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Marie Curie: The Happy End Lost in Paris Courage of Knowledge FRA/AUT/DEU | 2017 | 108 mins | dir. Michael Haneke, with Paris pieds nus Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert, Mathieu Kassovitz FRA/BEL | 2017 | 83 mins | dir. Fiona Gordon & Dominique Marie Curie cert. 15 | in French & English with EN subs Abel, with Emmanuelle Riva, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, POL/DEU/FRA | 2015 | 100 mins | dir. Marie Noëlle, with Pierre Richard | cert. 12 | in French & English with EN subs Karolina Gruszka, Sabin Tambrea, Charles Berling, Arieh Master auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon, Worthalter | cert. tbc | in French, German, English & Polish Hidden) returns with a biting satire on bourgeois family Fiona, a small town Canadian librarian, receives a with EN subs values set in the shadow of the European refugee crisis, letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha and featuring a cast of top acting talents. When her (Emmanuelle Riva) living in Paris. Fiona hops on the first Marie Noëlle depicts the most turbulent years in the life mother falls ill under mysterious circumstances, young plane only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an of a genious woman, Marie Curie. First woman to receive, Eve is sent to live with her estranged relatives in Calais, avalanche of spectacular disasters, she meets Dom, a not only one, but two Nobel prizes, she challenged the wealthy, neurotic and self-obsessed Laurent family. seductive egotistical homeless guy who won’t leave her France’s male-dominated academic establishment both But trouble is brewing, as a series of intergenerational alone. A fun and hectic tale of three peculiar people lost as a scientist and a woman and changed the face of the back-stabbings threaten to tear the family apart. in Paris. world forever. Fri 1 Dec 6.30pm Sat 9 Dec 6.15pm Sun 3 Dec 8.50pm Fri 1 Dec 4pm 8.50pm 8.40pm Thu 7 Dec 6.30pm Sat 2 Dec 6pm Sat 2 Dec 8.15pm Sun 10 Dec 6.40pm Tue 5 Dec 8.50pm Sun 3 Dec 6.30pm Mon 11 Dec 6.30pm Mon 4 Dec 9pm 8.50pm Tue 5 Dec 6.30pm Tue 12 Dec 8.40pm Wed 6 Dec 6.30pm Wed 13 Dec 4pm 8.45pm 8.40pm Thu 7 Dec 8.30pm Mon 18 Dec 8.40pm Fri 8 Dec 8.50pm 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases

Les Hommes du feu The Prince of Gauguin FRA | 2017 | 90 mins | dir. Pierre Jolivet, with Roschdy Zem, Nothingwood FRA | 2017 | 102 mins | dir. Edouard Deluc, with Vincent Emilie Dequenne, Michaël Abiteboul, Guillaume Labbé Cassel, Pernille Bergendorff, Tuheï Adams | cert. 15 cert. 15 | in French with EN subs Nothingwood in French with EN subs FRA/DEU | 2016 | 85 mins | dir. Sonia Kronlund, with Qurban Les Hommes du feu is a powerful homage to the men Ali, Sonia Kronlund, Salim Shaheen | doc | cert. 15 | in French, 1891. Gauguin has exiled himself to Tahiti. He wants to and women who risk their lives daily to protect civilians Dari & English with EN subs rediscover his painting, as a free, wild man, far from the from the dangers of summer fires and arson. Bénédicte moral, political, and aesthetic codes of civilised Europe. (Emilie Dequenne) has just been transferred to a small French radio journalist Sonia Kronlund had been covering Going deeper into the jungle, coping with solitude, poverty, fire brigade led by Philippe (Roshdy Zem), when her the atrocities of war in Afghanistan for 20 years when she and sickness, he makes the encounter of Tehura, who will aptitudes as a female firefighter are put to test as a came across Salim Shaheen, the Prince of Nothingwood, become his wife, and the subject of his greatest paintings. violent car crash occurs. Pierre Jolivet’s intense feature a larger than life Afghani actor greeted by adoring fans Edouard Deluc’s film portrays the artist - in the flesh of proves that heroism has no gender. wherever he goes. This joyous and rousing portrait actor Vincent Cassel – on a quest for absolute and freedom. offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes account on the Sat 9 Dec 4pm art of filmmaking in a war zone, and the ultimate act of Tue 12 Dec 6.30pm* Thu 4 Jan 9pm Sun 10 Dec 8.50pm resistance of this Ed Wood-esque character. Fri 15 Dec 4pm Fri 5 Jan 4pm Thu 14 Dec 4pm Sun 17 Dec 6.45pm Sat 6 Jan 6.30pm, 8.40pm Wed 20 Dec 8.50pm Wed 13 Dec 6.30pm Mon 18 Dec 6.30pm Sun 7 Jan 4pm Fri 15 Dec 6.20pm Wed 20 Dec 4pm Mon 8 Jan 6.30pm FRENCHFILMFIRST Tue 19 Dec 8.50pm Thu 21 Dec 8.40pm Wed 10 Jan 6.30pm EXCLUSIVE Thu 21 Dec 4pm Tue 2 Jan 6.30pm Thu 11 Jan 4pm, 8.40pm * preview screening

