Le Programme June – July 2019 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3-21 Talks 22-23 Music 24 Workshop 24 Spotlight on the Tackling Pollution: Schooner Refugee Week Comédie-Française Tara on the Thames 16 – 20 June 2 June – 21 July 11 June pp. 12-13 Kids & Families 25 p.14 p.22 We Support 26 We Recommend 27 French Courses 28 La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 30 In the Mood for Food Launch of FranceDance UK Comédie-Française: General Information 32-35 28 June – 4 July Special Screening of Yuli: The Damned pp. 19-21 The Carlos Acosta Story 19 – 25 June 10 July p.26 p.10 Barbican front cover image: Varda by Agnès Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases In Safe Hands Serial (Bad) Wedding 2 Amazing Grace Pupille Qu’est-ce qu’on a (encore) fait au Bon Dieu ? USA | 2018 | 87 mins | dir. Allan Elliott and Sydney Pollack, FRA/BEL | 2018 | 107 mins | dir. Jeanne Herry, with Sandrine FRA | 2018 | 98 mins | dir. Philippe de Chauveron, with with Aretha Franklin, Reverend James Cleveland | cert. U Kiberlain, Gilles Lellouche, Elodie Bouchez | cert. 15 Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby, Ary Abittan, Medi Sadoun in English in French with EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs In 1971, Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, Abandoned at birth, baby Theo embarks on a journey Six years after the smashing hit Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait brought producer Jerry Wexler, her backup singers, and through the Child Welfare Services, which will lead him au Bon Dieu ?, the Verneuil extended family returns for the legendary Atlantic Records rhythm section to The temporarily to the care of Jean until a suitable home is another round of uproarious (and slightly politically New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles to found for him. Alice, 41, is unable to bear children and incorrect) comedy. Claude and Marie Verneuil are facing record an album of gospel music before an enthusiastic has been struggling to adopt a child for ten years. In Safe a new crisis: their four son-in-laws have decided to leave live audience. The result, Amazing Grace, went on to Hands recounts how Theo and Alice’s paths come across. France with their wives and children to try their luck become one of the biggest albums of Aretha Franklin’s Nominated for 7 César Awards in 2019. abroad. Unable to imagine their family far from them, career and the best-selling Gospel record of all times. Claude (Christian Clavier) and Marie (Chantal Lauby) will An extraordinary look at a key moment in American Sat 1 June 6.20pm Tue 4 June 6pm stop at nothing to hold them back. musical and social history, and an invaluable record of Sun 2 June 8.20pm Wed 5 June 8.30pm one of America’s greatest artists led by Oscar-winning Mon 3 June 8.20pm Thu 6 June 4pm Sat 1 June 9pm Thu 13 June 4pm filmmaker Sydney Pollack. Sun 2 June 6.15pm Mon 17 June 8.30pm Tue 4 June 8.20pm Sun 23 June 8.20pm Sat 1 June 4pm Sat 15 June 8.20pm Fri 7 June 8.45pm Thu 27 June 8.50pm Mon 3 June 6.20pm Thu 20 June 6.20pm Mon 10 June 8.40pm Wed 5 June 4pm Sat 22 June 9pm Thu 13 June 8.40pm 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases Gloria Bell A Season in France Sunset USA | 2019 | 101 mins | dir. Sebastián Lelio, with Julianne Une saison en France HUN | 2019 | 142 mins | dir. László Nemes, with Susanne Moore, Sean Astin, Jeanne Tripplehorn | cert. 15 | in English FRA | 2017 | 100 mins | dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, with Wuest, Juli Jakab, Levente Molnár | cert. 15 | in Hungarian Sandrine Bonnaire, Eriq Ebouaney, Aalayna Lys | cert. tbc with EN subs Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcée in French with EN subs spending her days at a straight-laced job and her nights Following on from his BAFTA and Oscar-winning on the dance floors. After meeting Arnold (John Turturro) Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s soul-searching film focuses on masterpiece Son of Saul, writer-director László Nemes on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected the plight of undocumented asylum seekers desperately returns with another exquisite piece of cinema, Sunset. new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love trying to find sanctuary in Europe. A refugee from the 1913, Írisz has boarded a train to Budapest to become a and the complications of dating. Sebastián Lelio (Oscar- Central African Republic, Abbas (Eriq Ebouaney) lives in milliner in her late parents’ hat making