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Le Programme June – July 2017 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3–15 Shubbak Festival 16 Music 17 Slack Bay + Q&A with director La Fête du Cinéma Al Atlal Talks 17 Bruno Dumont 25 – 28 June 4 July 16 - 29 June p.9 p.16 p.4 Kids & Families 18 We Support 19 We Recommend 20 French Courses 22 The Odyssey + Q&A with actor The Midwife Stadium by Mohamed El Khatib La Médiathèque 23 Lambert Wilson 7 – 26 July 9 – 17 June 5 July p.5 p.19 p.8 Birmingham Repertory Theatre General Information 24–27 front cover image: The Odyssey by Jérôme Salle Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases The Red Turtle The Other Side of Hope From the Land of the La Tortue rouge Toivon tuolla puolen Moon JPN/FRA/BEL | 2016 | 80 mins | dir. Michael Dudok de Wit FIN/GER | 2017 | 98 mins | dir. Aki Kaurismäki, with Sherwan cert. PG | silent Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Janne Hyytiäinen | cert. 12 Mal de pierres in English, Arabic & Finnish with EN subs FRA/BEL | 2016 | 120 mins | dir. Nicole Garcia, with Marion Through the story of a shipwrecked sailor on a tropical Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl | cert. 15 | in French island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds, The Red Turtle Winner of the Silver Bear in Berlin, Aki Kaurismäki’s new & Spanish with EN subs evokes the main stages of the life of a human being, film tells two stories that eventually converge. Khaled, paradoxically struck by isolation and freedom. Presented a Syrian refugee, ends up in Helsinki where he applies In this handsomely crafted adaptation of Milena in Cannes Un Certain Regard, it is the first international for asylum without much hope of success. Wikström is a Agus’s novel, Marion Cotillard is Gabrielle, a sensual, co-production for famed Japanese animation house travelling salesman who leaves everything behind to run independent-minded woman. Married to a man she didn’t Studio Ghibli. a restaurant in a remote corner of Helsinki. The Other Side choose and vowed never to love, she becomes ill and is of Hope is one of Aki Kaurismäki’s typical communities- sent away to a cure in the Alps. There, she meets André Thu 1 June 4pm bound-together-by-fate stories, which demonstrates that (Louis Garrel), a dashing injured veteran of the Indochina Fri 2 June 6.45pm the world could and should be a better place. war, who rekindles the passion buried in her. Sat 3 June 2pm* Sun 4 June 11am*, 6.40pm Thu 1 June 6.30pm, 8.40pm Fri 9 June 4pm, 8.50pm Thu 15 June 3.45pm, 9pm Tue 6 June 6.30pm Fri 2 June 4pm, 8.40pm Sat 10 June 6.40pm, 9pm Fri 16 June 3.30pm, 9pm Wed 7 June 4pm Sat 3 June 8.45pm Sun 11 June 8.30pm Sat 17 June 4.10pm Sun 4 June 8.30pm Mon 12 June 8.45pm Mon 19 June 6.20pm * Screenings as part of CinéKids (£5) Mon 5 June 6.30pm Tue 13 June 8.50pm Wed 21 June 8.50pm Tue 6 June 8.40pm Wed 14 June 8.50pm Thu 22 June 4pm, 6.30pm Wed 7 June 8.40pm Thu 8 June 4pm, 8.50pm FRENCHFILMFIRST EXCLUSIVE 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases Slack Bay Souvenir A Man Called Ove Ma Loute BEL/LUX/FRA | 2016 | 90 mins | dir. Bavo Defurne, with En man som heter Ove FRA/DEU | 2016 | 122 mins | dir. Bruno Dumont, with Fabrice Isabelle Huppert, Johan Leysen, Kévin Azaïs | cert. tbc SWE | 2016 | 116 mins | dir. Hannes Holm, with Fabrice Rolf Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | cert. tbc in French with EN subs Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg | cert. tbc | in Swedish with in French & English with EN subs EN subs Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) was once “Laura”, a rising star Summer 1910, North of France. Some mysterious in the singing world, who had her moment of glory when Having entirely given up on life, Ove, an isolated disappearances have thrown the Slack Bay area into she finished second in the 1974 European Song Contest pensioner with strict principles and a short fuse, is the turmoil and the infamous Inspector Machin and his behind Abba. Today, everyone has forgotten her brush quintessential angry old man next door. But things take shrewd assistant carry out an investigation. They find with fame, and she works in a pasta factory. But when she an unexpected turn, when a boisterous young family themselves at the heart of a peculiar love story between meets Jean (Kévin Azaïs), a 20-year-old boxer, her dreary moves in next door. An unlikely friendship blooms and Ma Loute, the