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Le Programme October – November 2016 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3–17 Kids & Families 18 South Ken Kids Festival 19 Talks & Performances 20 60th BFI London Film Festival I, Daniel Blake French Noir Season 6 – 16 Oct 21 Oct – 3 Nov 26 Oct – 4 Dec p.6 p.4 pp.7-8 We Support 22 We Recommend 22–23 La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 24 French Courses 25 General Information 28–31 24th French Film Festival Impro! Jérôme Bel – Gala 3 – 10 Nov 19 Nov 18 – 19 Oct pp.10-14 p.20 p.22 Sadler's Wells front cover image: Slack Bay by Bruno Dumont Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases The First Monday in May Courted Kalinka USA | 2016 | 90 mins | dir. Andrew Rossi, with Andrew Bolton, L'Hermine Au nom de ma fille Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Anna Wintour | cert. 12A FRA | 2015 | 98 mins | dir. Christian Vincent, with Fabrice FRA/GER | 2016 | 87 mins | dir. Vincent Garenq, with Daniel in English Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Eva Lallier | cert. 12A | in Auteuil, Sebastian Koch, Marie-Josée Croze | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs French & German with EN subs Following the creation of “China: Through The Looking Glass” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 2015 Michel Racine (Fabrice Luchini) is a feared judge, known In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his Met Gala, The First Monday in May reignites the debate for being particularly severe in his sentences. But his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation over whether fashion can and should be viewed as art. whole world is turned upside down when he finds himself with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced Andrew Rossi follows Anna Wintour, editor in chief at face-to-face with the woman he was in love with 6 years that Kalinka was raped and murdered by her stepfather, Vogue, and Andrew Bolton, curator of the exhibition, as earlier, as a member of the jury in a murder trial. Dr Dieter Krombach, André dedicates his life to the case, they prepare for an evening they hope will take the worlds fighting for justice and the imprisonment of Krombach. of art and fashion by storm. Sat 1 Oct 8.40pm Mon 17 Oct 8.40pm Sun 2 Oct 8.40pm Tue 18 Oct 6.30pm Mon 17 Oct 6.30pm Thu 20 Oct 6.30pm Sat 1 Oct 4pm, 6.30pm Mon 3 Oct 8.40pm Wed 19 Oct 4pm Tue 18 Oct 8.40pm Fri 21 Oct 4.30pm Sun 2 Oct 6.40pm Tue 4 Oct 6.30pm Thu 20 Oct 8.40pm Wed 19 Oct 8.40pm Sun 23 Oct 8.30pm Mon 3 Oct 6.30pm Wed 5 Oct 6.30pm Tue 4 Oct 8.40pm Wed 5 Oct 4pm, 8.40pm FRENCHFILMFIRST FRENCHFILMFIRST 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases I, Daniel Blake The Innocents After Love UK/FRA/BEL | 2016 | 100 mins | dir. Ken Loach, with Dave Les Innocentes L’Economie du couple Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy | cert. 15 | in English FRA/POL | 2016 | 115 mins | dir. Anne Fontaine, with Lou de FRA/BEL | 2016 | 100 mins | dir. Joachim Lafosse, with Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne | cert. Bérénice Béjo, Cédric Kahn | cert. tbc | in French with EN Daniel Blake, a 59-year-old carpenter, is recovering from tbc | in French, Polish & Russian with EN subs subs a heart attack and seeking help from the State for the first time. He crosses paths with Katie, a single mother Poland, 1945. Mathilde (Lou de Laâge, The Wait), a After 15 years together, Marie and Boris decide to get a of two. Together they navigate their way through welfare young French doctor for the Red Cross, is on a mission divorce. Unable to afford another place, Boris refuses bureaucracy and the impersonal British benefits system. to help World War II survivors. When a nun seeks for to leave the house, claiming his half although Marie Deeply moving, I, Daniel Blake won Ken Loach his second her help, she is brought to a convent where several bought it on her own. Cohabitation gets harder every Palme d’Or this year in Cannes. pregnant sisters are concealed from past barbaries of the day. Disconcertingly truthful, After Love benefits from the Soviet soldiers, unable to reconcile their faith with their wonderful, accute performances of its two leads. Fri 21 Oct 6.40pm, 8.50pm Sat 29 Oct 6.15pm pregnancy. Sat 22 Oct 6.30pm, 8.40pm Sun 30 Oct 8.45pm Sun 23 Oct 4pm, 6.15pm Mon 31 Oct 6.20pm Fri 11 Nov 4pm, 6.30pm Sun 20 Nov 8pm Fri 18 Nov 8.40pm Sat 26 Nov 8.50pm Mon 24 Oct 6.30pm, 8.40pm Tue 1 Nov 9pm 8.50pm Tue 22 Nov 8.40pm Mon 21 Nov 8.40pm Mon 28 Nov 8.50pm Tue 25 Oct 6.30pm, 8.40pm Wed 2 