FRENCHFILMFIRST EXCLUSIVE Ciné Lumière New Releases

A Woman’s Life Lover for a Day The Final Year

Une vie L'Amant d'un jour USA | 2017 | 89 mins | dir. Greg Barker, with John Kerry, FRA/BEL | 2016 | 119 mins | dir. Stéphane Brizé, with Judith FRA | 2017 | 76 mins | dir. Philippe Garrel, with Éric Caravaca, Barack Obama, Samantha Power | cert. tbc | doc | in English Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte | cert. 15 | in French with Arlaud | cert. 12 | in French with EN subs EN subs Shot over 90 days in 21 countries, The Final Year is a unique insiders' account on President Barack Obama and Judith Chemla offers an unmissable performance Having just separated from her boyfriend, heartbroken his foreign policy team from Secretary of State John Kerry in Stéphane Brizé’s compelling adaptation of Guy de Jeanne knocks on her father’s door. But her warm welcome to US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, during Maupassant’s classic, Une vie. She plays Jeanne, a is matched by a baffling discovery: her father’s young new their last year in office. Greg Barker’s documentary offers young woman full of childish dreams and innocence who and passionate girlfriend is his student, and Jeanne’s age. an uncompromising view on the mechanics of power marries fresh out of the convent. Her husband Julien With this swift, touching ode to lovers with heart-breaking, behind the Obama Administration. soon reveals to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by irreconcilable differences, Philippe Garrel has produced a little, Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away. casual, bittersweet, and intoxicating study of relationships. Mon 22 Jan 8.45pm* Tue 23 Jan 6.30pm* Fri 12 Jan 8.50pm Wed 17 Jan 6.30pm* Sun 28 Jan 4.30pm Sat 27 Jan 8.30pm Sat 13 Jan 8.50pm Fri 19 Jan 4pm 6.30pm Mon 29 Jan 6.30pm Sun 14 Jan 6.15pm Sat 20 Jan 6.30pm Mon 29 Jan 8.30pm Thu 1 Feb 4pm Wed 17 Jan 4pm Sun 21 Jan 4.45pm Tue 30 Jan 8.50pm Thu 18 Jan 4pm 6.30pm Wed 31 Jan 6.30pm *Screenings as part of Fri 19 Jan 6.20pm Fri 26 Jan 6.30pm 8.30pm Fri 26 Jan 4pm 8.30pm Thu 1 Feb 6.30pm Sun 28 Jan 8.15pm Sat 27 Jan 4.15pm 8.30pm Wed 31 Jan 4pm 6.15pm

*preview screening 05 06 Ciné Lumière Special Screenings

Les Valseuses 8 Women Becoming Cary See You Up There FRA | 1974 | 115 mins | dir. Bertrand Blier, Huit Femmes Grant Au revoir là-haut with Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick FRA | 2002 | 111 mins | dir. François Ozon, FRA | 2017 | 115 mins | dir. Albert Dupontel, Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau | cert. 18 with Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, FRA | 2017 | 85 mins | dir. Mark Kidel, with with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert in French with EN subs Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Judy Balaban, Mark Glancy, Barbara Jaynes, Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup, Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, David Thomson | voice: Jonathan Pryce Emilie Dequenne, Mélanie Thierry | cert. tbc Les Valseuses features Gérard Depardieu Firmine Richard | cert. 15 | in French with cert. 12 | doc | in English in French with EN subs | UK Premiere and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of EN subs sociopaths wending their way across Becoming Cary Grant is a treasure-trove of In November 1918, before the Armistice, France. The two men break into houses, Isolated in a snow bound house where archives, film extracts and home movies Edouard Pericourt, a gifted artist, saves but largely as a prelude to seducing a man has been murdered, all are that evocatively reflect the ups and downs the life of Albert Maillard, a humble and exploiting women. No morals, no suspects… and all of them have a chance of his inner journey, from the damaged bookkeeper. The two men have nothing judgement, and no retribution interferes to sing! Ozon beautifully describes this Bristol-born Archie Leach to the Golden in common apart from their experience with the unfolding of events in Blier’s furnace of feminine charm, decadence era of Hollywood icon, Cary Grant. Enter of war and their hatred for Lieutenant powerful satire of social and sexual and evil embedded in a bleak wintery the intimacy of the ultimate star in this Pradelle, whose order for one final absurd mores. landscape. A deliciously camp game of unique journey of self-exploration told by attack has shattered their lives. Albert Cluedo featuring a full star line up of actor Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones, Dupontel’s crime epic See You Up There is Sun 3 Dec 4pm France’s leading ladies in diva mode, Wolf Hall) with the musical accompaniment adapted from Pierre Lemaitre’s Goncourt including Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle of Portishead and The Insects. winning novel, Au revoir là-haut. Followed by a Q&A and live music with Huppert, Fanny Ardant and the late Jazz guitarist John Etheridge Danielle Darrieux, all celebrated for their Sun 10 Dec 4.15pm Fri 15 Dec 8.15pm thrilling performances. Followed by a Q&A with director Mark Followed by a Q&A with director & actor Thu 7 Dec 4pm Kidel & Mark Glancy, Professor at Queen Albert Dupontel (tbc) Mary University of London and specialist on Cary Grant Ciné Lumière Special Screenings

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage The Big Bad Fox Les Fourberies Gemma Bovery Makala and Other Tales de Scapin FRA | 2014 | 99 mins | dir. Anne Fontaine, FRA | 2017 | 96 mins | dir. Emmanuel Gras, with Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason with Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo | cert. Le Grand méchant renard et autres Theatre Broadcast from La Comédie- Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier, Niels Schneider tbc | doc | in Swahili & French with EN subs contes Française cert. 15 | in French with EN subs preview screening FRA | 2017 | 83 mins | dir. Patrick Author: Molière | Stage director: Denis Imbert, Benjamin Renner | voices: Lamel Podalydès | Costume: Christian Lacroix | with This upbeat adaptation of Posy In this existential documentary, French Abdessadok, Jules Bienvenu, Guillaume the troupe and actors of the Académie de la Simmonds’s delightful eponymous graphic director Emmanuel Gras follows the Bouchède | cert. U | in French with EN subs Comédie-Française | Comedy in 5 acts novel features terrific performances from steps of a young charcoal-maker as he preview screening 120 mins | in French with EN subs Fabrice Luchini and Gemma Arterton. struggles to offer a better future for his Martin, an ex-Parisian “bobo”, has opted family. When he sets out on an exhausting A fox struggles to follow in the steps of Octave and Léandre’s amorous intentions to re-settle in a Norman village as a baker. and perilous journey to sell the fruit of his the big bad wolf, a stork finds it tiresome are thwarted by their authoritarian Passionate about the works of Gustave labour of love, he discovers the true value to deliver babies to their new home and fathers who have just returned from a trip Flaubert, his excitement is palpable when of his efforts and the price of his dreams. a duck wants to replace Santa. Enjoy this determined to marry their sons to two an English couple named Gemma and collection of amusing and charming tales, strangers. The young men place their fate Charles Bovery move into a small farm Tue 30 Jan 6.30pm presented at the 61st BFI London Film in the hands of the wily Scapin, somehow nearby. Festival, recounting the misfortunes and obsessed with a spirit of revenge. Followed by a Q&A with director eccentricities of an eclectic menagerie. Thu 18 Jan 6.30pm Emmanuel Gras (tbc) Tue 9 Jan 8.30pm Sun 17 Dec 11am Special screening on the occasion of the Franco-British Summit

