Le Programme October – November 2017 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3–17 Performances & Talks 18–20 Projet Lumière(s) 20 61st BFI London Film Festival Tribute to Jeanne Moreau 25th French Film Festival South Ken Kids Festival 22 5 – 15 Oct 19 Oct – 17 Dec 2 – 9 Nov p.6 pp.16-17 pp.9-13 Kids & Families 23 We Support 24 We Recommend 25 French Courses 27 South Ken Kids Festival Impro! Suzy Storck La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 28 13 – 19 Nov 18 Nov 26 Oct – 18 Nov p.22 p.18 Gate Theatre p.24 General Information 29 front cover image: Redoubtable by Michel Hazanavicius Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases Le Correspondant In Between On Body and Soul FRA/BEL | 2016 | 85 mins | dir. Jean-Michel Ben Soussan, Bar Bahar Teströl és lélekröl with Charles Berling, Sylvie Testud, Jimmy Labeeu, Sophie PSE/ISR/FRA | 2016 | 102 mins | dir. Maysaloun Hamoud, with HUN | 2017 | 116 mins | dir. Ildikó Enyedi, with Géza Mousel | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura | cert. 15 Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider | cert. 18 in Hebrew & Arabic with EN subs in Hungarian with EN subs Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their genious Winner of the Young Talents Award in the Women in Marking a singular return for Hungarian writer-director plan to become popular: to host a German exchange Motion selection in Cannes this year, In Between follows Ildikó Enyedi after an 18-year gap, On Body and Soul tells student with a lot of style, preferably a hot girl. Too bad the lives of three strong, independent minded Israeli- the intriguing story of two slaughterhouse workers who for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. live an unusual love story in their shared dreams as a doe life hell. Away from the constraints of their families and enforced and a deer. When their oneiric affair is revealed to them tradition, they find themselves ‘in between’ the free by the company’s occupational psychologist, they struggle Sun 1 Oct 8.30pm and unfettered lives they’re aspiring to lead and the to make their dreams come true. Winner of the Golden Wed 4 Oct 4.15pm restrictions still imposed on them by a blinkered society. Bear at the 2017 Berlinale. FRENCHFILMFIRST Mon 2 Oct 6.30pm Mon 2 Oct 8.40pm EXCLUSIVE Wed 4 Oct 6.30pm Tue 3 Oct 6.30pm Wed 4 Oct 8.40pm 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases I Am Not a Witch Loving Vincent Félicité UK/FRA | 2017 | 98 mins | dir. Rungano Nyoni, with Gloria UK/POL | 2017 | 95 mins | dir. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh FRA/BEL/SEN/DEU/LBN | 123 mins | dir. Alain Gomis, with Huwiler, Chileshe Kalimamukwento, Travers Merrill Welchman, with Saoirse Ronan, Douglas Booth, Chris O’Dowd Véro Tshanda Beya, Papi Mpaka, Geatan Claudia and The cert. tbc | in English cert. 12 | in English Kasai Allstars | cert. tbc | in Lingala & French with EN subs After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula The world’s first fully painted animated feature, Loving Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told Vincent explores the life and controversial death of Vincent in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into van Gogh, told by his paintings and by the characters her 14-year old son falls victim to an accident. To save a white goat. As she navigates through her new life, that inhabit them. Beginning a year after his demise, him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the this portrait of the artist is built via a series of interviews of electric Kinshasa – a world of music and dreams consequences of seeking freedom. conducted by Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) – a regular where she’ll cross paths with Tabu… Winner of the Silver model for the artist’s portraits – who becomes obsessed Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Berlinale. Fri 20 Oct 4pm, 8.40pm Fri 27 Oct 6.15pm with van Gogh’s death, caused by a bullet wound to the Sat 21 Oct 6.30pm, 8.40pm Sat 28 Oct 4pm stomach. