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, , 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

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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 .

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

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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- , 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, , 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 , American ones when it comes to lethal on human behaviour and class structure. malfunctioning lift conspire to complicate the film takes place over one night in love and refined murders, misty docks and their plans. Louis Malle’s mesmerising the months immediately following the smoky rooms. Wed 26 Oct 6.30pm debut feature is a richly atmospheric Liberation, and centres on a young man, Wed 2 Nov 4pm thriller of murder and mistaken identity Diego (Montand), drawn into an ill-starred Season jointly organised with the BFI and unfolding over one restless Parisian night, romance with a beautiful blond. Sight & Sound magazine. The screening on 26 Oct will be followed accompanied by Miles Davis’ legendary by a Q&A with Ginette Vincendeau and soundtrack. Wed 9 Nov 4pm Paul Ryan Sun 13 Nov 4.15pm Thu 27 Oct 8.40pm Sat 29 Oct 4pm Also part of the French Film Festival Fri 4 Nov 4pm

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Classe tous La Vérité La Sirène du Le Samouraï risques The Truth Mississipi FRA/ITA | 1967 | 105 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre FRA | 1960 | 127 mins | dir. Henri-Georges Melville, with , François Périer, Consider All Risks Clouzot, with , Brigitte Bardot, Mississippi Mermaid Nathalie Delon | cert. PG | in French with FRA | 1960 | 110 mins | dir. Claude Sautet, Sami Frey, Marie-José Nat | cert. tbc | in FRA/ITA | 1969 | 123 mins | dir. François EN sub with , Jean-Paul Belmondo, French with EN sub Truffaut, with , Jean-Paul Sandra Milo, Marcel Dalio | cert. 12 Belmondo | cert. 12 | in French with EN sub The story of a solitary hit man increasingly in French with EN sub Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot), ensnared in a web of harassment and a beautiful young woman, is on trial for The lonely owner of a tobacco factory on betrayal, Le Samouraï is the most sombre Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) – a Parisian the murder of her lover Gilbert Tellier the Island of Reunion marries a woman he and poetic of all Melville’s gangster gangster tired of exile in Italy now that (Sami Frey). As the hearings go on, met through a lonely hearts column. But films, and its finale remains one of the the cops are closing in – and his pal Naldi the accused’s true character comes to is the woman he married the same one most stunning yet enigmatic twists ever commit a daring robbery before leaving light. Henri-Georges Clouzot depicts a who replied to his initial advert? Truffaut committed to celluloid. Milan for France. But even when Abel puritanical and hypocritical society that turns this intriguing pulp premise into a reaches Nice, there’s still the matter shows no compassion for the monsters it powerful love story. Sat 3 Dec 6pm of where to hide out and which of his creates. The result is a film of remarkable former partners in crime to trust… Claude precision and ruthless irony in which Thu 1 Dec 8.40pm Sautet’s directional debut is a truly great Brigitte Bardot gives the performance of Sun 4 Dec 4.15pm crime movie deserving of wider renown. a lifetime.

Mon 21 Nov 6.30pm Wed 23 Nov 6.20pm Fri 25 Nov 6.20pm Mon 28 Nov 6.20pm Ciné Lumière UK Iranian Film Festival

Broaden your horizons with the UK Iranian Film Festival and discover some of the most daring films of nowadays. image: The Salesman Among the selection shown at Ciné Lumière don’t miss Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman, winner of the Best Screenplay and Best Actor awards at Cannes this year. We’ll also pay tribute to visionary Iranian director, the late Abbas Kiarostami, and show his masterpiece The Taste of Cherry.

> screenings are listed pp.30-31 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: www.ukiff.org.uk 28 Oct – 2 Nov 10 Ciné Lumière 24th French Film Festival

