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Le Programme August – September 2018
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Contents/Highlights
Ciné Lumière 3–12
Talks & Special Events 12–13
Kids & Families 14
Cold War The Museum Goes Pop (Music) Safar Film Festival
We Support 15 31 Aug - 16 Sept 12 Sept 15 - 18 Sept
p.3 p. 13 p.8
We Recommend 16
French Courses 18
La Médiathèque/Culturethèque 19
General Information 21–23
Open House A Literary and Musical Evening Ulla von Brandenburg:
22 & 23 Sept with Dany Laferrière Sweet Feast
p.12 24 Sept 21 Sept - 31 March
p.13 p.15
Whitechapel Gallery
front cover image: Faces Places by Agnès Varda & JR
Programme design by dothtm
Ciné Lumière New Releases
© Jane Bown Topfoto
The Eyes of Orson Welles The Guardians Cold War
UK | 2017 | 110 mins | dir. Mark Cousins, with Mark Cousins, Les Gardiennes Zimna wojna
Beatrice Welles | doc | cert. 12 | in English FRA/CHE | 2017 | 134 mins | dir. Xavier Beauvois, with POL | 2018 | 90 mins | dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, with Joanna
Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry | cert. 15 | in French with Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc | cert. 15 | in Polish & French
Granted exclusive access to hundreds of private drawings EN subs with English subs
and paintings by Orson Welles, filmmaker Mark Cousins
dives deep into the visual world of this legendary director Cannes 2010 Grand Prix winner Xavier Beauvois for Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes
and actor of Citizen Kane, to reveal a portrait of the artist Of Gods and Men returns with The Guardians starring Film Festival 2018, Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida) melds the
as he’s never been seen before – through his own eyes, Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet and newcomer Iris Bry. In personal with the political in this epic romance. In the
sketched with his own hand, painted with his own brush. the backdrop of a raging World War 1, the women of ruins of post-war Poland, passionate lovers Wiktor and
The Eyes of Orson Welles brings vividly to life the passions, the Paridier family must step up to run the farm in the Zula are performing musicians forced to play into the
politics and power of this brilliant 20th-century showman, absence of the men sent out to the battlefront. When they Soviet propaganda machine, who dream of escaping to
and explores how the genius of Welles still resonates return, their whole world has changed. the West. Sumptuously shot in luminous B&W, Cold War
today. spans decades and nations to tell a heartbreaking story
Fri 24 Aug 8.45pm Tue 28 Aug 6.10pm of ill-fated love.
Fri 24 Aug 6.30pm Mon 27 Aug 4.20pm Sat 25 Aug 6.15pm Wed 29 Aug 8.45pm
Sat 25 Aug 3.45pm Wed 29 Aug 3.45pm Sun 26 Aug 8.30pm Thu 30 Aug 3.45pm Fri 31 Aug 4pm, 8.50pm Sat 8 Sept 8.40pm
Sun 26 Aug 6.15pm Thu 30 Aug 8.45pm Sat 1 Sept 6.30pm, 8.40pm Sun 9 Sept 8.50pm
Sun 2 Sept 6.45pm, 8.40pm Mon 10 Sept 6.30pm
Mon 3 Sept 6.45pm Wed 12 Sept 4pm
Tue 4 Sept 6.45pm, 8.40pm Thu 13 Sept 4pm
Wed 5 Sept 4pm, 8.50pm Sat 15 Sept 4pm
Thu 6 Sept 4pm, 8.45pm Sun 16 Sept 8.30pm
Fri 7 Sept 8.40pm
See also Citizen Kane and The Trial p.12 See also Ida p. 6
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Ciné Lumière New Releases
C’est la Vie ! Reinventing Marvin Faces Places
Le Sens de la fête Marvin ou la belle éducation Visages, villages
FRA/BEL/CAN | 2017 | 117 mins | dir.s Olivier Nakache & Éric FRA | 2017 | 115 mins | dir. Anne Fontaine, with Finnegan FRA | 2016 | 89 mins | dir. Agnès Varda & JR, with Agnès
Toledano, with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Oldfied, Isabelle Huppert, Charles Berling | cert. tbc Varda, JR, Jean-Luc Godard, Laurent Levesque | doc
Lellouche | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs in French with EN subs cert. 12 | in French with EN subs
With thirty years of catering under his belt, Max Marvin Bijou (Finnegan Oldfield), a young gay boy from What connects Agnès Varda, living legend of cinema and
has organised hundreds of parties. So organising a a working-class family in a small French village, suffers feminism, to JR, young photographer who stood out of
magnificent wedding in a seventeenth century château constant bullying at school and home for being too the crowd with his open-air galleries? A common passion
with a brigade of waiters, cooks, dishwashers, an sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a for images, and more particularly, the places where they
orchestra, a photographer and all ingredients for a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers are showed, shared, exposed. Faces Places follows on
big celebration should be a piece of cake. That’s until him the chance to escape his situation. A compelling their road-trip across France, from random encounters
Murphy’s law triggers a series of catastrophes that could and searing chronicle by Anne Fontaine (The Innocents), to interviews, towards the others, the anonymous and the
jeopardise the whole celebration. But Max and co must Reinventing Marvin is a free adaptation of the critically famous, faces, places.
