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BLACK PEOPLE ARE HAPPY / RENDEZ-VOUS WITH HOME
TORONTO FRENCH BOOK FAIR DECEMBER 10TH-13TH
PHOENIX AT THE SOUND ACADEMY
“Set in post-World War II Paris, but looking back to the beginnings of the modernist movement, Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist is the adventurous tale of Carl- Contents ton Lake’s lifelong treasure hunt in building what has been called “unquestionably the finest collection of research materials on modern French literature and the arts PAGE 3 - Festival anywhere outside Paris.” Drawing on his rich resources of unpublished manuscripts, PAGE 4 - Exhibition the author unveils many hitherto unknown or little-know facts about the lives and PAGE 5 - Music works of such twentieth-century luminaries as Matisse, Ravel, Gertrude Stein, Valéry, Alfred Jarry, Marie Laurencin and H-P Roché (author of Jules et Jim). Lake also gives PAGE 8 - Cinema nostalgic glimpses of Baudelaire and Rimbaud as well as revealing a completely new PAGE 9 - Television view of Toulouse-Lautrec.” * PAGE 10 - Speaking Found, won or given treasure … at these time of parties, it is the occasion for ex- changes, gifts and surprises. Firstly with the Toronto French Book Fair, then with the PAGE 11 - Theatre French touch music – Phoenix and Winner Louise – or contemporary music with PAGE 12 - Books Philippe Leroux. SEASON’S GREETINGS !! PAGE 13 - DVDs
Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel *« Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist » Carlton Lake, A New Directions Book, New-York, 1990. December 2009
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THE TORONTO FRENCH BOOK FAIR DECEMBER 10TH-13TH
regular contributor to a number of French magazines, including Le Point.
Jean-Marie Périer was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1940. He made his name as a celebrity photographer in the swinging sixties. His published works include Enfant gâté (XO, 2001) and Oncle Dan (XO, 2007). He re- cently publised his photographic oeu- vre with Editions du Chêne.
Laure’s Wines ateur wine-tasteur - writes in his This book was sparked by an unex- preface, these men and women are pected meeting of minds between a “wise wizards who know that no com- leading wine specialist and a photog- puter will ever be able to reproduce rapher best known for his candid the sensitive nose of a master cellar- shots of stars from the 1960s! An en- man and his instinct for all that goes chanting homage to the French pas- into shaping a wine - the sap in the sion for wine and the men and wood for the barrels, the direction of women who devote their lives to it. the wind, and the phases of the moon.” Laure Gasparotto is one of the few women to have made a name for her- A unique road trip across France by Laure Gasparotto will give two lec- self in the exclusive world of French two travellers in love with wine. Why tures at the Toronto French Book Fair. wine writing. Jean-Marie Périer is a not join them ? celebrity photographer. Together, Saturday, December 12th - 12pm they set out to explore France’s glori- Laure Gasparotto, born in Rochefort Speaking : “Le Goût et le Pouvoir” ous wine-growing regions and the in 1971, has been a wine writer lives of the men and women who and historian for fifteen years. Sunday, December 13th - 2pm work in the wineyards. They travelled She has written a number of Speaking : “Boire bien et vivre sain” from Burgundy to Bordeaux, from books on the subject, including Le Champagne to Corsica, meeting forty Goût et le Pouvoir (with co-author In french wine-growers on the way, each with Jonathan Nossiter), published by www.salondulivredetoronto.org their lives, families, secrets, and tra- Grasset in 2007. Translation rights for ditions. Their deep-rooted love of the Le Goût et le Pouvoir have been ac- terroir shines through on every page. quired by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux As Gérard Oberlé - himself a keen am- (English). Laure Gasparotto is also a 3 DECEMBER 1ST-18TH AFT SPADINA Exhibition GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON 24 SPADINA ROAD MONDAY TO THURSDAY : 9AM-9PM AND FRIDAY : 9H À 16H 9AM-4PM INVASION AT THE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FREE ADMISSION
INVASION is a work of art com- school, a store or a library, and a prised of hundreds of elements third to be displayed at the Al- scattered throughout the city, liance française. both in public and private spaces. Its individual components are Visual artist Paul Walty is a grad- small paper insect sculptures, uate of U of T and OCAD. For the based on some of the species past 25 years, he has offered commonly found in Ontario. INVA- workshops in various schools in SION is a community arts project Ontario and Quebec. Walty is a created in partnership with member of numerous francophone Gabrielle Roy elementary school, artist centres. He is also the in which artist Paul Walty has in- president of ARCCO (Associa- vited children and adults to work tion des centres d’artistes auto- with him. Each participant must gérés et des collectifs de create three sculptures: one to l’Ontario). set up at home, one to hang in a
ALL THE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE EVENTS ARE ON:
http://www.alliance-francaise.ca/fr/ca_index.php
For the new 2009-2010 season, the Alliance Française in Toronto proposes several series such as Cabaret-Chanson cycle and Classiques de Poche cycle for music, Literary Thursday cycle for books, conferences, cinema and exhibitions. A rich, original and multidisciplinary pro- gram proposed in Toronto, Mississauga and North York.
