Hogg, USA | 2018 | 87 mins | dir.s Allan Elliott and in...Hollywood of Agnès with Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Sydney Pollack, with Aretha Franklin, Reverend Swinton | cert. 15 | in English James Cleveland | cert. U | in English USA | 2019 | 160 mins | dir. Quentin Tarantino, Les Plages d’Agnès with Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad FRA | 2008 | 110 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Chelsea, London in the early 1980s: film An invaluable record of one of America’s Pitt | cert. 18 | in English Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier student Julie wants to use her camera greatest artists led by Oscar-winning cert. 18 | in French with EN subs to better understand the world. Anthony filmmaker Sydney Pollack. In 1971, Faded television actor Rick (Leonardo unexpectedly enters her bubble. He is Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of DiCaprio) and his stunt double best friend Returning to the beaches that have been older and more refined, but he harbours Soul, brought producer Jerry Wexler, her Cliff (Brad Pitt) strive for career success part of her life, Agnès Varda stages herself a dark secret. Joanna Hogg’s semi- backup singers, and the legendary Atlantic in the tough Hollywood film business, in among excerpts of her films, images and autobiographical film is both a personal Records rhythm section to The New Temple Quentin Tarantino’s latest black-comedy reportages; weaving public and private take on upper-class Britain and an Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles thriller which garnered no less than 10 struggles, loves and friendships, films and incisive exploration of spaces, landscapes, to record an album of gospel music before nominations at the Oscars 2020, including people, and the history of French cinema. dependent relationships and, not least, the an enthusiastic audience. The result, Best Film and Best Director. Paying tribute to the woman who left us a medium of film. Amazing Grace, went on to become one of year ago, the idiosyncratic, engaging and the biggest albums of her career and the Sat 7 Mar 8.15pm * deeply moving, The Beaches of Agnès is the Sat 14 Mar 4pm best-selling Gospel record of all time... Sat 14 Mar 6pm * autobiography of a magnificent artist. Thu 19 Mar 8.35pm * Sat 29 Feb 6.30pm * Sun 29 Mar 4pm * Sat 7 Mar 6.15pm *

* Screenings in Ciné Lumière II Ciné Lumière Cinema Made in Italy

Ciné Lumière teams up with Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the italian Cultural Institute in London for a 10th Anniversary edition of Cinema Made in Italy. This year’s edition places female directors such as Ginevra Elkann, Chiara Malta, Liliana Cavani and Michela Occhipinti in the spotlights. Subtle, witty, moving, always inspiring, these films tell stories of transmission, cultural differences and give a taste of modern Italy. > screenings are listed p. 31 > for further details see: www.institutfrancais.org.uk 4 – 10 March by Ginevra Elkann by Ginevra image: If Only 12 Ciné Lumière Les Classiques – Autobiography & Autofiction

Les 400 coups Amarcord Mirror Zéro de conduite The 400 Blows ITA/FRA | 1973 | 123 mins | dir. Federico Zerkalo + JLG/JLG – FRA | 1959 | 95 mins | dir. François Truffaut, Fellini, with Magali Noël, Maria Antonietta RUS | 1975 | 107 mins | dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Beluzzi, Bruno Zanin | cert. 15 | in Italian with with Margarita Terekhova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, autoportrait de Albert Rémy, Patrick Auffay | cert. PG EN subs Oleg Yankovsky, Ignat Daniltsev | cert. U | in in French with EN subs Russian with EN subs décembre Federico Fellini’s most personal film, Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s satirizes his youth in Rimini during the Widening the concept of autobiography to FRA | 1933 & 1994 | 43 & 54 mins | Jean Vigo life-long cinematic counterpart Antoine fascist period, and turns daily life into include members of his own family and and Jean-Luc Godard | cert. PG & tbc | in Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), Les 400 a circus of social rituals, adolescent ultimately the entire Russian people in the French with EN subs coups sensitively re-creates the trials desires, male fantasies, and political 20th century, Tarkovsky uniquely blends the of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood and subterfuge, all set to Nino Rota’s classic, personal and the political, shifting from Jean Vigo’s ground-breaking film Zéro de counts as one of the supreme examples nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy colour to monochrome, from the present conduite, is a hugely influential portrait of cinema in the first person singular. Not Award–winning Amarcord remains one of to the past, from dream to reality. of prankish boarding-school students. only Truffaut’s first feature, but also the cinema’s enduring treasures. Banned in France until 1945, it is one of first of the New Wave, Les 400 coups is an Sun 16 Feb 2pm cinema’s great acts of rebellion. While indisputable masterpiece. Sun 9 Feb 2pm Tue 18 Feb 6.30pm in JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre, Tue 11 Feb 6.10pm * Godard attempts a cinematic self-portrait, Sun 2 Feb 2pm in his own words, a film ‘composed of a Thu 6 Feb 6.30pm mixture (...) of four elements: landscapes crossed; films made; films not made; JLG in his daily action.’

