Le Programme December 2017 – January 2018 02 Contents/Highlights Ciné Lumière 3–16 Talks & Music 17 Night of Ideas 18–19 Happy End Best of 2017 C’est Noël ! Before the Night 20–22 1 – 18 Dec 5 – 18 Jan 16 Dec p.3 pp.9-11 p.23 Kids & Families 23 La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 25 We Support 26 We Recommend 27 © Erik Damiano Before the Night Night of Ideas The London International Mime French Courses 29 19 – 24 Jan 25 Jan Festival pp.20-22 pp.18-19 10 Jan – 3 Feb p.26 General Information 33 various venues in London front cover image: Thomas Pesquet, Space Correspondent by Jürgen Hansen & Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases Marie Curie: The Happy End Lost in Paris Courage of Knowledge FRA/AUT/DEU | 2017 | 108 mins | dir. Michael Haneke, with Paris pieds nus Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert, Mathieu Kassovitz FRA/BEL | 2017 | 83 mins | dir. Fiona Gordon & Dominique Marie Curie cert. 15 | in French & English with EN subs Abel, with Emmanuelle Riva, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, POL/DEU/FRA | 2015 | 100 mins | dir. Marie Noëlle, with Pierre Richard | cert. 12 | in French & English with EN subs Karolina Gruszka, Sabin Tambrea, Charles Berling, Arieh Master auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon, Worthalter | cert. tbc | in French, German, English & Polish Hidden) returns with a biting satire on bourgeois family Fiona, a small town Canadian librarian, receives a with EN subs values set in the shadow of the European refugee crisis, letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha and featuring a cast of top acting talents. When her (Emmanuelle Riva) living in Paris. Fiona hops on the first Marie Noëlle depicts the most turbulent years in the life mother falls ill under mysterious circumstances, young plane only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an of a genious woman, Marie Curie. First woman to receive, Eve is sent to live with her estranged relatives in Calais, avalanche of spectacular disasters, she meets Dom, a not only one, but two Nobel prizes, she challenged the wealthy, neurotic and self-obsessed Laurent family. seductive egotistical homeless guy who won’t leave her France’s male-dominated academic establishment both But trouble is brewing, as a series of intergenerational alone. A fun and hectic tale of three peculiar people lost as a scientist and a woman and changed the face of the back-stabbings threaten to tear the family apart. in Paris. world forever. Fri 1 Dec 6.30pm Sat 9 Dec 6.15pm Sun 3 Dec 8.50pm Fri 1 Dec 4pm 8.50pm 8.40pm Thu 7 Dec 6.30pm Sat 2 Dec 6pm Sat 2 Dec 8.15pm Sun 10 Dec 6.40pm Tue 5 Dec 8.50pm Sun 3 Dec 6.30pm Mon 11 Dec 6.30pm Mon 4 Dec 9pm 8.50pm Tue 5 Dec 6.30pm Tue 12 Dec 8.40pm Wed 6 Dec 6.30pm Wed 13 Dec 4pm 8.45pm 8.40pm Thu 7 Dec 8.30pm Mon 18 Dec 8.40pm Fri 8 Dec 8.50pm 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases Les Hommes du feu The Prince of Gauguin FRA | 2017 | 90 mins | dir. Pierre Jolivet, with Roschdy Zem, Nothingwood FRA | 2017 | 102 mins | dir. Edouard Deluc, with Vincent Emilie Dequenne, Michaël Abiteboul, Guillaume Labbé Cassel, Pernille Bergendorff, Tuheï Adams | cert. 15 cert. 15 | in French with EN subs Nothingwood in French with EN subs FRA/DEU | 2016 | 85 mins | dir. Sonia Kronlund, with Qurban Les Hommes du feu is a powerful homage to the men Ali, Sonia Kronlund, Salim Shaheen | doc | cert. 15 | in French, 1891. Gauguin has exiled himself to Tahiti. He wants to and women who risk their lives daily to protect civilians Dari & English with EN subs rediscover his painting, as a free, wild man, far from the from the dangers of summer fires and arson. Bénédicte moral, political, and aesthetic codes of civilised Europe. (Emilie Dequenne) has just been transferred to a small French radio journalist Sonia Kronlund had been covering Going deeper into the jungle, coping with solitude, poverty, fire brigade led by Philippe (Roshdy Zem), when her the atrocities of war in Afghanistan for 20 years when she and sickness, he makes the encounter of Tehura, who will aptitudes as a female firefighter are put to test as a came across Salim Shaheen, the Prince of Nothingwood, become his wife, and the subject of his greatest paintings. violent car crash occurs. Pierre Jolivet’s intense feature a larger than life Afghani actor greeted by adoring fans Edouard Deluc’s film portrays the artist - in the flesh of proves that heroism has no gender. wherever he goes. This joyous and rousing portrait actor Vincent Cassel – on a quest for absolute and freedom. offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes