November 13Th-24Th 2019 IFI French Film Festival Schedule November 13Th-24Th 2019
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www.ifi.ie IFI French Film Festival November 13th-24th 2019 IFI French Film Festival Schedule November 13th-24th 2019 WED 13 OPENING FILM WED 20 IFI Principal Funder 20.00 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 16.30 Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) (Celebration) Followed by Reception 18.10 Particles (Les particules) 20.15 Pure as Snow (Blanche comme neige) THURS 14 Festival Sponsor 16.00 The Invisibles (Les invisibles) THURS 21 18.10 Someone, Somewhere (Deux moi) 16.10 Who you think I am (Celle que vous croyez) + Q&A with Cédric Klapisch 18.20 Oh, les filles! (Haut les filles) 20.45 La Belle Époque + Q&A with Bayon 20.45 The Invisibles (Les invisibles) FRI 15 Festival partners 16.00 Farewell to the Night (L'adieu à la nuit) FRI 22 18.15 Oh Mercy! (Roubaix, une lumière) 16.10 Carwash (Braquer poitiers) + 20.40 Lullaby (Chanson douce) The Birth, The Life, The Death of Christ (La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ) SAT 16 18.15 Amanda 13.30 Danger Ahead (Classe tous risques) 20.30 Matthias and Maxime cultural Partners + Intro by Dr. Douglas Smith 13.40 Burning Ghost (Vif-argent) SAT 23 15.50 Sibyl 13.30 Vincent, François, Paul and the Others 18.00 Arab Blues (Un divan à Tunis) (Vincent, François, Paul et les autres) + Q&A with Manele Labidi Labbé 16.00 The Girl with a Bracelet (La fille au bracelet) 20.30 Happy Birthday (Fête de famille) 18.10 Alice and the Mayor (Alice et le maire) + Q&A with Vincent Macaigne 20.20 Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) SUN 17 Booking Information 13.15 Who you think I am (Celle que vous croyez) SUN 24 13.30 The Things of Life (Les choses de la vie) 11.00 Ailo's Journey Tickets cost €11.50 each, except Membership: is required for all 15.20 La Belle Époque (Aïlo: Une odyssée en laponie) for the opening film which includes films. Daily membership costs 17.40 Pure as Snow (Blanche comme neige) 13.20 A Heart in Winter (Un coeur en hiver) a post-screening reception and €1.50 and annual membership 6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 + Q&A with Vincent Macaigne 14.00 Be Natural: The Untold Story of costs €15. just €35. Annual Membership 20.20 Someone, Somewhere (Deux moi) Alice Guy-Blaché entitles the bearer to discounts @IFI_Dub #IFIFrenchFest Packages: €50 for 5 films. €90 for on screenings, free preview + intro by Dr. Tony Tracy 10 films. Both packages exclude the screenings of selected films facebook.com/irishfilminstitute MON 18 15.40 Amanda opening film. throughout the year, one Sibyl 18.15 Farewell to the Night (L'adieu à la nuit) 18.00 Lullaby (Chanson douce) complimentary ticket and a host @irishfilminstitute 20.30 Alice and the Mayor (Alice et le maire) 20.00 On a Magical Night (Chambre 212) Free list suspended for of other benefits. Cover IFI French Film Festival. Festival Director: Marie-Pierre Richard TUES 19 Box Office 16.00 Joan of Arc (Jeanne) 01 679 3477 Programme Notes: Marie-Pierre Richard (MPR) 18.20 Happy Birthday (Fête de famille) www.ifi.ie/frenchfest David O’Mahony (DOM) 20.30 Sibyl Alicia McGivern (AMG) Alliance Française Screening design: verso.ie design: 2 IFI French Film Festival 2019 www.ifi.ie/frenchfest 3 SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (DEUX MOI) 30-somethings Rémy (François Civil) and Mélanie (Ana Girardot) both live alone in Paris. They take the same Métro, shop in PORTRAIT the same grocery store, and go home to their apartments in two adjacent buildings, yet they have never met. Collaborating with young cinematographer Élodie Tahtane, Klapisch delivers a stylised, nuanced film with vibrant performances by both leads and a strong supporting cast of Camille Cottin, François OF A Berléand and Simon Abkarian. An examination of urban isolation, it explores what it means for a young generation to be single in Thursday 14th: 18.10 the age of social media. MPR Sunday 17th: 20.20 Director: Cédric Klapisch director’s note: Cédric Klapisch returns to Paris to film this 110 mins • France • 2019 • Subtitled • Digital tender before-love story, fondly recalling his delightful early film LADY When the Cat’s Away. The screening on Thursday 14th will be followed by a Q+A with Cédric Klapisch. ON FIRE LA BELLE ÉPOQUE (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU) Victor (Daniel Auteuil), a disillusioned sexagenarian, watches helplessly as his marriage falls apart. When Antoine (Guillaume Canet), a rising entrepreneur and family friend offers him Gala Opening 18th century France: Marianne (Noémie Merlant) travels to the chance to use a new service that will allow him to get an island in Brittany having been commissioned by an Italian transported back to any era of his choice, he opts to return to Wednesday 13th: 20.00 countess (Valeria Golino) to make a portrait of her daughter his first meeting with his wife (Fanny Ardant). This witty look at Saturday 