Sun 23 Feb 2pm * Screenings in Ciné Lumière II Wed 26 Feb 6.15pm * Ciné Lumière Autobiography & Autofiction

Coup de foudre Chronicle of the Je, tu, il, elle L’Homme de Rio At First Sight Years of Fire FRA/BEL | 1974 | 90 mins | dir. Chantal That Man from Rio FRA | 1983 | 111 mins | dir. Diane Kurys, with Akerman, with Chantal Akerman, Claire FRA | 1964 | 110 mins | dir. Philippe de Broca, Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Waqai sanawat al-djamr Wauthion, Niels Arestrup | cert. tbc | in with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac Jean-Pierre Bacri | cert. 15 | in French with ALG | 1975 | 177 mins | dir. Mohammed French with EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs | 8+ EN subs | 35mm print Lakhdar-Hamina, with Yorgo Voyagis, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | in Arabic and In her provocative first feature, Chantal Fast-paced and uproariously funny, the France, 1942. Lena (Isabelle Huppert) French with EN subs | 4K Restoration Akerman herself stars as an aimless story follows the charming couple of Jean- and Madeleine (Miou-Miou), develop an young woman who leaves self-imposed Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac as unlikely friendship. After the war, the This epic semi-autobiographical film isolation to embark on a road trip that they race through Rio in search of a hidden intensity of their relationship spins both recounting the Algerian uprising won its leads to lonely love affairs with a male treasure. One of the key inspirations to the their marriages to a breaking point. Based director the first Palme d’or in Cannes truck driver and a former girlfriend. With Indiana Jones franchise, this James Bond- on Diane Kury’s childhood, Coup de foudre for an African film: ‘I tried to recount, its famous real-time carnal encounter and spoof was nominated for an Oscar for Best is a very personal and highly moving film. with dignity and nobility, this uprising that its daring minimalism, Je, tu, il, elle is one Writing, Story and Screenplay in 1964. then became the Algerian Revolution, (...) of Akerman’s most audacious films. Sun 1 Mar 2pm I looked inside myself for the honesty of a Sun 1 Mar 11am * Wed 4 Mar 6.15pm * child, the eyes of the child I once was.’ Sun 29 Mar 2pm Sat 7 Mar 2pm * Tue 31 Mar 6.30pm * Sun 8 Mar 11am * Sun 15 Mar 2pm Sun 22 Mar 11am Tue 17 Mar 6.10pm *

Screenings in Ciné Lumière II * 13 Semaine de la Francophonie FRENCH POP VIDEO COMPETITION