Not that we are constantly waving the French flag, but it's that time of the year again, when French cinema is From the Land of the The First, the Last celebrated UK-wide and especially at Ciné Lumière on the occasion of the 24th French Film Festival (at Ciné Moon Les Premiers, les Derniers Lumière from 3 to 10 November and nationwide until 11 FRA/BEL | 2016 | 98 mins | dir. , with Albert December). Mal de pierres Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément | cert. tbc | in FRA/BEL | 2016 | 120 mins | dir. , with Marion English & French with EN subs Opening with the haunting From the Land of the Moon, Cotillard, , Alex Brendemühl | cert. tbc | in French which was in the official selection in Cannes this year & Spanish with EN subs Elements of the western and the gothic thriller come and starring the blue-eyed girl and boy of French cinema, together in this darkly absurd conceptual one-off. Cochise and Louis Garrel, you will also find the In this handsomely crafted adaptation of Milena and Gilou, a pair of grizzled bounty hunters, have been stunning animated movie The Red Turtle, an insight on Agus’s novel, Marion Cotillard is Gabrielle, a sensual, hired by a wealthy stranger to obtain a phone that holds Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne’s friendship in Cézanne and I, independent-minded woman. Married to a man she didn’t some critical information. Their search leads them to restored prints of Les Portes de la nuit and La Grande choose and vowed never to love, she becomes ill and is Esther and Willy, a homeless young couple. Vadrouille, along with the excellent documentary on sent away to a cure in the Alps. There, she meets André French cinema by Bertrand Tavernier, the latest Bruno (Louis Garrel), a dashing injured veteran of the Indochina Fri 4 Nov 6.30pm Dumont, Ma Loute, the box office hit Chocolat starring war, who rekindles the passion buried in her. Omar Sy and so much more! Preceded by short film Le Repas dominical, 13 mins Thu 3 Nov 7.30pm Check the full programme on: www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk

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The White Knights A Journey Through Monsieur Chocolat Les Chevaliers blancs French Cinema Chocolat BEL/FRA | 2016 | 112 mins | dir. Joachim Lafosse, with FRA | 2015 | 110 mins | dir. , with Omar Sy, , Louise Bourgoin, Valérie Donzelli, Voyage à travers le cinema français James Thierrée, Clotilde Hesme | cert. tbc | in French with cert. tbc | in French, English & Arabic with EN subs FRA | 2015 | 190 mins | dir. Bertrand Tavernier, with Bertrand EN subs Tavernier, André Marcon | doc | cert. tbc | in French with EN In a war-torn African country, an NGO is officially subs Monsieur Chocolat relates the true story of the first black established to rescue orphans and provide them with a artist of the French stage. From the circus to music halls, new life in France. Led by Jacques (Vincent Lindon), it A must for film lovers, this documentary charts the the duo he formed with the white clown Footit met a huge soon becomes apparent that the organisation’s motives history of French cinema from the 1930s to early 1970s. success in Belle Epoque Paris, before fame, gambling, behind saving the orphans are not always altruistic. Delving into French classics and including interviews money and discrimination wore out their friendship and Provocative, disturbing yet hopeful, the film features from Jean Renoir, Claude Sautet, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Monsieur Chocolat’s career. standout performances and a gripping script. Malle and François Truffaut, Bertrand Tavernier explores the films that inspired him and showcases long lost Sat 5 Nov 8.40pm Fri 4 Nov 8.40pm movies that he has discovered during his researches. Preceded by short film Merci M. Imada, 12 mins Sat 5 Nov 4.30pm

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Cézanne and I Wùlu Rosalie Blum Cézanne et moi FRA/SEN | 2016 | 95 mins | dir. Daouda Coulibaly, with FRA | 2016 | 95 mins | dir. Julien Rappeneau, with Noémie FRA | 2016 | 117 mins | dir. Danièle Thompson, with Ibrahim Koma, Inna Modja, Habib Dembele | cert. tbc | in Lvovsky, Kyan Khojandi, Alice Isaaz | cert. tbc | in French with , Guillaume Gallienne, Alice Pol | cert. tbc | in French & Bambara with EN subs EN subs French with EN subs Young Ladji works hard as a bus driver to get out his Thirty-something Vincent Machot shares his life between This 19th century period drama charts the long friendship older sister Aminata from prostitution. As he doesn’t get his hair salon, his cousin, his cat and his very invasive and eventual fallout between impressionist artist Paul the promotion he was expecting, he decides to contact mother. But one morning, he experiences a powerful Cézanne (Guillaume Galienne), who was born into a Driss, a drug dealer who owes him a favour. His rapid déjà-vu when he meets the gaze of Rosalie Blum, a wealthy family but struggled to make a living as a painter, rise to the top of the drug trafficking underworld, gives grocery shop assistant. Fully intrigued, he begins to and Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet), who came from a him easy access to money, women and a life that he had follow her everywhere… Julien Rappeneau’s enchanting modest family but achieved fame and prosperity as a never dreamt of. But the price to pay is high. An intensely- directorial debut is a warm, witty and impeccably politically-engaged novelist. packed political thriller with the narco-trafficking performed dramedy. underworld at its heart. Sun 6 Nov 4.50pm Mon 7 Nov 6.30pm Sun 6 Nov 7.30pm Preceded by short film Première séance, 10 mins Also part of Film Africa 2016 (closing night screening)

