Bulletin Culturel April 2010 focus ANTONINE MAILLET SAVE THE DATES IN MAY * HOT DOCS 18TH TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL * CONTACT FESTIVAL “As well as Indians before him, he knew the woods [...] As the man from the nature, he got all the skills [...] Never before such a knowledge Contents and a love of those kinds of things had found a place within painting. In PAGE 3 - Festival the whole legacy of art its sorts, the canvases of Thompson are unique, especially since he had no training as a painter. The Nature was his mas- PAGE 5 - Music ter” (*) PAGE 6 - Cinema Throughout the seasons, the charmes of landscapes change and remain PAGE 6 - Theatre alike. With futurist and bionic heroes at the front page of the Jewish PAGE 7 - Television Film Festival, DJ Monsieur Cedric, Haitian tuned singers Melissa Laveaux PAGE 8 - Speaking and Reine Soleil, Human Rights issues with Joel Andriantsimbazovina, there are many artistic and intellectual invitation. Joël Savary, Attaché Culturel (*) F.B Housser, A Canadian Art Mouvement : The Story of the Group of Seven. 1926. April 2010 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1234 News editor: Joël Savary Creative writter: Martin Colomer-Diez NIKKI BEACH MÉLISSA Audiovisual: Marie Herault-Delanoë WITH MONSIEUR LAVEAUX Book: Léa Deshusses CÉDRIC Music: Simon Grignon 567891011 MONSIEUR CÉDRIC AT THE AGO SLAGUESLAGUE SLAGUE SLAGUE SLAGUE 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ARE HUMAN TORONTO TORONTO RIGHTS JEWISH FILM JEWISH FILM UNIVERSAL ? FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO JEWISH FILM JEWISH FILM JEWISH FILM JEWISH FILM JEWISH FILM JEWISH FILM JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 26 27 28 29 30 ANTONINE HOT DOCS HOT DOCS MAILLET MICHEL BAUD 2 Festival TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 17-25 2010 CLAUDE LANZMANN, AN ODE TO well-liked, self-made man goes a lit- THE IRENA HILDA STORY BY LIFE BY SYLVAIN ROUMETTE tle overboard when he learns he has DAMIAN PETTIGREW a heart defect: he decides to make a huge spectacle out of his son’s bar The story of Jewish cabaret singer mitzvah, inviting some 6,000 guests. Irene Hilda and her conductor brother, Bernard, who became part MONDAY, APRIL 19TH, 3:15PM of Paris’s jazz scene until the fall of BLOOR - 506 BLOOR ST. W France, when they were separated and forced into exile. Like the title WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21ST, 6PM character, this lovely documentary SILVERCITY - 8771 YONGE ST. exudes a contagious love of life. A documentary portrait of Claude Lanzmann, whose monumental 1985 MENSCH BY STEVE SUISSA TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH, 5:30PM film Shoah challenged previous cine- AL GREEN - 750 SPADINA AVE. matic depictions of the Holocaust. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER The film explores Lansmann’s time in the French Resistance; his years in THURSDAY, APRIL 22ND, 6:30PM post-war Berlin; his relationship with SHEPPARD - 4861 YONGE ST. Simone de Beauvoir and the philoso- phy behind the moral and artistic REBIRTH BY HAÏM BOUZAGLO choices he made around Shoah. The years between World War II and THURSDAY, APRIL 22ND, NOON the Declaration of the State of Israel AL GREEN -750 SPADINA AVE. witnessed a battle of wills between, JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Jews in Palestine and the British rulers who sought to prevent immi- gration. This French miniseries tells the story of a boat of European Holo- caust survivors and North America refugees hoping to reach their Prom- ised Land. An excellent safecracker tries to balance his career with the demands PART 1 of his family. When he agrees to join MONDAY, APRIL 19TH, 9:15PM in a large jewel heist, he risks the SHEPPARD - 4861 YONGE ST. collapse of his two worlds. Com- WEDNESDAY, 21ST, 8:30PM pelling and suspenseful, Mensch of- SILVERCITY - 8771 YONGE ST. fers an intriguing character study and exploration of family relations. PART 2 TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH, 9PM SUNDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1:15PM SHEPPARD - 4871 YONGE ST. COCO BY GAD ELMALEH AL GREEN - 750 SPADINA AVE. THURSDAY, APRIL 22ND, 8:30PM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER SILVERCITY - 8771 YONGE ST. In this broad slapstick comedy, a 3 TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 17-25 2010 THE WOLBERG FAMILY BY AXELLE HIDDEN CHILDREN BY FABRICE ROPERT GENESTAL Simon Wolberg, the mayor of a small A French couple arrange for a Gen- French provincial town, is madly in tile woman to care for their two sons love with his wife and is a prying fa- when they are transported to concen- ther to his young daughter and son. tration camps. After the war, their His obsession with his family leads aunt in Israel finds herself in a battle him to self-destructively test these with the Church for custody of the bonds. A sensitive family drama. boys, who have since been baptized. An engrossing, well-made drama TUSDAY, APRIL 20TH, 1PM based on a true story. BLOOR - 506 BLOOR ST. W SUNDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1PM THURSDAY, APRIL 22ND, 6PM BLOOR - 506 BLOOR ST. W HIDDEN CHILDREN SILVERCITY - 8771 YONGE ST. TUSDAY, APRIL 20TH, 4:30PM SHEPPARD -4861 YONGE ST. THE WOLBERG FAMILY 4 Music NIKKI BEACH WITH MONSIEUR CÉDRIC AT THE ROOSEVELT ROOM Monsieur Cédric is a French DJ of Moreover, Monsieur Cédric is doing a Saint Tropez and the French Riviera. DJ set with Whitney, Tanika Charles THURSDAY, APRIL 1ST He is the DJ of the well known and et Deejay L’Oquenz for the AGO’s ROOSEVELT ROOM elitist Nikki Beach in St Tropez and fundraising gala. 2 DRUMMOND PLACE during the crazy parties of the TORONTO Cannes Festival in May. 10$ 416.599.9000 On his website, Monsieur Cédric de- [email protected] scribes his influences : “mostly house (club, deep, soulful, latin fla- vored...), but also: disco, soul, jazz, THURSDAY, APRIL 8TH hip-hop, funk, downtempo, ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO drum'n'bass...in fact, almost every- 317 DUNDAS W thing. It depends a lot on the crowd TORONTO and the place.” 125$ TICKETS AT : AGO.NET/MASSIVE He is performing for Nikki Beach party at the Roosevelt Room with also Adrien Villanova. MELISSA LAVEAUX AT THE SUPERMARKET FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND Mélissa Laveaux is an Ottawa musi- Folk Festivals' conference in the cian of Haitian descent signed to No- World Music category for penning Format records (French roster "Koud'lo". includes Gonzales and Julia Sarr). She is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, She is performing in Toronto april and vocalist who plays music de- 2nd for a pre-show at the Supermar- scribed as a mix of roots, folk, and ket in Kensington Market. blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar and soulful vocal stylings. In 2006, Laveaux released a first full-length album. It was co-pro- FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND, 7:30PM duced with percussionist Rob Reid (on SUPERMARKET tabla and cajón) and Lisa Patterson of peers in such magazines as Colorlines 268 AUGUSTA AVENUE Imaginit Music Studios. Laveaux has and is a Songs from the Heart recipi- received critical praise from her ent from the 2006 Ontario Council of - As part of its « Cabaret chanson » series, the Alliance Française presents : Rive gauche mon amour taking place friday the 16th. - As part of « Arts de la Parole » series, the Alliance Française de Toronto welcomes: La Reine Soleil thursday the 29th. 5 Theatre SLAGUE DIRECTED BY GENEVIÈVE PINEAULT APRIL 7-11 Jean Marc Dalpé has translated this tense voice of a worker survives in- Une production du théâtre du Nouvel- piece and plays its only character: a tact, a voice where courage shines Ontario de Sudbury wheelchair-bound, heroin-addicted like a beacon, of someone who makes miner in his forties. We listen to the his way from hatred to love... FROM APRIL 7TH TO APRIL 11TH admission of a man who is trying to AT THE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE rectify a mistake. “I am inside a rock TORONTO where no living being has ever been.” TEXT : Mansel Robinson We witness the tragedy of one who is TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION HTTP://WWW.THEATREFRANCAI being ravaged by what he has always : Jean Marc Dalpé S.COM/0910_ABONNEMENT_CAL wanted to fight. The frank and in- DIRECTOR : Geneviève Pineault ENDAR.PHP The Troupe des Anciens of the Uni- APRIL 17-21, 8PM came from viewing a series of 18th versity of Toronto presents: TTHEATRE GEORGE IGNATIEFF century engravings illustrating Beau- THE DOCTOR IN SPITE AND 15 DEVONSHIRE PLACE marchais’ original text. TOPAZE IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ______________________________ FROM APRIL 24TH TO MAY 1ST This performance includes the first The Opéra Atelier presents : ELGIN THEATRE act of Topaze by Macrel Pagnol and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO 189 YONGE ST. The Doctor in Spite by Molière. The idea of assimilating the charac- (YONGE & QUEEN) ters of Mozart’s The Marriage of Fi- http://www.operaatelier.com/ind http://www.latroupedesanciens.or garo to the stock figures of commedia ex.htm g/Shows2010.html dell’arte or “Italian Comedy” initially - Cinéfranco: The Skirt Day is released on saturday 3rd at AMC Yonge & Dundas Cinema (1pm) TOI ET MOI BY JULIE LOPES CURVAL TOI ET MOI BY JULIE LOPES CUR- while Lena has grown bored with her MONDAY, APRIL 26TH, 7:30PM VAL companion, François.... AFT NORTH YORK Editor of the photo romance section 95 SHEPPARD AVENUE W. of You and me magazine, Ariane has With Marion Cotillard, Julie Depar- NORTH YORK, a tendency to transpose the lovelives dieu, Jonathan Zaccaï. of herself and her sister, Lena, onto 2006. Duration : 90 min WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28TH, 7:30PM the pages, albeit with some extra AFT MISSISSAUGA flourishes. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7TH, 7:30PM 4261 SHERWOODTOWN BLVD However, their lives are not exactly AFT SPADINA MISSISSAUGA romantic : Ariane clings on to Farid, 24 SPADINA ROAD who wants nothing to do with her, FREE ADMISSION, ENGLISH SUB.