Le Programme April – May 2017 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3–12 Beyond Words Festival 13 Talks 14–15 Walter Presents: Reborn + Q&A Heal the Living Wrong Elements + Q&A Music 15 with actor Bruno Debrandt 28 Apr – 10 May with director Jonathan Littell 26 Apr p.5 29 Apr p.7 p.7 Kids & Families 17 We Support 18 We Recommend 19 French Courses 20 My Life as a Courgette Beyond Words Live French James Thierrée: The Toad Knew La Médiathèque 21 5 – 21 May Literature Festival 3 – 7 May p.5 11 – 16 May p.18 p.13 Sadler’s Wells General Information 23–27 front cover image: Frantz by François Ozon Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases © Pacific Northwest Pictures Dancer The Salesman Neruda UK/RUS/UKR/USA | 2016 | 85 mins | dir. Steven Cantor, with Foroushandeh CHL/ARG/FRA/ESP/USA | 2016 | 107 mins | dir. Pablo Larraín, Sergei Polunin, Jade Hale-Christofi | cert. 12 | doc IRN/FRA | 2016 | 125 mins | dir. Asghar Farhadi, with Shahab with Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro | cert. 15 in English, Russian & Ukrainian with EN subs Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi Tari, Mina Sadati in Spanish & French with EN subs cert. 12A | in Farsi with EN subs Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin It’s 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile. An took the dance world by storm and became the Royal In Tehran, a married couple, is forced to move out of their inspector (Gael García Bernal) is assigned to hunt down Ballet’s youngest ever principal, but resigned at the peak apartment which threatens to collapse. They quickly find the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in of his career, aged 25. Urban rebel, iconoclast, airborne a new flat, but when an incident having to do with the his own country for joining the Communist Party. In this angel, Sergei is transforming the shape of ballet as we previous tenant occurs, their life is turned upside down. story of a persecuted poet and his implacable adversary, know it. But virtuosity comes at a high cost. Here is an Asghar Farhadi’s latest film, The Salesman won the Best Neruda becomes aware of his own heroic possibilities: a unprecedented look into the life of a complex young man Screenplay and Best Actor award (for Shahab Hosseini) chance to become both a symbol for liberty and a literary who has made ballet go viral. in Cannes last year and the 2017 Best Foreign Language legend. Film Oscar. Mon 3 Apr 6.30pm Fri 7 Apr 4pm, 8.50pm Fri 14 Apr 6.30pm Tue 4 Apr 6.30pm Mon 3 Apr 8.30pm Sat 8 Apr 6.15pm Sat 8 Apr 4pm, 8.50pm Sat 15 Apr 4pm Wed 5 Apr 8.50pm Tue 4 Apr 8.40pm Sun 9 Apr 8.30pm Sun 9 Apr 6.20pm Sun 16 Apr 8.50pm Thu 6 Apr 4pm Wed 5 Apr 3.45pm, 6.20pm Tue 11 Apr 8.40pm Mon 10 Apr 8.30pm Mon 17 Apr 4.20pm Thu 6 Apr 6.15pm, 8.45pm Thu 13 Apr 8.40pm Tue 11 Apr 6.30pm Wed 19 Apr 6.30pm Fri 7 Apr 6.20pm Wed 12 Apr 4pm, 8.40pm Thu 20 Apr 6.15pm Thu 13 Apr 6.30pm 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases © Dan Budnik Raw Cézanne and I I Am Not Your Negro Grave Cézanne et moi FRA/USA | 2016 | 93 mins | dir. Raoul Peck, with Samuel L. FRA/BEL | 2016 | 99 mins | dir. Julia Ducournau, with FRA | 2016 | 117 mins | dir. Danièle Thompson, with Jackson | cert. tbc | doc | in English Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Gallienne, Alice Pol | cert. tbc cert. 18 | in French with EN subs in French with EN subs With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of Everyone in Justine’s family is a vet and a vegetarian. This 19th century period drama charts the long friendship the book Baldwin never wrote. A radical narration about At 16, she’s a brilliant and promising student. When and eventual fallout between impressionist artist Paul race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations she starts at veterinary school, she enters a decadent, Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne), who was born into a of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the wealthy family but struggled to make a living as a painter, and Medgar Evers. Whilst it is partly anchored in the freshers week, she undergoes a carnivorous hazing and Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet), who came from a struggle for equality