Bulletin Culturel

May 2010

f o c u s HOT DOCS

INSIDE OUT

CONTACT - PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

Year after year, human activities build up the metropolis. Among all the banal yet needed lives, a few people emerge far above. For its 2010 edition, Contact Photo Festival presents its artists within the fruitful legacy of a world-known Media theorist, Torontonian Marshall McLuhan. Contents “All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, PAGE 3 - Festivals ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us PAGES 9-10 - Music untouched, unaffected, unaltered.”(*) PAGES 11-12 - Theatre The documentary program at HotDocs Festival offers a major focus PAGE 13 - Dance on producers and directors from France. The diversity of film production from France is a great asset for the more appealing than PAGE 13 - Cinema ever Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Inside Out. If you would like to PAGE 14 - Speakings rest from two-dimensional images, theatrical performances await PAGE 15 - Television your attendance! Joël Savary, Cultural Attaché

(*) “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.” Cambridge, Mass MIT Press, 1994. First published 1964. MAY 2010

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Primary Exhibition: Contact Festival invites Marina Gadonneix, French photographer. She is being part of the collective exhibition The Brothel Without Walls with Susan Anderson, Evan Baden, Douglas Coupland, Jessica Dimmock, Clunie Reid, Stefan Ruiz, Joachim Schmid and Christopher Wahl.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE MAY 1-31 15 KING'S COLLEGE CIRCLE, MAIN FLOOR OF LAIDLAW WING 416 978 1838 WWW.UTAC.UTORONTO.CA

Featured Exhibition: TPW Gallery invites Eric Baudelaire, French photographer. His art is part of the Centre Pompidou and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain’s collections.

GALLERY TPW MAY 6TH - JUNE 5TH OPENING MAY 6TH, 7PM -10PM 56 OSSINGTON AVE TUE – SAT 12 – 5PM 416 645 1066 [email protected] WWW.GALLERYTPW.CA

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ALWAYS MOVING FORWARD

Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography from The Wedge Collection, is a selection of images by contemporary photographic artists of African origin.

Through a wide range of photographic practices, Always Moving Forward speaks to a world in which migrations, economies and cultures have all gone global.

Among the artists five of them have a connection with France, Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Hassan Hajjaj and Bouchra Khalili (Maroc), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon) and Mohamed Camara GALLERY 44 (Mali). MAY 1-29

401 RICHMOND ST W, SUITE 120 TUE - SAT 11AM - 5PM 416 979 3941 [email protected]

MIDDLESEA

MiddleSea features the North American premiere of acclaimed artist Zineb Sedira’s eponymous video installation and accompanying photographs. A French woman of Algerian parentage, Sedira uses the sea as an allegory for the ideological contests of nations and the displacement of individuals.

Opening reception held in conjunction with the release of Prefix Photo 21. Accompanied by an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist. PREFIX INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MAY 6–JULY 24

401 RICHMOND ST W, SUITE 124 DU MERCREDI AU SAMEDI 10H-17H 416 591 0357 [email protected]

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UKRAINIAN JOURNEY To better understand Ukraine, the MAY 6 - JUNE 1 not-for-profit organization Altemus ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE SPADINA Photography in the Soviet Union was commissioned a team of young 24, SPADINA ROAD an instrument of the state used to Eastern European photojournalists, GALERIE PIERRE LÉON document achievements and define members of the Sputnik Photos ideologies of the communist party. collective, to travel the country and FREE ADMISSION MONDAY TO SATURDAY This exhibition provides a capture its ethos. contemporary example of the role OPENING RECEPTION BY INVITATION photography plays in the quest for a MAY 5 post-Soviet identity.

THIERRY DE DUVE that we are in the midst of an rhetoric discourse established by emphatic "return of the medium." Darget around his images. Clement The medium seems to be nowhere Cheroux is curator for photography and everywhere. at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

