Le Programme October – November 2019 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3-18 Talks & Special Events 19-20 Music 21-22 South Ken Kids Festival 23 London Film Festival Europe Beyond Borders French Comics Affair 2-13 Oct 8 Oct 10 Oct Kids & Families 24-28 p.8 p.19 p.19 FranceDance UK 29-33 We Support / We Recommend 34-35 French Courses 36 La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 38 Peter Brook and Shakespeare French Film Festival FranceDance UK General Information 40-43 26 Oct 7-15 Nov Sep - Nov p.19 pp. 10-14 pp.29-33 Venues across UK front cover image: Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases Sea of Shadows The Third Man Tehran: City of Love AUST | 2019 | 104 mins | dir. Richard Ladkani | doc | cert. 12A UK | 1949 | 108 mins | dir. Carol Reed, with Orson Welles, IRAN / UK | 2018 | 102 mins | dir. Ali Jaberansari, with Mehdi in English Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard | doc | cert. PG Saki, Amir Hessam Bakhtiari, Behnaz Jafari | cert. 12 in English | new 4K restoration in Farsi with EN subs The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese Recognised as a cinematic masterpiece and praised for Presented at the London Film Festival last year, this mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, its eloquent fusion of bold elements and outstanding cast, bittersweet comedy follows three characters in search of the “cocaine of the sea.” Environmental activists, Mexican The Third Man comes in a beautifully restored 4K version love in contemporary Tehran. Mina, an overweight beauty navy and undercover investigators are fighting back showcasing the genius of this celebrated British film noir. clinic secretary, Hessam, a veteran bodybuilder and against this illegal multi-million-dollar business. It was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1949 Cannes Film Vahid, a funeral singer, all three disenchanted souls who Festival and the Oscar for Best Cinematography. yearn for love and affection. From Fri 27 Sept From Wed 2 Oct From Fri 11 Oct The screening on 6 Oct at 2pm, will be preceded by a Screening on 16 Oct at 6.30pm followed by a Q&A with pre-recorded musical performance and followed by a director Ali Jaberansari pre-recorded Q&A with Angela Allen, one of the last remaining crew members, and writer/director Hossein Amini For full runs (days & times): Visit www.institut-francais.org.uk Pick up the Cinema Weekly Calendar available at the box office every Wednesday (or download the pdf online) InstitutFrancaisLondon ifru_london Sign up to our weekly cinema e-newsletter and follow us on our social media for regular updates 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases Non-Fiction By the Grace Sorry We Meeting Doubles vies of God Missed You Gorbachev FRA| 2018 | 106 mins | dir. Olivier Assayas, with Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Grâce à Dieu UK/FRA/BEL | 2019 | 100 mins | dir. Ken UK/USA/GER | 2018 | 92 mins | dir.s Werner Vincent Macaigne | cert. 15 | in French with FRA | 2018 | 137 mins | dir. François Ozon, Loach, with Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Herzog and André Singer | doc | cert. TBC EN subs with Melvil Poupaud, Swann Arlaud, Denis Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor | cert. 15 in English, Russian, German and Polish with Ménochet, Josiane Balasko | cert. 15 in English EN subs Director Olivier Assayas (Personal in French with EN subs Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria) investigates Premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film In this engrossing documentary, anxieties around digital consumption Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Festival, acclaimed director Ken Mikhail Gorbachev, is in conversation in both literature and love in this witty Berlin Film Festival, François Ozon’s Loach’s new film tackles issues of the with German director Werner Herzog. vaudevillesque comedy featuring a stellar (Potiche, Jeune et Jolie) latest opus, is an contemporary world of labour such as the Interspersed with archival footage, the film acting ensemble (Juliette Binoche, engrossing and topical examination of gig economy through the life of a delivery traces Gorbachev’s rise to power and the Guillaume Canet, Vincent Macaigne). a sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic driver and his wife struggling to get by in historical changes that he implemented Church based on the recent case of Father modern-day England. and witnessed, from the Perestroika From Fri 18 Oct Bernard Preynat who was charged with to the dismantling of the Iron Curtain sexually assaulting around 70 boys in Lyon. From 1 Nov and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 30th anniversary of which we celebrate. From Fri 25 Oct From Fri 8 Nov For full runs (days & times): Visit www.institut-francais.org.uk Pick up the Cinema Weekly Calendar available at the box office every Wednesday (or download the pdf online) InstitutFrancaisLondon ifru_london Sign up to our weekly cinema e-newsletter and follow us on our social media for regular updates Ciné Lumière New Releases Did You Miss It? La Belle époque The Biggest Shooting the Mafia Once Upon a Time FRA | 2019 | 115 mins | dir. Nicolas Bedos, Little Farm UK/ITA | 2019 | 94 mins | dir. Kim Longinotto in… Hollywood with Guillaume Canet, Daniel Auteuil, Fanny doc | cert. TBC | in Italian with EN subs Ardant, Pierre Arditi | cert. 15 | in French with USA | 2019 | 91 mins | dir. John Chester, USA | 2019 | 160 mins | dir. Quentin Tarantino, EN subs with John Chester, Molly Chester, Matthew Selected at the Berlin and Sundance Film with Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pilachowski | cert. PG | in English Festivals, this documentary celebrates Pitt | cert. 18 | in English Victor (Daniel Auteuil), a disillusioned the ground-breaking and committed sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside Emmy Award winner John Chester’s work of the free-spirited and charismatic Faded television actor Rick (Leonardo down when Antoine (Guillaume Canet), The Biggest Little Farm chronicles his photojournalist Letizia Battaglia. Through DiCaprio) and his stunt double best friend a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him to eight-year quest to trade city life for 200 interviews, news footage, clips from Italian Cliff (Brad Pitt) strive for career success relive a period of his past. He chooses the acres of barren farmland in California films and some of her extraordinary in the tough Hollywood film business, in most memorable week of his life: the one and harvest in harmony with nature. images, we get a sense of both Battaglia Quentin Tarantino’s latest black-comedy where, 40 years earlier, he met the great Featuring breathtaking cinematography herself and the social landscape of thriller. love of his life (Fanny Ardant)... His hope is and captivating animals, this outstanding organised crime in Italy. that by replaying the past he might change documentary provides us all with a vital From Sun 29 Sept the present. blueprint for saving and nurturing our From Fri 29 Nov endangered biodiversity. From Fri 22 Nov Preview on 28 Nov at 6.30pm followed by From Fri 29 Nov a Q&A with director Kim Longinotto For full runs (days & times): Visit www.institut-francais.org.uk Pick up the Cinema Weekly Calendar available at the box office every Wednesday (or download the pdf online) InstitutFrancaisLondon ifru_london Sign up to our weekly cinema e-newsletter and follow us on our social media for regular updates 05 06 Ciné Lumière Special Screenings Children of a Lesser God Gauguin from the Savages – The Story of USA | 1986 | 116 mins | dir. Randa Haines, with Marlee Matlin, National Gallery, London Human Zoos William Hurt, Piper Laurie, Phillip Bosco | cert. 15 | in English UK | 2019 | 90 mins | dir. Patricia Wheatley | Doc: 60 mins + Sauvages, au cœur des zoos humains Winning Marlee Matlin the Best Actress Academy exhibition private view: 30 mins | cert. TBC | in English FRA | 2018 | 90 mins | dir.s Pascal Blanchard & Bruno Victor- Award, Randa Haines’s feature Children of a Lesser God Pujebet | doc | cert. TBC | In French with EN subs follows a maverick teacher at a conservative school for (Re)discover the extraordinary - and at times controversial the deaf who falls in love with a fiercely independent and - life and work of Paul Gauguin, in this brand-new With the help of previously unpublished archive material, proud deaf woman rejecting his efforts to teach her to documentary including commentaries from his this documentary shows how racism became ingrained in speak. descendants, artists and world experts. It will be followed popular culture between 1810 and 1940 through human by a filmed private view of The Gauguin Portraits zoos, circuses and colonial fairs exhibiting those taken Mon 1 Oct 6.30pm exhibition at the National Gallery bringing this unique by force from their native lands, flaunted as "primitive exhibition to the big screen with stunning close-ups and savages". Followed by a Q&A with director Randa Haines illuminating insights. Thu 24 Oct 7pm * As part of the Craft of Film: Tue 15 Oct 6.45pm Academy of Motion Picture at Ciné Lumière In parternship with the European Culture TV Channel See also Gauguin Portraits, from 7 Oct - 26 Jan at the Arte National Gallery * Screenings in Ciné Lumière II Ciné Lumière Special Screenings French Lieutenant’s The Life and Death of Selfie Woman Colonel Blimp FRA/ITA | 2019 | 76 mins | dir. Agostino Ferrente | doc cert. TBC | in Italian with EN subs UK | 1981 | 123 mins | dir. Karel Reisz, With Meryl Streep, UK | 1943 | 163 mins | dir.s Michael Powell & Emeric Jeremy Irons, Lynsey Baxter, Emily Morgan | cert. PG Pressburger, with Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah With this collaborative documentary-fiction, in in English Kerr, John Laurie | cert U | in English | new print competition at the Berlinale, Agostino Ferrente delivers a unique record of the case of 16-year-old Davide Anna (Meryl Streep) and Mike (Jeremy Irons) play a Lampooning Britain’s complacent military establishment, Bifolco, who was shot dead in the Neapolitan district of couple - both in life and on set - facing, through their Powell and Pressburger created an intimate national epic Traiano, through the ‘selfie’ films of his friends Pietro characters, the blooming of a passionate affair and the that ranges from the Boer War to WW2 telling a delicate and Alessandro.
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