keep a good spirit to maintain the sense of a party… acclaimed novel by Edouard Louis, The End of Eddy.
Fri 21 Sept 4pm, 6.30pm Thu 27 Sept 4pm
Fri 31 Aug 6.30pm Sat 8 Sept 6.10pm Tue 11 Sept 6.20pm Wed 19 Sept 8.40pm Sat 22 Sept 4pm, 6.30pm Fri 28 Sept 4pm
Sat 1 Sept 4pm Sun 9 Sept 6.35pm Fri 14 Sept 4pm, 8.50pm Thu 20 Sept 4pm Sun 23 Sept 6.50pm Sun 30 Sept 4.30pm
Sun 2 Sept 4.20pm Mon 10 Sept 8.30pm Sat 15 Sept 6pm Fri 21 Sept 8.40pm Mon 24 Sept 6.45pm, 8.40pm 8.30pm
Mon 3 Sept 8.40pm Thu 13 Sept 8.50pm Sun 16 Sept 6pm Sat 22 Sept 8.40pm Tue 25 Sept 8.40pm
Wed 5 Sept 6.30pm Sun 23 Sept 8.45pm Mon 17 Sept 6.10pm Thu 27 Sept 6.10pm Wed 26 Sept 4pm
Thu 6 Sept 6.30pm Tue 18 Sept 6pm
Continues in October
The screening on 11 Sept will be followed by a Q&A with
director Anne Fontaine See also Varda by Agnès season pp.10-11
Ciné Lumière Fashion on Screen
McQueen What Men Wear The Gospel According
UK | 2018 | 111 mins | dir. Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui, with Les Hommes stylés to André
Alexander McQueen, Gary James McQueen, Janet McQueen FRA | 2018 | 52 mins | dir. Loïc Prigent | doc | cert. tbc
doc | cert. 15 | in English in German, English & French with EN subs USA | 2018 | 93 mins | dir. Kate Novack, with André Leon
Talley, Naomi Campbell, Sean 'Diddy' Combs | doc | cert. PG
Mirroring the savage beauty, maverick originality and Leading fashion expert and director of Signed Chanel and in English
vivacity of his design, McQueen is an intimate revelation of British Style, Loïc Prigent offers an irreverent, amusing
Alexander Lee McQueen’s own personal and professional and precise guided tour of the men’s locker room through From the segregated Jim Crow South to the glamorous
world, both tortured and inspired. It is a film which six chapters attempting to define what men’s style is silk pages of Vogue, André Leon Talley has become one
celebrates a radical and mesmerising genius of profound today. Industry experts, journalists, designers and also of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators
influence and shows his rags-to-riches story as a top-tier celebrities such as Karl Lagerfeld, Paul Smith of our times. Kate Novack’s intimate portrait, The Gospel
modern-day fairy tale laced with the gothic. and David Beckham share their vision of what men According to André, lifts the veil upon an iconic figure of
(should) wear. the world of fashion through the eyes of Anna Wintour,
Fri 14 Sept 6.30pm Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Naomi Campbell, Valentino, and
Wed 19 Sept 4pm Sun 16 Sept 4pm many more.
