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Adieu Philippine

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Credits

Country :
France 
Year :
1961
Director :
Jacques Rozier
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
106 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Jean-Claude Aimini, Yveline Céry, Stefania Sabatini
Awards :
Official Selection, Cannes 1962

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Paris, 1960. Michel is about to leave for Algeria to do his military service. In the meantime, he works as a stagehand at television, which allows him to make girls believe he is a star. This is how he seduces Juliette and Liliane, two inseparable friends…

Adieu Philippine

Évoque la drôlerie improvisée des fictions de Jean Rouch en même temps que les amertumes de Monika d’Ingmar Bergman, et préfigure quelques duos féminins de Rivette : car si Liliane et Juliette traversent un monde bien moins enchanté que celui de Céline et Julie, elles le font avec une même fidélité admirable, jusque dans l’adieu.

Cinémathèque française

It’s a film that belongs to its historical moment but also reflects it from the outside like a magnifying mirror – and these qualities suggest the manifold, elusive nature of Rozier’s art.

The New Yorker

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Le Beau Serge

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1958
Director :
 Claude Chabrol
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
93 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Gérard Blain,Jean- Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont
Awards :
Jean Vigo Award, 1959

synopsis

After being away for around ten years, François returns to his home village. But once he arrives, many things have changed: the friendly atmosphere has vanished, and his friend Serge has become an alcoholic.

Techniquement, le film est maîtrisé comme si Chabrol s’adonnait à la mise en scène depuis dix ans, ce qui n’est pas le cas puisqu’il s’agit de son tout premier contact avec la caméra. Voilà donc un film insolite et courageux qui relèvera le niveau de la production nationale en 1958 !

François Truffaut

Le Beau Serge

Film tourné par Chabrol avec de petits moyens, son propos est double : décrire un itinéraire spirituel et faire un portrait réaliste d’un petit village en train de mourir. Son succès tint à la manière dont il réussit à incarner cette ambition dans des personnages complexes, en dehors des clichés de l’époque.

Le Cinématographe

With his cinematographer Henri Decae, Chabrol succeeded in capturing the detestable conditions of a particular backwater of regional France. We’ve all seen such places: the squalor; the quite unbelievably casual attitude toward such imponderables as incest; the occluded horizons. Chabrol’s characteristic themes were already evident in Le Beau Serge.

Senses of Cinema

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Le Mépris

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1963
Director :
Jean-Luc Godard
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
110 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang
📕Based on the novel ‘Il disprezzo’ by Alberto Moravia

synopsis

While veteran filmmaker Fritz Lang is shooting a film of The Odyssey at Cinecittà, his American producer Prokosch hires screenwriter Paul Javal to rewrite the script. At the same time, he does not hesitate to make advances toward Camille, Paul’s beautiful wife…

« Une histoire d’un malentendu entre un homme et une femme, un film simple sur des choses compliquées, davantage une réflexion qu’un document. » (Jean-Luc Godard)


Pre-programme 

Paparazzi

France 1963 | Jacques Rozier | documentary | vostEN | 23’ | digital

On the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, Brigitte Bardot must face the ever-present paparazzi cameras.

Paparazzi

Montrer "Paparazzi", c’est rappeler l’importance du cinéma de Jacques Rozier, sa façon unique de filmer, de monter et de raconter des histoires.

Hervé Pichard

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Jules et Jim

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Credits

Country :
France 
Year :
1962
Director :
 François Truffaut
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
105 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois
📕Based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché

synopsis

Paris, 1912. Jules, a German, and Jim, a Frenchman, become inseparable friends. They both fall in love with Catherine, but she marries Jules…

 

Cette relation triangulaire où une femme aime deux hommes liés par une indéfectible amitié, dans une totale innocence, donne lieu à un film brillant, libre, aérien, rapide comme un tourbillon. Aujourd’hui, si la noblesse des deux hommes frappe, on retient surtout un portrait de femme unique au cinéma, incarnée merveilleusement par Jeanne Moreau.