Nov 6.30pm Sat 12 Nov 4pm, 6.30pm Wed 23 Nov 8.50pm Tue 22 Nov 6.30pm Wed 30 Nov 8.30pm Wed 26 Oct 4pm, 8.50pm Thu 3 Nov 4pm Sun 13 Nov 8.30pm Thu 24 Nov 6.20pm Thu 24 Nov 8.50pm Thu 1 Dec 6.30pm Thu 27 Oct 4pm, 6.30pm Mon 14 Nov 6.15pm, 8.40pm Sat 26 Nov 4pm Fri 25 Nov 4pm Fri 28 Oct 4pm, 6.15pm Tue 15 Nov 6.15pm Sun 27 Nov 8.30pm Wed 16 Nov 4pm, 8.50pm Tue 29 Nov 8.40pm Thu 17 Nov 8.30pm Thu 1 Dec 4pm Sat 19 Nov 8.40pm Ciné Lumière Special Screenings Others Will Love the A Woman’s Revenge The British in the Things I Have Loved A Vinganca de uma Mulher French Resistance, POR | 2011 | 100 mins | dir. Rita Azevedo Gomes, with João Bénard da Costa: Outros amarão as coisas que eu Fernando Rodrigues, Duarte Martins, Francisco Nascimento an Irregular War amei cert. tbc | in Portuguese with EN subs POR | 2014 | 75 mins | dir. Manuel Mozos | doc | cert. tbc | in Les Anglais dans la Résistance, une guerre irrégulière Portuguese with EN subs Roberto is an unmoved, inscrutable, enigmatic man. FRA | 2012 | 52 mins | dir. Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac & Some call him a dandy, others a libertine, but truth is Laurène L’Allinec | cert. tbc | in French & English without From baroque painting to Borges literature, Others Will that Roberto feels the intimate deep tedium of those subs Love the Things I have Loved is the spellbinding journal of who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. Yet a universal man, João Bénard da Costa, director of the one evening, he has an overwhelming encounter with Using unpublished British and French archives, this Portuguese Cinematheque for 18 years but also an actor, a woman… A Woman’s Revenge is a free adaptation of film relates the major role played by the British secret cinephile, an inspired writer and a creative reader. This the homonymous short story from "Les Diaboliques" by service: the Special Operations Executive (SOE), in French unusual biography through the things he most loved, Barbey D'Aurevilly. Resistance, from 1940 on. Supported by Churchill, the feared or contemplated is an ingenious pretext to render SOE dispatched several hundred clandestine agents in homage to cinema. Sat 26 Nov 6.30pm occupied France. Fri 25 Nov 8.40pm As part of Utopia, the UK Portuguese Film Festival Tue 29 Nov 6.30pm | £5 As part of Utopia, the UK Portuguese Film Festival Followed by a Q&A with director Laurène L’Allinec and historian Julian Jackson 05 06 Ciné Lumière 60th BFI London Film Festival We are bubbling over to be welcoming back the biggest cinema showcase in town, the 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express®! Some of the most anticipated French movies, by the likes of André Téchiné, Katell Quillévéré or Stéphane Brizé, will be shown alongside a selection of European and world cinema, thus making the screen of Ciné Lumière expand beyond borders and offering audiences a total immersion into cinema. > screenings are listed p.30 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: www.bfi.org.uk/lff 6 – 16 Oct image: Planetarium Ciné Lumière French Noir Season The doors of night are being opened wide at Ciné Lumière this autumn. Together La Chienne Ascenseur pour Les Portes de la with Ginette Vincendeau (Professor in Film Studies at King’s College and contributor FRA | 1931 | 100 mins | dir. Jean Renoir, with l’échafaud nuit to Sight & Sound) we have picked seven Michel Simon, Janie Marèze | cert. tbc classics that best exemplify the film noir à in French with EN sub Lift to the Scaffold Gates of the Night la française. FRA | 1958 | 88 mins | dir. Louis Malle, with FRA | 1946 | 106 mins | dir. Marcel Carné, Mr Legrand, a mild-mannered middle- Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges dial. Jacques Prévert, with Pierre Brasseur, From Marcel Carné’s Les Portes de la nuit aged cashier, uses painting as a means Poujouly | cert. PG | in French with EN sub Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie (here in a newly restored version) to Louis of escape from his shrewish wife. He Nattier | cert.tbc | in French with EN sub Malle’s mythical Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, falls madly in love with “femme fatale” Florence and her ex-paratrooper lover new print these capital movies make it clear that Lulu, setting her up in a flat. An incisive, Julien scheme to murder her husband by French masters are every bit as good as provocative and excoriating commentary faking a suicide, but a forgotten rope and A haunting evocation of nocturnal Paris, American ones when it comes to lethal on human behaviour and class structure.