07 08 Ciné Lumière ArteKino Festival

Chevalier Soleil battant Frost

GRE | 2015 | 105 mins | dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, with FRA | 2016 | 95 mins | dir. Clara & Laura Laperrousaz, with LTU/FRA/POL/UKR | 2017 | 130 mins | dir. Sharunas Bartas, Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orphanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos Ana Girardot, Clément Roussier, Agathe Bonitzer, Teresa with Mantas Janciauskas, Lyja Maknaviciute, Andrzej Chyra, cert. 18 | in Greek & English with EN subs Madruga | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Vanessa Paradis | cert. tbc | in Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian, English & French with EN subs Put six men in their prime on a boat in the middle of For the holidays, Gabriel and Iris return to their family the Aegean Sea, and soon they will put on a cockfight. house in Portugal with their irresistible six-year-old twins, Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer Friends become rivals and rivals compete to be the best Emma and Zoe. In the heart of a sun-kissed landscape, to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When man: the chevalier. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s canny film between bathing in the river and their kids’ laughter, plans change and they find themselves left to their own examines the negotiation of power, shifting gears from the couple’s past resurfaces. Emma is overwhelmed by devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass male bonding experience to competitive rabble. a secret that is too big for her, a secret that she is not region in search of shelter, drifting into the lives of those allowed to share with her sister. affected by the war. They approach the frontline despite Sat 16 Dec 4pm the danger, all the while growing closer to each other as Sat 16 Dec 6.20pm they begin to understand life during wartime. ArteKino Festival is an online festival presented by Arte and Festival Scope offering a selection of films to Followed by a Q&A with directors Clara & Laura Sun 17 Dec 4.10pm watch for free from 1 to 17 December. Laperrousaz (tbc) www.artekinofestival.com Ciné Lumière Best of 2017

It’s Only the End of the Toni Erdmann The Salesman World GER/AUT/ROM | 2016 | 162 mins | dir. Maren Ade, with Peter Foroushandeh Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Trystan Pütter | cert. 15 IRN/FRA | 2016 | 125 mins | dir. Asghar Farhadi, with Shahab Juste la fin du monde in German & English with EN subs Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi Tari, Mina Sadati FRA/CAN | 2016 | 95 mins | dir. Xavier Dolan, with Gaspard cert. 12 | in Farsi with EN subs Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Winfried doesn’t see much of his working daughter Ines. Cassel | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs As she is working on an important project as a corporate In Tehran, a married couple, is forced to move out of their strategist in Budapest, Winfried decides to surprise apartment which threatens to collapse. They quickly find French-Canadian prodigy Xavier Dolan assembles some her with a visit. A practical joker, he loves to annoy his a new flat, but when an incident having to do with the of the greatest French acting talents for his dazzling 6th daughter with corny pranks and jabs about her routine previous tenant occurs, their life is turned upside down. film which won him the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2016. lifestyle. This uproarious father-daughter dramedy made Asghar Farhadi’s latest film, The Salesman won the Best After 12 years of absence, a writer (Gaspard Ulliel) the shortlist for the 2017 Foreign-Language Film Oscar. Screenplay and Best Actor awards (for Shahab Hosseini) goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing in Cannes last year and the 2017 Best Foreign Language his upcoming death to his family. Tense and stylistically Fri 5 Jan 8.20pm Film Oscar. daring, It’s Only the End of the World is a powerful melodrama performed with explosive emotion. Sat 6 Jan 4pm Sun 14 Jan 8.45pm Fri 5 Jan 6.15pm Mon 15 Jan 6.30pm

£9, conc. £7 for all films part of our Best of 2017

09 10 Ciné Lumière Best of 2017

In Between Frantz Lady Macbeth My Life as a Bar Bahar FRA/GER | 2016 | 113 mins | dir. François ENG | 2016 | 89 mins | dir. William Oldroyd, Courgette PSE/ISR/FRA | 2016 | 102 mins | dir. Ozon, with Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst with Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Maysaloun Hamoud, with Mouna Hawa, Sana Stötzner | cert. 12 | in French & German with Cosmo Jarvis | cert. 15 | in English Ma vie de courgette Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura | cert. 15 EN subs FRA/CHE | 2016 | 66 mins | dir. Claude in Hebrew & Arabic with EN subs Rural England, 1865. Katherine (Florence Barras, with Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Mainly filmed in sumptuous black and Pugh) is stifled by her loveless marriage Murat, Paulin Jaccoud | cert. PG | in French Winner of the Young Talents Award in the white, François Ozon's romantic drama to a bitter man twice her age, and his cold, with EN subs Women in Motion selection in Cannes follows a young German woman mourning unforgiving family. When she embarks on this year, In Between follows the lives of daily her fiancé Frantz who was killed a passionate affair with a young worker on Critically acclaimed and adapted for the three strong, independent minded Israeli- in battle in France during WWI. One day her husband’s estate, a force is unleashed screen by Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Palestinian women sharing an apartment a young Frenchman (Pierre Niney) also inside her so powerful that she will Tomboy), Claude Barras’s first animated in Tel Aviv. Away from the constraints of lays flowers at his grave and his presence stop at nothing to get what she wants. feature is a funny, engaging film with an their families and enforced tradition, they so soon after the German defeat ignites William Oldroyd’s debut film is a brilliant unexpected depth and sense of beauty for find themselves ‘in between’ the free and passions. subversion of Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novel, kids and adults alike. After his mother’s unfettered lives they’re aspiring to lead Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. disappearance, Courgette moves into a and the restrictions still imposed on them Sun 7 Jan 8.40pm foster home with orphans of his age. by a blinkered society. Fri 12 Jan 4pm Mon 8 Jan 8.40pm At first struggling to find his place in this Tue 9 Jan 6.30pm* strange, at times, hostile environment, Sun 7 Jan 6.30pm see also 8 Women Courgette eventually learns to trust and Mon 15 Jan 8.40pm *The screening on 9 January will be might find true love. subtitled for the deaf and hearing impaired audiences Wed 10 Jan 4pm Sun 14 Jan 4.15pm Ciné Lumière Best of 2017