account on the Sat 9 Dec 4pm art of filmmaking in a war zone, and the ultimate act of Tue 12 Dec 6.30pm* Thu 4 Jan 9pm Sun 10 Dec 8.50pm resistance of this Ed Wood-esque character. Fri 15 Dec 4pm Fri 5 Jan 4pm Thu 14 Dec 4pm Sun 17 Dec 6.45pm Sat 6 Jan 6.30pm, 8.40pm Wed 20 Dec 8.50pm Wed 13 Dec 6.30pm Mon 18 Dec 6.30pm Sun 7 Jan 4pm Fri 15 Dec 6.20pm Wed 20 Dec 4pm Mon 8 Jan 6.30pm FRENCHFILMFIRST Tue 19 Dec 8.50pm Thu 21 Dec 8.40pm Wed 10 Jan 6.30pm EXCLUSIVE Thu 21 Dec 4pm Tue 2 Jan 6.30pm Thu 11 Jan 4pm, 8.40pm * preview screening FRENCHFILMFIRST EXCLUSIVE Ciné Lumière New Releases A Woman’s Life Lover for a Day The Final Year Une vie L'Amant d'un jour USA | 2017 | 89 mins | dir. Greg Barker, with John Kerry, FRA/BEL | 2016 | 119 mins | dir. Stéphane Brizé, with Judith FRA | 2017 | 76 mins | dir. Philippe Garrel, with Éric Caravaca, Barack Obama, Samantha Power | cert. tbc | doc | in English Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte | cert. 15 | in French with Arlaud | cert. 12 | in French with EN subs EN subs Shot over 90 days in 21 countries, The Final Year is a unique insiders' account on President Barack Obama and Judith Chemla offers an unmissable performance Having just separated from her boyfriend, heartbroken his foreign policy team from Secretary of State John Kerry in Stéphane Brizé’s compelling adaptation of Guy de Jeanne knocks on her father’s door. But her warm welcome to US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, during Maupassant’s classic, Une vie. She plays Jeanne, a is matched by a baffling discovery: her father’s young new their last year in office. Greg Barker’s documentary offers young woman full of childish dreams and innocence who and passionate girlfriend is his student, and Jeanne’s age. an uncompromising view on the mechanics of power marries fresh out of the convent. Her husband Julien With this swift, touching ode to lovers with heart-breaking, behind the Obama Administration. soon reveals to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by irreconcilable differences, Philippe Garrel has produced a little, Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away. casual, bittersweet, and intoxicating study of relationships. Mon 22 Jan 8.45pm* Tue 23 Jan 6.30pm* Fri 12 Jan 8.50pm Wed 17 Jan 6.30pm* Sun 28 Jan 4.30pm Sat 27 Jan 8.30pm Sat 13 Jan 8.50pm Fri 19 Jan 4pm 6.30pm Mon 29 Jan 6.30pm Sun 14 Jan 6.15pm Sat 20 Jan 6.30pm Mon 29 Jan 8.30pm Thu 1 Feb 4pm Wed 17 Jan 4pm Sun 21 Jan 4.45pm Tue 30 Jan 8.50pm Thu 18 Jan 4pm 6.30pm Wed 31 Jan 6.30pm *Screenings as part of Fri 19 Jan 6.20pm Fri 26 Jan 6.30pm 8.30pm Fri 26 Jan 4pm 8.30pm Thu 1 Feb 6.30pm Sun 28 Jan 8.15pm Sat 27 Jan 4.15pm 8.30pm Wed 31 Jan 4pm 6.15pm *preview screening 05 06 Ciné Lumière Special Screenings Les Valseuses 8 Women Becoming Cary See You Up There FRA | 1974 | 115 mins | dir. Bertrand Blier, Huit Femmes Grant Au revoir là-haut with Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick FRA | 2002 | 111 mins | dir. François Ozon, FRA | 2017 | 115 mins | dir. Albert Dupontel, Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau | cert. 18 with Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, FRA | 2017 | 85 mins | dir. Mark Kidel, with with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert in French with EN subs Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Judy Balaban, Mark Glancy, Barbara Jaynes, Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup, Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, David Thomson | voice: Jonathan Pryce Emilie Dequenne, Mélanie Thierry | cert. tbc Les Valseuses features Gérard Depardieu Firmine Richard | cert. 15 | in French with cert. 12 | doc | in English in French with EN subs | UK Premiere and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of EN subs sociopaths wending their way across Becoming Cary Grant is a treasure-trove of In November 1918, before the Armistice, France. The two men break into houses, Isolated in a snow bound house where archives, film extracts and home movies Edouard Pericourt, a gifted artist, saves but largely as a prelude to seducing a man has been murdered, all are that evocatively reflect the ups and downs the life of Albert Maillard, a humble and exploiting women. No morals, no suspects… and all of them have a chance of his inner journey, from the damaged bookkeeper. The two men have nothing judgement, and no retribution interferes to sing! Ozon beautifully describes this Bristol-born Archie Leach to the Golden in common apart from their experience with the unfolding of events in Blier’s furnace of feminine charm, decadence era of Hollywood icon, Cary Grant.