Debating in French: Le Brio University Competition FRA | 2018 | 95 mins | dir. Yvan Attal, with Daniel Auteuil, Camélia Jordana, Yasin Houicha | cert. 12 | in French with As part of the Francophonie celebrations, impassioned EN subs students from all around the UK will face each other one last time after participating in thought-provoking debates After an incident, Pierre Mazard (Daniel Auteuil), a throughout the country. Come and listen to them in the brilliant professor at the prestigious Université d’Assas in final of the Joutes Oratoires Universitaires in French, Paris known for his outbursts, is forced to mentor Neïla Do you think you could sing or rap co-organised by Franco-Débats UK, the Higher Education Salah (Camélia Jordana), the student from the banlieue in French? Do you have the skills to Research and Innovation Department of the French he wronged, for a speech contest. Yvan Attal’s fifth feature make a video clip for your song? If so, Embassy and the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. won Camélia Jordana the 2018 César Award for Most this competition is for you! Promising Actress. Wed 18 Mar 12pm Wed 18 Mar 3.30pm Take part for a chance to win amazing prizes Free and stand out at the 2020 Francophonie UK School Music Awards Ceremony at the end of With the support of Franco-British Connections June.

Closing date: 3 April 2020 More info: www.institut-francais.org.uk/francophonie

French Pop Competition2020.indd 1 16/01/2020 14:14:17 Semaine de la Francophonie

© M.Laverdiere Joutes Oratoires Dgiz – Slam Gabrielle Lycéennes Final Music Rendezvous CAN | 2013 | 104 mins | dir. Louise Archambault, with Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Alexandre Landry, Mélissa On the occasion of the Journée Internationale de la Celebrate francophonie, eloquence and humour with Désormeaux-Poulin | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Francophonie, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni will Dgiz, a French slammer coming from the underground host the national final of the Joutes oratoires lycéennes. rap scene, mixing improvised spoken word poetry and Gabrielle and Martin are in love. However, because Organised in partnership with the Francophonie UK double bass rhythms. This intimate show will be followed they are "different," their families are fearful of their group, this interregional competition involves hundreds of by a Q&A with Dgiz. relationship. Both musically gifted, as they prepare to take sixth-form students from across the UK. part in an important festival, Gabrielle does everything Fri 20 Mar 5.30pm she can to gain her independence. As determined as Fri 20 Mar 3.30pm she is, the couple must still confront other people's £7, members £5 prejudices as well as their own limitations in the hope of Free but booking essential at experiencing a love far from the "ordinary". [email protected] Fri 20 Mar 8.30pm

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The Seventh Continent Ecology and Utopia: Overlapping Perspectives and Now? From Cities to Spheres on Dora Maar Artificialis Talks Artificialis Talks + short film Lunch in Fur

Join Nicolas Bourriaud, founder of the Palais de Tokyo Architecture constantly pushes us to reimagine how Following the screening of Ursula Mayer’s short film in Paris, and current director of the Mo.Co museum in we want to live together. From outer space capsules to Lunch in Fur (2008) which features a fictional encounter Montpellier. Curator of the Istanbul Biennial 2019, entitled submarine systems, utopias have taken us into faraway of the three iconic female figures Dora Maar, Meret The Seventh Continent, Nicolas Bourriaud invited artists places and futures. Today’s climate emergency, social Oppenheim and Josephine Baker, Emma Lewis, curator to ‘explore this territory where humans and non-humans, unrest and political instability demand us to think of of the Dora Maar exhibition at Tate Modern (until 15 machines, waste, animal life and trees are colluding to a closer utopia, one that is able to help us rethink March), and Brigitte Benkemoun, French journalist and produce new forms.’ The plastic floating created a sort immediate futures, and immediate contexts. French author of the recently released biographical enquiry Je of new continent in the middle of the Pacific, a mass artist Cyril de Commarque invites Catalan architect suis le carnet de Dora Maar (I am Dora Maar’s Address that is the ‘embodiment of the Anthropocene’. He will be and curator Eva Franch i Gilabert, director of the Book) will draw a portrait from overlapping perspectives introduced by artist Cyril de Commarque whose current Architectural Association School in London, to discuss of the iconic figure of Dora Maar. exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, Artificialis, evokes this and present a series of projects, visions and positions that duality between the anthropocene and the progressive can help us expand our horizons. Wed 12 Feb 6.30pm * intrusion of the artificial in humans life and art. Wed 26 Feb 7pm £9, conc. £7 Mon 10 Feb 7pm £9, conc. £7 Special event on the occasion of the £9, conc. £7 exhibition Dora Maar at Tate Modern