Followed by a discussion Fri 28 Sept 6.30pm
Sat 29 Sept 8.40pm
Sun 30 Sept 6.30pm
Continues in October
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Ciné Lumière Special Screenings
Ida La Piscine Queen and Béjart: Thierrée/Shechter
POL/DNK | 2013 | 80 mins | dir. Pawel The Swimming Pool Ballet For Life Pérez/Pite
Pawlikowski, with Agata Kulesza, Agata FRA/ITA | 1969 | 123 mins | dir. Jacques
Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik | cert. 12 Deray, with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, UK | 2018 | 59 mins | dir. Lynne Wake | doc Dance Broadcast from the Opéra Garnier
in Polish with EN subs Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin | cert. 12 cert. tbc | in English & French with EN subs Choreographers: James Thierrée, Hofesh
in French & English with EN subs Shechter, Iván Pérez, Crystal Pite | Film
Pawel Pawlikowski’s movie, winner of Queen and Béjart: Ballet For Life explores director: Cédric Klapisch | with the Étoiles,
the Oscar for Best Foreign Language While on holiday near St Tropez, Marianne the story of the extraordinary Premiers Danseurs and Corps de Ballet of
Film, is an elegy for his homeland and an and Jean-Paul enjoy lazing and making collaboration between Queen and the the Paris Opera | 180 mins with one interval
intimate, poetic exploration of the limits of love around the pool. But things take a visionary choreographer Maurice Béjart, in French with EN subs
faith. Anna is preparing to take her vows in chillier turn when Marianne’s ex-lover for the creation of the first full-length
early 60s Poland, when she makes contact shows up with his teenage daughter. The ballet to rock music. Featuring behind Four outstanding contemporary
with her last remaining relative, her aunt onscreen reunion of the former dream the scenes footage, as well as rare choreographers come together for a
Wanda, a free-living intellectual secretly couple (Delon and Schneider) adds to the interviews of Maurice Béjart, and Queen programme that leads the Opera Garnier’s
annihilating painful memories with a tension of this taught psychological drama. members Brian May and Roger Taylor, this dancers to a new form of modernity.
heady mix of sex and booze. documentary pays tribute to a generation Filmed by Cédric Klapisch, the
Sun 9 Sept 4pm of artists who died of AIDS in the early programme opens with James Thierrée’s
Sat 25 Aug 2pm 90’s, including Freddie Mercury and dream-like world, followed by Hofesh
Mon 27 Aug 6.30pm Preceded by François Ozon’s short film dancer Jorge Donn. Shechter’s trance-evoking dances, Iván
A Summer Dress (cert. 15) Pérez's creation for ten male dancers
See also Cold War p.3 Wed 12 Sept 8.15pm and Crystal Pite's The Seasons’ Canon.
Part of the Stolen Summers film season
curated by Taryn Joffe of the NFTS Double bill: talk The Museum Goes Pop Thu 20 Sept 7pm
(Music) at 6.30pm + screening: £15, conc.
£13 (see p.13) - film only: £11, conc. £9
Ciné Lumière Did You Miss It? Re-Release
The Heiresses The Apparition The Nun
Las Herederas L’Apparition La Religieuse
PRY/URY | 2018 | 95 mins | dir. Marcelo Martinessi, with Ana FRA | 2018 | 138 mins | dir. Xavier Giannoli, with Vincent FRA | 1965 | 135 mins | dir. Jacques Rivette, with Anna Karina,
Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova | cert. 12 | in Spanish & Lindon, Galatéa Bellugi, Patrick d'Assumçao | cert. 12 Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francine Bergé | cert. 12
Guarani with EN subs in French with EN subs in French with EN subs | New Print
Garnering 4 wins at this year’s Berlinale, Marcelo Xavier Giannoli (Marguerite, When I Was a Singer) returns Initially banned in France on grounds of anti-clericalism,
Martinessi’s The Heiresses follows the story of Chela and with this story of Jacques (Vincent Lindon), a journalist Jacques Rivette’s take on Diderot’s 1760 novel recounts
Chiquita, two women of prosperous descent who find hailed as a talented investigator, who is recruited by the the twists and turns of Suzanne (Anna Karina) stuck in
themselves destitute in their sixties. Chiquita is sent to Vatican to look into the claim of the apparition of the the throes of sadistic persecution as she is forced to
prison, and Chela has no other choice than becoming Virgin Mary to a young woman in the South of France. enter a convent against her own will. One of the most
a taxi driver. Chela finally begins to break out of her Having seen the horrors of war and crime, Jacques has breathtaking and emotional works of French cinema,
shell and engage with the world, embarking on her own little faith in humankind, but his investigation will bring Jacques Rivette’s exquisite drama appears now in a
personal, intimate revolution. out more than one miracle. glorious new 4K digital restoration.
