Bulletin Culturel June 2009 FOCUS

The Cinematheque Ontario

Man Ray

Enrico Macias in Toronto

LES offer a concert during NXNE Festival Editorial

People’s walking side by side, hushers rushing in, M.C. reciting. At the end on the tiers, the faces are lined-up ready for a schoolyear photo. Heigths, ages, bodies all different. Is it from Ninive or Assur palace ? Shall we remember lectures ? Words water, flow, flood, then dry out. Contents In June students attend their graduation in Canada. Know-how is above what we may implement in our country. For later time of the high- schoolers, and the parents’ pride happiness, the ceremony set images forever. The author of the famous painting « Les Onze » in Le Louvre Museum is Festival - PAGE 3 the main character of the historical fiction from Pierre Michon and he asks « What should I paint ? » (*). The French Revolution Comité de Salut Music - PAGE 4 Public imposes a new policy called « La Terreur ». - « Silence came. Fire burned out. From the large square lantern, light Exhibitions - PAGE 6 was beating down on spilled gold at the exact same spot where old bones had lied down. » Conferences - PAGE 7 Images appear altogether at the History’s acme, for the daily happy Cinema - PAGE 8 hours, and even within novel writing. In June, Enrico Macias, NXNE, and «Alliance Française » celebrate music for summer. At the Power Plant, artists decipher with « Universal Code » exhibition our today world. The Ontario Cinematheque companionship reliable as always. Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel

(*) Les Onze, Pierre Michon, Verdier, Lagrasse-France, 2009 Cultural Calendar - June 2009

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cinema: Conferences: Entr´Acte - C. Laudamiel Music: - F. Migeot Coup de Cinema: coeur Man Ray Conference: Exhibition: Shlomo Cinema: Painlevé Clarissa Schwartzbe Inglis rg

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Cinema: Music: The Raven Enrico Macias Exhibition: All summer all free

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Music: Music: Les Plas- Film Noir Fête de la tiscines musique Cinema: Jacquot de Nantes

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2 FestivalsFestivals

Fête de la musique in Toronto June 21

As last year, the Alliance - Children’s choirs: “Le chœur African griot (Ann Tindal Stage) Française of Toronto organises d’enfants des patriotes” and Le - Paul Reddick & Philippe Flahaut an event during the French Fête grand choeur du festival choral from 5 :00 pm to 6 :00 pm, not de la Musique. On the outdoor “Chantons en choeur” from 1 your daddy’s blues (Sirius stage of the Harbourfront the- :15 pm to 2 :00 pm (Lakeside Stage) ater, next to the lake! Terrace Tent) - Joanna Moon from 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm, flamenco with a twist Fête de la Musique à (Sirius Stage) Toronto

- Dave Neill Trio from 3:00 pm Sunday June 21 to 3:30 pm, the next wave in From 12:30 pm jazz (Ann Tindal Stage) to 6:00 pm Program : - Marie-José Houle from 3:30 pm to 4 :10 pm, cabaret Harbourfront Center - Jaffa Road with Aviva Chernick songstress & accordionist (Lake- 235 Queens Quay West from 12 :30 pm to 1 :15 pm, side Terrace Tent) funky Jewish world music (Ann - Tamsir Seck from 4:15 pm to Free event Tindal Stage) 5:00 pm, mezmerizing West

REELHeART International Film Festival June 22-27

Two French movies will be is bitter about his behavior and he presented during the Reel- convinces John to distribute some HeART International Film Fes- of the presents they just robbed in a disadvantaged hometown. But tival sadly, they choose the wrong house to perform their salvation… SANTA CLAUS IS BACK IN TOWN Thursday, June 25, 8 PM Adrien Comelli, France, 2008, 24mn 595 Markham Street, Toronto

an idea of the show and the magic of the city of Milan. . Wednesday, June 24, 7 PM Innis College, 2 Sussex Street, U of T, Toronto ÉTOILES ET PETITS PAS Liliane de Kermadec, France, 2008, 30mn Festival International du An insiders POV to a special ballet At Christmas night, in the city’s at the Teatro alla Scala. Stars and Film ReelHeART streets, a young Santa Claus, Sam, music backstage, on stage and in June 22-27 is giving candies to the people the streets of Milano. The perform- passing by, when he’s mugged by a ance was filmed on the occasion of Tickets: $10 bunch of young angry people. Sam a special New Year’s eve ballet per- Seniors and students ticket : $5 is saved by another Santa Claus, formance at the Scala de Milano John. Then John takes Sam with 2007/2008. You’ll get to feel the at- him and they start to rob houses in mosphere and energy of the last re- www.reelheart.com a wealthy neighborhood. But Sam hearsals, backstage and on stage 3 MusicMusic