From the Land of Personal Shopper Cezanne and I Elle the Moon FRA/GER | 2016 | 105 mins | dir. Olivier Cézanne et moi FRA/GER/BEL | 2016 | 130 mins | dir. Paul Assayas, with Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, FRA | 2016 | 117 mins | dir. Danièle Verhoeven, with Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Mal de pierres Sigrid Bouaziz cert. 15 | in English & French Thompson, with Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling FRA/BEL | 2016 | 120 mins | dir. Nicole with EN subs Gallienne, Alice Pol | cert. 15 | in French with cert. 18 | in French with EN subs Garcia, with Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, EN subs Alex Brendemühl | cert. 15 | in French & Following their previous collaboration on In this gripping psychological noir thriller, Spanish with EN subs the acclaimed Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen This 19th century period drama charts a successful businesswoman gets caught Stewart reunites with director Olivier the long friendship and eventual fallout up in a game of cat and mouse as she In this handsomely crafted adaptation of Assayas to play Maureen, a high-fashion between impressionist artist Paul tracks down the man who assaulted her. Milena Agus’s novel, Marion Cotillard is personal shopper who is also a medium. Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne), who was Exhilarating and multi-layered, the film Gabrielle, a sensual, independent-minded Grieving the recent death of her twin born into a wealthy family but struggled recalls the ambience of Hitchcock, De woman. Married to a man she didn’t brother, she haunts his Parisian home, to make a living as a painter, and Emile Palma and Polanski and won Isabelle choose and vowed never to love, she determined to make contact with him. Zola (Guillaume Canet), who came from Huppert the Golden Globe and César becomes ill and is sent away to a cure in a modest family but achieved fame award for Best Actress. the Alps. There, she meets André (Louis Thu 11 Jan 6.30pm and prosperity as a politically-engaged Garrel), a dashing injured veteran of the Tue 16 Jan 8.50pm novelist. Thu 18 Jan 8.40pm Indochina war, who rekindles the passion buried in her. Wed 17 Jan 8.50pm

Wed 10 Jan 8.40pm see also Cézanne Portraits exhibition at the Tue 16 Jan 6.20pm National Portrait Gallery until 11 February

11 12 Ciné Lumière Are the Kids Alright?

A European Film Celebration by and for the Youth Ciné Lumière opens its doors to a bunch of youngsters who has curated coming-of-age films (Mother, I Love You by Janis Nords, The Illusionist by Sylvain Chomet, Sami Blood by Amanda Kernell), and a selection of some of the best recent European shorts. Event organised in partnership with the National Film and Television School. > screenings are listed p.35 > for further details see: www.institutfrancais.org.uk 12 & 13 Jan Mother, I Love You I Love image: Mother, Classic Release Did You Miss It?

A Matter of Life and Thelma Call Me by Your Name Death NOR/FRA/DNK/SWE | 2017 | 116 mins | dir. Jaochim Trier, ITA/FRA/BRA/USA | 2017 | 131 mins | dir. Luca Guadagnino, with Eili Harboe, Kava Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen | cert. 15 with Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Micheal Stuhlbarg UK | 1946 | 104 mins | dir.s Michael Powell & Emeric in Norwegian with EN subs cert.15 | in English, Italian, French & German with EN subs Pressburger, with David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey | cert.U | in English, French & Russian with EN subs From acclaimed Norwegian director Joachim Trier During a hot Italian summer in 1983, teenager Elio new print (Louder Than Bombs) comes this uncanny supernatural Perlman finds himself drawn to Oliver, his father’s thriller about Thelma, a shy young woman whose research assistant. A ravishing and sensual romance Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death is burgeoning sexuality seems to be paired with paroxysmal ensues. Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash, I Am Love) unanimously considered as one of the most audacious telekinetic powers. As Thelma develops overwhelming captures both the exquisite pain and unbound joy of first and breath-taking films ever made. Squadron Leader feelings for Anja, the intensity of her powers matches love in this adaptation of André Acimans coming of age Peter Carter (David Niven) miraculously cheats death and the depth of her repression. Will she embrace her true homonymous novel. even finds love in a mythical fall from the sky. Disrupting feelings and thus tame her dangerous abilities? the order of things, he must argue for his life before a Wed 3 Jan 8.40pm celestial court. Tue 2 Jan 8.40pm Thu 4 Jan 6.20pm Thu 4 Jan 4pm Sat 16 Dec 8.50pm Sun 17 Dec 8.50pm Viewer discretion advised: this film contains flashing Thu 21 Dec 6.30pm lights.