De Duve is a professor of aesthetics GLADSTONE HOTEL and art history at Université Lille III MAY 3RD, 7PM in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. His research and writing are focused on 1214 QUEEN ST W a reinterpretation of modernism. WWW.GLADSTONEHOTEL.COM Marcel Duchamp's readymade and its implications for aesthetics have long been a central focus of his work. For the Joan and Martin Goldfarb’s summer university, York University MOCCA invites Thierry De Duve, a famous TUESDAY MAY 6TH,7:30PM modern and contemporary art 952 QUEEN ST.WEST teacher. His lecture is about the 416-395-0067 (MOCCA) medium in arts: When did the YORKU.CA/FINEARTS/SUMMERINSTITUTE Medium Disappear? CLEMENT CHEROUX De Duve posits that within recent years, the field of visual arts has In the late nineteenth century, just been described as being in the after the discovery of X rays by midst of two seemingly Roentgen, Louis Darget, a retired incompatible states. On the one military and occult enthusiast, hand, critics such as Rosalind Krauss made numerous attempts to record have argued that we are now in a his thoughts on a photographic “post-medium” condition. On the plate. The lecture will focus on the other hand, many critics suggest

5 HOT DOCS APRIL 29 - MAY 9 BABIES NÉNETTE KINGS OF PASTRY Thomas Balmès Nicolas Philibert Chris Hegedus et D.A. Pennebaker

A visually stunning and joyful A captivating study of an enigmatic Sixteen top chefs, three intense chronicle of the lives of four of the animal and our relationship to her, days, and one chance at France's world's newest human inhabitants – NÉNETTE asks us what we can learn top pastry honour: the Meilleur in Mongolia, Namibia, San from an orangutan, and what she Ouvrier de France. Frosting flies as Francisco, and Tokyo – from first can teach us about ourselves. documentary legends D.A. breath to first steps, on a journey Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus at once universal and amazingly THURSDAY, MAY 6TH, 7PM serve up this epic battle for sweet original. SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 4:30PM victory. Bon appétit! ISABEL BADER THEATRE THURSDAY, APRIL 29 6:30 PM 93 CHARLES STREET WEST WEDNESDAY, MAY 5TH, 6:30PM WINTER GARDEN THEATRE BLOOR CINEMA 189 YONGE STREET WE DON'T CARE ABOUT 506 BLOOR STREET WEST FRIDAY, MAY 7TH, 11AM FRIDAY, APRIL 30 1:45 PM MUSIC ANYWAY ISABEL BADER THEATRE ROM THEATRE Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz 93 CHARLES STREET WEST The line separating music and noise WAR GAMES AND THE MAN is blurred in this showcase of Tokyo's WHO STOPPED THEM explosive avant-garde music scene. Dariusz Jabłoński From radical turntablism to a simple, amplified heartbeat, sound During the Cold War, Polish Colonel collides with image to offer a Ryszard Kukliński spied for the CIA, frenetic montage of the cityscape. revealing Russia's secret plans to invade Western . Through his TUESDAY, MAY 6TH, 9:45PM act of betrayal, Kukliński saves his ROYAL CINEMA beloved homeland, but is forced 608 COLLEGE ST W into exile. THURSDAY, MAY 8TH, 11H45PM BLOOR CINEMA FRIDAY, MAY 7TH, 6:45PM 506 BLOOR STREET WEST ROM THEATRE SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 7PM EYES WIDE OPEN - ALLIANCE CUMBERLAND CINEMAS EXPLORING TODAY'S SOUTH 159 CUMBERLAND STREET AMERICA INTO GREAT SILENCE DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE Gonzalo Arijón HUBERT SAUPER Philip Gröning In this epic journey, Uruguayan The monks of the Grande Devastating and prescient, this filmmaker Gonzalo Arijón travels Chartreuse, home to the Catholic award-winning film is a shocking across the continent uncovering its Church's strictest order, dedicate look at how globalization reduced a current social and political progress. themselves, in permanent silence, country to ruin. It's compulsory After 500 years of exploitation and to the service of God. This viewing for anyone enjoying the repression in the region, Arijón mesmerizing and poetic chronicle of privileges of the Western lifestyle. presents an empowered voice of a spiritual devotion provides a rare, new South America. FRIDAY, APRIL 30TH, 11:15AM moving, and transformative ISABEL BADER THEATRE experience. THURSDAY, MAY 6TH, 9:30PM 93 CHARLES STREET WEST SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 2PM SUNDAY, MAY 2ND, 1:30PM ROM THEATRE INNIS TOWN HALL 2 SUSSEX AVENUE

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OUT OF THE BLUE (LA THE KING OF ESCAPE (LE ROI SURPRISE) DE L'ÉVASION) Alain Tasma Alain Guiraudie