See also Cyril de Commarque’s Artificialis exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery (Until May 2020). Talks

© Christine Tamalet Faïza Guène Reading Group Café Philo French Craft On Women and Literature Every month we explore the best of Open to everyone interested in discussing Collective French literature in translation and its philosophical issues in an informal setting. On the occasion of International Women’s original version: the rendezvous for all French Craft Collective is an event Day, French author Faïza Guène will be in francophiles! 1, 8, 22 & 29 Feb; 14 & 21 Mar | in English dedicated to high-end design, which conversation with Sarah Ardizzone. Born 15 Feb; 7 & 28 Mar | in French gives the opportunity to discover hand- in France to Algerian parents, Faïza Guène Thu 13 Feb - Nuit (Night) by B. Minier, tr. by picked French craftsmen, renowned for wrote her first novel, Just Like Tomorrow A. Anderson 10.30am to 12pm - £2 their know-how, techniques and unique (Kiffe-Kiffe Demain), when she was 17 Thu 19 Mar - Souvenirs de la marée basse Contact: [email protected] expertise. This year panel discussion will years old. A huge success in France, it [Memories of Low Tide] by Chantal Thomas focus on sustainability in craft and interior was shortlisted for the Young Minds Book design. Award and longlisted for the Independent 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French Foreign Fiction Prize. She has since £5, members £3, including a glass of wine Tue 31 Mar 5.30pm to 6.30pm published four more novels, three of which have been translated into English by Sarah in English | 1h | £7, conc. £5 Ardizzone: Dreams from the Endz (2008), Bar Balto (2011) and the forthcoming Men Don’t Cry (Cassava Republic).

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© Jean-Baptiste Millot © Maciej Kotlarski Opera Critics’ Music of the Sea Le Parnasse Arlt Question Time by Aline Piboule au féminin Music Rendezvous What does an opera critic do? How has Winner of five prizes at the 2014 by Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu A duo based around the core of Eloïse the role of an opera critic changed since International piano competition of Decazes and Sing Sing, Arlt have the advent of blogging, online publications Orléans, Aline Piboule is a French A major player in the French Baroque released four albums of delightfully and social media? Opera Holland Park’s repertoire leading performer. Music of scene, Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu will off-kilter chanson that finds space for Director of Opera, James Clutton, General the Sea offers a journey into the heart of perform works by French Enlightenment the influences of rumba, Tropicalia, jazz Director, Michael Volpe, and Research Impressionism. Among pieces by Charles women composers, such as the tragédie and folk in songs tinged with humour and and Repertoire consultant, Anna Picard, Koechlin, György Ligeti and French lyrique or the opéra-ballet. The ensemble pathos. The performance will be followed are joined by critics Hugh Canning (The composers Mel Bonis and Lili Boulanger, will also interpret a new work by French by a discussion and questions from the Sunday Times), Rupert Christiansen (The Aline Piboule will give the public the composer Caroline Marçot. It will be audience. Daily Telegraph), Neil Fisher (The Times), opportunity to hear Debussy’s La Mer in preceded by a talk with Anna Beer, author Erica Jeal (The Guardian) and John Allison Yann Ollivo's arrangement. of Sounds and Sweat Airs, the Forgotten Tue 25 Feb 7.30pm (Opera Magazine), for an evening in which Women of Classical Music, and Aliette de you ask the questions. Thu 27 Feb 7.30pm Laleu, journalist at France Musique. £7, members £5

Wed 5 Feb 6.45pm Thu 26 Mar 7.30pm in English | 1h45 | £10, OHP members £5, promo code for the members of the Institut français FRENCH2020 As part of Les Salons en Musique, a chamber music Booking: www.operahollandpark.com concerts series supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet Kids & Families CinéKids