in the 50s and 60s, I Am Not Your ritual, and an unbidden taste for raw meat begins to grow modest family but achieved fame and prosperity as a Negro is about what it means to be black in America in her… politically-engaged novelist. today. Viewer discretion advised: strong and realistic depictions Fri 14 Apr 2pm, 8.50pm Sun 23 Apr 8.40pm Fri 21 Apr 6.30pm of sex, nudity, violence and gore. Sat 15 Apr 8.40pm Wed 26 Apr 8.50pm Sat 22 Apr 6.30pm Sun 16 Apr 4.25pm Thu 27 Apr 6.30pm Mon 24 Apr 8.30pm Fri 14 Apr 4.30pm Wed 19 Apr 8.45pm Mon 17 Apr 2pm, 8.30pm Mon 1 May 6.15pm Tue 25 Apr 8.40pm Sat 15 Apr 6.30pm Thu 20 Apr 4pm Wed 19 Apr 4pm Thu 4 May 8.40pm Wed 26 Apr 4pm Sun 16 Apr 6.45pm Sat 22 Apr 4.15pm Fri 21 Apr 4pm Sat 6 May 9pm Thu 27 Apr 8.50pm Mon 17 Apr 6.30pm Mon 24 Apr 6.30pm Sat 22 Apr 8.40pm Sun 7 May 6pm Tue 18 Apr 8.50pm Thu 27 Apr 4pm Ciné Lumière New Releases Heal the Living Suntan My Life as a Courgette Réparer les vivants GRE/GER | 2016 | 104 mins | dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Ma vie de courgette FRA | 2016 | 104 mins | dir. Katell Quillévéré, with Tahar with Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Dimi Hart FRA/CHE | 2016 | 66 mins | dir. Claude Barras, with Gaspard Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval | cert. 12A cert. 18 | in Greek & English with EN subs Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud | cert. tbc | in French in French with EN subs with EN subs As the newly appointed doctor of a tiny island, middle- Adapted from Maylis de Kerangal’s acclaimed novel, aged Kostis spends a dreary winter alone. When summer Critically acclaimed and adapted for the screen by Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a gripping, complex arrives, the island has turned into a thriving, wild vacation Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Tomboy), Claude Barras’s ensemble drama with a superb cast, about lives spot with nude beaches and crazy parties. He meets first animated feature is a funny, engaging film with connected by an organ transplant case. After an accident, Anna, a young and flirty tourist who lets him hang out an unexpected depth and sense of beauty for kids and 19-year-old Simon is in a coma, brain-dead and kept with her group of hard partying friends, and becomes adults alike. After his mother’s disappearance, Courgette alive by machines at a hospital in Le Havre. Meanwhile, in obsessed with her. moves into a foster home with orphans of his age. At Paris, a woman awaits an organ transplant that will give first struggling to find his place in this strange, at times her a new lease on life. Fri 28 Apr 6.30pm Wed 3 May 6.30pm hostile, environment, Courgette eventually learns to trust Sat 29 Apr 3.50pm Thu 4 May 4pm others and might find true love. Fri 28 Apr 4pm, 8.40pm Fri 5 May 8.30pm Mon 1 May 4.10pm Fri 5 May 4pm Sat 29 Apr 9pm Sat 6 May 6.50pm Tue 2 May 8.40pm Sat 6 May 3.20pm Fri 5 May 6.30pm Thu 11 May 4pm Sun 30 Apr 6.40pm, 8.50pm Sun 7 May 8.30pm Sat 6 May 2pm*, 5.30pm Sat 13 May 2pm* Mon 1 May 2pm, 8.40pm Mon 8 May 8.30pm Sun 7 May 11am*, 4.30pm Tue 16 May 6.45pm Tue 2 May 6.30pm Tue 9 May 6.30pm Mon 8 May 7pm Wed 17 May 4pm Wed 3 May 4pm, 8.40pm Wed 10 May 8.30pm Tue 9 May 8.40pm Thu 18 May 4.15pm Thu 4 May 6.30pm Wed 10 May 4.20pm, 7pm Sun 21 May 11am* See also Corniche Kennedy, p.8 and Beyond Words * Screenings as part of CinéKids (£5) Festival, p.13 05 06 Ciné Lumière New Releases Frantz The Red Turtle The Other Side of Hope FRA/GER | 2016 | 113 mins | dir. François Ozon, with Pierre La Tortue rouge FIN/GER | 2017 | 98 mins | dir. Aki Kaurismäki, with Sherwan Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner | cert. tbc | in French & JPN/FRA/BEL | 2016 | 80 mins | dir. Michael Dudok de Wit Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Janne Hyytiäinen | cert. tbc German with EN subs cert. PG | silent in English, Arabic, Finnish with EN subs Mainly filmed in sumptuous black and white, François Through the story of a shipwrecked sailor on a tropical Winner of the Silver Bear in Berlin, Aki Kaurismäki’s new Ozon's romantic drama follows a young German woman island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds, The Red film tells two stories that eventually converge.