MONDAY 14 MAY THURSDAY 17 MAY From 14 to 21 May 2018, the Institut From 4pm – Photo Exhibition 6.30pm – Talk – Noemi français will go Beyond Words with Au coeur de Mai 68 Lefebvre & Eimear McBride 6.15pm – Talk – May Made Me: 7.30pm – Talk – Vertical a festival bursting with bilingual Mitchell Abidor & Paul Mason Writing: Fresh Voices in live literature events, writers’ talks, 7.15pm – Talk – A Walk French Fiction musical performances, shared reading Through : Eric Hazan & 8.40pm – Film – See You Up Lauren Elkin There experiences, book launches, screenings 8.30pm – Film – Redoubtable of recent literary adaptations, staged FRIDAY 18 MAY readings... TUESDAY 15 MAY 2pm – Staged Reading 5pm – Talk and Live Drawing Bamako-Paris Rebel Ladies Who Rocked 5pm – Talk – The Reader Beyond Words brings together French- the World: Pénélope Bagieu, on the 6.27: Jean-Paul language writers recently translated Bryan & Mary Talbot Didierlaurent into English, English-language writers 5pm – Talk – Translating 6.15pm – Talk – Leïla Slimani French and Francophone 7.30pm – Performance who have a special connection with Writing Proust in Just One Hour , European writers appearing 6pm – Talk – Laurent Gaudé 8.30pm – Film – Beauty and in translation, as well as translators, 7.15pm – Talk – European the Dogs loud and proud! Literary Salon musicians, academics, historians, actors 7.45pm – Talk – The Phantom SATURDAY 19 MAY and all who are interested in bringing on Film 10.30am – Café Philo literature to life in other words. 8.50pm – Film – Phantom of 8.30pm – Film – Based on the Paradise a True Story live, French literature, French With special thanks to the Friends of the WEDNESDAY 16 MAY SUNDAY 20 MAY French Institute Trust for their support to – Talk – 6pm Miguel Bonnefoy 2pm – Film – Les Deux the second edition of this festival. 6pm – Talk – Meeting Atiq Anglaises et le Continent Rahimi 6.30pm – Film – Roland MONDAY 21 MAY

Beyond Words at a Glance Words Beyond Barthes: Television Degree Zero 7pm – Music and Readings 7pm – Talk – Marie Closing Event: Fishbach and Darrieussecq Vernon Subutex 8pm – Talk and Screening Publishing à la française: Frédéric Boyer, Atiq Rahimi & Marie Darrieussecq 8.40pm – Film – The Red Collar A Walk Through Paris: Eric Hazan & Lauren Elkin TALK In A Walk Through Paris (Verso) essayist and publisher Eric Hazan takes us through the radical history of Paris, city of the May 1968 uprising, but also of Robespierre, the Commune and Jean-Paul Sartre. Drawing Au coeur de Mai 68 on his own life story and experiences PHOTO EXHIBITION BY PHILIPPE GRAS during the Sixties, Eric Hazan will be in In May 1968, Parisian students marched down the street in protests that quickly spread conversation with Lauren Elkin, author of throughout France. The country came to a near standstill. This exhibition of works by late Flâneuse. Women Walk the City. Chaired by French photographer Philippe Gras tells the story of May ’68, fifty years after the event. Ziad Elmarsafy (King’s College ). Juliette Desplat from the Archives Nationales will give an introduction to the exhibition on 7.15pm – £7, conc. £5 14 May. in English and French Free access to the exhibition during La Médiathèque opening hours until 19 May