“Coup de coeur” June 6

show untitled « Coup de cœur ». To part in the show. celebrate the fifteenth birthday of the vocal ensemble, the 30 chorists “Coup de Coeur” and their musicians suggest an eclectic travel through time and Saturday June 6, styles thanks to the extraordinary 8:00 pm contribution of the Torontonians Studio Glenn-Gould, French-speaking personalities. The 250, Front Street West audience will be seduced by the dynamism and the diversity of the To buy tickets, call 905.883.7951 repertory. Children from the choir Les voix du cœur present their last of Sainte-Madeleine school will take

Enrico Macias 9 juin Born in an Algerian Jewish fam- Instead of following his father’s “Pieds-Noirs” community, his ily, Gaston Ghrenassia grew up step Gaston decided to learn audience grew very quickly and in a very strong North African guitar with his gypsy friends, of his songs became some really musical tradition. which gave him the nickname big hits such as “Les filles de Gaston’s father was a violinist in Little Enrico and bring to his mon pays”. the Cheikh Raymond Band music a touch from Andalousia. Internationally recognized for leaded by Raymond Leyris. He became a teacher at first but his talent , Enrico is awarded he didn’t wait too long to dedi- “Peace singer” by Kurt Wald- cate his life to music and join his heim from the United Nation in father in the Cheikh Raymond 1980, he also received the pres- band. tigious “Legion d’Honneur”. In Paris, Gaston became Enrico Macias (he found his artist’s Enrico Macias name after Raul Macias, a boxer from the 50’s), he was working Tuesday June 9, unequally until the night he did 8:30 pm the first part of a Gilbert Bé- caud’s live show and then hap- Music Hall Theater pened to be on famous TV show. Very appreciated by the 147 Danforth Avenue

Israelievitch 21 juin All TEN Beethoven Violin and 1:00 pm – Sonatas 1 - 5 Piano Sonatas IN ONE DAY 4:00 pm – Sonatas 6 - 8 Jacques Israelievitch (with two breaks) 7:30 pm – Sonatas 9 & 10 Sunday June 21, “How crazy do you Tickets: $25 per set, $65 Gallery 345, have to be to do this?” whole day 345 Sorauren Ave. Jacques Israelievitch, violin Information: 416-822-9781 Info: 416-822-9781 Kanae Matsumoto, piano [email protected]

4 Two French bands in Toronto for the NXNE Festival

Les Plastiscines June 17

, “LP1” released in February 2007, ers, Franz Ferdinand, Muse), will be 13 tracks alternating pop and rock released in June when the band will with energy. begin the Rock’n roll Nylon’s Sum- First band signed by the very hip mer Tour 2009 with Patrick Wolf, Nylon’s Records, they just recorded Living Things and Jaguar Love. their second album “About Love” in Los Angeles, EP Barcelona its first Les Plastiscines will be in concert in track is available on Itune since Toronto on June 17 at the Modclub April 21st and it’s already a hit. The at 7 PM along with the other bands album produced by the famous of the tour. Butch Walker (, Pink, ) and the mix-master is Claudius Mittendorfer (Foo Fight-

Les Plastiscines Born from the Parisian’s rock scene revival, the 4 Plastiscine’s girls give Wednesday, June 17, to their audience some wild live 7:00 pm rock performances close to those from the 60’s or the 70’s. The four ModClub girlfriends met in High School, at 722 College Street the Saint-Cyr-L’Ecole next to Paris. From a meeting with Jacques www.themodclub.com Dutronc came out their first album