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Souvenir Willy 1er In Bed with Un début BEL/LUX/FRA | 2016 | 90 mins | dir. Bavo FRA | 2016 | 82 mins | dir.s Ludovic Victoria prometteur Defurne, with , Johan Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Leysen, Kévin Azaïs | cert. tbc | in French with Gautier, Hugo P. Thomas, with Daniel Vannet, Victoria FRA | 2015 | 90 mins | dir. Emma Luchini, EN subs Noémie Lvovsky, Romain Léger | cert. tbc | in FRA | 2016 | 90 mins | dir. Justine Triet, with Manu Payet, Veerle Baetens, Zacharie French with EN subs with Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Chasseriaud, Fabrice Luchini | cert. tbc | in Isabelle Huppert stars as a middle-aged Poupaud, Laurent Poitrenaux | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs factory worker whose long-ago brush A 50-year old man moves out of his French with EN subs with fame comes to the fore again when parents' house for the first time after the Disenchanted with love and just out of she begins a romance with a young death of his twin brother and sets up on Victoria (Virginie Efira) is a beautiful rehab, Martin (Manu Payet) decides to stay aspiring boxer. Souvenir benefits from his own in a neighbouring village, trying to Parisian criminal lawyer in her late 30s, at his father’s (Fabrice Luchini) for a few the refreshing presence of Kévin Azaïs forge a place in the big wide world about sex-addict, workaholic, totally self-centred days. There he spends some time with his alongside an Isabelle Huppert willing to which he has very little idea. and struggling to raise her two daughters. 16-year-old brother Gabriel and tries to challenge, explore and expand her artistry. At a friend's wedding, she reconnects put him off love, especially when Mathilde, Tue 8 Nov 6.30pm with her ex-husband David, an old friend, a seductive gambler, comes into the Mon 7 Nov 8.40pm Vincent, and Sam, a former client. A picture and wins the young Gabriel over. Preceded by short film La Nuit américaine comedy à la française critically acclaimed d'Angélique, 7 mins in Cannes. Wed 9 Nov 6.30pm

Tue 8 Nov 8.40pm Preceded by short film La Femme de Rio, 20 mins Preceded by short film Après Suzanne, 15 mins

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Tour de France The Red Turtle Slack Bay FRA | 2016 | 95 mins | dir. Rachid Djaïdani, with Gérard La Tortue rouge Ma Loute Depardieu, Sadek, Louise Grinberg | cert. tbc | in French with JPN/FRA/BEL | 2016 | 80 mins | dir. Michael Dudok de Wit FRA/DEU | 2016 | 122 mins | dir. Bruno Dumont, with Fabrice EN subs cert. tbc | silent Luchini, , Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | cert. tbc | in French & English with EN subs Far’Hook is a 20-year-old promising rapper. When Through the story of a shipwrecked sailor on a tropical he’s run out of Paris by a rival, he hits the road with his island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds, The Red Summer 1910 in the North of France some mysterious producer’s father, Serge (Depardieu), a cantankerous Turtle evokes the main stages of the life of a human disappearances have thrown the region into turmoil and Sunday painter who has decided to travel around various being, paradoxically struck by isolation and freedom. the infamous Inspector Machin and his shrewd assistant seaports thus following in the footsteps of 18th century Presented in Cannes Un Certain Regard selection, it is Malfoy carry out an investigation. Presented in Cannes landscape artist Claude-Joseph Vernet. An incongruous the first international co-production for famed Japanese this year, Bruno Dumont's latest film is an exhilarating, friendship starts between these two opposites. animation house Studio Ghibli. absurdist comedy with a first class French cast.