Spies in Disguise La Petite fabrique de La Ronde des couleurs USA | 2019 | 100 mins | dir. Nick Bruno, Troy Quane | cert. PG nuages FRA | 2017 | 38 mins | cert. tbc | No dialogue 3+ in English | 7+ FRA | 2019 | 46 mins | cert. tbc | No dialogue | 4+ Over the seasons, on the animals' coats, or even in a When the world's best spy is turned into a pigeon, he box of pencils, colours are everywhere! Even music has must rely on his nerdy tech officer to save the world. Seen from below or seen from above, the sky is always its own colours! A programme of short films that will the scene of extraordinary shows. Whether you are a introduce the youngest to a colourful and variegated Sat 1 Feb 2pm migratory bird, an explorer lemur, a star hunter or a universe. Sun 9 Feb 11am small tortoise, there is always time to dream, head in the Sun 16 Feb 11am clouds! Five poetic short films to set out to conquer the Sat 15 Feb 2pm * Sat 14 Mar 2pm sky. (see Kids French Lab on Colours 11am) Sun 23 Feb 11am * The screening on 14 March will be followed by a face- Sun 2 Feb 11am * Sat 29 Feb 2pm * painting workshop at 4pm (£5/kid) Sat 8 Feb 2pm * Sat 14 Mar 4pm * The 11am screening on 23 Feb is a relaxed screening Sat 28 Mar 2pm * tailored for those who may be on the autism spectrum or with sensory difficulties. The screening on 14 March will be preceded by a face- painting workshop at 3.30pm (£5/kid)

* Screenings in Ciné Lumière II 19 20 Kids & Families CinéKids Workshops

100 kilos d’étoiles La Reine des Babies Corner Art & T(h)inker Stars by the Pound Neiges II Ages 0-4 Clubs FRA | 2019 | 88 mins | dir. Marie-Sophie Chambon | cert. TBC | in French with EN Frozen II Read, play, sing, grow! Whether you love Art Club subs | 10+ USA | 2019 | 99 mins | dir. Chris Buck, drawing, reading, clapping or dancing Ages 8-12 Jennifer Lee | cert. tbc | in English | 7+ there will be something to enjoy on Explore art history and get your paint Lois, 16, has only one dream: becoming an Wednesdays & Saturdays! From nursery brushes ready with these hands-on astronaut. However, although she’s gifted Why was Elsa born with magical powers? rhymes to enchanting tales, kids aged up workshops. in physics, she has a big problem: Lois The answer is calling her and threatening to 4 years-old can join our Babies Corner weighs over 90 kgs. She meets Amélie, her kingdom. Together with Anna, at Bibliothèque Quentin Blake. Thu 6 & 13 Feb | Thu 5, 12, 19 & 26 Mar Stannah, and Justine: three teenagers Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, she’ll set out on a 4pm | 1h30 | Bilingual & easy French | £9, shattered, like her, by life’s tough breaks; dangerous but remarkable journey. Farm Animals £7 members | open to kids only yet ready for anything in order to leave Wed 5 Feb | Baby Comptines with her for outer space… Sat 22 Feb 2pm (singalong) Wed 12 Feb | Baby Comptines T(h)inker Club Sat 8 Feb | Baby Tales Ages 9-12 Sun 15 Mar 11am * Yes, this is your chance to let it all go and This is the perfect workshop for little Sat 21 Mar 2pm * singalong to the Oscar nominated Into The Seasons inventors to experiment with science, Sun 29 Mar 11am * Unknown! Wed 4 Mar | Baby Comptines technology, design, arts & crafts. Wed 25 Mar | Baby Comptines The 11am screening on 29 Mar is a Sat 14 Mar | Baby Tales Sat 8 Feb | Mini-bots / petits robots relaxed screening tailored for those who Sat 7 Mar | Magie et aimants / Magic and may be on the autism spectrum or with 11am | 45 mins | in easy French | ticket for Magnets sensory difficulties. carer: £3, ticket for kids: £7, £5 members 2.30pm | 2h | Bilingual & easy French early booking recommended £9, £7 members | open to kids only * Screenings in Ciné Lumière II Kids & Families Workshops