elder son of the Brufort, a curious family life is suddenly turned upside down. He falls in love with Ove’s past happiness and heartbreaks come to light. A of fishermen, and Billie, the offspring of the degenerate her, and convinces her she should make a return to the wistful, heartwarming tale nominated for Best Foreign Van Peteghems bourgeois. Bruno Dumont’s exhilarating, stage. Language Film at the Oscars 2017. absurdist and dark comedy features a first class French cast. Fri 23 June 8.50pm Sat 1 July 4pm Fri 30 June 4pm, 8.40pm Fri 7 July 6.30pm Sat 24 June 8.50pm Sun 2 July 6.45pm Sat 1 July 6.15pm, 8.40pm Sat 8 July 2pm Fri 16 June 6.10pm Wed 21 June 4pm, 6.30pm Thu 29 June 6.30pm Thu 6 July 8.50pm Sun 2 July 8.40pm Mon 10 July 8.40pm Sat 17 June 6.30pm Thu 22 June 8.50pm Fri 30 June 6.30pm Sat 8 July 4.20pm Mon 3 July 6.15pm Wed 12 July 6.30pm Sun 18 June 8pm Fri 23 June 6.30pm Wed 5 July 4pm Thu 13 July 8.50pm Mon 19 June 8.40pm Sat 24 June 3.50pm FRENCHFILMFIRST Thu 6 July 4pm, 6.30pm EXCLUSIVE Tue 20 June 8.40pm Thu 29 June 4pm The screening on 16 June will be followed by a Q&A with director Bruno Dumont (tbc) Ciné Lumière New Releases The Midwife The Death of Louis XIV Sage Femme La Mort de Louis XIV FRA | 2016 | 117 mins | dir. Martin Provost, with Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier FRA/PRT/ESP | 2016 | 115 mins | dir. Albert Serra, with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Gourmet | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs d'Assumçao, Marc Susini | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Claire (Catherine Frot) is a midwife with a natural talent to deliver babies with the most Catalan director Albert Serra (Birdsong, Story of My Death) continues his contemplative gentle touch. But over the years, she starts to question her place and her skills in series of studies of legendary figures, both real and fictional (Don Quixote,the Magi, efficiency-driven modern hospitals. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice Casanova) with this elegant, mesmerising evocation of the last days of the Sun King. The from the past. Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the extravagant and frivolous mistress of legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud brings ineffable presence to the title role. her deceased father, has important and pressing news and wants to see her again, 30 years after having disappeared without a trace. Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot Fri 14 July 8.50pm Wed 19 July 6.30pm are at the top of their game in this bittersweet comedy. Sat 15 July 2pm Thu 20 July 3.45pm Sun 16 July 4.10pm, 6.30pm Fri 21 July 4pm Fri 7 July 4pm, 8.50pm Sun 16 July 8.50pm Mon 17 July 6.15pm Sat 22 July 2pm Sat 8 July 6.15pm, 8.40pm Mon 17 July 8.50pm Tue 18 July 8.40pm Tue 25 July 8.40pm Sun 9 July 8.20pm Tue 18 July 6.20pm Mon 10 July 6.20pm Wed 19 July 4pm, 8.50pm Tue 11 July 8.50pm Thu 20 July 6.10pm Wed 12 July 4pm, 8.50pm Sat 22 July 4.30pm Thu 13 July 4pm, 6.30pm Sun 23 July 8.40pm Fri 14 July 6.30pm Wed 26 July 6.30pm Sat 15 July 8pm 05 06 Ciné Lumière New Releases Restored Classic Water & Sugar: Scribe Destiny Carlo Di Palma, La Mécanique de l’ombre Der Mude Tod FRA/BEL | 2016 | 88 mins | dir. Thomas Kruithof, with GER | 1921 | 116 mins | dir. Fritz Lang, with Lil Dagover, The Colours of Life François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila | cert. tbc | in Bernhard Goetzke, Walter Janssen | cert. PG | silent movie French with EN subs with intertitles in German with EN subs | Restored print Acqua e Zucchero: Carlo Di Palma, i colori della vita ITA | 2016 | 90 mins | dir. Fariborz Kamkar | doc | cert. PG Two years after suffering a burn-out, a middle-aged, A young woman confronts the personification of Death, in Italian, English, French & Russian with EN subs financially struggling man (François Cluzet) is hired in an effort to save the life of her fiancé. Death weaves by a mysterious employer to transcribe wiretapped three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl A galaxy of cinema luminaries – from Ken Loach and conversations. He is soon propelled into the heart of a with her betrothed, if she can prevent the death of the Ettore Scola to Wim Wenders and Bernardo Bertolucci – large-scale political plot and gets trapped in the French lovers in at least one of the episodes. Thus begin three pay tribute to the great Italian cinematographer Carlo secret services underworld.