Wed 9 Nov 9pm Thu 10 Nov 6.50pm Thu 10 Nov 8.40pm

Preceded by short film Ailleurs, 6 mins

FRENCHFILMFIRST Ciné Lumière UK International Jewish Film Festival

To mark the 20th anniversary of the UK International Jewish Film Festival, we are delighted to be hosting a compelling programme of films from France, Belgium and Israel.

Catch these exclusive UK premieres at Ciné Lumière, from biopic Louis-Ferdinand Céline image: The Jews about the brilliant and yet infamous French writer, embodied by Denis Lavant, to 's absurdist comedy The Jews, starring and Dany Boon.

> screenings are listed pp.30-31 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: ukjewishfilm.org 12 – 16 Nov 16 Ciné Lumière Sunday French Classics

L’une chante, l’autre pas Je, tu, il, elle Le Goût des autres One Sings, the Other Doesn’t I, You, He, She The Taste of Others FRA/BEL | 1976 | 120 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Thérèse FRA/BEL | 1976 | 90 mins | dir. Chantal Akerman, with FRA | 2000 | 112 mins | dir. Agnès Jaoui, with , Liotard, Robert Dadiès, Valérie Mairesse, Ali Raffi | cert. 12 Chantal Akerman, , Claire Wauthion | cert. tbc Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin in French with EN sub in French with EN sub cert. 15 | in French with EN sub

Two young girls live in Paris in 1962. One dreams of Avant-garde film-maker Chantal Akerman’s early feature Jaoui’s first outing as director won the 2001 César for becoming a singer, the other looks after her two children. follows the lengthy journey through France and her own Best Film and Jaoui shared the Best Screenplay award They go their separate ways and meet up ten years later mind of a highly-strung woman (Akerman herself) trying with long-time collaborator Bacri. This witty ensemble during a demonstration. Their story illustrates Simone to deal with a break up. piece portrays with insightful humour the divide in class de Beauvoir’s phrase, “One is not born a woman; one manners in a French provincial town. becomes one.” Despite the contrast they remain friends Sun 23 Oct 2pm and share in the various dramas of each other’s lives, in Sun 30 Oct 2pm the process affirming their different female identities. Followed by a Ciné Salon with Nick Walker

Sun 2 Oct 2pm

Followed by a Ciné Salon with Nick Walker

Our Sunday French Classics season is dedicated to female directors Ciné Lumière Classics New Prints

La Grande Vénus Beauté The South Napoléon Vadrouille (Institut) El Sur FRA | 1927 | 330 mins | dir. Abel Gance, ESP/FRA | 1983 | 95 mins | dir. Víctor Erice, with Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! Venus Beauty Salon with Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Edmond Van Daële, Antonin Artaud | cert. tbc FRA/UK | 1966 | 132 mins | dir. Gérard Oury, FRA | 1999 | 105 mins | dir. Tonie Marshall, Iciar Bollain | cert.PG | in Spanish with EN silent | new print with , Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook with , Mathilde Seigner, Audrey subs | new print cert. PG | in French, English & German with Tautou, Bulle Ogier | cert. 15 | in French with Abel Gance’s extraordinary depiction of the EN subs | new print EN sub Growing up in a North Spanish town, rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is a landmark Estrella is fascinated by the past of in cinema history, lauded by directors such An all-time box-office champion in France, Angèle works in a local beauty salon. She her beloved father, who was raised in as Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick, La Grande Vadrouille is back on screen lives alone, having made up her mind to the south. Víctor Erice’s melancholic but a film that few audiences have had on a newly restored print to celebrate its say goodbye to romantic love once and masterpiece on the passing of time the opportunity to experience. Featuring 50th anniversary. This hilarious comedy, for all. By chance, she meets a man who and loss has been selected by Pedro ground-breaking technical innovations, co-scripted by Gérard Oury and Danielle falls madly in love with her… A tender and Almodovar among the films that inspired rich tints and tones, an epic running time Thompson, casts one of the most beloved uplifting comedy with a first-class French him, as part of his retrospective at the BFI. of 5 ½ hours and restored in all its glory, duos – Bourvil and Louis De Funès – as cast. A true delight. this is a must-see for all cinephiles. two ordinary Frenchmen helping the Wed 19 Oct 6.30pm crew of a Royal Air Force bomber, shot Sun 13 Nov 2pm Thu 20 Oct 4pm Sun 27 Nov 2pm down over Paris, make their way through Sat 22 Oct 4pm Wed 30 Nov 2pm German-occupied France. Including 3 intervals Sun 6 Nov 2pm Thu 10 Nov 4pm

As Part of the French Film Festival 17 18 Kids & Families

This Autumn, the kids are in for a treat with our programme of screenings, workshops, tales and last but not least, the 19th edition of the South Ken Kids Festival!