Fri 7 Sept 4pm Fri 24 Aug 3.45pm Sun 23 Sept 4.10pm
Sat 8 Sept 4pm Sat 25 Aug 8.50pm
Tue 11 Sept 9pm Mon 27 Aug 8.20pm
Tue 28 Aug 8.45pm
Wed 29 Aug 6.10pm
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Ciné Lumière Safar Film Festival
Safar Film Festival Wajib Horses of God The Land
A vibrant celebration of Arab cinema, the PSE/FRA/COL/DEU | 2017 | 96 mins Les Chevaux de Dieu El Ard
biennial SAFAR Film Festival returns to dir. Annemarie Jacir, with Mohammad Bakri, FRA/BEL/TUN/MAR | 2012 | 115 mins EGY | 1969 | 130 mins | dir. Youssef Chahine,
London this autumn for its fourth edition, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty | cert. tbc | in Arabic dir. Nabil Ayouch, with Abdelhakim Rachi, with Hamdy Ahmed, Mahmoud Almeleji,
and for the first time at Ciné Lumière. with EN subs Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek | cert. tbc Yehia Chahine | cert. tbc | in Arabic with
in Moroccan Arabic and French with EN subs EN subs | World Premiere of the restored
Celebrating the enduring and symbiotic This road movie stars veteran Palestinian version
relationship of literature and film, SAFAR thespian Mohammed Bakri in the role of a A gripping chronicle of the transformation
features at Ciné Lumière the late, Egyptian former Palestinian Liberation Organization of two carefree young Casablancan This 1969 masterpiece is Egyptian
filmmaker Youssef Chahine’s The Land (PLO) fighter, who embarks on a journey hustlers into terrorists, Horses of God filmmaker Youssef Chahine’s most beloved
(1969), adapted from Abdel Rahman across Nazareth with his estranged has a sweep and grandeur seldom seen work in his home nation: a 1930s-set
al-Sharqawi’s popular novel; Moroccan architect son (played by Bakri's real-life in Arab pictures. Inspired by the 2003 rural saga about a group of farmers
tour de force Nabil Ayouch’s Horses of son, Saleh) to hand-deliver the wedding Casablanca suicide bombings – the attempting to save their land from feudal
God (2012), adapted from Mahi Binebine’s invitations for his daughter. Jacir’s third deadliest terrorist attacks in Morocco’s control. Adapted from Abderrahman
searing text; and a special screening of film is a nuanced portrait of generational history – Ayouch aptly translates Mahi Charkawi’s homonymous novel, the film
leading Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie disconnect and fading idealism and most Binebine’s searing text into an intimate was conceived as a reaction to the 1967
Jacir’s new film Wajib. of all, it’s a story of survival, delivered with epic of debilitating poverty, violence and defeat to Israel. Both a passionate paean
charm, compassion and palpable love. lost innocence without losing empathy for to peasant life and an examination of
SAFAR Film Festival is presented by The the broken central characters. nationhood, individualism and masculinity,
Arab British Centre, in partnership with Sat 15 Sept 8.30pm The Land remains an enduring classic.
the Institut français and the ICA. Mon 17 Sept 8.30pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Tue 18 Sept 8.20pm
Annemarie Jacir Followed by a Q&A with author Mahi
Binebine and curator Joseph Fahim Followed by a Q&A with curator Joseph
Fahim
Ciné Lumière London Spanish Film Festival
Time to embrace Spanish Cinema at
Ciné Lumière!