May Made Me: Mitchell Abidor & Paul Mason TALK Redoubtable The mass protests that shook France FILM in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, dir. Michel Hazanavicius, 2017, 107 mins creative and influential, changing European Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the most renowned filmmaker of his generation, is shooting politics to this day. Mitchell Abidor, author La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky. Happy, in love, magnetic, they of May Made Me (Pluto), will be discussing marry. But the film’s reception unleashes in Jean-Luc a profound self-examination amplified their legacy with Guardian journalist Paul by the events of May ‘68. Mason, author of Postcapitalism. A Guide 8.30pm– £7 to Our Future (Allen Lane). in French with English 6.15pm – £7, conc. £5 subtitles in English Double bill: talk May Made Me at 6.15pm or A Walk Through Paris at 7.15pm + screening on 14 May: £11, conc. £9 European Literary Salon Rebel Ladies Who Rocked TALK the World: Pénélope Bagieu, French writer Eric Chevillard (Dalkey Archive), Irish writer Claire-Louise Bennett Bryan & Mary Talbot (Fitzcarraldo), German writer Esther Kinsky (Fitzcarraldo), and Music and Literature editor TALK AND LIVE DRAWING (and former Man Booker International judge) Daniel Medin will be discussing narrative non- Pénélope Bagieu’s graphic novel Brazen fiction in European writing today and the importance of translation in a salon style event. (Ebury) presents a series of portraits of 7.15pm – £7, conc. £5 30 incredible women such as Josephine in English, French and German Baker, Peggy Guggenheim or Tove Jansson. Penelope will be discussing these rebel ladies with Mary and Bryan Talbot, who revisit the The Phantom on Film life of anarchist and Communarde Louise TALK Michel in the graphic novel The Red Virgin Celebrating Gaston Leroux’s 150th birthday, and the Vision of Utopia (Jonathan Cape). Cormac Newark (Guildhall School of Music 5pm – £7, conc. £5 & Drama) Annette Davison (University In English and French of Edinburgh) and John Snelson (Royal Opera House) unravel the many adaptations Translating French and Francophone Writing of The Phantom of the Opera from film TALK through to cabaret. In partnership with the Journalist and critic Boyd Tonkin, whose 100 Best Novels in Translation is forthcoming in project Screen Adaptations of Le Fantôme June (Galileo), will kick off this inaugural event for the translation strand of the festival with a de l’Opéra: Routes of Cultural Transfer, conversation with Lucie Campos about French and Francophone titles old and new. Followed supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Phantom of the Paradise by a selection of pitches by emerging translators about the French language books they are 7.45pm – £7, conc. £5 FILM most excited about this year, discussed by translator Ros Schwartz and editor Ellie Steel. in English dir. Brian de Palma, 1974, 92 mins 5pm – £5 Double bill Talk + Screening of The Composer Winslow Leach hides his in English Phantom of Paradise: £15, £13 conc. & wounded face beneath a sinister silver mask members and writes his music for the woman he loves. Betrayed by evil producer Swan, he decides Laurent Gaudé to haunt his rock palace, the Paradise. Brian TALK de Palma’s rock opera is a flamboyant Laurent Gaudé won the Goncourt prize in horror comedy loosely adapted from Gaston 2004 for The House of Scorta. His latest Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. novel Hell’s Gate (Gallic, tr. Emily Boyce) is The screening will be preceded by an a thrilling story of love, loss, revenge and introduction by Annette Davison (University redemption in Naples and beyond, in which of Edinburgh) Gaudé questions the power of origins, death 8.50pm – £9, conc. £7 and family ties. In the presence of translator in English Adriana Hunter. Double bill Screening + Talk The 6pm – £7, conc. £5 Phantom on Film: £15, £13 conc. & in English and French members Miguel Bonnefoy Marie Darrieussecq TALK TALK A new voice in literary fiction,Miguel In Being Here Is Everything (Semiotext(e)) Bonnefoy made a breakthrough with his Marie Darrieussecq traces the short, obs- debut Octavio’s Journey. Compared to cure, and prolific life of the German expres- Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred sionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker Years of Solitude, his second novel Black (1876–1907), who despite being a woman Sugar (Gallic) tells the tale of a family’s became one of her generation’s preeminent changing fortunes in Venezuela over the artists. In this exceptional London appea- 7pm – £7, conc. £5 course of the 20th century. Chaired by rance, Marie Darrieussecq will also be in English and French Daniel Hahn. talking about her other books, including Pig 6pm – £7, conc. £5 Tales (Faber). In English and French Meeting Atiq Rahimi TALK Publishing à la française: Writer and filmmaker,Atiq Rahimi Frédéric Boyer, Atiq Rahimi won the 2008 Goncourt Prize for The & Marie Darrieussecq Patience Stone (Penguin), his first TALK AND SCREENING book to be written directly in French, Talented French publisher and film direc- as a way to escape the “involuntary tor Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens, founder of self-censorship” he feels when writing P.O.L, disappeared in January 2018. Writer in Persian. The novel portrays a young and translator Frédéric Boyer, Goncourt woman’s attempt to keep her husband prize winner Atiq Rahimi and Medicis prize alive as she rages against men, war, Roland Barthes: Television winner Marie Darrieussecq and guests culture, God. Atiq