Bulletin Culturel December 2008 Le Ballet Créole Editorial Contents The European Film Festival Lights dim and so do the Cinema Halls. We enjoyed so many beautiful moving feature films, meetings and new friendships while speaking all the European different languages. With age, such a great age, Dance - PAGE 3 is a shared wisdom over ruling us, Europeans? The Museum Cinema - PAGE 4 landscape in Toronto is changing dramatically with the spectacular openings of the Gardiner Museum, the Crystal Conference - PAGE 9 ROM and the AGO which will be soon followed by the Aga Exhibitions - PAGE 11 Khan Foundation for Islamic Art. Beyond the beauty of Architecture, how will those object collections shine in their Music - PAGE 11 new jewel cases ? The Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the Television - PAGE 13 University of Toronto partnering with AGO, invites you to get a fresh look on those treasures – whatever object or objects you crave for. May that period of the year be the time for you to adjust to Winter and the Light coming from a Happy New Year. Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel Cultural Calendar - December 2008 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cinema Cinema Cinema Conference Dance Dance A Chris - The Killer Cinema Images of From Le Ballet Le Ballet Créole Créole mas Tale Le Diable life - Jurassic Park to probable - Smokefree Television Cinema - - ment Rothko’s Chapel La femme Céline et Fly by Max mon - d’à côté Julie vont Rossinant Amour Front Lines Also on Dec. 6 en bateau 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Television Cinema Television Dance Television Quai des Vivement Les temps Television The Candi - Vive la changent Orfèvres dimanche La religieuse date DIF’FRANCE Conference Cinema (see on Conference French Wine The Dog, Stree : Product of page 6) Also Dec. 13 the General corner ad - and the a Civilisation ventures Birds 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Conference Television Exhibition Mallarmé Week-end Faces, Places Until January 9 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 DDaannccee Le Ballet Créole December 5, 6 and 7 Ballet Creole presents this wonder - ful rendition of Handel’s holiday classic. Aretha Franklin, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Patti Austin and Gladys Knight lend their soulful Le Ballet Créole voices to this festive mix of popular contemporary dance and African- Caribbean forms. Glorious Soulful Messiah History of Ballet Creole Active on Dec. 5 and 6 at 8:00 pm the Canadian dance scene since Dec 7 at 3:00 pm August 1990, Ballet Creole com - prises both a professional ensemble Harbourfront Centre of dancers and musicians and a School of Performing Arts. While fo - Fleck Dance Theatre cusing on the traditional and con - (formerly Premiere Dance temporary performing arts of the Theatre) Caribbean and Africa, Ballet Creole 207 Queens Quay West , aims to establish a dynamic new Toronto ON artistic tradition in Canada through "creolization" or fusion of diverse dance and music traditions. Vive la DIF’FRANCE ! December 12 and 13 A unique program of dance and French music featuring the chore - The Art of Time ography of Doug Varone and the Ensemble presents: music of Claude Debussy, César Franck, Jacques Brel & Olivier Mes - saien’s Quartet for the End of Time. Vive la DIF’FRANCE! December 12 and 13 At 8:00 pm Choreography of Doug Varone Harbourfront Centre Martin Tielli Vocals Fleck Dance Theatre Rob Piltch Guitar (formerly Premiere Dance Jonathan Goldsmith Piano Theatre) George Koller Bass Steven Sitarski Violin 207 Queens Quay West , Yegor Dyachkov Cello Toronto ON James Campbell Clarinet Andrew Burashko Piano Tickets $25-$39 Peggy Baker Dancer 3 CCiinneemmaa The Killer Since November 28 The Killer Christmas Eve in Paris. Leo Zim - killer face to face and to broker a By Cédric Anger merman is a businessman who strange deal. With Gilbert Melki, Grégoire lives for his beloved little Colin, Mélanie Laurent daughter’s smile. Outwardly, his Running time: 91 min. life is exemplary. However, when Dimitri Kopas walks into his office, The Killer pretending to be a normal client, Leo understands that a contract is By Cédric Anger out on his head and that the young man has come to town to Since November 28 kill him. Overcome with anxiety and paranoia, no longer able to sleep, Leo decides to meet the A Christmas Tale Since November 28 A Christmas Tale Years ago, Abel (Jean-Paul Rous - a donor? What follows is a scato - By Arnaud Desplechin sillon) and Junon (Catherine logical romp through the dysfunc - With Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Deneuve) had a child, Joseph, tion of this middle-class family. As Amalric, Jean-Paul Roussillon who died of a rare genetic condi - they attempt to reconcile the past Comedy drama tion. Junon has just discovered and plan the