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Frances Ha

Home Programme Cinémathèque Film Club Frances Ha

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2012
Director :
Noah Baumbach
Version :
vostDE
Duration :
86 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Grace Gummer
Awards :
Nominee Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical (Gerwig), Golden Globes 2013
Age classification :
12+
In collaboration with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Screening followed by a discussion between Larisa Faber, guest of the Cinémathèque Film Club, and the audience (in English | about 45’)

synopsis

A 27-year-old aspiring dancer drifts through New York City, stumbling through friendships, money troubles, and half-formed dreams with buoyant awkwardness.
 

Larisa Faber is Luxembourg-Romanian writer, director and performer. IG: @larisa.faber

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Frances Ha

"Frances Ha" is the quintessential Millennial movie, anchored by Greta Gerwig’s captivatingly charming protagonist and Noah Baumbach’s bittersweeteye on a generation’s hope and disillusionment. For the dreamers who believed life would be Truffaut-infused nostalgia in black-and-white, but instead got an underwhelming, grey weekend away in Paris and muddled through anyway. PS. My husband hates this film. With a passion. So perfect first date material, if you ask me. Perfect for rekindling, perfect for dissecting, discussing, debating.

Larisa Faber, à propos de son choix

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The McCarey Way

The Early Genius of Leo McCarey

Home Programme The McCarey Way The Early Genius of Leo McCarey

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1924
Director :
Leo McCarey
Version :
English intertitles
Duration :
96 minutes
Format :
digital
🎹 Programme of silent short films with live piano accompaniment by Hughes Maréchal

synopsis

This programme presents a selection of silent shorts made during Leo McCarey’s formative years at Hal Roach Studios, where he began working in 1923. The films trace McCarey’s rapid ascent from gag writer to one of the studio’s key creative minds. Starting with scenario work and gag construction, he soon moved behind the camera to direct Charley Chase shorts, developing his instinct for performance, rhythm and narrative structure. By the late 1920s, he was supervising productions and shaping the work of others, most notably by bringing together Laurel & Hardy as a permanent duo and defining their comic dynamic. Seen together, these shorts reveal McCarey’s rapid development as a filmmaker — cultivating his own voice, mastering precise timing, and refining character-driven comedy within the collaborative environment of Hal Roach Studios.


Programme : 

The Poor Fish USA 1924 | Cast : Charley Chase, Beth Darlington, Sammy Brooks

Mighty Like a Moose USA 1924 | Cast : Charley Chase, Vivien Oakland, Ann Howe

Pass the Gravy USA 1928 | Fred Guiol, supervision Leo McCarey | Cast : Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Bert Sprotte

Wrong Again USA 1929 | Cast : Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

Liberty USA 1929 | Cast : Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

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Father and Daughter & To Be or Not to Be

Home Programme Cinémathèque Film Club Father and Daughter & To Be or Not to Be

Credits

Original title :
To Be or Not to Be
Country :
USA
Year :
1942
Director :
Ernst Lubitsch
Duration :
99 minutes
Actors :
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Lionel Atwill
Screening followed by a discussion between the guests of the Cinémathèque Film Club, Marie Jung and Nicole Max, and the audience (in French | about 45’)

synopsis

1939, Poland: a theater troupe has its satirical play about Hitler censored and must perform Hamlet instead, all while thwarting a Nazi plot.

 

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Father and Daughter

Holland-UK 2000 | Michael Dudok de Wit | without dialogue | 10’ | digital | Best Animated Short Film, Oscars 2001

A father says goodbye to his young daughter before leaving. As the Dutch landscapes change with the seasons, she grows from child to woman to old age, always carrying a quiet longing for her father.

Father and Daughter // To Be or Not to Be

Les films peuvent changer une vie, et celui-ci raconte, d’une manière très simple et calme – comme au rythme des marées – que le Changement est toujours présent, que rien ne reste comme avant, que tout passe, se transforme, s’éloigne. Et que c’est justement cela, malgré la douleur du détachement, qui fait toute la beauté de la vie. J’ai choisi ce film parce qu’il ‘parle’ sans un mot de trop. Parce qu’il touche a l’essentiel. Et parce que je suis la fille d’un père.

Marie Jung, à propos de son choix 'Father and Daughter'

To Be or Not To Be

J’avais envie de partager, au sein du Théâtre des Capucins, cette oeuvre audacieuse et pleine de malice qui, a travers des situations aussi improbables que géniales, ose un pied de nez a la barbarie. Tout en rendant un hommage vibrant au théâtre et a ses acteurs. Un vrai shoot d’énergie positive en ces temps obscurs !

Nicole Max, à propos de son choix 'To Be or Not To Be'

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Via Norte

Home Programme Via Norte

Credits

Original title :
Périphérique Nord
Country :
Portugal-Switzerland-Uruguay
Year :
2022
Director :
Paulo Carneiro
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
72 minutes
Awards :
Visions du Réel 2022, IndieLisboa International Film Festival 2022
In collaboration with BOM DIA 
With the film team in attendance

synopsis

A filmmaker travels 2000km north, where he meets some compatriots forced to leave the country. In these encounters, the love for cars is an incitement to discuss identity and community, dissolving boundaries between society and territory.

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