Film Noir June 18

What could possibly happen when a classic music com- been signed by the label “Son du Maquis/Harmunia poser meet with a jazz guitar player? They rock! Mundi” and the album will have an official release in Imagine Radiohead writing the music for a movie October 2009. shooting Bob Dylan playing the Velvet Underground Film Noir will be in Toronto for the Noth by NorthEast along with the Clash! You can find this great family pic- Music festival and will play live at El Mocambo on June ture in the very accomplished “ I had a very happy 18 at 10pm. childhood” their auto-produced first album, released in 2008. Thanks to the success of this album they have Film Noir Thursday, June 18, 7:00 pm El Mocambo 462 Spadina Avenue

www.elmocambo.ca

5 ExhibitionsExhibitions

Universal Code From June 12 For the fourth year running, The of contemporary Thomas Hirschhorn Power Plant is pleased to announce society. This in- Thomas Hirschhorn came to interna- that it will be offering free gallery cludes, on a tional attention with his perishable admission all summer. This year, larger scale, the the gallery’s featured summer ex- positives and hibition is ‘Universal Code,’ a large- negatives of scale group exhibition presenting globalization is responses from a broad range of work follows in contemporary artists to cosmology the tradition of and ideas of the universal in our Marcel Duchamp monuments. Neglecting material current information age. in that he em- worth, his work encompasses diverse ‘Universal Code’ considers the re- ploys Ready- sculptural models in an impoverished sponse of artists to these relation- made objects or iconography to elicit taste for the product wrappings of ships in the aftermath of the ambiguities of everyday life in consumer industry such as aluminum globalization, reflecting the current this postmodern era of cultural over- foil, plastic, cardboard and plywood. complexity of the world we inhabit. lap with the disintegration of cultural Following a logic of ephemerality, Ultimately their response is poetic, boundaries. Hirschhorn’s perishable monuments positioning the universe as a void to Benedict de Spinoza (Amsterdam, full of potential but also as a field 1999), Gilles Deleuze (Avignon, riddled by elision and enigma. Adel Abdessemed 2000), Georges Bataille (2002, Kas- sel) and Antonio Gramsci, reflected This exhibition is an opportunity to upon communal commitment and discover four major artists currently “the quality of internal beauty” living in France.

Tania Mouraud Universal Code Mouraud reveals the identity of the T. Mouraud, M. Can- different environments she visits through a close examination of the tor, A. Abdessemed et site’s distinctive temperament and its T. Hirschhom inhabitants’ ways of thinking. In an increasingly global society, she is in- Abdessemed transforms everyday From June 12 terested in the remaining cultural materials and images into unex- to August 30 characteristics that distinguish differ- pected, charged, and sometimes ent regions from one another. shocking artistic declarations. He The Power Plant Con- pulls freely from myriad sources- per- temporary Art Gallery, Mircea Cantor sonal, social, and political- to create a Harbourfront Centre Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a visual visual language that is simultane- 231 Queens Quay West artist who has received wide acclaim ously rich and economical, sensitive for his subtle commentary on issues and controversial, radical and mun- Free Entrance dane. Des Vosges au Luxembourg by C. Inglis From June 6 Des Vosges au Luxembourg A walk through the parks, gar- Jardins et squares dens and squares of Paris Photos by Clarissa Inglis parisiens Photos de Clarissa Inglis This exhibit is not a collection of postcard-type images of Paris. From June 6 Rather, it casts a sociologist’s eye upon the manner in which Parisians to September 26 occupy spaces that are both « nat- ural » and deeply rooted in the AFT Spadina urban fabric. Galerie Pierre-Léon The exhibit is based on four broad 24 Spadina Road themes: reading, lazing about, con- versation and inhabited nature. Free Entrance