Dictionnaire des films, Éd. Larousse

Jules et Jim

Une oeuvre sensible, passionnée, où une intelligente atmosphère d’époque (plus politisée que dans le roman) trouve surtout son lyrisme dans les décors naturels.

Georges Sadoul

One of those rare films that knows how fast audiences can think, and how emotions contain their own explanations.

Roger Ebert

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Infernal Affairs

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Credits

Original title :
Mou gaan dou
Country :
Hong Kong
Year :
2002
Director :
Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
101 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Eric Tsang, Andy Lau
Awards :
Nominee Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars 2004

synopsis

Chen Wing Yan, a policeman, successfully infiltrates a gang while Lau Kin Ming, a triad member, becomes a mole in the police force. However, things turn into a race against the clock when both must seek each other out.

Infernal Affairs

Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s "The Departed". As the shifting loyalties, murky moral compromises, and deadly betrayals mount, Infernal Affairs raises haunting questions about what it means to live a double life, lost in a labyrinth of conflicting identities and allegiances.

Criterion

A gripping thriller with grandstanding drama, muscle-clenching suspense and two great action leads in Tony Leung and Andy Lau.

The Guardian

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La Nouvelle Vague estivale

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1958
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
71 minutes
Format :
digital
Short film programme | Preceded by an introduction (in French | about 10')

synopsis

Bringing together short films by François Truffaut, Agnès Varda and Jacques Rozier, this programme captures the free and inventive spirit of a generation on the cusp of the French New Wave. Shot in the South of France rather than Paris, the films already experiment with form, blending playful storytelling, a lightness of tone, and breaks from the conventions of classical cinema.


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Les Mistons The Mischief Makers France 1957 | François Truffaut | vostEN | 19’ | digital | Cast : Bernadette Lafont, Gérard Blain

In the south of France, a group of jealous boys (“les mistons”) make life impossible for a young couple in love: Bernadette and Gérard.

Du côté de la côte Along the Coast France 1958 | Agnès Varda | vostEN | 28’ | digital | documentary

A journey along the Riviera. The exoticism, the colours of tourism, of the Carnival and of Eden. An island. Beach umbrellas closing to a beautiful song by Georges Delerue.

Blue Jeans France 1958 | Jacques Rozier | vostEN | 24’ | digital | Cast : René Ferro, Francis de Peretti

In Cannes, two boys looking for a date for the evening wander around and clumsily try to pick up girls.

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Les Quatre Cents Coups (+ short film lesson)

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1959
Director :
François Truffaut
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
100 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy
Age classification :
6+ | Recommended from age 10 and up
As part of the « La Nouvelle Vague » retrospective

synopsis

A twelve-year-old boy, misunderstood by everyone, runs away, steals, and is sent to a reform school, from which he escapes…


Pre-programme 

A short film lesson for young cinephiles: discovering the French New Wave
The screening is preceded by an introduction (in French) to help understand the French New Wave, the movement that revolutionised French cinema in the late 1950s. A simple and engaging guide to better appreciate The 400 Blows.

Casting of Jean-Pierre Léaud for The 400 Blows
France, 1958 | François Truffaut | Original French version | 3 min | digital

Les Quatre Cents Coups

Ce qui frappe avant tout dans "Les Quatre Cents Coups", c’est la justesse avec laquelle François Truffaut dépeint le passage si délicat de l’enfance à l’adolescence. Avec sa violence contenue, son indifférence désinvolte et sa soif de liberté, il incarne toute la marginalité et la vulnérabilité d’une enfance décrite non pas comme un paradis perdu mais plus comme un moment difficile à passer.