13 14 Ciné Lumière French Classics – Tribute to Jeanne Moreau

Journal d'une femme de Mademoiselle La Mariée était en noir chambre FRA/UK | 1966 | 103 mins | dir. Tony Richardson, with Jeanne The Bride Wore Black Moreau, Ettore Manni, Keith Skinner, Umberto Orsini, Jane FRA/ITA | 1967 | 107 mins | dir. François Truffaut, with Jeanne Diary of a Chambermaid Berretta | cert. 15 | in French & Italian with EN subs Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy | cert. 12 FRA | 1964 | 97 mins | dir. Luis Buñuel, with Jeanne Moreau, in French with EN subs Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli | cert. 12 | in French with EN Adapted from an original screenplay by Jean Genet and subs Marguerite Duras, Mademoiselle is a psychological drama Shot shortly after the completion of Truffaut’s book on with an outstanding performance by Jeanne Moreau as Hitchcock, The Bride Wore Black is his tribute to the Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, an attractive young woman, a repressed French school-teacher, who is driven by her Master of Suspense. Moreau plays a widow whose who arrives from Paris to become chambermaid for an lust for a woodcutter to commit a series of atrocities. husband was shot dead on their wedding day, and who eccentric and decadent aristocratic family at their country sets out to murder the five men responsible for the chateau. She soon gets herself entangled in a sexual Sun 10 Dec 2pm killing. game of cat and mouse with her flirtatious employer (Michel Piccoli). Filmed in luxurious black-and-white, Luis Sun 17 Dec 2pm Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid is a raw-edged tangle of fetishism and murder set against the backdrop of the burgeoning fascism of the era.

Sun 3 Dec 2pm

Followed by a discussion with Nick Walker (Rochester Kino Cinema Club) Ciné Lumière French Classics – Focus Marcel Pagnol

Jean de Florette Manon des sources Marius

FRA/CHE/ITA | 1986 | 121 mins | dir. Claude Berri, with Gérard Manon of the Spring FRA | 1931 | 120 mins | dir. Alexander Korda, with Raimu, Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil | cert. PG | in French FRA/ITA | 1986 | 114 mins | dir. Claude Berri, with Yves Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin | cert. tbc with EN subs | new print Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart | cert. PG in French with EN subs in French with EN subs | new print In the mid-20s, hunchback tax collector Jean Cadoret Pagnol’s début in cinema as a screenwriter was a inherits a farm in Provence. The map shows a valuable In this sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Emmanuelle trilogy of films, starting with Marius, based on his own spring on his land, but his neighbours, the cunning Béart) has grown into a beautiful young sheperdess living highly successful play. The action mostly unfolds on Soubeyrans, have stopped it up. For a while Jean de in the idyllic Provençal countryside. She determines to the Marseille waterfront at the Bar de la Marine, which Florette and its sequel, Manon des sources, were the most take revenge upon the man responsible for the death of is owned by the irascible but lovable César (Raimu). successful foreign films in British box-office history, and her father. The characters can no longer escape their His son, Marius, finds the lure of the sea stronger than deservedly so. A two-part adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s destiny, one worthy of a great Greek tragedy. his love for Fanny (Orane Demazis, Pagnol’s wife at the novel l’Eau des Collines, these films are, quite simply, a time). The characters are wonderfully brought to life with tour de force. Fri 8 Dec 6.20pm many comic episodes, giving the film great vibrancy and Wed 20 Dec 6.20pm warmth. Mon 4 Dec 6.30pm Wed 3 Jan 6.15pm Fri 8 Dec 3.45pm Sun 7 Jan 2pm Tue 19 Dec 6.30pm Wed 3 Jan 3.30pm Followed by a discussion with Nick Walker (Rochester Kino Cinema Club) Double bill Jean de Florette & Manon des sources: £12, conc. £10

15 16 Ciné Lumière French Classics – Focus Marcel Pagnol

Fanny César La Femme du boulanger

FRA | 1932 | 121 mins | dir. Marc Allegret, with Raimu, Pierre FRA | 1936 | 134 mins | dir. Marcel Pagnol, with Raimu, Orane FRA | 1938 | 125 mins | dir. Marcel Pagnol, with Raimu, Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin | cert. tbc Demazis, Fernand Charpin | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin | in French with EN subs in French with EN subs In César, the last of Pagnol’s trilogy, we move some Adapting an episode of Jean Giono’s Jean le Bleu, Marcel Fanny has allowed her lover Marius to follow his desire twenty years on from Marius. Honoré Panisse is dying, Pagnol recounts how a baker refuses to produce another to travel. But a short while after Marius has set out for a cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He loaf of bread when his wife runs off with a handsome five year trip on a ship bound for the Indian Ocean, Fanny confesses to the priest in front of his friends, but, cannot shepherd, breaking the peace of the tiny Provençal village discovers that she is pregnant. Although she is still in bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father and wreaking havoc on the whole community. love with Marius, she has no other option but to accept is the estranged Marius. Leaving it to Fanny to reveal the the offer of marriage from the widowed sail-maker truth to the young lad, who will have no other choice than Sun 28 Jan 2pm Honoré Panisse... This sequel to Marius retains the same reuniting with his father. vitality, humour and depth of character. Sun 21 Jan 2pm Sun 14 Jan 2pm Talks Music Rendezvous

© Aleguirk © Frédéric Arnould Reading Group How the French La Féline & Laura Cahen Join our unique bilingual literary and British Vote Laetitia Sadier The subtle songs filled with poetry of discussion with a little French twist! upcoming French singer-songwriter from The Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture Progressive pop singer and guitarist Nancy, Laura Cahen, will resonate in our Thu 7 Dec | Boussole (Compass) – Mathias Agnès Gayraud, from French band La Art Deco listed library during the Night of Enard (2015) Professor Malcolm Crook draws on Féline, brings together her singular Ideas. Discover the haunting and romantic Thu 18 Jan | Au revoir là-haut (The Great original research into the history of voting songwriting and Baudelaire’s poetry, songs of her debut album, Nord, powered Swindle) – Pierre Lemaitre (2013) in France, whose specific features are church singing and 80s’ pop. She will by her playful reinvention of the French further illuminated by a comparison perform a selection of the band's profound language with an encapsulating dream- 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French with Britain. He explores the relatively and elegant French repertoire, featuring pop spirit. £5, members £3, including a glass of wine neglected subject of how people cast their special guest Laetitia Sadier from British courtesy of Sud de France votes rather than who was elected, by alternative-pop band Stereolab. The show Thu 25 Jan focusing on turnout, secrecy and spoiling. will be followed by an intimate chat with This event is organised in cooperation the public. Check Night of Ideas website for time & Café Philo with the Society for the Study of French details: www.nightofideas.co.uk History and the Association for the Study Wed 6 Dec 7pm Open to everyone interested in discussing of Modern and Contemporary France. philosophical issues in an informal setting, in French & English | £7, members & the Institut’s Café Philo meets every Mon 8 Jan 6pm conc. £5 Saturday. Free but booking essential: Discover La Féline on culturetheque.com Sat 2 & 9 Dec, 6, 13 & 27 Jan | in English [email protected] > LISTEN Sat 16 Dec, 20 Jan | in French 10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | contact: [email protected] 17 18 — 25 JANUARY 2018