Rahimi has since Degree Zero will take part in a series of readings of the continued to write about language, po- FILM books he published. Followed by an excep- The Red Collar litical violence, historical belonging and dir. Terry Braun, 1992, 120 mins tional screening, in French, of P.O.L.’s film FILM migration. Television Degree Zero was a special edi- Editeur. dir. Jean Becker, 2018, 83 mins 6pm – £7, conc. £5 tion of BBC’s The Late Show (1990): a 8pm – £7, conc. £5 Adapted from The Red Collar by Prix Gon- in English pithy deconstruction of the legacy of one in English and French court winner Jean-Christophe Rufin, Jean of France’s most influential intellectuals, Becker’s WW1 drama tells the story of a Roland Barthes, whose essay The Death war hero, held prisoner in an abandoned of the Author first appeared in France in barracks under the crushing heat of sum- 1968. The screening is preceded by a mer, and awaiting his interrogation by a cor- selection of interview clips with Jacques rupt judge to the sound of his mangy dog Derrida and Hélène Cixous, as part of Ra- barking night and day. dical Broadcasters Theory On TV. 8.40pm – £11, conc. £9 6.30pm – £7, conc. £5 in French with English subtitles in English with French subtitles Noemi Lefebvre & Eimear Bamako-Paris McBride STAGED READING TALK Ibou, a Malian stowaway hanging on to the landing gear of an Noémi Lefebvre’s Blue Self-Portrait (Les Airbus A320 heading for Paris, is talking to us about his future, Fugitives) is a novel of angst and high and his hopes. About Bamako. About his mother. The Djelibou- farce, caught between contrary impulses gou dump. The Black Autumn Riots. A burning topic of our time, to remember and to ignore. She will be in handled with solemnity and humour. Staged reading of Ian So- conversation with Baileys Prize for Women’s liane’s play Bamako Paris (translated by Felicity Davidson) as fiction winnerEimear McBride, whose part of the Institut français’ Cross-Channel Theatre programme, latest novel is The Lesser Bohemians (Faber). directed by Kimberley Sykes, with Clifford Samuel as Ibou. Chaired by translator Sophie Lewis. Vertical Writing: Fresh Voices 2pm – £7, conc. £5 6.30pm – £7, conc. £5 of French Fiction in English in English and French TALK Pierre Senges is known for his radio adap- The Reader on the 6.27: tation of Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pé- Jean-Paul Didierlaurent cuchet, as well as for for his quirky, poetic TALK Lichtenberg Fragments (Dalkey Archive). ‘All the characters have a close relationship with words - He, Noemi Lefebvre and Quebec-born the words they read, the words they speak and finally the Hélène Frédérick are some of the up and words of love.’ Waterstones Book of the Month in 2016, coming writers of the Verticales list, who The Reader on the 6:27 has been a big success in France share a radical approach to narrative and and in the UK. Its author, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent will be document. Conversations with the writers in conversation with Ann Morgan, from the blog Reading will be accompanied by a series of readings the World, and translator Ros Schwartz. on realism, literary debt and new forms of 5pm – £7, conc. £5 See You Up There writing, introduced by Emmanuel Bouju in English and French FILM (IUF) and Jeanne Guyon (Verticales). dir. Albert Dupontel, 2017, 115 mins 7.30pm – £7, conc. £5 Leïla Slimani Winner of 5 Cesar Awards, Albert Dupontel’s In English and French TALK crime epic is an adaptation from Pierre Goncourt Prize-winning Lullaby (Faber) is a Lemaître’s Goncourt winning novel, Au compulsive, riveting and bravely observed revoir là-haut. In November 1918, Edouard exploration of power, class, race, domesti- Pericourt, a gifted artist, saves the life of city and motherhood. Join its author Leïla Albert Maillard, a humble bookkeeper. The Slimani, a journalist, writer, and a frequent two men have nothing in common apart from commentator on women’s and human their experience of war and their hatred for rights, who is also a prominent advocate for Lieutenant Pradelle. Introduced by translator francophone language and culture. Chaired Frank Wynne. by Kit de Waal. 8.40pm – £11, conc. £9 6.15pm – £7, conc. £5 in French with English subtitles in English and French Proust in Just One Hour Café Philo PERFORMANCE Led by Christian Michel, this special edi- In a special live performance, Véronique tion of the Café Philo will be the occasion Aubouy heroically attempts to sum up the to discuss the legacy of May 68 and its whole story of ’s In Search of commemorations today, starting with the Lost Time for her audience in just an hour. Based on a True Story question: “Was the May 68 movement eli- Fascinated by this extraordinary novel, one FILM tist, anti-populist and anti-democratic?” of France’s favourite books of all time, Véro- dir. Roman Polanski, 2017, 110 mins 10.30am – £2 nique is able to bring to stage the complex Adapted from Delphine de Vigan's In English world and characters’s of this intricate plot: award-winning novel by Roman Polanski whether you have read the book or not, pre- and Olivier Assayas, Based on a True Sto- pare to spend an hour exploring its world. ry blurs the line between reality and fiction. Introduced by Christopher Prendergast Overwhelmed by the success of her latest (King’s College Cambridge). novel, Delphine can’t find the strength to 7.30pm – £7, conc. £5 write. She gradually realises that the smart in English and French and intuitive Elle is not exactly the good friend she claims to be. 8.30pm – £12, conc. £10 in French with English subtitles