SAVE THE DATE ! THIERRY AGNONE EXHIBITION UNTIL DECEMBER 23RD AT THE BATA SHOE MUSEUM
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PHOENIX DECEMBER 5TH
Phoenix is a French alternative rock Daft Punk. band started during their childhood by Thomas Mars, Deck D'Arcy, Chris- Following their two singles "If I Ever tian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz Feel Better" and "Too Young", "United" in the suburb of Versailles, in the was released in 2000. same period that produced late-'90s bands such as Air and Daft Punk. The second album, Alphabetical, re- leased in 2004, saw the band reach Phoenix started as the backing band more mainstream success, with the for a remix of Air's "Kelly Watch the singles "Everything Is Everything" and Stars" single. Soon after, Phoenix re- "Run Run Run" reaching some alterna- leased their 2000 debut album tive pop charts. Phoenix then spent time in Berlin United. The name Phoenix was offi- during the summer of 2005, making cially chosen in 1996 when Laurent Following Alphabetical, the band use of Planet Roc studios to produce Brancowitz permanently joined the toured three continents, playing 150 their third album, It's Never Been band after the end of the short-lived dates. This tour was followed up with Like That. band Darlin' he formed with Thomas a live album, Live! Thirty Days Ago, Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de released only 30 days after the end of Early this year, the band were re- Homem-Christo, who became the tour. turning with a new album titled Wolf- gang Amadeus Phoenix, which was released on May 25, 2009. The album was recorded in Paris by Cassius's Philippe Zdar who co-produced and mixed the album.
Their track "1901" was used for the theatrical trailer of the film New York, I Love You and has been fea- tured in commercials for the 2010 Cadillac SRX. "Lisztomania" was used for a Where The Wild Things Are trailer, the season premiere of Cougar Town, an episode from the first season of USA Network's Royal Pains, and was also featured in the season six finale of HBO's Entourage.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH 9PM SOUND ACADEMY 11 POLSON STREET TORONTO 5 PHILIPPE LEROUX : CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC DECEMBER 2ND-6TH
Toronto New Music Projects brings Nuove Synchronie Festival, the Bath French new music icon Philippe Ler- Festival, the Musica Festival, the oux to Toronto. Professor of elec- Stockholm Journées de l’ISCM, the tronic music at IRCAM in Paris, Leroux Barcelona Festival, the Lyon Musiques is a champion of post-spectral music, en Scènes Festival, the Nice Manca having been compared to Gérard Festival, the Bergen Festival, and the Grisey and Tristan Murail. His compo- Berkeley Tempo Festival. sitions explore electroacoustic sounds He received the 1994 “Hervé even when dealing with acoustic Dugardin” award, the award for “Best chamber ensembles, combining spec- New Contemporary Work of the Year” tralism with wit, and sonic stasis with for d’Aller in 1996, and the 2003 virtuosity. SACEM Composers Award.