Every Saturday 2pm and Sunday 11am CinéKids Whether your kids want to travel a Long Way North or listen to The Song of the Sea, venture out in the Screenings woods with The Gruffalo and a big friendly giant (The BFG) or get up to mischief with Sophie’s Misfortunes, our films will enchant them!

Tales, workshops, games Kids and more for kids from 0 to 12 years old: everything is Activities on the menu to trigger their imagination. Highlights include workshops with illustrators Barroux and Michel Escoffier. Ready, Steady, Draw!

> all Kids & Families activities are listed pp. 30-31 > see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website: www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families image: Song of the Sea South Ken Kids Festival Special Treats

We are especially honoured by the presence of Quentin The Line-Up Blake, who has been the South Ken Kids Festival’s patron A World of Books since the word go. He will be at the Institut français The South Ken Kids Festival is back for its 19th for the festival launch event: Quentin Blake’s French As bilingual as ever, the festival will edition, from 14 to 20 November. Embark on yet Collection, a special musical and poetic evening paying have a big European focus this year another exciting literary adventure with guest tribute to the author’s longstanding connection with and will be full of translation activitieses. authors and illustrators from both sides of French culture. The festival will then close with a special Running throughout the programme, the Channel! Quentin Blake, Dorothée de screening of The BFG, to celebrate the 100th anniversary there will be a special strand on Monfreid, Axel Scheffler, Serge Bloch, Bridget of Roald Dahl. migrations thanks to Barroux, our Marzo, Timothée de Fombelle ... In total, 24 illustrator in residence for 2016 and to writers and illustrators will be our guests at the Institut Our exciting Drawing Duos and live drawing our guests from four continents. français and in partner schools. events are back too! Dorothée de Monfreid will be joining Axel Scheffler on stage, and This will include writing and translation workshops, a They will be telling stories, creating, performing and David Litchfield sparring with Barroux. nationwide drawing competition and a multilingual Slam sharing their tips and tricks with parents and children of Other rare drawing events include live Poetry Contest. The series will culminate on stage with a all ages, with meet the artist events, exciting workshops, illustration and music jam Impro!, led by dramatic realisation of Barroux’s powerful graphic novel and film screenings to delight schools and families alike. jazz musician Itamar Borochov, and French Alpha, launched at the Edinburgh International Book illustrator Serge Bloch’s Big Adventure Of A Little Line. Festival.

For full details of the programme or to book an event, visit our website: www.southkenkidsfestival.co.uk

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Café Philo Reading Group Alpha: The Impro! Open to everyone interested in discussing The Reading Group is back for a brand Performance Music & Live Drawing Impro philosophical issues, the Institut’s Café new season. Join our unique bilingual Philo meets every Saturday in the salons. literary discussion as we discover carefully A dramatic realisation of our illustrator Feast your eyes and ears in this chosen and acclaimed French authors. in residence Barroux’s powerful graphic unforgettable live drawing jam session, Sat 1 & 22 Oct, 5 & 26 Nov | in French novel Alpha, launched at the Edinburgh bringing music and illustration together Sat 8, 15 & 29 Oct, 12 Nov | in English Thu 13 Oct | Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles International Book Festival. With to the sound of an intrepid trumpet. In 10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 Baudelaire (1857) translator Sarah Ardizzone and actor this magical live jazz event, fabulous contact: [email protected] Thierry Lawson, Barroux tells the story of trumpet player Itamar Borochov will be Thu 17 Nov | Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza a West African migrant who leaves Ivory improvising on stage while the South Ken Please note that on Sat 1 Oct, the Café Mujila (2014) Coast to find his family in France. Thus Kids Festival illustrators rise up to fill the Philo will take place at 2pm at the unfolds a tragic, unforgettable tale about giant page. Language Centre, 13 Cromwell Place, 7.00pm | in English and (easy) French the hopes and perils of migration. SW7 2JN £5, members £3, including a glass of wine Sat 19 Nov 5.30pm Fri 18 Nov 6.30pm in English | for kids (5+) and families | £7 in English | for teens (13+) and families | £8 As part of the South Ken Kids Festival As part of the South Ken Kids Festival (p.19) (p.19) DOCUMEN OPEN PERFORM -TARIES A NEW -ING ARTS WINDOW