Summer flies by and it’s already
time to go back to work, but why not
enjoy a little extension of sunlight
with the Spanish Film Festival. For
its fourteenth edition, the unmissable
Spanish rendezvous brings you
once again the hottest films and
the freshest talents from our cross-
Pyrenees neighbours.
¡Vámonos al cine!
> screenings are listed p.23
> see dedicated Festival printed
programme & website:
www.londonspanishfilmfestival.com
26 – 29 September
image: Julia Ist
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Ciné Lumière Varda by Agnès
La Pointe courte L’une chante, Les Glaneurs et la Le Bonheur
FRA | 1955 | 86 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with
Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort | cert. PG | in
l’autre pas glaneuse FRA | 1967 | 85 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with
Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier
French with EN subs One Sings, the Other Doesn’t The Gleaners & I Drouot | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs
FRA/BEL | 1976 | 120 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, FRA | 2000 | 82 mins | dir. Agnès Varda | doc
Anticipating the style and attitude of the with Thérèse Liotard, Robert Dadiès, Valérie cert. U | in French with EN subs In one of her more provocative films,
New Wave, Agnès Varda’s directorial Mairesse, Ali Raffi | cert. PG | in French with winner of the prestigious Prix Louis
debut remains as fresh and original as EN subs Why do food producers throw so much Delluc, Agnès Varda presents us with the
the day it was made. Set in a declining away when people go hungry? Agnès dilemma faced by husband and father
Mediterranean fishing village, the film Two young girls live in Paris in 1962. One Varda, gleaner of images, follows other François who finds himself falling in love
portrays both the complex relationship dreams of becoming a singer, the other gleaners, people who collect what other with an attractive postal worker. What
between a married couple, exceptionally looks after her two children. They go their people throw away, food and junk. This follows is a detailed study of adult fidelity
played by Silvia Monfort and Philippe separate ways and meet up ten years thought-provoking social and poetic and happiness, which will ultimately end
Noiret, and the economic difficulties facing later during a demonstration. Their story documentary has been praised at with major repercussions for all parties
the wider community. illustrates Simone de Beauvoir’s phrase, many festivals and was voted the best involved.
“One is not born a woman; one becomes documentary of 2001 by the National
Sun 26 Aug 2pm one.” Despite the contrast they remain Society of Film Critics. Sun 9 Sept 2pm
friends and share in the various dramas of
Followed by a discussion with Nick each other’s lives, in the process affirming Fri 7 Sept 6.30pm
Walker (Rochester Kino Cinema Club) their different female identities.
See also Faces Places p.4 Sun 2 Sept 2pmCiné Lumière Varda by Agnès
© 2008-CINE TAMARIS
Les Plages Cléo de 5 à 7 Sans toit ni loi Jacquot de Nantes
d’Agnès Cleo from 5 to 7 Vagabond FRA | 1991 | 118 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with
FRA/ITA | 1961 | 90 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, FRA | 1985 | 105 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent
The Beaches of Agnès with Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Meril, Stéphane Monnier | cert. PG | in French with EN subs
FRA | 2008 | 110 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Dominique Davray | cert. PG | in French with Freiss | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs
Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier EN subs ‘To film all that, with Jacques at my side,
doc | cert. 18 | in French with EN subs Sandrine Bonnaire won a Best Actress was a terrible yet beautiful ordeal’, says
Cleo, a young pop singer, wanders the César for her portrayal of Mona - a Agnès Varda. ‘But I could see how happy
Returning to the beaches that have been streets of Paris while awaiting the results young and defiant drifter in this tragic he was to the very places where he grew
part of her life, Agnès Varda invents a of a medical test that may indicate story. Using a largely non-professional up.’ Agnès Varda wrote this delicate
kind of self-portrait-documentary. Agnès cancer. A lively mix of melodrama cast, Agnès Varda’s splintered portrait memoir, set in provincial France of the 40s
stages herself among excerpts of her and cinéma vérité, the film features of the enigmatic woman is told through and 50s, about the youth of her lifelong
films, images and reportages; weaving beautiful bleached-out photography, an flashbacks of those who encountered her. partner and fellow filmmaker Jacques
public and private struggles, loves and excellent score by Michel Legrand and an Demy.
