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Bashu, the Little Stranger

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Credits

Original title :
Bashu Gharibeh Kouchak
Country :
Iran
Year :
1989
Director :
Bahram Beyzaie
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
120 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Adnan Afravian, Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Akbar Doodkar
Awards :
Best Restored Film, Venice Film Festival (Venezia Classici) 2025
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 : Start of the film

synopsis

After his family is killed in a bombing, young Bashu flees southern Iran alone and arrives in a remote northern village. Unable to speak the local language and shunned as a little stranger, he is taken in by a mother of two whose husband is away. A fragile bond slowly begins to grow between them.

 

 

Visuel : Bashu, the Little Stranger

A vital cinematic masterpiece. A reminder that art at any time, in any place, awakens human consciousness and shows us humane paths through friendship, coexistence, and peace.

Jafar Panahi

Four decades later, one can see more clearly than ever how Beyzaie transforms the cinema screen into a window carved from the history and literature of Iran, opening it onto a beautiful and spectacular world.

Mohammad Rasoulof

A pure joy in which there are absolutely no false moves.

Los Angeles Times

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Wanda

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1970
Director :
Barbara Loden
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
102 minutes
Format :
digital | 4K Restoration
Actors :
Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Frank Jourdano
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 : start of the film

synopsis

Wanda Goronski can no longer bear the miserable environment she lives in. Fired from the factory where she worked, she decides to leave her miner husband and their two children without looking back. She begins to drift through the city, eventually clinging to Norman Dennis, a shabby traveling salesman who makes ends meet by stealing.

Visuel : Wanda

To say that Wanda deglamorizes the American crime film is both entirely accurate and something of an understatement. Loden’s first and only film as a director is a searingly honest character study whose jagged, unvarnished aesthetic — inspired in part by Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and the films of Andy Warhol — stood in stark contrast to the slick Hollywood dramatic tradition epitomized by, among others, Loden’s husband, the director Elia Kazan.

Los Angeles Times

To watch Wanda today is to be knocked over anew by the film’s unsettled emotional terrain, which slips and shifts beneath your feet from scene to scene.

WBUR’s Art and Culture

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The Gold Rush

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1925
Director :
Charlie Chaplin
Version :
English intertitles, French subtitles
Duration :
82 minutes
Format :
digital | 4K Restoration
Actors :
Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Malcolm Waite
🗣️ 18:30 : Introduction to the film (in French) | 18:45 : Start of the film

synopsis

In the 19th century, the discovery of fabulous gold deposits in the Klondike triggers a massive rush of prospectors. A lonely, frail adventurer named Charlie battles a raging snowstorm and survives only by taking refuge in the cabin of an outlaw…

Visuel : The Gols Rush

S’il fallait une preuve que le cinéma, en même temps qu’un spectacle, pour samedis soirs, est un art égal aux autres arts, Charlie Chaplin, par cette seule oeuvre, la fournirait.

La Croix

This comedy gem features some of Chaplin’s funniest scenes, including him eating his boot.

BBC

This technically simple, endlessly inventive film balanced laughter and pathos; its cabin fever sequence is unsurpassed.

The Observer

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L'Incompris

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Credits

Original title :
Incompreso
Country :
Italie
Year :
1966
Director :
Luigi Comencini
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
105 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Anthony Quayle, Stefano Colagrande, Simone Giannozzi, John Sharp, Adriana Facchetti
Awards :
Compétition, Festival de Cannes 1978
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in French) | 18:30 : Film begins
In collaboration with the Fondation Cavour

synopsis

The British consul in Florence has just lost his wife. Shaken by grief, he shares the news with his eldest son, Andrea, but chooses to hide the truth from the youngest, Milo. Despite their shared games and deep bond, the two brothers are divided by their father’s behavior: while he shows tenderness toward little Milo, whose health is fragile, he neglects Andrea, whom he sees as cold and irresponsible…

 

Visuel : L'incomrpis

Un mariage parfait de profondeur psychologique, de rigueur dans la mise en scène et de délicatesse du regard fait de L’Incompris l’un des plus beaux films de Comencini.