POWER TO THE IMAGINATION

The night on Thursday 25 January 2018 will be unlike Can art change the world? Transfiguring or distorting the This strand will take us to the brave new worlds of outer any other! Launched by the Institut français in 2017, the reality, art has always changed our perception of the world space and artificial intelligence. With French astronaut Night of Ideas is a global project staged simultaneously and will always do. Constantly pushing the boundaries Thomas Pesquet and the European Space Agency, we'll in Paris, London and worldwide. further and exploring new forms of expression, explore the new challenges and the future of the conquest contemporary art not only challenges our mind but it also of space, while assessing the impact space discoveries The Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Scientific offers new perspectives to apprehend the world. have on our lives and questioning our need to project Department and the Cultural Department of the French ourselves into another space. Embassy have put together a thought-provoking Leading figures of the art world will discuss the powers programme of debates, performances, gigs and of art as well as its political and social dimensions, We'll also venture into the territories of artificial screenings exploring the latest ideas behind issues questioning the artist's responsibility towards the society intelligence with computer science professors Jean- central to our times, in partnership with Imperial College and the ability of art, to make a difference, giving young Gabriel Ganascia and Simon Colton, in partnership with London, Kings College, the Maison française d’Oxford, the people the opportunity to build an identity and find a place Imperial College. AI is rapidly defying the realms of V&A and the University of York, among others, and with into our world. possibility as computer power breaks new boundaries the support of the European Commission Representation in fields ranging from brain science, engineering and in the UK. New futures are for the younger generations above medicine to art, music and design. To what extent can AI all. In the run-up to the festival, the Little Night offers learn to be creative? Should AI creativity scare people? Inspired by the Power to the Imagination slogan of the opportunity to the youngest to express themselves the Paris May 1968 protests, the Night of Ideas invites through a series of interactive and multimedia events. Last but not least, we'll travel back to the genesis of audiences to an open debate on the new futures unfolding Several British and French schools will be inviting their the computer revolution with Marc Raynaud, Professor in the cultural, artistic and scientific fields, as well as in pupils to reflect on the main topics of the Night and the emeritus of mathematics and inventive practitioner, who our political and philosophical frames of discussion. Bibliothèque Quentin Blake will be pairing with libraries in will demonstrate, at Imperial College, a prototype of a Dakar, Marrakech and Dublin for a shared Little Night. Turing Machine. Crossing French, British and European perspectives, leading experts, artists and researchers will explore the major aspirations of our times, from the prestigious to the unexpected.

All curious minds welcome to the journey! Chaired by Walter Iuzzolino, the curator behind global As we are entering the centenary year of women's 2018 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the Paris protests drama channel, Walter Presents, Power and Politics: suffrage in the UK, where do we stand with women's of May 1968, and is the occasion to explore the political The hottest genre in TV drama will lift the lid on some of rights and gender equality today? There is still a long hopes and aspirations that have risen and fallen the world’s biggest hit thrillers and royal dramas. Why way to go as regards gender equality, from economic throughout those five decades in France, in the UK, and in have they struck such a popular chord with international inequality to sexist behaviours in politics, sciences or Europe. How did people embrace the future back in 1968? audiences and what successful formulae do they share? corporate boardrooms. Would those hopes be relevant today? Meet the producers and writers behind blockbuster hits like Spin, The Crown, Borgen and The Bureau and We'll explore what feminism means today from a Franco- What are revolutions and how important are they to explore the line where fiction and reality meet. Who is British and European perspective and celebrate ordinary collective self-understanding? How do countries provide manipulating whom and to what extent is fiction shaping and extraordinary role models who shape the world specific views on their revolutions? A second panel will real life politics and public opinion? Speakers also include through their achievements. question the public and political uses of the past, and in Mathieu Sapin, author of comic books on politics. particular the place of revolutions in our collective memory, Women's rights have undeniably progressed in Western the nostalgia for Empire, and the modern uses of the idea How to arouse inspiration? Where do ideas come from countries and yet recent sexual harassment scandals of revolution right up to the latest elections in Europe. and how do they come to mind? Welcome to the mind of breaking out have revealed that our society was still a music composer and pianist Karol Beffa who will unveil far too male-dominated society inflicting violence on the driving forces behind creative and mathematical women. Will this awareness encourage men to embrace Full programme: www.nightofideas.co.uk intelligence, as addressed in his book co-signed with feminism? (How) can men be feminists? Are we in the #nightofideas @ifru_london mathematician Cédric Villani, comparing their two middle of a gender crisis? disciplines made of abstraction and imagination.