Philippe Leroux has received com- missions from the French ministry of culture, the Radio-France Philhar- Concert with the conductor M. New Music Ensemble : What is monic Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Brian Current : Spectral Music? Südwestfunk, IRCAM, Les Percussions Wednesday, December 2nd, 12pm Friday, December 4th, 8pm de Strasbourg, the Ensemble Inter- Four Seasons Centre Richard Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 contemporain, the INA-GRM, the Bradshaw Amphitheatre Bloor Street West, Toronto Ictus Ensemble, and the Musica Fes- 145 Queen Street West, Toronto tival, among others. Free admission Workshop with young composers His works are regularly performed Saturday, December 5th at 3:30 pm and broadcast in France and abroad, Speaking about contemporary music and a concert presented by the including hearings at major Festivals at the Alliance Française : Toronto New Music Project and The such as the Donaueschingen Festival, Thursday, December 3rd, 6pm Music Gallery. Radio-France’s Présences festival, the Free admission, in French Sunday, December 6th, 7pm (doors) Roma-Europa Festival, the Milan The Music Gallery, 197 John St.
CABARET-CHANSON VENDREDI 4 DÉCEMBRE
A cabaret-chanson featuring Soozi nation? What have I learned? On life’s Désir, Georges Moustaki, Louise At- Schlanger (guitar, violin, voice), Rox- journey, every stop is a song, an op- taque and Gilles Vigneault, to name anne Potvin (guitar, voice), and Emi- portunity to reflect on what we wit- but a few. lyn Stam (piano, violin, accordion, ness and experience. In the footsteps voice) of the memorable Racines et errance FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4TH cabaret presented last year at AFT, AFT SPADINA First, there is the desire to go find Soozi Schlanger, Roxanne Potvin and GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON out what’s out there. Then there is Emilyn Stam present La Route 24 SPADINA ROAD the escape that the road offers, (en)chantée, a new project at the 7:30PM where one must lose oneself before crossroads between chanson and the- 10 $ finding oneself. Then, there is the atre, with a extraordinary musical FREE ADMISSION FOR STUDENTS end of the road and the inevitable program featuring famous and lesser- AND AFT MEMBERS questions: Have I reached my desti- known songs by Félix Leclerc, Noir
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Winner Louise is a french band com- posed by two artists from Lyon.
They come in North-America with several dates in Canada and the United States of America, and begin in Toronto for a French connection night at Li’ly Lounge.
Friday, December 18th 8pm (doors) Li’ly Lounge Night “french connection” 656 College St. (416) 532-0419
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FRENCH CINEMA AT THE TIFF CINEMATHEQUE
IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI DE GUY DEBORD In Girum Imus Nocte et Consum- imur Igni, Medieval Latin for “we turn in the night and are con- sumed by fire,” is a Hegelian manifesto in which fiery eruptions of youthful rebellion and free love tear up the streets – Saint Germain-des-Prés, in this case. The film, Debord’s last, begins with an excoriating attack on the viewer, an indictment ex- tended to the cinema at large and the world, in keeping with to marry, but when she reveals this to his “Society of the Spectacle.” her mother, she objects on the 1978. France. 100 mins. grounds that Geneviève is too young Thursday, December 3rd, 8:45pm and Guy is not mature or well-estab- lished enough. Then, he lives for Al- Both movies takes place at the LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG geria war. Pregnant, she marries Jackmann Hall DE JACQUES DEMY another man, Roland, a wealthy Art Gallery of Ontario Geneviève, 17, lives with her jeweller. 317 Dundas Street West widowed mother, who owns an um- 1964. France. 90 mins. brella shop in Cherbourg. She and With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Guy, a twenty-year-old auto me- Castelnuovo. chanic, are secretly in love and want Saturday, December 5th, 7pm
SCREENING OF UN CONTE DE NOËL DECEMBER 3RD
UN CONTE DE NOËL BY ARNAUD bers, finally bring peace to their clan? DESPLECHIN 2008. France.150 mins. In French with English subtitles The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrange- ment, self harm, and loss doesn't lead TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3RD, 7PM itself to the idea of a cheerful holi- ONF CINEMATHEQUE day season. But can a Christmastime 150 JOHN ST, TORONTO reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family mem-