Kids French lab Board Game Game Lab World Book Day Ages 3-6 Sessions Discover a series of playful, recreational Calling all parents of bookworms! On this & instructional digital sessions, where we special day, give your children a chance to A fun-filled approach to learning French Ages 6-12 explore the potential that video games and share the love of reading and writing. They for kids, through songs, games and apps may hold. The sessions encourage can learn tips for crafting stories with the storytelling. We offer the small group Board games are a fun and inclusive way collaborative and collective gameplay and screening of a series of masterclasses a collective and informal way of French of socialising with friends and new people game literacy. Expect new games and a from famous kids' authors (Jeff Kinney, language discovery and play, focusing on alike. Come along to play to your all-time new console! Chris Riddell, Cressida Cowell and different themes and new words each favourite or master the rules of less- many others). Plus this year again, the session. known games, you'll inevitably find a game Game Lab | Play video games | ages 6-12 Bibliothèque Quentin Blake is taking part that suits you! Sat 1 Feb | 2.30pm | 1h | French | free in the London Book Swap, so everyone can Sat 15 Feb | Colours exchange old books for new ones! Sat 28 Mar | Spring Sat 22 Feb Game Lab | Gaming Workshop | ages 8-12 Sat 21 Mar Sat 15 Feb | Minecraft: a visit to the Sat 7 Mar 11am | 45 mins | in easy French | £9, £7 Nether members - Combine a session with a 2.30pm | 2h | Bilingual & easy French Sat 14 Mar | E-sport tournament From 12.00pm | free same day film for £12, £10 members £9, £7 members | open to kids only 2.30pm | 2h | Bilingual & easy French open to kids only £9, £7 members | open to kids only

App of the Week Games, ebooks, fun ways of learning or poetical experimentations… Come and grab an iPad! We will introduce you to a new App every week. 21 22 We Support

Francofest 2020 Professor Bad Trip Camille Yvert: How I Naturally Improve Language World 2020

A French language event raising the 3 newly commissioned works for Come visit our stand with Alliance career aspirations of young learners and ensemble and live electronics by Welsh française Manchester and discover our fostering closer relationships between composers will be showcased alongside wide offer for teachers of French in the UK. schools, higher education and business. 3 international electroacoustic pioneers emerging from the ‘Spectral Movement’ in www.kc-jones.co.uk www.qub.ac.uk Paris. Supported by Diaphonique. 13-14 Mar Renaissance Manchester 4 Feb Queen's University Belfast www.uproar.org.uk City Centre

Festival Présences / 10th Anniversary of 28 Feb - 3 June Various venues in Wales Harpsichord en fête Diaphonique and France New and developing works by Camille Yvert taking their starting point from the Julie Béna: The Jester & Death relationship between bronzage culture & bronze sculpture and examining the quest for body optimisation and the motorcycle industry will be presented at the Harlow Art Trust. Supported by Fluxus Art Projects.

www.gibberdgallery.co.uk George Benjamin © Matthew Lloyd 1 Mar - 30 Apr The Gibberd Gallery For its Harpsichord en fête festival's 2nd Diaphonique 2012 laureate, Sir George edition, the Institut français d'Ecosse Benjamin will direct the opening concert Festival de la Francophonie invited artists to perform on historical of the Festival Présences. Two of his Kunstraum has commissioned a new body harpsichords from St Cecilia's Hall. The works will be played, alongside the world of work titled The Jester & Death. Béna’s Celebrating French Language in all its festival will also celebrate historical premiere of a new work by Gérard Pesson practice constitutes an eclectic set of cultural diversity, the Alliance française dances with a Baroque ball. and two piano works, marking the 10th references, combining contemporary and d'Oxford is presenting its first Festival de anniversary of Diaphonique. ancient literature, high and low art, joking, la Francophonie. Film screenings, a photo www.ifecosse.org.uk and seriousness, parallel times and exhibition, talks and Q&As, an African www.maisondelaradio spaces. Supported by Fluxus Art Projects. music workshop for children are on the 23 -27 Mar Institut français d'Ecosse & menu. St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh 7 - 16 Feb Maison de la Radio, Paris www.kunstraum.org.uk www.af-oxford.org Until 15 Feb Kunstraum 2-31 Mar Cultural events in the 'We Support' and 'We Recommend' Various venues in Oxford sections are supported or recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art Projects and Diaphonique. We Recommend