23rd: 20.20 Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) for a prospective husband. However, enduring love and memory as it is transformed over the course Director: Céline Sciamma Héloïse has not consented, not wishing to be married. Thus of a lifetime is served brilliantly by the fascinating and poignant 120 mins • France • 2019 • Subtitled • Digital Marianne must pretend to be a walking companion by day, turns of icons of French cinema, Ardant and Auteuil. MPR Winner Best Screenplay and Queer Palm Prizes, secretly executing her portrait by night. Gradually the two women Cannes International Film Festival 2019. connect and a subtle seduction of stolen glances, delicate Thursday 14th: 20.45 director’s note: A most thoroughly entertaining romantic touches and conversation gives way to burning desire. MPR Sunday 17th: 15.20 comedy, whip-smart and staggeringly clever. The screening on Wednesday 13th Director: Nicolas Bedos will be followed by a wine reception. director’s note: Following Girlhood (our festival opening 115 mins • France • 2019 • Subtitled • Digital film in 2014), writer-director Céline Sciamma revisits themes of Official Selection, Out of Competition, Cannes identity, gender and self-discovery. International Film Festival 2019; BFI London Film Festival 2019; Toronto International Film Festival 2019. INVISIBLES FAREWELL TO THE NIGHT (LES INVISIBLES) (L’ADIEU À LA NUIT) L’Envol, an urban shelter for homeless women in northern Muriel (Catherine Deneuve) is overjoyed that her grandson Alex France, offers a warm shower, a hot meal, a little camaraderie (Kasey Mottet Klein) will stay on her farm and riding school and some career guidance. Threatened with closure by in the Pyrenees for a few days before he travels to Canada. local government, the workers have three months to find Concerned by his curious behaviour, she discovers that he has an alternative for the women before the doors are shut. The been lying to her; Alex and his girlfriend Lila (Oulaya Amamra), combative, energetic Manu (Corinne Masiero) and Audrey who helps Muriel on the farm, have taken up the cause of (Audrey Lamy) refuse to give up, secretly keeping the shelter Islamic fundamentalism, and are preparing to go to Syria to open. Adapted from the book by Claire Lajeunie, this heart- become jihadis. Distraught, Muriel must act, and she enlists the warming comedy follows their daily routine as social workers help of reformed jihadi, Fouad (Kamel Labroudi), to reason with Thursday 14th: 16.00 help these women in difficulty get through each day with Friday 15th: 16.00 Alex. DOM Thursday 21st: 20.45 confidence and dignity, giving them hope. MPR Monday 18th: 18.15 Director: Louis-Julien Petit Director: André Téchiné director’s note: André Téchiné's intense thriller and family 102 mins • France • 2019 • Subtitled • Digital director’s note: Writer/director Louis-Julien Petit delivers a 104 mins • France, Germany • 2018 • Subtitled drama brings to the fore the very current and sensitive topics of heartfelt, luminous epic comedy. Digital religious radicalisation amongst young people. Official Selection, Out of Competition, Berlin International Film Festival 2019. 4 IFI French Film Festival 2019 www.ifi.ie/frenchfest 5 OH MERCY! SIBYL (ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIèRE) Virginie Efira immerses herself in the role of Sibyl, a It’s Christmas in Roubaix, a crime-ridden town in France, where psychotherapist and amateur writer. When new patient Margot the local police force is kept occupied by a string of crimes from (Adèle Exarchopoulos), an up-and-coming actress, confesses petty fights to rape. When an old woman is found murdered to a tumultuous affair with her lead actor, Igor (Gaspard Ulliel), in her bed, it leads to an investigation into the two women who also happens to be the ex-partner of the director (Sandra (exquisite performances from Léa Seydoux & Sara Forestier) Hüller, Toni Erdmann), it’s all too tempting, and Sybil borrows living down the street who initially raised the alarm. Desplechin’s the scenario for her writing. It opens a Pandora’s Box for Sibyl (our guest of honour at the 2013 festival) drama is part social who plunges into a dizzying abyss of contradictions and realism, part thriller, with a rich orchestral score by Grégoire manipulations, haunted by memories of her past. MPR Hetzel that heightens the tension adding a mystical and spiritual Friday 15th: 18.15 dimension. MPR Saturday 16th: 15.50 director’s note: This stylish psycho-comedy hybrid from Director: Arnaud Desplechin Tuesday 19th: 20.30 Justine Triet (In Bed with Victoria, our festival opening film in 120 mins • France • 2019 • Subtitled • Digital director’s note: Desplechin’s fictional adaptation of a TV Director: Justine Triet 2016) brilliantly depicts a woman in crisis through a mesh of Official Competition, Cannes International Film documentary about the central police station in his hometown 99 mins • France • 2019 • Subtitled • Digital interconnecting stories.