shop. But it soon winning A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience) remakes his France with his two young children. Traumatised by the transpires that she has a different motive: investigate on 2013 film Gloria by moving the story from Chile to the USA loss of his wife during their flight, he finds solace with the disappearance of her brother. Her journey deep into and casting the great Julianne Moore in the title role. Carole (Sandrine Bonnaire). the dark underbelly of Hungary’s turbulent society begins on the eve of the First World War. Fri 7 June 4.30pm, 6.40pm Thu 13 June 6.30pm Wed 12 June 8pm Tue 18 June 4pm Sat 8 June 4pm, 6.10pm Fri 14 June 8.10pm Fri 14 June 6pm Wed 19 June 7.30pm Fri 14 June 3pm Sun 9 June 7.30pm Sat 15 June 6.15pm Sat 15 June 4pm Thu 20 June 4pm Wed 19 June 4.30pm Mon 10 June 6.30pm Sun 16 June 8.20pm Sun 16 June 6.15pm Sat 22 June 4pm Sat 29 June 7pm Tue 11 June 8pm Fri 21 June 8.30pm Mon 17 June 6.30pm Tue 25 June 8pm Wed 12 June 4pm As part of Refugee Week (pp. 12 & 13) The preview screening on 12 June will be preceded by a masterclass with director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (see p.9) Ciné Lumière New Releases Amin Late Night Vita & Virginia FRA | 2018 | 91 mins | dir. Philippe Faucon, with Moustapha USA | 2019 | 102 mins | dir. Nisha Ganatra, with Emma UK | 2019 | 110 mins | dir. Chanya Button, with Gemma Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Marème N’Diaye | cert. tbc Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow | cert. 15 | in English Arterton, Elizabeth Dibicki | cert. 12 | in English in French & Wolof with EN subs The timely Late Night chronicles the life of Katherine By the 1920s, Virginia Woolf has reached the apex of Premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes and Newbury (Emma Thompson), a female late-night talk modern world literature with her landmark novel, Mrs. London Film Festival in 2018, Philippe Faucon’s film show host who has reached a crossroads in her career. Dalloway, but nothing seems to soothe the darkness follows Amin (Moustapha Mbengue), a Senegalese Her ratings have begun to slip, and her producer has that plagues her. Poems and letters of admiration from immigrant who works as a hired hand for a building informed her that she’ll be replaced by a decades- Vita Sackville-West lead to a courtship that is hardly company based in a Paris suburb. He sends the little younger male shock jock. In an impulsive move, she hires concealed from their respective husbands and friends. money he earns to his wife and family he had to leave Molly (Mindy Kaling) to join her all-male writing staff in an A daring celebration of an unconventional bond, and behind. When he encounters Gabrielle (Emmanuelle effort to make her comedy more diverse. a vivid exploration of gender, sexuality, creativity and Devos), a middle-aged French divorcée, an intimacy passion, Vita & Virginia details the love story and the develops between the two and they gradually open up Fri 28 June 4pm Sat 6 July 6.20pm ensuing friendship, which inspired Woolf to write the about their lives. Sat 29 June 9pm Sun 7 July 8.40pm groundbreaking novel Orlando. Sun 30 June 7pm Tue 9 July 8.45pm Fri 21 June 6.30pm Tue 25 June 6pm Mon 1 July 8.30pm Thu 11 July 6.30pm Fri 5 July 6.15pm Tue 9 July 6.30pm Sat 22 June 8pm Wed 26 June 4pm Tue 2 July 8.30pm Mon 15 July 6.30pm Sat 6 July 2pm, 8.30pm Wed 10 July 4.30pm Sun 23 June 6.20pm Thu 27 June 4pm Wed 3 July 4pm Thu 18 July 8.45pm Sun 7 July 4pm Thu 11 July 8.40pm Mon 24 June 7pm Thu 4 July 8.30pm Sat 20 July 5pm Mon 8 July 8.20pm Mon 15 July 8.40pm Fri 5 July 4pm Wed 24 July 8.50pm As part of Refugee Week (pp. 12 & 13) The screening on 5 July will be followed by a Q&A with As part of Women Shaping the World series director Chanya Button and costume designer Lorna Mugan (tbc) 05 06 Ciné Lumière New Releases Knife + Heart Diego Maradona Varda by Agnès Un Couteau dans le coeur UK | 2019 | 120 mins | dir. Asif Kapadia, with Diego Maradona FRA | 2019 | 115 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Agnès Varda FRA/CHE | 2018 | 102 mins | dir. Yann Gonzalez, with Vanessa doc | cert. tbc | in English doc | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran | cert. 18 | in French with EN subs Selected at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Asif Kapadia’s In her last film, multi-awarded director Agnès Varda documentary tells the wild and unforgettable story of takes a seat on a theatre stage and offers insights into Paris, Summer 1979.