Bulletin Culturel September 2011 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL JAKOB+MACFARLANE © Alexandre Tabaste For 35 years, September in Toronto has opened with its International Film Festival, one of the most important festivals worldwide – and 2011 is no exception, with 300 films being programmed for this 10-day event. Contents French creation is definitely one of the highlights this year, with more than thirty features and shorts being showcased in the festival’s numerous sections. You will - Festivals get a chance to discover the most recent films of Christophe Honoré, Matthieu PAGE 3 Kassovitz, Cédric Kahn or Mia Hansen-Love – and to enjoy the performances of PAGE 6 - Visual Arts actors demonstrating the vibrancy of French cinema, from Catherine Deneuve to - Music Leïla Bekhti, from Jean Dujardin to Mathieu Amalric, and many more. PAGE 7 PAGE 7 - Lectures This month also gives you the opportunity to discover another dimension of French creativity with the architects Dominique Jakob and Duncan MacFarlane, who will PAGE 9 - Professionals present their innovative and luminous works during lectures in Waterloo and Toronto. Wishing French culture lovers all the best for this “back-to-school” time! Claire Le Masne, Cultural Attaché SEPTEMBER 2011 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 Editor : Claire Le Masne Cinema & TV : Marie Herault-Delanoë Layout & Literature : David Gressot 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TIFF TIFF TIFF TIFF DANIEL & OPHELIA 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 TIFF TIFF TIFF TIFF TIFF TIFF TIFF 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 JAKOB+ JAKOB+ MACFARLANE MACFARLANE EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES 26 27 28 29 30 2 Festivals TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 8-18 The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the most famous festival and market: during 10 days, cinephiles, filmmakers, professionals and journalists from all over the world are gathered to watch the best of international cinema, from established directors to new talents. This year, amongst the 33 French films that will be screened: BELOVED GALA CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ, FRANCE, 2011, 130MN WITH CATHERINE DENEUVE, CHIARA MASTROIANI, LUDIVINE SAGNIER From Paris in the sixties to 21st-century London, Madeleine and her daughter Vera waltz in and out of the lives of the men they love. But not every era allows us to love blithely and lightheartedly. How are we to resist the sands of time that attack our most heartfelt sentiments? A BETTER LIFE SPECIAL PRESENTATION CÉDRIC KAHN, FRANCE/ CANADA, 2011, 105MN WITH GUILLAUME CANET, LEÏLA BEKHTI Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, fall deeply in love and decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. But they soon find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. THE ARTIST SPECIAL PRESENTATION MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS, FRANCE, 2011, 100MN WITH JEAN DUJARDIN, BÉRÉNICE BEJO Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. SPECIAL PRESENTATION CHICKEN WITH PLUMS MARJANE SATRAPI & VINCENT PARONNAUD, FRANCE/ALLEMAGNE/BELGIQUE, 2011, 91MN WITH MATHIEU AMALRIC, JAMEL DEBBOUZE, EDOUARD BAER 1958, Tehran. Celebrated violinist Nasser Ali Khan discovers that his prized violin has been broken. He’s unable to replace it, can’t conceive of life without the consolation of music, and soon finds that he can’t get out of bed, where he lies locked both in dreams about his childhood and projections of his own children’s futures. 3 Festivals TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 8-18 SPECIAL PRESENTATION REBELLION MATHIEU KASSOVITZ, FRANCE, 2011, 135MN WITH MATHIEU KASSOVITZ, IABE LAPACAS, MALIK ZIDI A group of local Kanak separatists attack a French police post, killing three gendarmes and taking another twenty-six hostage. The French respond by sending their elite counterterrorism group, which operate under Captain Philippe Legorjus. He is determined to negotiate a peaceful and bloodless resolution to the crisis, but it soon becomes evident that numerous forces threaten to undermine him. An election in France that pits left against right, Mitterrand against Chirac, means that the hostage crisis half a world away gets turned into a political football. DISCOVERY J'AIME REGARDER LES FILLES FRÉDÉRIC LOUF, FRANCE, 2011, 92MN WITH PIERRE NINEY, LOU DE LAÂGE, AUDREY BASTIEN, JOHAN LIBÉREAU Set against the backdrop of the 1981 presidential elections, Primo, a middle- class youngster, falls in love with Gabrielle, a Parisian upper class rich girl. This unlikely romance plays out against the lifestyle of our hero, who pretends to be something he isn’t to impress his new girlfriend… CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA OMAR KILLED ME ROSCHDY ZEM, FRANCE, 2011, 85MN WITH SAMI BOUAJILA, DENIS PODALYDÈS, SALOMÉ STÉVENIN, MAURICE BÉNICHOU Marseille, February 2, 1994. Omar Raddad, a Moroccan gardener, is sentenced to 18 years for the murder of a wealthy widow for whom he was working. In 1994, a writer convinced by Raddad’s innocence, started to defend his case. Together they investigated one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice of the last 20 years. 