Veteran French filmmaker Alain A gentle giant of a tractor salesman Tasma assembles an award-winning in the southwest of France, Armand cast in this hard-hitting mysterious Lacourtade plays the game of drama about finding love in a place hanging out in roadside cruising you never thought to look. spots, but would prefer to settle down with Mr. Not-So-Bad. He uses Feeling dispirited with her cash to stop the rape of a teenager, marriage, schoolteacher Marion only to find himself on a renegade leaves her husband on the night of adventure with the girl, an their 20th anniversary. But starting adventure that’s tender, sexual and anew proves more emotionally totally outlandish. arduous than Marion expected with TORONTO PREMIERE an unruly teenage daughter, a MONDAY MAY 24 AT 7:15PM AT FAMILY TREE (L’ARBRE ET LA husband who can’t let go, and a ROYAL MUSEUM FORÊT) dwindling bank account. Olivier Ducastel and Jacques THE STRING (LE FIL) Martineau CANADIAN PREMIERE Mehdi Ben Attia AUDIENCE AWARD, LUCHON In a family of tree planters, how ironic that no one seems able to INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL see the forest for the trees. Meet FRIDAY MAY 21 AT 7:15PM the Mullers, cooped up in the family ISABEL BADER THEATRE home to grieve the recent loss of one of their own. But nowhere to THE BOYS IN THE POOL (LES be found is the head of this GARÇONS DE LA PISCINE) dysfunctional unit, Frédérick, who chooses not to attend his own son’s Louis Dupont funeral. From the court to the pool, here's a take on another rarity. Set in Frédérick will finally reveal to his France, Louis Dupont’s beautiful family the brutal ghosts that have documentary shines a light on three haunted his past since the Nazi gay men training to compete in the occupation of France. Set against international synchronized the radiant backdrop of the French swimming event at the Eurogames After his father’s death, 30-year-old countryside, and featuring powerful in Barcelona. With the support of Malik (Antonin Stahly) returns to his performances by some of France’s their tough-love coach Isabelle, the family home in Tunisia to support most distinguished talent, the men train under a vigorous and comfort Sara (Claudia latest cinematic opus from Inside schedule and bond as the Cardinale), his loving, but slightly Out favourites, Martineau and competition approaches. overbearing, mother. Ducastel, is an intimate family portrait that unites three When Malik meets Bilal (Salim generations in their struggle to Kechiouche of 3 Dancing Slaves and carve out a place in the family. MONDAY MAY 24 AT 4:45PM Criminal Lovers), his mother’s ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM hunky handyman, it’s pretty clear CANADIAN PREMIERE that the pair are headed straight to JEAN VIGO PRIZE, OFFICIAL bed. SELECTION, 2010 BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CANADIAN PREMIERE FRIDAY, MAY 28 AT 7:15PM AT ROYAL WEDNESDAY MAY 26 AT ISABEL ONTARIO MUSEUM BADER THEATRE

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GOING SOUTH (PLEIN SUD) SATURDAY MAY 29 AT 7:15PM AT gay teenager on a search for his Sebastien Lifshitz ISABEL BADER THEATRE first date; then, with a lonely old woman who needs help rearranging In the heat of summer in France, 27- FUNNY FELIX (DRÔLE DE her furniture, and finally with a single mother who spends most of year-old Sam embarks on a road trip FÉLIX) in his retro Ford, heading due south. her time ferrying her three young Jacques Martineau et Olivier Along the way he meets two children between their respective Ducastel siblings, wideeyed Mathieu and fathers. aimless Léa, who decide to hop in Felix is an HIV-positive gay man who for the ride. lives with his partner Daniel in the THIS PROGRAM IS RATED 14A northern French town of Dieppe. PAY WHAT YOU CAN Taking roads less travelled on their Felix’s mother has recently died and journey to Spain, the three SATURDAY MAY 29 AT 7:30PM AT he has just lost his job, although he wanderers grow to know, confront BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE remains optimistic, deciding to and love one another. But Sam make a pilgrimage to the south of harbours a secret, which puts France to track down his missing distance between him and the father. others. Hitchhiking from Dieppe to Marseilles, he has a series of life- NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE changing encounters, first with a BOOK FAIR OF SUDBURY MAY 6-9 With the theme “Adventures in homage to mothers on Mother’s reading”, the French book fair, le Day. Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury, will welcome more than 100 writers The Salon du livre’s youth from across from May, 6 to programming is abundant: about 9, 2010 at the Sudbury Arena and 150 events for children and youths other downtown venues. will be held at the fair and in many schools across the region. Some writers in attendance will contribute to the festival’s Three writers from French Ontario, gastronomically themed events. Marguerite Andersen, Éric Four Literary Dinners will be Charlebois and Michel Ouellette, inspired by this year’s literary will be honoured in an original themes: Acadian and Haitian fashion during happy hour events. literature, children’s literature and, of course, a literary and culinary HTTP://LESALONDULIVRE.CA/

TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL MAY 8-9 In partnership with Toronto Public Library in their massive flagship location, Toronto Reference Library. MAY 8TH AND 9TH 2010 TORONTO REFERENCE LIBRARY In 2009, 10,500 people visited the 789 YONGE ST., TORONTO, CANADA festival on the weekend of May 9th 416-533-9168 and 10th, engaging over 300 ADMISSION TO TCAF IS FREE. exhibitors consisting of authors, artists, publishers, from 6 different countries including France, Germany, Japan, and England. 8 M u s i c

LES VOIX DU COEUR MAY 5-6

“Les Voix du cœur” is performing De rêveries en aventures…, a musical escape into the land of dreams.

For the last sixteen years, Les Voix du cœur, a mixed ensemble of four part harmony, has been singing French songs, mostly from the popular repertoire of Canada and WED 5TH AND THU 6TH HUGH'S Europe. Directed by Manon Côté ROOM and accompanied by Gabriel Drouin 2261 RUE DUNDAS OUEST on piano, this dynamic group has (DUNDAS OUEST SUBWAY STATION) conquered the heart of the TORONTO francophone community in Toronto.

After a season celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, Les Voix du cœur once again combines songs, theatre and dance staged with originality.

FRÉDÉRIC CHAMPION MAY 7

French organist Frédéric Champion including First Prize at the Minoru won the top prize at the inaugural Yoshida Tokyo Competition and First Canadian International Organ Prize and the Bach Prize at the Competition (CIOC), held in International Gottfried Silbermann , October 2008. He was Competition in Leipzig. also voted the audience favourite to win the Richard Bradshaw Audience FRIDAY, MAY 7TH, 7:30PM prize. As First Prize winner, he was METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH awarded $30,000, received a three- 56 QUEEN STREET EAST year career management contract, and a CD recording with ATMA Classique.

Solo recital features the great organ The Roy Thomson Hall date is part works by J.S. Bach and other of Champion's 2009 North American masters. fall tour. A native of Lyon, France, Champion has won many top awards

9 EMILYN STAM FRIDAY MAY 7 Emilyn Stam (piano) and her 7:30PM musicians (double bass, violin, AFT SPADINA trumpet) will play compositions by GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON the late Olivier Schroer. A nice way 24 SPADINA ROAD to end the “Classiques de poche 2009-2010” cycle. $10 FREE ADMISSION FOR STUDENTS AND AFT MEMBERS

L’ÂME DES AMÉRIQUES

This cabaret from last year FRIDAY MAY 28 represents a first meeting between 7:30PM Patricia Cano and Yves Doyon, AFT SPADINA cofounder of the En Bref band. GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON These 2 Sudburian artists will tour 24 SPADINA ROAD from the Great North, where Yves’ music originates, to the South, $10 crossing the , Cuba, FREE ADMISSION FOR AFT MEMBERS Jamaica down to Peru.

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FRAGMENTS OF USELESS LIES AT THE TFT

In his brand new piece, Fragments the life and speech of these two of Useless Lies, Tremblay juxtaposes boys. In turn, we witness their two eras, with his two protagonists various romantic, dramatic, and FROM APRIL 28TH TO MAY 15TH mingling in parallel worlds — one in enigmatic encounters and BERKELEY STREET THEATRE - 1957 and the other in 2007. Two exchanges. Is “to love” a verb that UPSTAIRS eras, two teens, Jean-Marc and conjugates in the imperative or the 26 RUE BERKELEY Manu, living what they find to be an imperious? TO BOOK : 416 534 6604 OR unbelievable experience. WWW.THEATREFRANCAIS.COM By Michel Tremblay Both of them think they are the only one in their group like With Marie-Hélène Fontaine, themselves, “and suddenly you Christian Laurin, Olivier L’Écuyer, were there to save me.” Gisèle Rousseau, Michel Séguin et Jean-Simon Traversy Tremblay paints a portrait of two boys who differ from society’s expectations, “little 15-year-old smart-alecks”. Nothing is taboo in 10 CROQUIS URBAINS

From a poem collection published in THURSDAY MAY 13 2005, this play is about the drifting FRIDAY MAY 14 and questions of a man lost in a SATURDAY MAY 15 city. “He looks for what he is”, as AFT SPADINA the director says. GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON 24 SPADINA ROAD

MARJOLAINE BEAUCHAMP

A modern and sensible poet, THURSDAY MAY 20 Marjolaine will be accompanied by 7:30PM her polyvalent musician, for a show AFT SPADINA about love, self-discovery, the way GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON we treat older persons, madness 24 SPADINA ROAD and family mourning.