6 ConferencesConferences

Contemporary Venezuelan poetry June 4

The Consulate general of the some important poets of this time, Research professor at the Univer- Bolivarian Republic of with a special focus on José Anto- sity of Franche-Comté (France), Venezuela and the Consulate nio Ramos Sucre, a Venezuelan poet François Migeot is a specialist of the general of France in Toronto are that he translated. Based on this ex- analysis of literarature and didactic. pleased to present Contempo- perience, he will also explain to us He also translated many Latin- rary Venezuelan poetry, special his work as a translator of poetry American poems. His work as a focus on José Antonio Ramos from Spanish to French. writer is focused on poetry, poetic Sucre, by François Migeot prose and the conjunction of vari- José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890 - ous artistic expressions. He pub- 1930) was a Venezuelan poet, pro- lished several books, as Orly-Sud, fessor and consul. He is best re- Clair de page, Entre les lames, lec- membered for his work on poetry tures de Robbe-Grillet, Chronique, and literature, amongst them : Flux tendu. Trizas de papel (1921), Sobre las huellas de Humboldt (1923), La torre de Timón (1925), Las formas Contemporaneous del fuego (1929), El cielo de es- Venezuelan poetry malte (1929). In the 1960s he be- Spanish Centre came to the new generation, one of 46 Hayden Street the most valid references of excel- lence. According to Francisco Pérez Thursday June 4th, Perdomo, Venezuelan poet and lit- 7:00 pm As a specialist of Latin-American erarature critic, Ramos Sucre is contemporaneous poetry, François "the poet of pain, a poet who felt a In spanish Migeot will initiate us to the hypnotic fascination for the obscure Venezuelan poetry from the XXth and the abyss, a poet that suffers Free admission and XXIst century. He will present in his loneliness".

Les Parfums du Parfum by C. Laudamiel June 4

Mr. Laudamiel began teaching (Harvey Nichols); Le baiser de an anthology of perfumes and to chemistry at MIT and received his l’Artiste (Orlan), Absinth et Mimosa use various concepts, technologies, perfume creation diploma from (Slatkin & Co.); Les Parfums du molecules and raw materials to give Procter & Gamble in 1997. Rising Parfum (Thierry Mugler for Patrick people a « sense » of the world of through the ranks, he became sen- Süskind); Polo Blue For Men and perfumes in the 21st century. ior perfumer at Proctor & Gamble, Bougie Pink Pony (Ralph Lauren). then at the IFF. Christophe Laudamiel With Thierry Mugler, Les Parfums du explores the relationship Mr. Laudamiel created Parfum, C. Laudamiel between the worlds of a box including 15 perfume, art and design. scents featured in key Thursday June 4th, scenes from Perfume, 6:30PM Christophe Laudamiel’s Tom Tykwer’s film many creations are based on Patrick AFT Spadina known throughout the Süskind’s best-selling Galerie Pierre-Léon world, and include Happy novel. A first in the 24 Spadina Road Heart and Happy in world of perfumes, this Bloom (Clinique); HN for project reflects their In French Men and HN for Women shared desire to create Free admission

7 Lecture on French Cinema by Shlomo Schwartzberg June 2 LOVE AND SEX and delightfully erotic, those are the elements Join us for the third of paramount in French The Genius of French five lectures on French love stories. Films to be Cinema cinema by the film discussed include: Betty critic and arts reporter Blue, A Very Long En- Tuesday June 2, Shlomo Schwartzberg. gagement, Going 7:00 pm Nobody makes movies Places, Fat Girl, La about love the way the Ronde, Bad Blood, A 400 Roncesvalles Avenue French do. And no one Christmas Tale. treats sex in cinema In English like them, either. Pas- For more informations: sionate, provocative www.revuecinema.ca CinemaCinema

SPECIAL EVENT Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand June 10 For the World Environment Day, we By bringing us unique footage from film Yann Arthus-Bertrand lays a all have a date with the planet ! over fifty countries, all seen from foundation for the edifice that, al- above, and by sharing with us his together, we must rebuild. In 200.000 years on earth, human- wonder and his concern, with this ity has upset the balance of the Home by Yann Arthus- planet, established by nearly four Bertrand billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it’s too late to be Wednesday, June 10th a pessimist : humanity has barely 6:30 pm ten years to reverse the trend, be- come aware of the full extent of its AFT Spadina spoliation of the Earth’s riches and 24 Spadina Road change its patterns of consumption. Free admission

Jacquot de Nantes June 10 and 17 France, 1991, 118min, French with Jacquot de Nantes events of the war and the post-war English subtitles by Agnès Varda years. Starring Philippe Maron, Edouard « When a filmmaker meets a film- Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier Wednesday June 10, maker... what you get is a kaleido- Once upon a time, there was a 7:30 pm scope of memories rooted in a young boy who grew up in a garage AFT North York shared vocation ». where everone loved to sing. This 95 Sheppard Avenue W. was in 1939, he was 8, and he North York loved puppets and operetta. Then, he wanted to make movies, but his Wednesday June 17, father wanted him to become a me- 7:30 pm chanic… AFT Spadina That childhood – and those memo- 24 Spadina Road ries – belong to Jacques Demy. The Free Entrance story of this particular childhood is a happy one in spite of the painful French with English subtitles

