Bulletin Culturel January 2009

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M83 in concert (as an opening concert)

Editorial During Holidays, with relatives and friends, you enjoy to share meals surrounded by friendship. Just like in « the Grain » film, in this small town of South of , Contents different communities gather around immigrants opening a new restaurant and celebrate the country’s wealth build on their labor. Thanks to Mongrel Media contest, win the DVD Music - PAGE 3 for free! For our pleasure, we will go to theaters to attend Conference - PAGE 4 Cannes Golden Palm awarded « The Class ». Anthony Exhibitions - PAGE 6 Gonzalez was born on the French Riviera; he leads his M83 band which plays before « the Killers »: buy your ticket DVD releases - PAGE 6 ASAP! Anthony « likes melancholy…looking back to the past Cinema - PAGE 9 », he recreates a ’80s vibe with electro sounds. Femin Kuti plays afro-beat with mixed jazz and soul. For great pop, go Television - PAGE 11 and listen to Marianne Dissard, her videos are also screened in many museums and galleries. Seasons’s Greetings!

Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel Cultural calendar - January 2009 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 Television The King is Dancing

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Television Dvds Cinema Television Les La Reine La paix Casque destinées Soleil musclée de d’Or sentimen - - Carolyn Mc Askie tales Secret of the grain

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Conference Music Cinema Television Music Memory in Femi Kuti The Class Coup de Marianne two steps Torchon Dissand Conference Exhibition Cinema Translating Memoria Teasured in harmony Island 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 DVDs Cinema Television Music Television Le A boire Hôtel du Opening Un Nouveau Nord concert of: dimanche Protocole M83 à la cam - pagne

26 27 28 29 30 31 Cinema Television Television A boire Je rentre Capitaine à la Conan maison Conference La sale affaire MMuussiicc Femi Kuti January 15th

4 years after the DVD Live at during his youth, he decided as Shrine, Femi Kuti returns with a early as 1986 to free himself up generous, powerful and timeless and create his own band. new album, continuing to explore Treading in the footsteps of his fa - and push back the frontiers of mous father, Femi has shown a Afrobeat, an exploding mixture of strong commitment to social and jazz, funk, and traditional African political causes throughout his ca - music, invented by his famous fa - reer. ther: Fela Kuti. Femi is now the standard bearer for Nigeria's funky, feisty Afrobeat sound. His unique concert in Toronto can certainly be considered as the must-see event of this winter. From the ghettos of Lagos to the palaces of corrupt politicians, Day by Day takes us through the wind - FEMI KUTI ing roads of African paradox, in 13 titles that grab your belly, your feet, Thursday January 15th your heart and your head. Doors at 8:00 pm Whilst always respecting his musi - cal heritage, Femi has refined over more than twenty years, an Opera House afrobeat with soul-jazz nuances 735 Queen St. East that is entirely his own. Toronto If he accompanied Fela’s musicians Marianne Dissard January 18th A lyricist, poet and activist, docu - vited to the Musée D'Art Contempo - mentary filmmaker and multimedia rain de Marseille (Walker Art Cen - performance artist, singer Marianne ter) and to Foundation Cartier in Dissard was born within sight of the Paris. Pyrénées mountains in the South of France but has lived in the Ameri - Marianne, no longer hiding behind can West since the age of 16. a camera or her words, will present Calexico fans will recognize Mari - her own texts in front of the anne as Madame to Joey Burns' Toronto audience… lovestruck gold digger on Calexico's hit single, "Ballad of Cable Hogue”,

MARIANNE DISSARD but for others, she’s one of the "Filles Fragiles", right beside Jane Sunday, January 18 Birkin and Françoiz Breut, among many others… At 7:00 pm Her lyrics are sung by Françoiz Breut, Howe Gelb and Naïm Amor. At the Dakota Tavern As a multimedia performance artist, 249 Ossington Avenue she was exhibited at the Musée Toronto d'Art Moderne, Paris (Hiver de L'Amour), then got subsequently in -