LA SAGOUINE BY ANTONINE MAILLET

Antonine Maillet is a writer and The French theatre compagny playwright born in Canada from Pléiades performs La Sagouine in Acadian roots. She is well-known both French and English with Viola because of the hit of her play La Léger playing La Sagouine and Sagouine. directed by John Van Burek. She taught Folklore and literature at Laval University ant then in MAY 14-29, ENGLISH Montreal from 1971 to 1976. She MAY 1 - JUNE 5, FRENCH also worked for Radio-Canada in THE BERKELEY STREET THEATRE Moncton. DOWNSTAIRS In 1979 her work Pélagie-la- 26 BERKELEY STREET Charrette won the Prix Goncourt, HTTP://WWW.PLEIADESTHEATRE.ORG/ giving her the distinction of being BOXOFFICE.PHP the only non-European to be awarded the prize until that date. She writes many very popular novels and plays. Her novel Pélagie- la-Charrette describes the Great Upheveal of 1755 (the deportation of Acadians by British). The history and the folklore of Acadia inspire her. 11 D a n c e

COMPAGNIE PASCOLI MAY 26

Anne-Marie Pascoli entered the plastic arts and the architecture. In Grenoble Conservatoire in 1968 and the same way, she continues after a complete training in questioning written pieces and is classical dance turned her attention permanently researching to contemporary dance. Up until improvisation and direct 1985, as her career developed, she composition. Anne-Marie Pascoli has TALK: MAY 26TH, 6PM blended form, education and found the roots of this research in SHOW: MAY 26TH, 8PM interpretation with choreographers different movement techniques as AFT SPADINA such as Hervé DIasnas, K. Crémona the “release techniques” and 24 SPADINA ROAD or Miriam Berns. elements of the Body-Mind- (416) 922-2014 Centering. Since 1996, she has developed a Anne-Marie Pascoli will be on tour strong link between her in Canada with projects in Montréal choreographic research and other and Québec. She will be in Toronto ways of composing such as the at the Alliance Française.

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ENTRE LES MURS (THE CLASS) TRAIN EN FOLIE (RUNAWAY) LAURENT CANTET CORDELL BARKER

A well-intentioned teacher’s classroom ethics are put to the test Happy passengers have a great time when his students begin to on a crowded train, oblivious to the challenge his methods. unknown fate that awaits them around the bend. 2008, France, 128 min. In French with English subtitles. 2009, NFB, 9 min. Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival Petit Rail d'Or for Best Short Film, 2008. Cannes International Film Festival 2009.

MAY 6, 7:30 PM PRECEDED BY NFB CINEMA

$6, $4 FOR STUDENTS, SENIORS, NFB FRONT ROW MEMBERS 12 S p e a k i n g s

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN AT THE POWER PLANT MAY 19

The celebrated Swiss artist Thomas The Power Plant invites him for a WEDNESDAY MAY 19TH, 7PM Hirschhorn (born in 1957, Bern) lecture about his latest Amsterdam- YORK QUAY CENTRE discusses his recent Amsterdam- based project: The Bijlmer Spinoza- 235 QUEENS QUAY WEST based project, The Bijlmer Spinoza- Festival (2009). STUDIO THEATRE Festival (2009). Since the 1980s, FREE FOR MEMBERS this Paris-based former graphic 12$ FOR NON-MEMBERS designer has developed a radical 416.973.4000 sculpture and installation method which creates monumental works from humble materials like cardboard and packing tape to engage viewers in conversation about philosophy and global politics. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain (2006), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2007), Museo Tamayo, Mexico (2008), and the Gladstone Gallery, New York (2009). Hirschhorn has received the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2001) and the Joseph Beuys Prize (2004).