8 THE CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE FRENCH CONSULATE IN TORONTO PRESENT OUR Television SELECTION OF TFO FRENCH CINEMA PROGRAM
BOB LE FLAMBEUR BY JEAN- LE DOULOS BY JEAN-PIERRE PIERRE MELVILLE MELVILLE Bob, an old gangster and gambler is Burglar Maurice Faugel has just fin- almost broke, so he decides in spite ished his sentence. He murders of the warnings of a friend, a high of- Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and ficial from the police, to rob a gam- steals the loot of a break-in. He is bling casino in Dauville. Everything is also preparing a house-breaking, and planed exactly, but the police is in- his friend Silien brings him the formed about the planned coup. needed equipment. But Silien is a po- Meanwhile in the Casino Bob starts to lice informer . gamble. France, 1962. 108 mins. With Serge France, 1956. 104 mins. With Roger Reggiani, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Duchesne, Isabelle Corey and Daniel Michel Piccoli. Cauchy. Monday, December 21st, 9pm Monday, December 7th, 9pm Tuesday, December 22nd, 12:30am Tuesday, December 8th, 12:30am Friday, December 11th, 1pm L'ARMÉE DES OMBRES BY JEAN- PIERRE MELVILLE France, 1942, during the occupa- LÉON MORIN, PRÊTRE BY JEAN- tion. Philippe Gerbier, a civil en- PIERRE MELVILLE gineer, is one of the French Barny is a young sexually frustrated Resistance's chiefs. Given away by widow, living with her little girl a traitor, he is interned in a France. She is also a communist mili- camp. He manages to escape, and tant, and one days she enters in a joins his network at Marseilles, church, randomly choses a priest and where he makes the traitor be starts criticizing the religion. executed... France, 1961.125 mins. With Jean- France, 1969. 143 mins. With Lino Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva. Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Monday, December 14th, 9pm Meurisse and Jean-Pierre Cassel. Tuesday, December 15th, 12:30am Monday, December 28th, 9pm Tuesday, December 29th, 12:30am
LE LIEU DU CRIME BY ANDRÉ will change his life TÉCHINÉ Tuesday, December 15th, 9pm A 13 years old boy is really bored in France, 1985. 97 mins. With Wednesday, December 16th, a small town where he lives with his Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Dar- 12:30am mother and grandparents. Someday rieux et Victor Lanoux. Monday, December 21st, 12:30am he meet an escaped, a meeting which 9 APOSTROPHE ON CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS
“APOSTROPHE” ON CLAUDE lying patterns of thought in all forms He was honored by universities LÉVI-STRAUSS of human activity." throughout the world and held the chair of Social Anthropology at the A TV show about the writing of Lévi- When young, Lévi-Strauss organized Collège de France (1959–1982); he Strauss most famous book Tristes expeditions into the French country- was elected as a member of the Tropiques. side and later studied in Paris, Académie Française in 1973. where he went on to teach. He Claude Lévi-Strass was a French an- later traveled and did research in France. 1988. 116 mins. thropologist and ethnologist and has Brazil with his first wife, Dina. Re- been called the "father of modern an- turning to France, he was drafted thropology". into the French army, but after WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH He also was one of the central France was invaded by the Nazis, he AFT SPADINA figures in the structuralist school of escaped to New York, where he 7PM thought, where his ideas reached into taught at The New School for Social FREE ADMISSION fields including the humanities and Research. In 1948, he returned to IN FRENCH philosophy. Structuralism has been France. defined as "the search for the under-
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GLOBAL FOOTBALL : HISTORY, GENDER AND NATION