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Loving Fri 10 Nov 8.50pm Mon 20 Nov 8.40pm Sun 22 Oct 4pm, 8.30pm Sun 29 Oct 6.15pm Vincent sets out to explore one of art’s great mysteries. Sat 11 Nov 3.30pm Tue 21 Nov 6.30pm Mon 23 Oct 6.30pm Tue 31 Oct 6.30pm Wed 15 Nov 6.30pm Wed 22 Nov 4pm Tue 24 Oct 8.40pm Wed 1 Nov 4pm Fri 20 Oct 6.30pm Thu 26 Oct 6.30pm Thu 16 Nov 8.40pm Thu 23 Nov 4pm Wed 25 Oct 6.30pm, 8.40pm Thu 2 Nov 4pm Sat 21 Oct 4pm Fri 27 Oct 4pm Fri 17 Nov 8.45pm Thu 26 Oct 4pm, 8.40pm Sun 22 Oct 6.15pm Sun 29 Oct 4pm Sun 19 Nov 8.40pm Mon 23 Oct 8.40pm Mon 30 Oct 6.30pm Tue 24 Oct 6.30pm Wed 1 Nov 6.30pm Wed 25 Oct 4pm See also Gauguin p.11 Ciné Lumière New Releases The Killing of a Marie Curie: The Lost in Paris Sacred Deer Courage of Knowledge Paris pieds nus FRA/BEL | 2017 | 83 mins | dir.s Fiona Gordon & Dominique IRL/UK | 2017 | 121 mins | dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, with Nicole Marie Curie Abel, with Emmanuelle Riva, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan DEU/FRA/POL | 2016 | 100 mins | dir. Marie Noëlle, with Pierre Richard | cert. tbc | in French & English with EN subs cert. tbc | in English Karolina Gruszka, Sabin Tambrea, Charles Berling | cert. 15 in French, German, English & Polish with EN subs Fiona, a small town Canadian librarian, receives a The comfortable life of Steven (Colin Farrell) and Anna letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Nicole Kidman) and their two children is shaken when Marie Noëlle depicts the most turbulent years in the life (Emmanuelle Riva) living in Paris. Fiona hops on the first Steven forms a friendship with Martin (Barry Keoghan), of a genious woman, Marie Curie. First woman to receive, plane only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an a fatherless 16-year-old boy. Introducing Martin to his not only one, but two Nobel prizes, she challenged avalanche of spectacular disasters, she meets Dom, a family gradually throws their world into turmoil and France’s male-dominated academic establishment both seductive egotistical homeless guy who won’t leave her forces Steven to make a shocking sacrifice or run the risk as a scientist and a woman and changed the face of the alone. A fun and hectic tale of three peculiar people lost of losing everything. world forever. in Paris. Fri 10 Nov 4pm, 6.30pm Mon 20 Nov 6.20pm Tue 7 Nov 6.30pm* Mon 27 Nov 8.45pm Sat 25 Nov 4.15pm, 8.45pm Sat 11 Nov 6pm Tue 21 Nov 8.50pm Fri 24 Nov 6.30pm Wed 29 Nov 4pm Sun 26 Nov 6.30pm Sun 12 Nov 8.45pm Wed 22 Nov 8.50pm 8.40pm 6.30pm Tue 28 Nov 8.45pm Tue 14 Nov 8.40pm Thu 23 Nov 6.20pm Sun 26 Nov 8.30pm Thu 30 Nov 4pm Thu 30 Nov 6.30pm Wed 15 Nov 4pm Fri 24 Nov 4pm Fri 17 Nov 6.20pm Sat 25 Nov 6.20pm *Screening as part of the French Film Festival, followed Continues in December Sat 18 Nov 8.30pm Mon 27 Nov 6.20pm by a Q&A with director Marie Noëlle Sun 19 Nov 6.15pm Thu 30 Nov 8.30pm Continues in December 05 06 Ciné Lumière 61st BFI London Film Festival Ciné Lumière teams up again with the BFI to present the 61st BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express®. Expect some of the most anticipated French movies alongside a selection of European and world cinema, thus making Ciné Lumière expand beyond borders and offering audiences a total immersion into cinema. > screenings are listed p.30 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: www.bfi.org.uk/lff 5 - 15 October image: Reinventing Marvin image: Reinventing Did You Miss It? Special Screenings Zoology The Odyssey Carmen Les Demoiselles Zoologiya L’Odyssée Opera broadcast from Teatro dell’Opera de Rochefort RUS/FRA/DEU | 2016 | 91 mins | dir. Ivan I. FRA | 2016 | 122 mins | dir. Jérôme Salle, di Roma Tverdovsky, with Natalia Pavlenkova, Dmitry with Lambert Wilson, Audrey Tautou, Pierre 4 acts | music: Georges Bizet | conductor: The Young Girls of Rochefort Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko | cert. 15 Niney | cert. PG | in French with EN subs Jesùs López-Cobos | stage director: Valentina FRA | 1967 | 125 mins | dir. Jacques Demy, in Russian with EN subs Carrasco | orchestra: Teatro dell’Opera with Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, 1946. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his di Roma | performers include: Veronica Michel Piccoli, Georges Chakiris, Gene Kelly Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha lives family live a dream life in their house Simeoni, Roberto Aronica | 190 mins cert. PG | in French with EN subs with her mother in a small coastal town. overlooking the Mediterranean sea. But 1 interval: 30 mins | sung in French with EN As she struggles for independence, she Jacques yearns for adventures beneath subs Starring real-life sisters (Catherine Deneuve has to endure the absurd reality of her life the sea.