3 M83 Opening concert of ‘The Killers”, January 23

Extremely popular in the USA, M83 is an electronic-rock music group consisting initially of Anthony Gon - zalez and Nicolas Fromageau, and was formed in Antibes, France in 2001. After their second album re - leaser in 2003, Fromageau decided As the opening concert of to quit the band, and so Gonzales ‘The Killers” show in record mainly on his own, with the Toronto: help of a few other musicians, three others albums. M83 Friday, January 23 At 7: 30 pm The latest, entitled “Saturdays = Youth”, took M83 on an American At the Air Canada Centre tour, and they will open “The 40 Bay St. Killers” concert in Toronto in January. Toronto, Ontario M5J 2X2

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Memory in two steps Wednesday, January 14

Memory in two steps With Danièle Caloz As part of the monthly lec - ture series organized by Step II: Memory and History the Société d’Histoire de -Is memory enough for the histo - Toronto: rian? -What does one mean by “devoir de Memory in two steps mémoire”? -History: a problematic and incom - Wednesday, January 14 plete reconstruction. 6:30 pm -Some beautiful lies of History Please, note that Step I : Our New looking glasses for our His - Memory , will be presented on Jan - AFT Spadina tory… uary 5th during a special event or - 24 Spadina Road ganized by the Société d’Histoire de History is a succession of lies on Toronto. which everybody is in agreement. Free admission Please contact Danièle Caloz : dani - - Bonaparte [email protected] for the lo - cation.

4 Translating In Harmony, Poetry and Song Thursday, January 15

With Claude Tatilon, Christine Klein- “Just between us, let’s agree, Lataud and Ray Ellenwood. Ladies n’gents : For us to know we’re not, we’d have to be Thursday, January 15 Translation is always a dangerous Intelligent.” 6:30 pm tight rope walk between sound and sense, especially with poetic trans - Georges Brassens (translation: Ray Pierre-Léon Gallery lation. And what about when things Ellenwood) become even more complicated by AFT Spadina the demands of melody as in the 24 Spadina Road translation of songs? Free admission Three translators invite you to dis - cuss poetic translation, focusing on In French. the songs of George Brassens. No tin ears or dimwits need apply. The audience will be invited to partici - pate…

La sale affaire Friday, January 30 Collaboration, Resistance and of the colonial project. This discus - the Georges Boudarel Affair. sion analyses the debates sur - With Katie Edwards rounding the affair, its implications for the “memory” of the Indochina war, and its place within the broader memorial context. La sale affaire On February 13th, 1991, just as he Collaboration, Resistance was about to present his paper for and the Georges Boudarel a conference on Vietnamese cur - Affair. rent affairs at the Sénat in Paris, Professor Georges Boudarel was in - Friday, January 30 terrupted by a small group of vet - Katie Edwards is a PhD candidate in erans, who accused him of having History at th3e :U3n0iv eprmsity of Toronto been a ‘political commissar’ in Viet under the supervision of Professor Minh Camp 113 during the In - Eric JenningRs.o Sohme i3s 0cu3r rently writ - dochina war, and for therefore hav - ing her dAisFsTe rStaptaiodni,n a which ad - ing “blood on his hands” given the dresses2 t4h eS puabdliicn am eRmooard y of the high mortality rate. The “Boudarel Indochina war in France. Affair” had broken, provoking an in - tense public debate centred not Free admission only on Boudarel’s actions (which he qualified as anticolonial resist - ance), but on the nature of the In - dochina war and the relative merits

5 EExxhhiibbiittiioonnss Memoria From January 16 to Feburary 7 “Memoria serves as an archive of Sabrina Maltese received her B.F.A. tangible remembrances of a place from Ryerson University in June that will eventually fade in my 2008. She currently lives and works memory. These images have an in - in Toronto. tentional silence to them, as if one must tip toe through the house. Memoria Emphasizing their fragility, the sub - An exhibition of photo - jects are photographed in a way to graphs by Sabrina Maltese demonstrate the feeling of a pas- sing glance. These photographs at - tempt to capture both fleeting The physical being may be gone From January 16 to moments come and gone, and con - but their memories linger in the February 7 templative moments that become remnants of their lives. With this Pierre-Léon Gallery significant in the passing of time. project, I have collected images of AFT Spadina an era. With this project I have col - 24 Spadina Road When people pass away, all that re - lected memories of my grandpar - mains are their possessions, the ents’ home, against the inevitable things they leave behind. march of time.” Free admission

