Bulletin CuSeplttemuberr 2e00l9 TfHEoDOcus AT THE WRONGBAR THIERRY AGNONE AT THE BATA SHOE MUSEUM TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FRENCH CINEMA WELL REPRESENTED Back - to - school time after summer migrations and climate incidents. I wish you all the best, with those fresh news. Contents September focuses on cinema with the Toronto International Film Festival. A spe - PAGE 3 - Festival cial newsletter in early September will underline this very flourishing event. Thierry Agnone, shoes’ creator, exposes at the Bata Shoe Museum, introducing PAGE 5 - Exhibitions Marseille artists in Toronto, especially during and after the “Nuit Blanche”. “The PAGE 6 - Music Do”, Jean-Marc Padovani, Gonzales grace French music. Soon in Toronto the Al - PAGE 8 - University gerian and Mediterranean writer Boualem Sansal pronounces a “Small Eu logy to Memory”* to keep close of it even with some worrying. Mean - PAGE 8 - Cinema whil e describing a huge changing country , Guy Sorman makes us look ahead . PAGE 9 - Television Don't we have to invent the upcoming nostalgia? PAGE 11 - Talks Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel *Folio, Editions Gallimard, Paris 2007 September 2009 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 123456 Round table Thirty in about Bologna Twenty from Process 3th to 26th 78910 11 12 13 Toronto Toronto Toronto Toronto International International International International Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Toronto Toronto Toronto Toronto Toronto Toronto International International International International International International Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Montm2a1 rtre, 22 Mon2tm3 artre, 24 25 26 27 crime and pleasure crime and pleasure Jean-Marc « Do-you speak Jazz? » Padovani Thierry Agnone . QG World grad school tour at the Bata Shoe Museum until December 23th 28 29 30 News editor: Joël Savary Montmartre, Creative writer : Martin Colomer-Diez crime and pleasure Audiovisual: Pervenche Beurier Gonzales Music: Simon Grignon Guy Sorman Sub-editor: Virginie Angelliaume presents his The Dø Graphist: Coralie Fondeville new book www.paro-creation.com/ 2 MORE INFOS ABOUT THE TIFF IN EARLY SEPTEMBER ON A festival SPECIAL NEWSLETTER FROM 10 TO 19 SEPTEMBER TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Toronto International Film Fes - tival to be open to the public. tive Director John Kochman said, tival (TIFF) is a publicly-attended film “With no fewer than 31 new French festival held each September in A selection of 31 French films, with films including 2 Gala presentations, Toronto, Ontario. 11 world premieres, was announced this year’s festival reaffirms France’s today for the 34th Toronto Interna - paramount position atop the world in - The festival begins the Thursday tional Film Festival®, September 10 - dependent film sector. Every major night after Labour Day (the first Mon - 19, 2009; with critically-acclaimed di - sales agent from France will again be day in September, in Canada) and rectors Jacques Audiard, Claire Denis, in Toronto to close distribution deals lasts for ten days. Between 300-400 Bruno Dumont, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with American, Canadian and inter - films are screened in this Annual Gaspar Noé, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain national distributors. A perennially event. The attendance exceeds Resnais and François Ozon among the successful event for the French in - 300,000 people. It is considered the star French film directors attending. dustry, Toronto promises to be no dif - second-most important and presti - ferent this year." gious festival after Cannes. Event Commenting on the strength of this better, it is the only top rent film fes - year's lineup, Unifrance USA's Execu - VENGEANCE, BY JOHNNIE TO Already acclaimed in Cannes Festi - val, the Johnnie To movie is now pre - sented at TIFF. In a Hong Kong hospital, a French woman lies in critical condition after a gangland hit that killed her Chinese husband and two small children. Her father Costello (Johnny Hallyday) ar - rives from France and is immediately warned by police not to get involved, even as his daughter wordlessly pleads for his help. A stranger in a strange land and plagued by a failing memory, Costello sits stunned in his hotel room, scrawling the word “vengeance” over the bloody crime scene photos of his daughter's family. 