Eva Jospin: Among the Trees Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Beethoven & Ives Picasso and Paper Christine Rebet: Time Levitation

Among the Trees brings together artworks, Pierre-Laurent Aimard gives voice to including Eva Jospin’s Forests, that explore the two great composers, revealing our relationship to trees. The exhibition Beethoven’s influence on the avant-garde. focuses on artworks that re-imagine traditional genres and develop trees www.southbankcentre.co.uk representations to shift our conventional perceptions. 10 Mar Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk Modern Art and the French Riviera Picasso, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe after Manet I, 1962.

4 Mar - 17 May Hayward Gallery Pablo Picasso rewrote the rules of Parasol unit foundation for contemporary painting, but he also tore up the rulebook art presents a solo exhibition of the work Stéphane Degout and Simon Lepper for paper. Bringing together more than of French artist Christine Rebet, exploring 300 of the artist’s works, both on and with trauma, illusion, revolt and the destruction paper, this exhibition spans his entire of our shared history and environment prolific career and represents a significant through six diverse, hand-drawn animated chapter in modern art. films.

Until 13 Apr Royal Academy of Arts www.parasol-unit.org

This weekend-long art history course www.royalacademy.org.uk Until 4 Apr Parasol Unit, London by the leading authority on French modernism, Dr Nicholas Watkins, Dora Maar Jean Féline et Joshua J. Leon - Habitat explores the many modern artists who One of the world’s leading baritones lived and worked along the French coast in The largest retrospective of Dora Maar Artists Joshua Leon and Jean Feline Stéphane Degout returns to Wigmore Hall the first half of the twentieth century. ever held in the UK. During the 1930s, tackle the subject and concept of Habitat, with pianist Simon Lepper, taking part to Maar’s provocative photomontages intending to investigate the social issues the song recital series. www.royalacademy.org.uk became celebrated icons of surrealism. relating to the home in contemporary This exhibition will explore the breadth of culture, treating the domestic as an unsafe www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 14-15 Mar Royal Academy of Arts Maar's long career in the context of work ground and navigating the meaning of by her contemporaries. “making a home". 8 Mar Wigmore Hall www.tate.org.uk www.platformsouthwark.co.uk

Until 15 Mar Tate Modern 1 Mar - 30 Apr Platform Southwark

23 24 La Médiathèque Culturethèque

Plenty of New Games Feminist Essays Classic Tales for Kids in 2020! To celebrate women and their achievements, explore Tales never grow old! Gilgamesh, The Thousand and One on Culturethèque a selection of important essays on Nights, The Little Match Girl and The Pied Piper of Hamelin feminism including bestselling King Kong Theory by are some of the numerous beautifully illustrated stories A large selection of new video games is available in the Virginie Despentes and Sorcières, la puissance invaincue which can be found in the Kids’ section. Bibliothèque Quentin Blake! des femmes by Mona Chollet. www.culturetheque.com Let’s discover Blacknut, a cloud gaming service for the Other essential authors comprise philosophers Elsa whole family: no violent or inappropriate content, no ads, Dorlin and Manon Garcia as well as novelist Chloé Get in touch: [email protected] but games for all tastes and ages, and a lot of fun! Delaume. More info about the library and the membership benefits: www.institut-francais.org.uk/Mediatheque French Courses at the Institut français

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