DDVVDD rreelleeaasseess La Reine Soleil In stores January 6th Princess of the Sun phantine Island. With the help of A film by Philippe Leclerc Prince Tut, Akhesa runs away, hop - With Coralie Vanderlinden, David ing to find her mother. In defiance Scarpuzza, Arnaud Léonard of danger, the two teenagers travel Animation down the Nile, cheat death among Running time: 77 min. the burning desert dunes, and 2005 bravely confront the fearsome mer - cenary Zannanza and the priests who conspire to overthrow the . With innocence their only weapon, Akhesa and Set in during the overcome all kinds of tests and or - 18th dynasty, follows Akhesa, a deals, and encounter an extraordi - ravishing 14-year-old princess, who nary destiny that will unite them doesn't have the slightest notion forever. that she will one day rule Egypt. When this adventure begins, the impetuous young girl rebels against La Reine Soleil her father, Pharaoh Akhenaton. She A film by Philippe Leclerc refuses to live confined within the royal palace's walls and wants to In stores January 6th discover why her mother, Queen , has been exiled to Ele -

6 Secret of the Grain In stores January 6th La Graine et le Mulet At the port of Sete Mr. Slimani, a A film by Abdellatif Kechiche tired sixty year old, drags himself With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, towards a shipyard job which has Faridah Benkhetache become more and more difficult to Comedy drama cope with as the years go by. He is Running time: 151 min. a divorced father who forces him - self to stay close to his family de - spite the scissions and tensions which are easily sparked off and which financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life work this dream soon becomes a and recently, everything seems to reality... Or almost... make him feel useless; a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set César Award 2008: Best Film up his own restaurant. However it César Award 2008: Best Director appears to be an unreachable dream given his meagre, irregular salary which is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to La Graine et le Mulet realise his ambition. But he can still A film by Abdellatif dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family which Kechiche gradually recompacts around this project which comes to symbolise In stores January 6th the means to a better life. Thanks to their ingeniousness and hard

Le nouveau protocole In stores January 20th The New Protocol The peaceful world of Vosges A film by Thomas Vincent forester Raoul Kraft is shattered With Clovis Cornillac, Marie-Josée when he learns that his 18-year- Croze, Dominique Reymond old son has just died in a car ac - Thriller cident. The police are certain Running time: 90 min. 2007 there are no suspicious circum - stances, but a short while later Raoul receives a visit from a strange young woman, Diane, who gives him some disturbing information. Before his death, The events that follow merely Raoul’s son was taking part in confirm Diane’s suspicions... early trials of a new drug for a large pharmaceutical company. Diane’s theory is that the side- LE NOUVEAU effects of the drug may have re - PROTOCOLE sulted in the death of the young man. Unsure whether to take A film by Thomas Vincent Diane seriously, Raoul agrees to In stores January 20th accompany her to Paris to investigate the matter further.

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The Class Since Friday, January 16th The Class (Entre les murs) A film by Laurent Cantet “Entre les murs” won the With François Bégaudeau, Golden Palm Award at the Franck Keita, Esmeralda Ouer - 2008 Cannes Film Festival. tani, Rachel Régulier... Comedy drama Year : 2008 Running time : 128 min.

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let THE CLASS discouragement stop them from A film by Laurent Cantet trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and In theatre since attitudes often clash in the January 16 classroom, a microcosm of con - temporary France… 9 Treasured Island Saturday, January 17

Treasured Island (L’Ile aux Trésors) This dream team weighs anchor A film by Alain Berbérian one morning in the year of grace With Gérard Jugnot, Alice Taglioni, seventeen hundred and something, Jean-Paul Rouve its sights set on Treasure Island and Running time: 100 min. its inlets of rosy sands. 2006 CINESAMEDI COMES BACK: There is… A buried treasure on an island in the West Indies. A pirate Treasured Island missing his right leg, without a A film by Alain Berbérian boat, a bloodthirsty traitor without Adapted from Robert a treasure map. An unscrupulous, Louis Stevenson’s novel. big-time gambling baroness, a praying mantis without a dime, but Saturday, January 17th with a boat. A fearless, brainless young man with the treasure map At the NFB Cinema locked somewhere in his failing 150 John Street memory. A drunkard doctor, fortu - nately a specialist of failing mem - Free for children ory and other atypical forms of amnesia. Adults: 5$