8 All screenings take place at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall 317 Dundas Street West (Please use McCaul Street entrance)

Regular screenings cost $10,14 for non-members and $5,90 for members, students, seniors and children up to 13. Entr’Acte by René CLAIR June 2 France, 1924, 22 min, silent concerned with the unconscious as Cast: Jean Börlin, Francis Picabia, they were with the disruption of so- Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray cial order. The humorous chase scene resulting from a funeral pro- This movie will preceed the cession is filled with visual gags and screening of Monkey Business gender-bending quirks that prefig- (director: Norman McLeod, ure their Surrealist kin. USA, 1931, 77mn). René Clair’s Entr’acte is the Dada film par excellence and begins with Entr’Acte Francis Picabia and Eric Satie point- A short-movie by ing then firing a canon directly at ema. Entr’acte’s frenetic, giddy and René CLAIR the audience. This in-your-face as- anarchic energy, however, was res- sault was no doubt an inspiration olutely Dada and its playful images Tuesday June 2, 7:00pm for the early works of Surrealist cin- and sudden transitions were less Films by Jean PAINLEVÉ June 4 Championed by Antonin Artaud, jected onto a background of white THE OCTOPUS Luis Buñuel, Jean Vigo, and Sergei clouds in 1927 during a Surrealist France, 1925, 10mn, silent Eisenstein, the unique body of work play by Ivan Goll. The Fourth Di- of the French scientist artist Jean mension elaborates a Lewis Carroll- THE SEAHORSE Painlevé has always enjoyed a cult like universe, while The Vampire France, 1934, 15mn following. His personal credo, “sci- studies the killing habits of a METHUSELAH ence is fiction,” informed his scien- species of South American bats, France, 1927, 7mn, silent tific research as much as his and alludes to the myth of Nosfer- Translated intertitles will be distributed to art-making, and was perfectly sim- atu. Painlevé’s deep knowledge of the audience. patico with the Surrealist attempt the animal kingdom led to his con- to “obtain the marvelous” within “la tribution to the narration of THE FOURTH DIMENSION vraie vie.” Painlevé’s numerous (he Georges Franju’s brilliant and chill- France, 1936, 10mn made close to two hundred films ing documentary about a slaugh- THE VAMPIRE until 1982) and eccentric studies of terhouse, Le Sang des bêtes, “an France, 1945, 9mn the subaquatic world reveal the everyday nightmare, at once atro- fantastic habits of sea creatures. cious and outlandishly beautiful” BLOOD OF THE BEASTS Painlevé was affiliated with the Sur- (Time Out). Director: Georges Franju realists, though he refused official France, 1949, 20min entry into the circle, choosing to re- main removed from Breton’s au- Films by Jean thoritarianism. Still, he filmed the PAINLEVÉ image of the starfish for Man Ray and Robert Desnos’ L’Étoile de mer, Thursday June 4, and both he and Artaud appear in 9:00pm Methuselah, which includes five filmed sequences originally pro- Free screening 9 Films de Man RAY Known primarily for his sensual cinema. His night wanderings in Les Mystères du Château de Dé, is black-and-white photographs, Emak-Bakia recall Vertov’s Man a charming, enigmatic and eerie American-born Man Ray was also a with a Movie Camera, using the cin- exploration of chance made at the painter and filmmaker who dabbled ema-eye to capture modern life as Vicomte de Noailles’ opulent sum- in Parisian Surrealism. He joined an artist sees it. He also did the cin- mer abode in le Midi. the movement in 1925 and had a ematography for Duchamp’s ana- solo exhibition at the Galerie Sur- grammatic Anémic Cinéma, a LE RETOUR À LA RAISON réaliste in 1926. Dadaist study in ki- France, 1923, 3mn, silent His handful of neticism and allitera- EMAK-BAKIA films, made be- tive verbal punning. France, 1926, 18mn, silent tween 1923 and Duchamp’s Rotore- Cast: Kiki de Montparnasse, ’29, were collabo- liefs, or “kinetic paint- Jacques Rigaut rations with some ings,” are concentric of the main figures circles designed on ANÉMIC CINÉMA in the French flat disks containing Director: Marcel Duchamp avant-garde, in- word plays. These France, 1926, 7mn, silent cluding Marcel jeux de mots are fur- L’ÉTOILE DE MER Duchamp, Robert ther explored in Ray’s France, 1928, 21mn, silent Desnos, and the Vi- L’Étoile de mer, one of Cast: Kiki de Montparnasse, Robert comte de Noailles. the few Surrealist Desnos Man Ray’s films are scripts to become a LES MYSTÈRES DU CHÂTEAU DE DÉ sexy and playful, film. Written by poet France, 1929, 27mn, silent part experimenta- Robert Desnos, this Cast: Georges Auric, Le Comte de tion, part documentation of this fer- ciné-poème ties Magritte to Beaumont, Le Vicomte de Noailles tile time. The very brief Le Retour à Deleuze in its polysemic play. The la raison includes some of the most starfish, as a hermaphrodite, was erotic images captured on film, thought to exude a potent eroticism Films by Man RAY transposing experiments in light and was a famous Surrealist sub- exposure onto a nude woman’s ject, an extension of amour fou and Friday June 5, 9:00 pm torso. Ray’s famous Rayographs its association with irrationality and Free screening! were brought to life through the automatism. Man Ray’s final film,