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Marguerite Humeau: FOX2P Artes Mundi 7 – Neïl Beloufa EFG London Jazz Festival Patrick Timsit – On ne peut pas rire de tout Nottingham Contemporary in partnership As part of this exhibition, Neil Beloufa will The capital's biggest music festival, and with the Palais de Tokyo presents French present, for the first time in Wales, the one of the most important jazz festivals in artist Marguerite Humeau’s first major critically acclaimed video and installation the world, returns with leading lights and solo exhibition in the UK exploring travels piece World Domination, first shown at the rising stars including fusionist St Germain, through different worlds and times. Palais de Tokyo in 2012. Emile Parisien & Vincent Peirani, trumpeter Itamar Brochov and Eve Risser. 15 Oct – 8 Jan Nottingham www.artesmundi.org Contemporary www.efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk 21 Oct – 2 Apr Artes Mundi An Evening with Tahar Ben Jelloun 11 – 20 Nov Various venues Gasp! by Cie Circoncentrique Caravan Palace Can one really laugh about everything? This question has been on everyone's lips for the last year. French actor and comedian Patrick Timsit takes it to the stage for a thoroughly brilliant and witty show.

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Part of BFI London Wed 5 Oct Mon 10 Oct Hedi Fri 21 Oct Fri 28 Oct Film Festival (p.6) The First Monday in May One Week and a Day 3.45pm | film | p.6 Kalinka I, Daniel Blake 4pm, 8.40pm | film | p.3 6.15pm | film | p.6 Lost in Paris 4.30pm | film | p.3 4pm, 6.15pm | film | p.4 Part of UK Iranian Courted The Death of Louis XIV 6.30pm | film | p.6 I, Daniel Blake The Salesman Film Festival (p.9) 6.30pm | film | p.3 8.45pm | film | p.6 The Lives of Thérèse 6.40pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4 8.40pm | film | p.9 8.45pm | film | p.6 Sat 1 Oct Thu 6 Oct Tue 11 Oct Sat 22 Oct Sat 29 Oct Baby Tales Heal the Living Drawing Workshop with Sun 16 Oct Café Philo Café Philo 11am | kids | p.18 6.15pm | film | p.6 Barroux Staying Vertical 10.30am | talk | p.20 10.30am | talk | p.20 4pm | kids | p.18 1pm | film | p.6 Café Philo Into the Forest Fresh Out of School Le Gruffalo 2pm | talk | p.20 8.45pm | film | p.6 The Ornithologist Nocturnal Animals 2pm | film/kids | p.18 2pm | film/kids | p.18 6pm | film | p.6 3.30pm | film | p.6 Finding Dory The South Game Lab 2pm | film/kids | p.18 Fri 7 Oct Manchester by the Sea Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song 4pm | film | p.17 2.30pm | kids | p.18 A Woman’s Life 8.45pm | film | p.6 While I Wait I, Daniel Blake Ascenseur pour l’échafaud Game Lab 6pm | film | p.6 2.30pm | kids | p.18 6.15pm | film | p.6 6.