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In the run-up to the Night of Ideas on 25 January, a film programme will be exploring different themes of the Something in The Wind that Shakes Night, providing further food for thought! the Air the Barley Before the Night will take us along roads leading to revolutions, from 1920 Ireland with Ken Loach’s Palme Après mai IRE/UK/DEU/ITA/ESP/FRA/BEL/CHE | 2006 d’Or winner The Wind that Shakes the Barley to the FRA | 2012 | 122 mins | dir. Olivier Assayas, with Clément 127 mins | dir. Ken Loach, with Cillian Murphy, Pádraic aftermath of Paris May 68 turmoil with Olivier Assayas’s Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand | cert. 15 | in French with Delaney, Liam Cunningham | cert. 15 | in English & Irish with Something in the Air; from the fight for equality of the EN subs EN subs Suffragettes in early 20th Century England to Frédérique Bedos’s manifesto documentary, Women and Men, With this semi-autobiographical feature, Olivier Assayas Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film denouncing today’s gender inequalities worldwide. (Personal Shopper) offers a vibrant, incisively crafted story Festival, this gripping drama by Ken Loach is set during of a young man’s artistic awakening in the politically the early days of the Irish Republican Army, when British We’ll head off the beaten tracks in the footsteps of French turbulent French student movement following the May 68 occupation of the Irish radicalised many a citizen and Secret Service undercover agents with the UK Premiere protests. Gilles, a young high school student, is taken in by caused some to take up arms. Driven by a deep sense of of the 3rd season of political thriller series The Bureau, and the political and creative turmoil of the times. Much like duty and a love for his country, Damien (Cillian Murphy) follow the trajectory of a young gay man escaping social his friends, he is torn between his radical commitment abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins determinism and bullying by the discovery of the arts in and his more personal ambitions. Down the line, they will his brother, Teddy (Pádraic Delaney), in a dangerous and Reinventing Marvin. ultimately need to make definitive choices in order to find violent fight for freedom. their place. Other journeys will embark us in the wake of great minds Sat 20 Jan 8.30pm (The Imitation Game, Hidden Figures), and ultimately reach Fri 19 Jan 8.45pm up to the stars with astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

Welcome on board! www.nightofideas.co.uk #nightofideas @ifru_london Hidden Figures The Imitation Thomas Pesquet, Thomas USA | 2016 | 126 mins | dir. Theodore Melfi, Game How to Become Pesquet, Space with Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kristen Dunst, Mahershala UK | 2014 | 113 mins | dir. Morten Tyldum, an Astronaut Correspondent Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell, Kimberly with Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Quinn, Kevin Costner | cert. PG | in English Matthew Goode | cert. 12 | in English Thomas Pesquet, l’étoffe d’un héros Thomas Pesquet, l'envoyé spatial FRA | 2016 | 72 mins | dir.s Jürgen Hansen & FRA | 2017 | 60 mins | dir.s Jürgen Hansen & Hidden Figures is the incredible untold During the winter of 1952, British Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff | cert. tbc | doc Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff | cert. tbc | doc story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. mathematician and war hero Alan Turing in French with EN subs in French with EN subs Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia (Benedict Cumberbatch) is arrested Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle and convicted by authorities for the then At 38, Thomas Pesquet is the youngest For six months French astronaut Thomas Monáe) – brilliant African-American criminal offense of homosexuality. Little French astronaut to be selected for a Pesquet shares his daily life on board women working at NASA, who served did officials know, they were actually 180-day mission in the International Space the International Space Station, from as the brains behind one of the greatest incriminating the pioneer of modern-day Station. We follow his physical and mental his scientific experiments to his more operations in history: the launch of computing. An intense and haunting preparation for seven years, in the most personal sentiments in the confinement astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning portrayal of a brilliant man, The Imitation legendary spacial Conquests Centres, of the station or facing the infinite achievement that restored the nation’s Game follows a genius who under nail- alongside Russian pilot, Oleg Novitskiy and void of space. This incredibly intense confidence, turned around the Space Race, biting pressure helped break the codes American astronaut, Peggy Whitson. documentary allows us to contemplate the and galvanised the world. The visionary of the Nazis with his invention, the Turing blue planet’ s beauty and to dream of one trio crossed all gender and race lines to Machine, thus saving thousands of lives Tue 23 Jan 3pm day travelling to space. inspire generations to dream big. during World War II. Tue 23 Jan 4.45pm Sun 21 Jan 8.40pm Mon 22 Jan 6.30pm Double bill with the two documentaries on Thomas Pesquet: £12, conc. £10 21 22

Suffragette Women and Men Reinventing The Bureau UK | 2015 | 106 mins | dir. Sarah Gavron, with Des femmes et des hommes Marvin Le Bureau des Légendes Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena FRA | 2014 | 105 mins | dir. Frédérique Bedos FRA | 2014 | Series 3, episodes 1&2 | 2x52 Bonham Carter | cert .12 | in English doc | in French with EN subs Marvin ou la belle éducation mins | showrunner Eric Rochant | directed by FRA | 2016 | 115 mins | dir. Anne Fontaine, Samuel Collardey | with Mathieu Kassovitz, Directed by Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane), From North to South, from Westernised with Finnegan Oldfield, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Léa Drucker Suffragette follows Maud (Carey Mulligan), cities to the most remote villages, gender Grégory Gadebois | in French with EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs | UK a young woman who becomes involved inequality persists worldwide. Giving Premiere with the early feminist movement in the an impactful picture of ‘herstory’, this Marvin Bijou (Finnegan Oldfield), a young first quarter of the 20th century. Maud and documentary by Frédérique Bedos offers gay boy from a working-class family in If you were hooked by The Bureau, rejoice, her fellow suffragettes run a campaign an in-depth look at the historical, political a small French village, suffers constant here comes the UK premiere of the new to give the right to vote to women in an and economic issues related to the bullying at school and home for being season! Based on real-life accounts increasingly brutal male-dominated discrimination of women through eloquent too sensitive and too feminine. A chance by former spies, this French addictive establishment. In the face of the societal testimonies, experts’ inputs and facts encounter with a drama teacher opens the series depicts a branch of clandestine stalemate, the movement is forced meticulously garnered around the world, doors to a world that offers him the chance undercover agents, dispatched in key underground and turns to radical action to and reveal surprising economic and social to escape his situation. A compelling and and hostile locations around the world. make its voice heard. advantages of women empowerment. searing chronicle by Anne Fontaine (The Offering a new perspective on intelligence Innocents), Reinventing Marvin is a free agencies and intricate geopolitical issues, Tue 23 Jan 8.30pm Wed 24 Jan 2pm adaptation of critically acclaimed novel by this third season centres on “Malotru” Edouard Louis, The End of Eddy. (Mathieu Kassovitz), who is taken hostage Followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Followed by a Q&A with director by ISIS. Abi Morgan Frédérique Bedos (tbc) Wed 24 Jan 6pm Wed 24 Jan 8.30pm Kids & Families

This winter at the Institut français, you’ll always find a good excuse to stay indoors! From our selection of fun films and magical tales to the Little Night, a series of interactive and multimedia events to keep the mind busy!