Le Monde

Une peinture exceptionnelle de l’enfance, dans un drame pudique totalement bouleversant. Beau à pleurer.

Télérama

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Barry Lyndon

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Credits

Country :
UK-USA
Year :
1975
Director :
Stanley Kubrick
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
185 minutes
Actors :
Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
Awards :
7 nominations including Best Picture and 4 wins, Oscars 1976
Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
Introduction to the film and its restoration (in English | about 10’)

synopsis

In the 18th century in Ireland, upon his father’s death, young Redmond Barry dreams of climbing the social ladder. He kills his rival — a British officer in love with his cousin — in a duel, but is then forced into exile.

Barry Lyndon

One of the most beautiful of all Stanley Kubrick’s films, originally released in 1975, this slyly savage tale of social climbing in the 18th century is also arguably his funniest.

The Observer

Ryan O’Neal’s excellent performance captures the shallow opportunism endemic to the title character who is brought down as much by his own flaws as by the mores of the ordered social structure of 18th-century England. Casting, concept and execution are all superb.

Variety

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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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Pusher

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Credits

Country :
Denmark
Year :
1996
Director :
Nicolas Winding Refn
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
105 minutes
Actors :
Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Zlatko Buric, Thomas Bo Larsen
Introduction to the film and its restoration (in English | about 15’)

synopsis

Frank is a heroin dealer in Copenhagen. When he decides to up the ante, Frank goes to Milo, a drug lord – except he doesn’t have enough money to pay for the heroin. So Milo agrees to front him the goods as long as he repays immediately. But when the police arrive, Frank has to ditch the drugs, and he must find a way to repay Milo if he wants to live.

There’s something rotten in Denmark, as Mean Streets meets Goodfellas in Copenhagen. This striking, powerfully gritty tale about a week in the life of a drug dealer is well worth seeing. A promising debut.

Total Film

Pusher

Begins as a fairly standard ’90s crime saga, almost an open imitation of Quentin Tarantino… But something happens on the way to the film’s haunting and ambiguous conclusion.

Salon

As botched-drug-deal tales go, Pusher digs surprisingly deep – its surface clichés give way to an existential despair that finally swallows the movie whole.

Village Voice

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Mr. Arkadin

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Credits

Country :
France-Spain-Switzerland
Year :
1954
Director :
Orson Welles
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
98 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Orson Welles, Paola Mori, Robert Arden, Akim Tamiroff, Michael Redgrave
Introduction to the film, its restoration, and the rushes preserved at the Cinémathèque (in French | about 15’)
Avant-programme : The Hearts of Age (USA 1934 | Orson Welles, William Vance | vo - silent film without intertitles | 8’ | Cast : Orson Welles, Virginia Nicholson, William Vance, Edgerton Paul)

synopsis

The wealthy Mr. Arkadin, threatened with blackmail by a young man courting his daughter, investigates his own past. In Spain, Paris, Tangier, Amsterdam, and Munich, Arkadin tracks down his former accomplices…

 

 

Mr. Arkadin

Construit à coups de flash-back, empruntant comme 'Citizen Kane' la structure de l’enquête, 'Mr. Arkadin' est un jeu de miroirs déformants et de pièges, dont la mise en scene multiplie les audaces baroques. Au centre de ce brillant exercice, l’auteur lui-meme, en démiurge ambigu, a le charisme et la vulnérabilité d’un héros shakespearien.

 Dictionnaire des films, Éd. Larousse

Flamboyantly melodramatic, it’s a playfully egocentric display of egocentrism and a magician’s perverse revelation of his own trickery.

TimeOut

Mr. Arkadin

'Mr. Arkadin' mérite d’être vu dix fois a la suite tant il regorge d’idées. Certains films se contentent d’une idée dans le film, 'Mr. Arkadin' propose dix idées par plan. 

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