York University organizes a sympo- Saturday, December 5th Check the website to find out all the sium about relationships between 10am-12pm programmation. There are also many football, history, gender and nations. Yvon Gastaut -- “Les effets de la conferences in English. Several French thinkers will partici- victoire française lors de la Coupe du pate. monde 1998 : un renouveau du pa- http://www.yorku.ca/uhistory/glob triotisme ?” alfootball/ Friday, December 4th Stephane Mourlane – “L’Italie cham- 9:30am-11:15am pionne du monde de football YORK'S UNIVERSITY Clara Palmiste -- “L’équipe française 1982 : un nouveau Risorgimento NORTH YORK CAMPUS de football « Black-Blanc-Beur » et la Italy 1982” 4700 KEELE ST. représentation nationale Black, White TORONTO Brown” 1pm-3pm TEL: 416-736-2100 (EXT. 66925) Pierre Godfrin -- “L’adaptation des David Mokam -- “Football et dé- EMAIL: [email protected] footballeurs brésiliens en France” mocratisation des années 1990 en Afrique : les effets du mondial italien sur le Cameroun” 10 Theatre
CROQUIS URBAINS Texte by Glen Charles Landry when he lived in Montreal and of native Maritime Province, back to his Directed by Glen Charles Landry what he is now living in Toronto. He mother tongue and to his beloved Assistant Director - Catalina Rahaianu tells us about his tangos with women, sea. An angelic whale, in the middle Actor - Manuel Verreydt alcohol bottles and then of a crazy of the urban ocean will help his re- night on magic mushrooms in a tiny birth from his ashes. An artist, Francorien, tells us the rabbit taxi cab, leaping across the story of his life, from his apartment snowy streets of Montreal at light Thursday - November 26th 8:00 pm surrounded by his written words and speed. Friday - November 27th 8:00 pm all that torments him. He tells us He brings us with his words to Saturday - November 28th 8:00 pm about of his life that he has lived Toronto, to a small bar where a Jazz Thursday - December 3rd 8:00 pm since September 11th, the day he was singer makes a piano dance like a Friday - December 4th 1:00 pm severely destabilized and that pushed small dog at the end of a leash, al- Friday - December 4th 8:00 pm him on a journey of understanding his ways under the ever present noise of Saturday - December 5th 8:00 pm identity in this world that he does not planes flying overhead, then to his understand any more. He has a vis- small apartment on night that takes French Theater of Toronto at ceral desire to tell us about his fights, an hallucinatory tone, until, on his 21 College St on the sixth floor. his fears in the urban landscape. He final journey as a passenger of the For reservations please call: tells us his life in small poetic vi- 504 streetcar, where he meets an an- 416.799.9745 gnettes. These moments, these gelic whale through her prophetic memories are prisoners in time, of words. Her words will send him to his BLACK PEOPLE ARE HAPPY / RENDEZ-VOUS WITH HOME
A creation by THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE dazzling combination of interactive TORONTO Haitian storytelling style and tradi- tional dance. Les Noirs sont heureux When exotic gardens flourish at the (Black People are Happy) is a boister- same time. Three ONE-ACT PIECES in ous settling of scores between a black the same evening. A new work partic- married couple and a Russian expert ularly close to our heart that cele- on African studies. Inspired by a piece brates the diversity of the by Courteline, Martin-David Peters French-speaking world. updates a classical comedy of the French theatre, putting it in a Toron- Le Domestique (The Servant) is a tonian context. short one-act monologue where a has very little recollection of her fa- Direction : Sara RÉNÉLIK and Guy black servant exchanges views with ther and looks forward to the trip as MIGNAULT his mistress, a rich, white, narrow- a free vacation. What they find in minded widow. In Rendez-vous Lakay Haiti surprises, confuses, and delights (Rendez-vous with Home), news of them both. Talented solo per- DECEMBER 2ND-12TH their father's death comes to Canada, former/creator Djennie Laguerre BERKELEY STREET THEATRE their mother sends sisters Josephine leads the audience on a journey to 26 RUE BERKELEY and Suzette on a trip to Haiti to bury experience the universal human TORONTO a man they hardly knew. Josephine, beauty of the Haitian people beyond WWW.THEATREFRANCAIS.COM/ whose memories of her father are the voodoo, the colourful clothes, clearer, is riddled with angst. Suzette and the extreme poverty, by using a 11 Books
NOVEMBER 2009 LITERARY FRENCH AWARDS