CONFÉRENCE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ D'HISTOIRE DE TORONTO 19 MAI As part of its lecture series, the Latin. What are the reasons behind Société d’Histoire de Toronto this linguistic destiny, punctuated presents : by several periods of renaissance, for which no equivalent can be LE LATIN EST MORT, VIVE LE found in history? LATIN ! WEDNESDAY MAY 19 AFT SPADINA By Jean-Claude Duthion, director of GALERIE PIERRE-LÉON the AFT 24 SPADINA ROAD AT 7 PM For centuries, Europe had a common tongue which was the FREE ADMISSION national language of no country: IN FRENCH 13 THE BULLETIN CULTUREL OF THE CONSULATE PRESENTS ITS Television SELECTION OF TFO FRENCH CINEMA PROGRAM

LACOMBE LUCIEN SAME OLD SONG NOT ON THE LIPS LOUIS MALLE ALAIN RESNAIS ALAIN RESNAIS A small town in the south-west of Odile is looking for a new, bigger A musical drawing room farce set in France, summer of 1944. Having apartment. Her younger sister Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte failed to join the resistance, the 18 Camille, who has just completed flirts with men but loves her year old Lucien Lacombe, whose her doctoral thesis, fall in love with husband Georges, wishing he were father is a prisoner in Germany and an estate agent who is responsible more demonstrative... He's whose mother dates her employer, for Odile's apartment and who has negotiating a deal with an works for the German police. He an elder employee. American, Eric Thomson, who turns then meets France Horn, the France. 1997. 121 mins. With out to be Gilberte's first husband daughter of a rich jewish tailor. Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi and from an annulled and secret France, 1974. 135 mins.With Pierre André Dussollier. stateside marriage. Blaise, Aurore Clément and TUESDAY, MAY 18TH, 9PM France, 2003. 115 mins. With Löwenadler Holger WEDNESDAY, MAY 19TH, 12:30AM Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi and THURSDAY, MAY 6TH, 9 PM MONDAY, MAY 24TH, 12:50AM Audrey Tautou. FRIDAY, MAY 7TH, 12:31 AM GOODBYE, CHILDREN TUESDAY, MAY 25TH, 9PM LOUIS MALLE WEDNESDAY, MAY 26TH, 12:30AM A French boarding school run by MONDAY, MAY 31ST, 12:30AM priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of a top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret. France, 1987. 103 mins. With Gaspard Manesse, Francine Racette and Raphaël Fejtö.

THURSDAY, MAY 20TH, 9PM FRIDAY, MAY 21ST, 1PM LA VIE EST UN ROMAN FRIDAY, MAY 21ST, 12:31AM ALAIN RESNAIS On early 20th century, a count MILOU IN MAY begins the construction of a castle. LOUIS MALLE He proposes to his guests to An old lady died in a huge familial experience an endless happiness. residence in the South-west of France, 1983. 106 mins. France. His son, Milou, organizes a With Vittorio Gassman, Géraldine family meeting. But, we are in May Chaplin and Sabine Azéma. 1968, and France is upside down. France, 1990. 108 mins. With Miou- TUESDAY, MAY 11TH, 9PM Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel WEDNESDAY, MAY 12TH 12:30AM Duchaussoy. FRIDAY, MAY 14TH 1PM MONDAY, MAY 17TH, 12:54AM THURSDAY, MAY 27TH, 9PM FRIDAY, MAY 28TH, 1PM FRIDAY, MAY 28TH, 12:31AM

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JUNE 11-20 / TORONTO LUMINATO This June 11-20, 2010, an estimated 1,200 artists from 30 countries will be in Toronto to celebrate the creative spirit that unites us all, for audiences of over 1 million Festival-goers. French and Francophone artists such as Lo’Jo, Salif Keita, Rachid Taha, Karim Saada, Bassekou Kouyate will be present.

WWW.LUMINATO.COM

JUNE 17-19 / HARBOURFRONT CENTRE FOUND IN TRANSLATION The inaugural festival focuses on writers from all over the world whose works is in French. Performances in English at Harbourfront Centre, and in French or in other languages at various cultural centres around the city.

WWW.READINGS.ORG JUNE 21 / TORONTO FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE

On June 21, along with more than 100 countries, people get together to celebrate music in the spirit of fun and laughter. Launched in France in 1982 by the French Department of Culture, the Fête de la Musique is now an international event held in over 100 countries on all five continents on June 21 (the Summer Solstice).

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STUDY IN FRANCE MONDAY MAY 3

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