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 4pm | film | p.7 Wed 12 Oct Le Ciel Flamand Being 17 I, Daniel Blake The First Monday in May 8.45pm | film | p.6 Baby Comptines Sun 23 Oct 4pm, 6.30pm | film | p.3 8.45pm | film | p.6 6.15pm | film | p.4 11am | kids | p.18 Le Gruffalo Yahya Didn’t Keep Quiet Courted Sat 8 Oct e-Workshop Mon 17 Oct 11am | film/kids | p.18 8.40pm | film | p.3 8.40pm | film | p.9 Café Philo 4pm | kids | p.18 Kalinka Je, tu, il, elle 10.30am | talk | p.20 6.30pm | film | p.3 2pm | film | p.16 Sun 2 Oct The Reunion Sun 30 Oct Kids Tales 6.15pm | film | p.6 Courted I, Daniel Blake Long Way North Finding Dory 11am | kids | p.18 11am | film/kids | p.18 Smoke and Mirrors 8.40pm | film | p.3 4pm, 6.15pm | film | p.4 11am | film/kids | p.18 Fanny’s Journey 8.45pm | film | p.6 Kalinka Le Goût des autres L’une chante, l’autre pas 12.30pm | film | p.6 Tue 18 Oct 2pm | film | p.16 8.30pm | film | p.3 2pm | film | p.16 Thu 13 Oct Courted Farouk, Besieged Like Me The Taste of Cherry The Clan 3pm | film | p.6 The Son of Joseph 6.30pm | film | p.3 Mon 24 Oct 4.30pm | film 4.20pm | film | p.9 6.15pm | film | p.6 Kalinka I, Daniel Blake My Life as a Courgette Inadaptable The First Monday in May 6pm | film | p.6 Reading Group 8.40pm | film | p.3 6.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 6.40pm | film | p.3 6.50pm | film | p.9 Barakah Meets Barakah 7pm | talk | p.20 Courted Wed 19 Oct Tue 25 Oct I, Daniel Blake 8.30pm | film | p.6 After the Storm 8.45pm | film | p.4 8.40pm | film | p.3 9pm | film | p.6 Courted I, Daniel Blake 4pm | film | p.3 6.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 Sun 9 Oct Mon 31 Oct Mon 3 Oct Ma’Rosa Fri 14 Oct The South The First Monday in May 6.30pm | film | p.17 Wed 26 Oct I, Daniel Blake 12.45pm | film | p.6 Planetarium 6.20pm | film | p.4 6.30pm | film | p.3 6.15pm | film | p.6 Baby Games The Revolution Won’t Be Kalinka 11am | kids | p.18 Courted 8.40pm | film | p.3 Lantouri Televised After Love 8.30pm | film | p.9 8.40pm | film | p.3 3.30pm | film | p.6 8.45pm | film | p.4 I, Daniel Blake Thu 20 Oct 4pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4 Tue 4 Oct Wolf and Sheep 6.15pm | film | p.6 Sat 15 Oct The South La Chienne + Talk Le Book Club Café Philo 4pm | film | p.17 6.30pm | film | p.7 4pm | kids | p.18 The Student 10.30am | talk | p.20 Kalinka 8.45pm | film | p.6 Thu 27 Oct Courted Their Finest 6.30pm | film | p.3 6.30pm | film | p.3 1pm | film | p.6 I, Daniel Blake Courted 4pm, 6.30pm | film | p.4 The First Monday in May Game Lab 8.40pm | film | p.3 8.40pm | film | p.3 2.30pm | kids | p.18 Ascenseur pour l’échafaud 8.40pm | film | p.7 November