Le Corbeau by Henri-Georges CLOUZOT June 12

France, 1943, 93 mn The peace of a small French village created a storm of controversy Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc is mysteriously shattered by an when it was released. The film was outbreak of poison pen letters, banned after the war because of its signed "Le Corbeau" (the Raven), perceived subversive and immoral which create suspicion and misery. overtones. The story was based on The prime target of these scan- a real-life case which took place in dalous letters is Dr Germain, who is the French town of Tulle in the accused of having an affair with the 1920s. wife of one of his colleagues and of practising abortion. Although much Le Corbeau is revealed about the hidden lives of , by henri- the village’s inhabitants, the iden- Georges CLOUZOT tity of the letters’ author remains a mystery... Friday June 12, Le Corbeau is regarded today as a 8:45 pm masterpiece of French cinema it

10 Les Vampires by Louis FEUILLADE 26, 27 et 29 Juin

Director: Louis Feuillade appartements. Led by cross-dress- vaged the film from a garbage can France, 1915, 383mn, silent ing temptress Irma Vep, whose behind the Gaumont studios. An Cast: Musidora et Edouars Mathé cryptic name is an anagram for acknowledged influence on the col- lage work of Max Ernst, and a film which Alain Resnais has called “one Les Vampires, by Louis of my gods,” Les Vampires is es- FEUILLADE sential viewing. Episodes 1 - 4, 148min Presented with live piano accompa- niment by William O’Meara. Friday June 26, 7:00 pm Episodes 5 - 8, 130min Saturday June 27, 7:00 pm Episodes 9 - 10, 105min Monday June 29, 7:00 pm

11.56$ for non-members 7.08$ for members, students, seniors and children up to 13

NB: Les Vampires runs 6 hours and “vampire,” the anti-bourgeois clan 23 minutes in total and is com- practices the arts of abduction, se- posed of 10 episodes ranging in cret messages, hypnotic trance, length from approximately 15 min- outlandish and sexy disguise, and utes to 1 hour. euphoric dance in the infamous cabarets of Montmartre (where A sensation during Toronto’s Nuit vampy Musidora, the Surrealists’ Blanche festival in 2007, Louis beloved femme fatale, who plays Feuillade’s celebrated serial makes Irma Vep, was discovered). Their a rare return, giving audiences an- gutsy jewel heists set off an inves- other opportunity to venture deep tigation by an obsessive journalist inside the underbelly of early twen- who attempts to foil their semi-im- tieth-century Paris, into the myste- provised rondo of robberies. Antic- rious, sinister and marvelous world ipating Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, of Les Vampires. Made and released Jacques Rivette, David Lynch, with breakneck speed during WWI, graphic novels and James Bond, the ten-episode film chronicles an Feuillade’s epic, pulpy serial was a anarchic gang of cunning criminals favourite of the European avant- who terrorize the city of lights’ nar- garde thanks to the larger-than-life row, cobblestone streets, soot- head of the Cinémathèque dusted rooftops, and grands française, Henri Langlois, who sal- 11