GRAND PRIX DE L’ACADÉMIE him for the first time when she was chapeau (1996, published in English FRANÇAISE fifteen. She began writing at the age as Down Among the Dead Men, 1997), of 12. She published her first novel, La chair du maître (1997), Dans l'oeil French novelist Pierre Michon won Quant au riche avenir, when she was du cyclone (1999), Le cri des oiseaux The Grand Prix de l’Académie only 17 and won the Prix Femina in fous (2000), and Vers le sud (2006). Française 2009 for his novel Les Onze 2001 for her novel Rosie Carpe. Her He has also written a collection of po- (Verdier, 2009) play Papa doit manger has been etry and screenplays. taken into the repertoire of the He divides his time between Mon- Pierre Michon, born in March 1945 in Comédie française (only alive female tréal and Miami. La Creuse is a French writer who pub- writer to be in the repertoire). lished several novels and short sto- She wrote 23 novels, mostly pub- ries. He first dedicated himself to lished by Minuit and then Gallimard. Prix Décembre theatre before publishing his first novel Small lives (1984), widely re- PRIX MÉDICIS - ROMAN Jean Philippe Toussaint for his novel garded as a masterpiece in contem- La Vérité sur Marie (Minuit). porary French literature. He was Canadian novelist Dany Lafferière winner in 1984 of the Prix France Cul- born in Haiti won the Prix Medicis Prix Renaudot ture for his first novel Vies minus- 2009 for his book L’énigme du retour cules, the Prix de la Ville de Paris in (Grasset). Frédéric Beigbeder for his novel Un 1996 for his body of work, and the Dany Laferrière, novelist, essayist, Roman français (Grasset). Prix Louis Guilloux in June 1997 for La poet, journalist was born in Haiti in Grande Beune. His novels and stories April 1953. He worked as a journalist Prix Femina have been translated into German, during the Duvalier regime, immi- Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Por- grating to Canada in 1978 after a col- Gwenaëlle Aubry for her novel tuguese, Polish, Czech and English. league with whom he was Personne (Le Mercure de France). collaborating on a story was mur- PRIX GONCOURT dered. He settled in Montréal, where Le Goncourt des Lycéens he worked at a variety of low-paying French novelist Marie N’Diaye won jobs while writing his first novel, Jean-Michel Guenassia for his novel the prestigious Prix Goncourt 2009 for Comment fair l'amour avec un Nègre Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes her novel Trois femmes puissantes sans se fatiguer (1985; tr How to (Albin Michel). (Gallimard). Make Love to a Negro, 1987). Other novels were quick to follow: Marie NDiaye, born in June 1967, is Éroshima, L'Odeur du café (Prix de la a French novelist and playwright. Caraïbe, 1991; tr An Aroma of Coffee, Ndiaye was born in Pithiviers and 1993), and Le goût des jeunes filles grew up with her French mother. Her (1992, published in English as Dining father was Senegalese but she met with the Dictator, 1995), Pays sans
12 PLAY WITH US TO WIN 3 BOOKS: “LES ONZE”, “TROIS FEMMES PUISSANTES” ET “L’ÉNIGME DU RETOUR” Offered by the Consulat général de France à Toronto Be the first to answer correctly these questions:
Louis Destouches is an author’s pseudonym. What is the real name of the author ? Which French philosopher has rejected the Nobel price in 1964 ? How many French authors have received the Nobel price ?
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DVDs
BELLAMY BY CLAUDE CHABROL
Police chief Paul Bellamy (Gerard Depardieu) and his wife Françoise are vacationing in Nimes. Their quiet hol- iday is interrupted by the arrival of BELLAMY Paul’s half-brother, Jacques, who has BY CLAUDE a propensity for drinking and decep- CHABROL tion. But family problems are put aside when Bellamy is contacted by AVAILABLE IN DVD Noël Gentil, a man on the run who appears to be responsible for murder. Trusting his intuition, Bellamy em- barks on a private investigation to help Gentil clear his name.
13 JOUEUSE BY CAROLINE BOTTARO
Hélène works as a hotel maid in a small Corsican village. Her humdrum routine is interrupted one day when she notices a young couple playing chess. Fascinated by the game and JOUEUSE BY CAROLINE eager to learn it, Hélène seeks the help of Mister Kröger (Kevin Kline), a BOTTARO doctor in the village who reluctantly AVAILABLE IN DVD agrees to be her mentor. Under his guidance, she prepares for a tourna- ment – but she is not prepared for the passion she will discover and the pro- found effect it will have on her life.
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Offered by Mongrel Media Be among the first to answer correctly this question:
Joueuse by Caroline Bottaro is adapted from a novel by Bertina Henrichs. This novel has the same title (in a feminine version) of a novel by a famous 19th european author. Who is he ?
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