future, their own pri - Running time : 143 min. she is suffering from the same vate tragedies silently fester be - disease. Her only hope is to find tween them. a bone-marrow donor among the members of her family. Arnaud Desplechin gives more Her surviving children lead sepa - than a nod to Charles Dickens's rate lives from one another, but A Christmas Story in his new film, each is scarred by Joseph's Un Conte de Noël. In this master - death. The eldest, Elizabeth fully articulated drama, simmering (Anne Consigny), is a reclusive tensions threaten to turn the holi - playwright. Henri (Mathieu Amal - day season into a vitriolic Grand ric) is a raging alcoholic who Guignol for the Vuillard family. relishes confrontation. Elizabeth effectively banished him from the family years ago and has not spo - ken to him since. Ivan (Melvil A Christmas Tale Poupaud), the youngest, is the By Arnaud most unaffected of the three. Desplechin On Christmas Day, the family will The Vuillards are a complicated reunite, and Junon will reveal the Since November 28 family, touched by an old tragedy details of her future. Will she un - that casts a pall over their lives. dergo chemotherapy or search for 4 Fly By Rossinant December 1st Fly by Rossinant The Bulgarian Grand Opera com - ships of the company –a twisted Directed by Georgi Stoev pany is on a European tour. Lack puzzle of the past love affairs and With: Vasil Denev, Itsko Fintsi, of funds means they travel on an present envy. Music by Goran Bregovic old dilapidated bus. During their Bulgaria journey the newest member of the 2007 Running time: 90 mins. Fly By Rossinant Directed by Georgi Stoev Monday, December 1st At 7:00 pm A the Toronto French School orchestra –the harebrained tim - 318 Lawrence Avenue panist Teddy- gradually falls for East the young Maria, who is conduc - tor’s lover. The whole company watches their budding love affair. Free admission These two young people in the first stages of falling in love are drawn into the complex relation - Max mon Amour December 2 Max mon Amour diplomat posted to France with ape's presence. When she is Directed by Nagisa Oshima their son Nelson. She takes a called away to her ill mother's 1986 lover, a chimpanzee she bought bedside, Max stops eating. Wor - France/USA/Japan from a zoo and installed in a flat. ried, Peter takes Max and Nelson With: Charlotte Rampling, Peter asks that she bring the to the countryside so Max can be Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril chimp, Max, to live with them. He with Margaret; once there, Nature Running time: 98 mins. obsesses about Margaret and beckons. Is Max lost? Max's relationship, hiring a prosti - tute so he can watch Max perform (Max declines) and peering through the keyhole as Margaret Max mon Amour Tuesday, December 2 At 7:00 pm At the Cinematheque Ontario Jackman Hall Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West Reserved and cool, Margaret is and Max sleep. He tries to kill the French wife of Peter, a British Max, then finally accepts the 5 Le Diable probablement Wednesday, December 3 LE DIABLE PROBABLEMENT leased in France, it was prohibited Church. He says, “My sickness is By Robert Bresson to viewers under eighteen as an that I see clearly.” With Antoine Monnier, Tina incitement to suicide. A work that Irissari in many ways seems more rele - Running time: 90 min vant now than when it was made, 1977 Le diable probablement By Robert Bresson Wednesday, December 3 At 8: 45 At the Cinematheque Ontario Jackman Hall Art Gallery of Ontario Le Diable traces the last six 317 Dundas Street West months in the life of a young Parisian in search of his own Le Diable probablement proved death, who rejects the conven - to be the most controversial film tional solutions offered by various of Bresson’s career. When first re - political factions and by the Images of Life – Smokefree Thursday, December 4 Images of Life - Smokefree Testimonials on the effects of The director, producer and some nicotine addiction. of the people who participated in A documentary by Joseph the documentary will be present Bitamba. at this informal screening. A series of documentary testimo - nials on tobacco use in Ontario, Images of Life – Images of life grew out of a de - Smokefree sire to communicate in a simple and frank way about this sensitive Thursday, December 4 topic. – nicotine addiction. Each testi - At 6: 30 monial has a strength of its own Each taking a turn in front of the that has a major impact and en - At the Alliance Française de camera, the participants tell about courages us to reflect deeply on Toronto their experiences with nicotine ad - this issue. 24 Spadina Road diction and their struggles not to smoke or, in many instances, the Presenting authentic stories with Free admission ways in which cigarettes took over genuine feelings, this documen - In French their lives.