Beauty and the Dogs Les Deux Anglaises et le FILM Continent dir. Kaouther Ben Hania, 2017, 100 mins FILM During a student party, Mariam, a young Tu- dir. François Truffaut, 1971, 132 nisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef mins and leaves with him. A long night begins, du- Ten years after Jules et Jim, Truffaut ring which she’ll have to fight for her rights turned his attention back to the love and her dignity in the hands of a gang of dirty triangle and another novel by Hen- cops. Tunisian author and director Kaouther ri-Pierre Roché. This time the setting Ben Hania depicts an edifying portrait of her is a Welsh coastal resort, and the country poisoned by corruption and male protagonists a young French writer chauvinism. and two English sisters. One of Truf- 8.30pm – £12, conc. £10 faut’s most personal and romantic in Arabic with English subtitles films. 2pm – £9, conc. £7 in French with English subtitles Beyond our Walls Oxford Monday 14 May - Laurent Gaudé at the Maison française d'Oxford www.mfo.cnrs.fr

Manchester Tuesday 15 May - Eric Hazan at the Alliance française de Manchester www.afmanchester.org

Edinburgh Tuesday 15 May - Antoine Laurain at the Institut français d'Ecosse www.ifecosse.org.uk

Bristol Wednesday 16 May - Antoine Laurain at the Alliance française de Bristol www.afbristol.org.uk

Bath Thursday 17 May - Antoine Laurain at the Alliance française de Bath Closing Event: Fishbach and www.bath.afbristol.org.uk Vernon Subutex MUSIC AND READINGS An exceptional Music Rendez-Vous with singer Fishbach, combining literary and musical variations around Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes (MacLehose). Awar- ded a Victoire de la musique in 2017, Fish- Book signings bach will be on the cast of the new TV adap- Come and browse through hundreds of books from our on-site booksellers: Both English tation of the book. With translator Frank and French editions will be available. All the authors will be happy to sign after their events. Wynne, she will read extracts from Vernon Subutex and will perform songs inspired by And further… Despentes’ world. Ahead of (and after) the festival, you can find the featured books in our in-house library, La 7pm – £7, conc. £5 Médiathèque, and on our digital library, Culturethèque. Keep up also with the latest literary In English and French news and reviews with the French Books UK blog.

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