3 A PROPHET César is feared by all the prisoners. When Malik arrives, César simply sees He calls the shots, having bribed the him as a potential foot soldier in his BY JACQUES AUDIARD power structure, and runs the prison private army. from his cell like a personal fiefdom. This movie won the Grand Prix du Jury in Cannes, considered as the sec - ond most prestigious award in this festival. The film begins with the imprison - ment of nineteen-year-old Malik El Djebena. Estranged from the Muslim community, Malik is brutally initiated into prison reality from the get-go. Power is held not by the guards, but by a grizzled Corsican kingpin who has found himself behind bars. Sur - rounded by a coterie of bodyguards, WILD GRASS, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Anne Marguerite is a single dentist who Consigny, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu happens to fly airplanes as a hobby. BY ALAIN RESNAIS Amalric are among the prestigious Georges cannot decide if he should casting of this film. contact Marguerite, and this dither - When Georges, an elderly, happily ing over whether or not to approach married house-husband and father of her sets the tone for the bizarre mo - two, comes across a wallet in a park ing ments of miscommunica tion that un - lot, he is intrigued by a photograph of its derline their relationship. owner that he discovers within. UNE CATASTROPHE, Toronto. Returning to the essayistic style that has come to define his extensive BY JEAN-LUC GODARD post-Nouvelle Vague body of work, the film brings a flash of the direc - While the world eagerly awaits his new tor’s prosody, complete with the feature, Jean-Luc Godard’s very short (1 grunting sounds of a tennis match, a minute) “Une Catastrophe (Switzer - dash of German melodrama and his sig - land/Italy) has its Canadian premiere in nature epigrammatic wordplay. And many others French movies, www.tiff.net 4 THE DEPARTMENT GALLERY MAINSPACE 1389 DUNDAS STREET WEST exhibitions (416) 716-8273 THIRTY IN TWENTY FROM SEPTEMBER 3 rd TO 26 th LE DEPARTMENT GALLERY MAIN - cou ple madea list of ten fabulous This unique exhibition will feature SPACE presents an Exhibition of Pho - three-star restaurants in the eastern three ticketed food and wine tast - tographs, Food, and Wine. half of the country. ings. In 1973, living in Canada but origi - Having no intention of spending pre - Food will be prepared by seven of nally from Holland, Toni (then forty- cious money on hotels and accommo - Canada’s most talented chefs. six)and Ria Harting (then thirty), dation,they rented a Volkswagen Dishes will be chosen from the planned a three-week trip to renew camper with enough room to sleep. menus offered at Maxim’s, Paul Bo - an acquaintancewith fabled French These stars shine to this day, pre - cuse,La Pyramide, and L’Oasis. cuisine in the country itself. served in photographs and collected With the assistance of the authori - memorabiliato be shown to the public tative Guide Michelin Rouge, the for the first time. THIERRY AGNONE AT BATA SHOE MUSEUM FROM SEPTEMBER 23 rd TO DECEMBER 23 rd Thierry Agnone is an artist who cre - for a year. not only a utilitarian object but also a ates women shoes. The Bata Shoe My life has since taken different symbolic one. Museum will show his work from paths, but my passion for shoes has Fairy tales, princess stories and September 23rd to December 23rd. remained the same. In the meantime magic lands...” I decided to become an artist and shoes were a natural subject for my Agnone works is a call to travel into artistic research. Alongside painting an enchanting world. His princess and creating sculptures, I worked on shoes are majestic, graceful, beautiful. shoes in many different ways, using This exhibition is taken part of diverse materials such as; lead, wood, “Toronto-Marseille - Bridging creative polyester resin, tape, earth, etc. I cre - communities through a rare mix o f indie ated installations with shoes that films, videos, music and exhibitions.” looked used, discarded and abandoned; as would be seen at the scene of an ac - cident or a terrorist at tack. The shoes revealed a morbid connection to the world, conveying my own feelings to - wards the world at the time. “My interest in shoes dates back Slowly the negative feelings dis - more than 20 years. At the age of 19 solved, and today I work on the po - I became an apprentice with a shoe - etic side and I dream of shoes. Lately maker in Marseille. During my 3 years I have only worked on women’s shoes of apprenticeship I learned each and made from paper. This is not because every step of shoe repair along with paper is an affordable medium, but the basic elements that pertain to instead to underline the fragility and different styles of shoes. Later I got lightness of women’s shoes. I want to a job as shop manager in a shoe store convey the message that shoes are 5 Music A CONCERT WITH THE GREAT FRENCH SAXOPHONIST, JEAN-MARC PADOVANI In partnership with the French Con - (Three hours of sunlight), a litterary drum mer Paul Motian led to the sulate in Toronto, the Alliance and musical performance. Recorded recording of « TAKIYA ! TOKAYA ! » in Française and the Humber College with a septet, « Nimeno » was hailed 1996. The following year, he formed present Jean-Marc Padovani.