A boire January 21 and 28 A boire to get over the hump. What a mix: A film by Marion Vernoux alcohol, love, mutual support… With Emmanuelle Béart, Atmen Kélif, Edouard Baer Comedy 2004 Runnig time: 90 min A boire A film by Marion Vernoux

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Thursday, January 1st, at 9:00 pm Set in 17th Century France, “The King Is Dancing” depicts the life of The King is Dancing Jean-Baptiste Lully and his rela - 2000 tionship with King Louis XIV of By Gérard Corbiau France. The rise of King Louis and With Benoit Magimel, Boris his growing influence in the court are shown through the elaborate Terral, Tchéky Karyo dance routines and the maturing of Running time: 108 min. Louis from a pawn of his mother to the full glory of the Sun King. Monday, Januray 5, at 9:00 pm Jean Barnery is the pastor of a small village in Charente. Les destinées sentimentales Shortly after separating from his 2000 wife Nathalie, he meets Pauline. By Jean and Pauline marry and re - With , Em - treat to an alpine village where manuelle Béart, Isabelle Hup - they live happily for a few pert years. But the world is chan- Running time: 180 min. ging fast, with war and eco - nomic disaster just around the corner...

Tuesday, January 6, at 9:00pm Courbevoie, 1971. Julien Bouin, a Le Chat former typographist, and his wife 1971 Clemence, who used to perform By Pierre Granier-Deferre in a circus, hardly talk to each With Jean Gabin, Simone Si- other in their small house, soon gnoret, Annie Cordy to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives Running time:86 min. affection to, he becomes the ob - ject of Clemence's anger.

Jeudi 8 Janvier 2009, à 21h In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are re - Casque d’Or laxing with their ladies. One of 1952 them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" Un film de Jacques Becker (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man Roland be - Avec Simone Signoret, Serge longs to the jealous kind, and Reggiani et Claude Dauphin Leca himself has his eye on her. Durée: 96 min. A story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque. 11 Thursday, January 15, at 9:00 pm Jean, a deserter from the French army arrives in the port of Le Le Quai des Brumes Havre where, he meets and falls 1938 in love with a young woman, By Marcel Carné Nelly. Jean's fortunes take a turn With Jean Gabin , Michèle Mor - for the worse when he makes a gan, Michel Simon stand to protect Nelly from her Running time: 87 min. guardian, Zabel, and a former ad - mirer, both of whom are ruthless crooks.

French West Africa, 1938. Lucien Saturday, January 17, at 9:00 pm Cordier () is the policeman in charge of the small, Coup de Torchon mostly native-inhabited village 1981 of Bourkassa. He is put upon by By Bernard Tarvernier everyone, not least his wife With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huguette (Stéphane Audran), Huppert and Jean-Pierre Marielle and by everyone else in town. Running time: 128 min. Then one day, the worm turns.

Thursday, January 22, at 9:00 pm Two young lovers Renée and Pierre check into the Hôtel du Hôtel du Nord Nord in Paris, near to the canal Saint-Martin, with the intention of 1938 committing suicide together. By Marcel Carné Pierre cannot bring himself to go With Louis Jouvet, Arletty et through with it and, having Annabella wounded Renée, he flees... Running time: 105 min.

Saturday, January 24, at 9:00 pm Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his Un dimanche à la campagne country house. Every so often, his By Bernard Tavernier son Gonzague comes to visit him With Sabine Azéma, Louis with his young family. One late Ducreux, summer Sunday in 1912, the cus - Running time: 90 min. tomary visit is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Ladmiral’s unpredictable daughter, Irène... Friday, January 30, at 9:00 pm After delivering the final speech of Je rentre à la maison the dying monarch in Ionesco's 2001 "Exit the King," a French theater By Manoel De Oliveira actor learns that his wife, daugh - With Catherine Deneuve, Michel ter, and son-in-law have been Piccoli killed in a car accident. Running time: 90 min.

In an era of increasingly mecha - Saturday, January 31, at 9:00 pm nized warfare, battle-bred French commander Conan and his troops Capitaine Conan continue to fight as warriors, bat - 1996 tering their opponents on the By Bernard Tavernier Balkan Front with all the savagery With , Samuel and terror of hand-to-hand combat Le Bihan, Bernard le Coq while contemptuously flouting or - Running time: 126 min. ders from their superiors. 12