Le Programme February – March 2020 02 Contents/Highlights 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 For full runs (days & times): From 6 Mar 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 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 For full runs (days & times): From 20 Mar 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 Re-Releases 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.