Ernest et Célestine en hiver Célestine Ernest et © Folivari CinéKids Screenings Kids Activities Enjoy the predicaments of a fox unable Let’s play, learn or image: to scare off the smallest chick in The watch short films in Big Bad Fox and Other Tales, follow the our Tuesday Fun Day adventures of Ernest & Celestine as they sessions, not to forget prepare for the winter ball or be amazed our Art Club, BookTube by the beauty of the winter wonderland in Club, T(h)inker Club, our C’est Noël special celebrations. Game Lab and Kids French Lab, where kids Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am can get creative or even learn French!

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Eric Baudelaire: Also Known As Jihadi Santa Madera by Cie Mpta Bêtes de Foire by Petit Théâtre des Gestes VU by Sacekripa

Eric Baudelaire's timely film traces a Welcome to an intimate circus, a space A delightful and suspense-filled miniature young man's path to radicalisation through tinged with nostalgia, full of ‘charm, circus spectacle exploring happiness, landscapes and court transcripts. Part of invention and fantasy’ (Télérama), where obsession and humanity, VU puts our Tate's cinema programme challenging the artistry, puppetry and object theatre daily routines under a magnifying glass, boundaries between art and the moving combine in an endearing spectacle. revealing our manias and showing us what image. we take for granted in a totally new light. www.mimelondon.com www.tate.org.uk www.mimelondon.com © Christophe Raynaud de Lage 16 – 20 Jan Barbican Centre 6 Dec Tate Modern 25 – 27 Jan Shoreditch Town Hall Santa Madera (in Spanish – ‘sacred wood’) Je Brasse de l’Air by L’insolite mécanique Les Arts Florissants & Emmanuelle de is inspired by indigenous South American Tesseract by Nacho Flores Negri rituals, with choreography that seems to hurl the artists through time and space, evoking the violence of combatants in a pagan power game.

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12 – 14 Jan Shoreditch Town Hall © Julien Joubert Stéphanie d'Oustrac & Nash Ensemble © Erik Damiano © Oscar Ortega Be transported into a mysterious world Mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac of shadow and light, where mechanical Combining circus, architecture, puppetry, Baroque Ensemble Les Arts Florissants, returns to the UK for an intimate recital installations come alive, illuminating video and live music, Tesseract is a surreal, famous for their complete cycle of at Wigmore Hall, singing Debussy's Magali Rousseau’s childhood dream of witty and gravity-defying adventure in Monteverdi's madrigals for which they Trois Poèmes and two Duparc's songs, a achieving flight. a shape-shifting landscape. With every won a Gramophone Award, returns to repertoire she is deeply familiar with. action played out in precarious situations, the Barbican Centre performing the last www.mimelondon.com the tension never slips. anthology of Monteverdi's sacred vocal www.wigmore-hall.org.uk music, Selva Morale e Spirituale. 23 – 27 Jan Barbican Centre www.mimelondon.com 13 Jan Wigmore Hall www.barbican.org.uk 26 – 28 Jan Jacksons Lane

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Cézanne Portraits The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in Jacques Mars Red Sky London The uncategorisable producer blends pop smarts with a playful approach to house- orientated experimentation, sampling kitchen utensils and various other everyday objects he finds along the way. Jacques creates in the moment so no two live shows are the same.

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Cézanne Portraits brings together for the 7 Dec Oslo Among France's finest purveyors of first time over fifty of Cézanne’s portraits Impressionists in London, French artists in churning stoner rock, the Bordeaux band from collections across the world, exile (1870–1904) is the first exhibition to Carla Bruni have built up a strong reputation beyond including works which have never been on map the connections between French and the borders of their home country. Over public display in the UK. British artists, patrons and art dealers the course of three albums, they've during a traumatic period in French history. become heavier while retaining their www.npg.org.uk unerring sense of melody. www.tate.org.uk Until 11 Feb National Portrait Gallery www.ourblackheart.com Until 7 May Tate Britain Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & 18 Dec The Black heart Bellboys Lo'Jo Les Talens Lyriques Soutine was one of the leading painters One of the most cherished and musically from Ecole de Paris and was seen by diverse bands on the World Music scene. Bruni has made a confident return with For the 350th anniversary of François many as the heir to Vincent van Gogh. This The sound of new album Fonetiq Flowers, French Touch, an album of classy covers Couperin's birth, the Barbican Centre major exhibition is the first time he has their 17th since their formation in Angers recorded with producer David Foster. It is a offers a half-day exploration of his works. been exhibited in the United Kingdom in in 1982, is enriched by collaborators like reminder that, before her time as France’s Some of his most expert performers, Les 35 years. Albin de La Simone and Erik Truffaz. first lady, Bruni had already established Talens Lyriques, will perform Trois Leçons her credentials as a musician and a fine de ténèbres by candlelight. www.courtauld.ac.uk www.richmix.org.uk singer. www.barbican.org.uk Until 21 Jan Courtauld Gallery 6 Dec Rich Mix www.unionchapel.org.uk 14 Jan Barbican Centre 9 Dec Union Chapel

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