4 Festivals TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 8-18 CONTEMPORARY WORLD SPECIAL PRESENTATION CINEMA GOODBYE FIRST LOVE MIA HANSEN-LOVE, FRANCE/ALLEMAGNE, 2011, 110MN WITH LOLA CRETON, SEBASTIAN URZENDOWSKY, MAGNE HAVARD BREKKE Spring 1999. Camille 15 and Sullivan 19, love each other passionately, but Sullivan wants to go to South America for a year and this project drives Camille to despair. In fall he leaves and slowly stops writing to her. After a suicide attempt, Camille ends up in hospital. 2003, four years have passed. Camille works, studies architecture and has met a famous architect, Lorenz, who restores her self-confidence. After 7 years she sees Sullivan again… WAVELENGTHS BOUQUETS 11-20 ROSE LOWDER, FRANCE, 2010, 11MN Rose Lowder’s ongoing Bouquets series is among the major works of the past two decades. Filmed at various European ecological sites, Bouquets 11-20 vibrate with a splendour inherent to the pleasure-pull of nature’s imperiled state. WAVELENGTHS SANS TITRE NEÏL BELOUFA, FRANCE, 2010, 15MN A chasm between what we hear and see in Neïl Beloufa’s kaleidoscopic Untitled echoes the fabrication of its ink-jet mise en scène. As a grand site of bricolage, a California-style villa plays host to contradicting testimonies, which demonstrate the permeability of knowledge, and the enchanting/foreboding of its sculptural set pieces. FOR MORE DETAILS: WWW.TIFF.NET/THEFESTIVAL 5 Visual Arts JAKOB+MACFARLANE SEPTEMBER 21-22 JAKOB+MACFARLANE In the framework of the series “Vis-à-vis architecture : when France and Canada connect architects”, coordinated by the Embassy of France in Canada and the Institut français, the architects Dominique Jakob et Brendan MacFarlane will be in Ontario on September 21 and 22 to present their work and vision. Jakob+MacFarlane is a multicultural and pluridisciplinary architecture agency based in Paris, France. The agency’s work includes exploring digital technologies both as a conceptual contribution and a production method, using new materials as a way to create a closer, more flexible and responsible environment. Their main projects include hightening of the Maison T at the Garenne-Colombes (1998), Restaurant Georges in the Centre Georges Pompidou (2000), the reconstruction of the Theatre Pont-Audemer in Eure (2000), library Florence Loewy Books by Artists in Paris (2001), the New Communication Centre for Renault in Boulogne-Billancourt (2004), the Theatre Maxime Gorki (2004), the Foundation Entreprise Ricard (2007), as well as the Docks of Paris, Cité de la mode et du design, and the 100 social appartments Hérold in Paris (2008). The ongoing projects are the Pavillon Orange Quai Rambaud in Lyon, the Fond régional d’Art Contemporain de la Région Centre in Orléans (“Regional Fund for Contemporary Art”) the Conservatory of Dance and Music in Noisy le Sec, as well as the Swiss Cultural Centre in Paris. Recently, they were awarded the first honourable mention at the International Competition of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. Their projects have been exhibited in different museums around the world, including at Victoria & Albert Museum (London, 2003), SFMOMA (San Francisco, 2004), the Museum of Architecture (Moscow, 2000), the Artist Space (New York, 2003), Carnegie Melon (USA, 2011), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2004), Pompidou Centre, Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris), the Bartlett School Gallery (London, 1997), as well as at the Rencontres internationales d’architecture d’Orléans / Archilab (1999, 2001, 2003). They were also part of the French selection for the Venice Architecture Biennial in 2002 and of the international selection in 2004 and 2008. Azure magazine is the media sponsor for the “Vis-à-vis architecture” series. SEPTEMBER 21 - 6PM UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CAMBRIDGE 7 MELVILLE STREET SOUTH - CAMBRIDGE SEPTEMBER 22 - 11AM SEPTEMBER 22 - 6:30PM IIDEX / NEOCON CANADA OCAD UNIVERSITY EXHIBITION PLACE – KEILHAUER KEYNOTE THEATRE 100 MCCAUL STREET - TORONTO 100 PRINCES' BOULEVARD, TORONTO FREE REGISTRATION UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15 – 25$ AFTER 6 Music DANIEL & OPHELIA SEPTEMBER 9 DANIEL & OPHELIA Straight from Paris... "Daniel & Ophelia" will be at the "Dakota Tavern" Friday September 9 at 8:00pm. The musician Daniel Denecheau plays real french accordeon style, diatonic, chromatic... and mixte, which is quite rare. He is one of the best accordeon player in France in this repertoire. With Ophelia, who sings in the tradition of the genre, they will present a repertoire of songs from the 20's till the 50's. SEPTEMBER 9 - 8PM DAKOTA TAVERN 149 OSSINGTON AVENUE ADMISSION: $7 Lectures EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES SEPTEMBER 23 EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES The Alliance française de Toronto, in partnership with the Goethe Institut, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Spanish Centre and the Consulate general of Poland, presents the second edition of the European Day of Languages, a celebration of languages in music and cinema.