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Constitués pour une part des souvenirs de son réalisateur, "Les Quatre Cents Coups" proposèrent en leur temps un regard neuf sur l’enfance. Jusqu’ici, l’enfant était plus ou moins enfermé dans le regard de l’adulte, rarement au centre de l’image et souvent détail de l’intrigue. Les rôles marquants furent rares avant que le cinéma n’entre dans la modernité dans les années 1960, osant alors une approche plus complexe.

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Mommy

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Credits

Country :
Canada-France
Year :
2014
Director :
Xavier Dolan
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
138 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clement
Awards :
Prix du jury, Cannes 2014 ; Nomination Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars 2015
Age classification :
12+

synopsis

A widowed single mother gains custody of her son, an impulsive and violent teenager with ADHD. Amid their outbursts and struggles, they try to make ends meet, notably with the unexpected help of their enigmatic neighbor across the street, Kyla. Together, the three of them find a fragile sense of balance, and soon, hope.

À ces héros boiteux, comme à cette banlieue prolétaire de Montréal, Xavier Dolan donne un style rutilant. C’est le paradoxe d’un auteur-réalisateur nourri depuis l’enfance de cinéma hollywoodien (il ne jure que par Titanic), mais reste, pour l’instant, dans son jus québécois et dans l’économie de L’art et essai. Mommy est donc merveilleusement hybride : mi-naturaliste mi-‘bigger than life’, tour à tour terre à terre et parcouru de somptueuses envolées lyriques ou oniriques. Mais aussi d’espiègles coups de théâtre formels : les dimensions de l’écran changent subitement, et avec elles l’horizon des personnages.

Télérama

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Poly Cinema Paradiso

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Tom à la ferme

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Credits

Original title :
Tom at the Farm
Country :
Canada 
Year :
2019
Director :
Xavier Dolan
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
119 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu
Awards :
FIPRESCI Prize, Venice Film Festival 2013
Age classification :
12+
📕 Based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard

synopsis

A young advertising executive travels to the remote Quebec countryside for a funeral, only to discover that no one there knows his name or the nature of his relationship with the deceased. When the deceased’s older brother forces him into a disturbing role-playing scheme designed to protect his mother and the family’s honor, a toxic relationship begins... one that will not end until the truth finally comes to light.

Tom à la ferme

Producteur, sceénariste, monteur, costumier, acteur. Dolan tient tous ces rôles dans "Tom à la ferme". Il ne manquerait plus qu’il compose la musique encore ! Un tel talent frise l’indécence !

France Info Culture

Made of equal parts mourning and melancholy, mystery, and possibly madness, the striking "Tom at the Farm" showcases Dolan’s abundant talents at turning seemingly simple material into a taut, tough film.

Indiewire

Tom à la ferme

It’s taut, creepy, compelling and sexy. And, apart from the location, it’s very much a Dolan film, focused on people testing the limits of their love for each other – and themselves.

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The Ear

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Credits

Original title :
Ucho
Country :
Tchecoslovaquie
Year :
1969
Director :
 Karel Kachyna
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
94 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Gustav Opocensky
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 : start of the film

synopsis

Après être rentré d’une soirée, un fonctionnaire tchécoslovaque devient convaincu qu’il est sur le point de faire l’objet d’une purge politique et tente d’en limiter les conséquences, tout en gérant son mariage turbulent.

A remarkable thriller that explores the paranoia of a country due to the omnipresent nature of its government while also being a compelling domestic drama driven by the strength of its characters. The fact that we, the viewers, are as intrusive to the life of these people as the dreaded ‘ear’ makes for an interesting voyeuristic experience that’s hard to look away from.

Czech Film Review

The Ear

Suppressed as soon as production finished, Karel Kachyna's "The Ear" now resurfaces in a glorious 4K restoration. Prochazka’s dramatic masterstroke was to stage much of the film in the presumably grace-and-favour house that Ludvik shares with his wife, and to have as many thematic nods to Edward Albee's "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" as to the universe of Franz Kafka. It remains a brilliant analysis of how political power is maintained and enforced – and not just in a totalitarian situation.

BFI

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