Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival November 19th – 30th 2014 www.ifi.ie IFI Principal Funder Lead Partner Title Sponsor Sponsors and Partners by director Pascale Ferran director Pascale by Carte Noire IFI Bird People French Film Festival Mathieu Amalric, Bruno Dumont, Pascale Ferran, Benoît Jacquot, the Larrieu brothers; their films are defined by audacious stories, atypical formal characteristics, rigorous direction and vibrant performances, and by their filiation with previous cinema generations. inema is a mental journey; Things I Know About Her (1967) and his ruptured, full of movement, latest, Goodbye to Language (3D); the displacement and discontinuity. screening of masterwork Hiroshima mon C Films bring about self- amour in tribute to Alain Resnais and the realisation and self-examination, Marguerite Duras centenary. depicting characters under pressure and BooKiNG iNfoRMATioN the vitality of life. We sincerely thank all our guests for travelling here to show their work and we Tickets cost €9.50 each, Membership: is required for all In this year’s Festival, now in its 15th hope you’ll get to share time with them except for the opening films. Daily membership costs year, we see fresh perspectives and along the way. film which includes a post- €1 and annual membership formal freedom; work which flirts with screening reception and costs just €25. Annual Membership genres and cinema’s past (40-Love; Les The Festival is made possible with the €15. entitles the bearer to discounts Combattants; Eastern Boys; Eat Your enduring support of the Embassy of on screenings, free preview Bones; Fool Circle; Girlhood; Tonnerre); France in Ireland and I extend my Packages €40 for 5 films.€ 70 screenings of selected films 6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 the remarkable and powerful School of gratitude to the French Ambassador in for 10 films. Both packages throughout the year, one Babel and Timbuktu; The Kidnapping of Ireland and his team. We thank all our exclude the opening film. complimentary ticket and a host @IFI_Dub Michel Houellebecq, and Li’l Quinquin sponsors, supporters and partners: the of other benefits. originally created for TV but obviously Institut Français and Unifrance Films, and by director Mathieu Amalric by Loyalty: Get your free loyalty facebook.com/irishfilminstitute with their home in the cinema; comedies, the IFI’s principal funder, the Arts Council. See page 20 for more details card from box office and earn but not in a conventional sense (Elle And finally the Festival’s title sponsor, on IFI Membership. points every time you spend at Programme Notes: l’adore; If You Don’t, I Will; Paris Follies; Carte Noire. Marie-Pierre Richard (MPR), the IFI. The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodiles). Box office Michael Hayden (MH), Antoine de Baecque (ADB), Alicia McGivern (AM) Blue Room The Bon Festival! Free list suspended for Carte 01 679 3477 Festival Director’s Notes: Detours to the Nouvelle Vague: the Marie-Pierre Richard Noire IFI French Film Festival. www.ifi.ie/frenchfest Marie-Pierre Richard (MPR) Cover wonderful contribution of Antoine de Festival Director Baecque; two Godards! Two or Three 2 Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival 2014 design: verso.ie www.ifi.ie3 Schedule (Calendrier / Programme du Festival) WeDNesday (MERCREDI) 19 Monday (LuNDI) 24 20.00 Girlhood (Bande de filles) 18.30 The Blue Room (La Chambre bleue) Followed by reception (Suivi d’une reception) This is an IFI french film club screening where IFI and Alliance française members THursday (JEuDI) 20 pay €7 a ticket. Please ask at IFI Box office. 18.30 Les Combattants (Séance avec le Ciné-Club Français de l’IFI. Girlhood 20.45 Tonnerre Les membres de l’IFI et de l’Alliance Française payent le billet €7. (Bande de filles) fRiday (VENDREDI) 21 Renseignez-vous à la billetterie de l’IFI.) 18.30 The Blue Room (La Chambre bleue) 20.20 Eastern Boys + Q&A with Mathieu Amalric (Présentation et rencontre: Mathieu Amalric) Tuesday (MARDI) 25 20.30 Two in the Wave (Deux de la vague) 18.15 School Of Babel (La Cour de Babel) introduction by Antoine de Baecque 20.30 Eat Your Bones (Mange tes morts) (Séance présentée par Antoine de Baecque) + Inupiluk Saturday (SAMEDI) 22 WeDNesday (MERCREDI) 26 12.00 Event: Antoine de Baecque 18.30 The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq on Nouvelle Vague and Cinephilia (L’Enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq) (Rencontre avec Antoine de Baecque: 20.30 Elle l’adore Nouvelle Vague et Cinéphilie) 13.30 Mississippi Mermaid THursday (JEuDI) 27 (La Sirène du Mississipi) 18.15 Fool Circle/The Lizards introduction by Antoine de Baecque (Tristesse club/Les Lézards) Gala Opening (Séance présentée par Antoine de Baecque) 20.30 Paris Follies (La Ritournelle) 16.00 If You Don’t, I Will (Arrête ou je continue) Alliance française Screening Wednesday, 19th November, 20.00 + Q&A with Mathieu Amalric (Séance avec l’Alliance Française) Director: céline Sciamma (Présentation et rencontre: Mathieu Amalric) 112 minutes // france // 2014 18.15 Bird People fRiday (VENDREDI) 28 Directors’ fortnight Selection, cannes international film festival 2014 + Q&A with Pascale ferran 18.15 Three Hearts (3 Coeurs) (Présentation et rencontre: Pascale Ferran) 20.30 Timbuktu With Water Lilies and Tomboy, céline 21.00 Love is the Perfect Crime Sciamma established herself as an intriguing (L’Amour est un crime parfait) Saturday (SAMEDI) 29 and committed filmmaker, presenting stories + Q&A with Mathieu Amalric 12.00 Li’l Quinquin (P’tit Quinquin) about young women in a distinctive style that (Présentation et rencontre: Mathieu Amalric) 16.00 Love in the Afternoon is observational, unobtrusive and refreshingly (L’Amour l’après-midi) sincere. Girlhood is a potent coming-of-age story measured out in chapters, focusing on a Sunday (DIMANCHE) 23 18.00 The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodiles quartet of black girls living in the tower blocks 12.00 Masterclass with Pascale Ferran (Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles) of Paris. At the centre of the film is Marieme (Masterclass avec Pascale Ferran) + Q&A with cécile Telerman (a captivating, evolving performance from 14.00 Lady Chatterley (Présentation et rencontre: Cécile Telerman) Karidja Touré), who has troubles at home, + Q&A with Pascale Ferran Kronenbourg 1664 Screening limited job prospects and is intimidated by the boys in her neighbourhood. This all changes (Présentation et rencontre: Pascale Ferran) (Séance avec Kronenbourg 1664) when she is drawn to an uncompromising, 16.30 Two or Three Things I Know About Her… wilful teenage girl gang who eventually take her (Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle...) Sunday (DIMANCHE) 30 seriously. (MH) 18.30 Goodbye to Language (3D) 11.00 IFI Family: (Adieu au langage) Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (3D) The screening will be followed by a reception. + introduction by artist Gerard Byrne (Minuscule: La Vallée des fourmis perdues) (Séance présentée par l’artiste Gerard Byrne) 16.00 Hiroshima mon amour Director’s Note: The rise of female identity and 20.15 Diplomacy (Diplomatie) 18.00 40-Love (Terre battue) desire are told through precise direction and sumptuous imagery. 4 Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival 2014 www.ifi.ie5 i r i s h p r e m i e r e s Les Combattants Bird People It’s summer and Arnaud begins work for the family People commute in a transitory world – a no man’s land of business, building garden sheds with his brother. Meeting anonymity. The crowd as an ant hill of activity, a microcosm. under unusual circumstances, he becomes fascinated with Student Audrey (an angelic Anaïs Demoustier) works the surly Madeleine. Obsessed by survival and gripped part-time as a chambermaid in the Hilton at Roissy airport by prophecies of doom, Madeleine determines to join an where she encounters Gary (Josh Charles), an American elite commando unit. Arnaud follows. As they begin at businessman. Two solitary existences collide. A film in two an army training camp, their bodies and emotions are put chapters, Pascale Ferran radically shifts the tone between to the test. Cailley, part of a new scene in French cinema social realism and fantasy tale. Ferran is influenced byPeter alongside Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) and Zlotowski Pan, ‘a wonderful story on the freedom of the imaginary and (Grand Central) brings us an improbable mix of teen-movie, the temptation to jump into the void’, and by Bong Joon-Ho’s rom-com, and pre-apocalypse film, stretching the limits of The Host, in which realism and the imaginary combine. (MPR) Thursday 20th November 18.30 each genre. (MPR) Saturday 22nd November, 18.15 Director Pascale Ferran will participate in a post- Director: Thomas Cailley Director: Pascale Ferran screening Q&A. 98 minutes // france // 2014 Director’s Note: A manifesto of love, with radiant 128 minutes // France // 2014 Winner: Art Cinema Award; SACD Prize; performances, Madeleine (Adèle Haenel) and Arnaud Official Selection, un Certain Regard, Cannes Director’s Note: A magnificently poetic work on Europa Cinemas Label; FIPRESCI award, (Kévin Azaïs) are as much ‘clenched fists’ as ‘balls of Film Festival 2014 connection and isolation, Bird People is both spectacular Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2014 emotion’. and experimental, totally in sync with the times. The Blue Room (La Chambre bleue) Love is the Perfect Crime (L’Amour est un crime parfait) Julien (Mathieu Amalric) and Esther (Stéphanie Cléau), both married to other people, indulge in an illicit sexual tryst. The Marc, a professor of literature, is known as a serial seducer. affair leads to Julien being arrested and interrogated by the He lives in a mountain chalet with his hyper-stylish sister police, questioned for motives and alibis. But what has he Marianne (Karin Viard). A few days after the disappearance of been accused of? A clever, knowing noir, The Blue Room is Barbara, his most brilliant student and latest conquest, Anna an adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel, co-scripted by (Maïwenn) appears hoping to find her daughter.