Part of UK Jewish Sun 6 Nov Sat 12 Nov Thu 17 Nov Tue 22 Nov A Women’s Revenge Film Festival (p.15) Zarafa Café Philo South Ken Kids Festival* After Love 6.30pm | film | p.5 11am | film/kids | p.18 10.30am | talk | p.20 4.30pm – 7pm | kids | p.19 6.30pm | film | p.4 After Love 8.50pm | film | p.4 Tue 1 Nov La Grande Vadrouille Baby Tales Reading Group The Innocents 2pm | film | p.17 11am | kids | p.18 7pm | talk | p.20 8.40pm | film | p.4 Wednesday Sun 27 Nov 7pm | film | p.9 Cézanne and I Zarafa The Innocents 4.50pm | film | p.12 2pm | film/kids | p.18 8.30pm | film | p.4 Wed 23 Nov Song of the Sea I, Daniel Blake Baby Games 11am | film/kids | p.18 9pm | film | p.4 Wùlu Game Lab 11am | kids | p.18 2.30pm | kids | p.18 Fri 18 Nov Napoléon 7.30pm | film | p.12 2pm | film | p.17 Wed 2 Nov South Ken Kids Festival* e-Workshop The Innocents 10.30am – 7.30pm | kids | p.19 4pm | kids | p.18 Drawing Workshop Mon 7 Nov 4pm, 6.30pm | film | p.4 The Innocents Alpha: The Performance La Vérité 8.30pm | film | p.4 3.30pm | kids | p.18 Rosalie Blum My Shortest Love Affair 6.30pm | film | p.12 6.30pm | performance | p.20 6.20pm | film | p.8 La Chienne 8.50pm | film | p.15 Mon 28 Nov 4pm | film | p.7 Souvenir After Love The Innocents 8.40pm | film | p.4 8.50pm | film | p.4 La Vérité I, Daniel Blake 8.40pm | film | p.13 Sun 13 Nov 6.20pm | film | p.8 6.30pm | film | p.4 Song of the Sea Tue 8 Nov 11am | film/kids | p.18 Sat 19 Nov Thu 24 Nov After Love Daughter South Ken Kids Festival* The Innocents 8.50pm | film | p.4 Le Book Club Vénus beauté (Institut) 8.40pm | film | p.9 4pm | kids | p.18 10am – 6.30pm | kids | p.19 6.20pm | film | p.4 2pm | film | p.17 Tue 29 Nov April and the Extraordinary After Love Thu 3 Nov Willy 1er Les Portes de la nuit The British in the French 6.30pm | film | p.13 World 8.50pm | film | p.4 I, Daniel Blake 4.15pm | film | p.7 Resistance 4pm | film | p.4 10am | film/kids | p.18 In Bed with Victoria Sand Storm Fri 25 Nov 6.30pm | film | p.5 8.40pm | film | p.13 Impro! From the Land of the Moon 6.30pm | film | p.15 After Love The Innocents 7.30pm | film | p.10 5.30pm | performance | p.20 Wed 9 Nov The Innocents 4pm | film | p.4 8.40pm | film | p.4 8.30pm | film | p.4 The Innocents Fri 4 Nov Baby Comptines 8.40pm | film | p.4 Classe tous risques 11am | kids | p.18 6.20pm | film | p.8 Wed 30 Nov Ascenseur pour l’échafaud Mon 14 Nov Napoléon Sun 20 Nov Others Will Love the Things 4pm | film | p.7 Les Portes de la nuit The Innocents 2pm | film | p.17 The First, The Last 4pm | film | p.7 6.15pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 South Ken Kids Festival* I Have Loved 10am – 6pm | kids | p.19 8.40pm | film | p.5 Drawing Workshop 6.30pm | film | p.10 Un début prometteur 3.30pm | kids | p.18 The White Knights 6.30pm | film | p.13 Tue 15 Nov Stick Man 10.30am | film/kids | p.18 Sat 26 Nov After Love 8.40pm | film | p.11 Tour de France The Innocents 8.30pm | film | p.4 6.15pm | film | p.4 Café Philo 9pm | film | p.14 Sophie's Misfortunes 10.30am | talk | p.20 Sat 5 Nov The Jews 2pm | film/kids | p.18 Café Philo Thu 10 Nov 8.40pm | film | p.15 Kids Tales The BFG 11am | kids | p.18 10.30am | talk | p.20 La Grande Vadrouille 4.30pm | film/kids | p.18 4pm | film | p.17 Wed 16 Nov La Chouette entre veille et Long Way North The Innocents 2pm | film/kids | p.18 The Red Turtle The Innocents 8pm | film | p.4 sommeil 4pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4 2pm | film/kids | p.18 A Journey Through French 6.50pm | film | p.14 Cinema Slack Bay Louis-Ferdinand Céline Mon 21 Nov Game Lab 4.30pm | film | p.11 8.40pm | film | p.14 6.30pm | film | p.15 Classe tous risques 2.30pm | kids | p.18 *Check out the 6.30pm | film | p.8 SKKF website for Monsieur Chocolat The Innocents 8.40pm | film | p.11 Fri 11 Nov After Love 4pm | film | p.4 the full programme The Innocents 8.40pm | film | p.4 southkenkidsfestival.co.uk 4pm, 6.30pm, 8.50pm | film p.4 31 © Michaël Escoffie © Michaël Escoffier, Romain South Ken e © Barroux, 2016 / Egmont Publishin © Barroux, 2016 / Egmont Publishing e m Welco Welcome 20 bonnes raisons d’aller à l’école Kids Festival 20 bonnes raisons d’aller à l’école 14-20 Nov 2016 © Dorothée de Monfreid, 2015 / L’école des loisirs. - Poster Design E © Dorothée de Monfreid, 2015 / L’école des loisirs. - Poster Design Eric Doxat s toutous

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