friendships, films and people, and the unforgettable performance by Corinne Sun 23 Sept 2pm
history of French cinema. Idiosyncratic, Marchand as a narcissistic pop star Tue 25 Sept 6.30pm Sun 30 Sept 2pm
engaging and deeply moving, The gradually unveiling another self, no longer
Beaches of Agnès is the autobiography of a woman as object but as subject.
a magnificent artist and a woman of vital
curiosity. Sun 16 Sept 2pm
Wed 19 Sept 6.30pm
Thu 13 Sept 6.30pm
The screening on 16 Sept will be followed
by a discussion with Nick Walker
(Rochester Kino Cinema Club)
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Ciné Lumière Classics Talks & Special Events
Citizen Kane The Trial Open House Café Philo
USA | 1941 | 119 mins | dir. Orson Welles,
with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy
FRA/ITA/DEU | 1962 | 114 mins | dir. Orson
Welles, with Anthony Perkins, Jeanne
London Open to everyone interested in discussing
philosophical issues in an informal setting,
Comingore | cert. U | in English Moreau, Romy Schneider | cert. PG Did you know that the Institut was founded the Institut’s Café Philo meets every
in English in 1910 by a woman, Marie d’Orliac? Saturday.
Hailed as one of the best films ever made, Or that it welcomed Charles de Gaulle
Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane depicts the Based on Franz Kafka’s paranoid novel, during the Second World War? Learn all Sat 1 & 22 Sept | in French
investigation of journalist Jerry Thompson The Trial depicts the spider-and-fly games about the Institut’s fascinating history and Sat 8, 15 & 29 Sept | in English
on the past of publishing tycoon, the of Josef K (Anthony Perkins) struggling gorgeous Art Deco architecture including 10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | contact:
“larger than life” and recently deceased against an inescapable fate when he the recently renovated Grade II listed cmichel@cmichel.com
Charles Foster Kane. Meeting all those is arrested for no reasonable cause library with guided tours and archives
Reading Group
who knew him and digging deeper and and tried by a cold and dehumanised exhibition, as part of Open House London.
deeper into his secrets via flashbacks, judicial system. One of Welles's finest
Thompson reveals Kane’s hidden past, his achievements, this imaginative adaptation Sat 22 & Sun 23 Sept | from 12pm | free
rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off captures the novel's black humour and (registrations for hourly tour on the day The Reading Group is back for a brand
the top of the world. nightmarish atmosphere. only) new season around carefully chosen
and acclaimed French authors. Join our
Sun 26 Aug 3.50pm Mon 27 Aug 2pm La Médiathèque will be operating a full unique bilingual literary discussion with a
Thu 30 Aug 6.30pm service from 12pm to 6pm, on Sun 17 little French twist.
See also documentary The Eyes of Orson Sept.
Welles p.3 See also documentary The Eyes of Orson Thu 18 Oct | Small Country, by Gaël Faye
Welles p.3 (2017) – tr. by S. Ardizzone
7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy)
French | £5, members £3Talks Projet Lumière(s)
The Museum Goes Pop Dany Laferrière We have achieved the completion of the first phase of
the Projet Lumière(s)! Fully revamped, equipped with
(Music)
furniture by French designers and a top-of-the-range
Literary and Musical Evening sound system, the new Salons are now hosting high
profile events, including talks, concerts and exhibitions,
David Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, and now Organised in partnership with Festival America, the and can also be used for private hire. The Institut français
Michael Jackson: all these major artists from the rock British Library and the Arts and Humanities Research thanks the Friends of the French Institute trust and
and pop scene were the subject of utterly successful Council (AHRC), this French Caribbean evening will all the donors for their generous support towards this
exhibitions all over the world. Why is that? Echoing with be an exceptional opportunity to hear Montreal-based renovation.
the Michael Jackson on the Wall exhibition at the National Haitian writer Dany Laferrière, elected to the prestigious
Portrait Gallery, leading experts share their experience Académie Française in 2015, talk about his writing and in The second phase of the Projet Lumière(s), will lead us
and look at the issues raised by 'Pop (Music) Museums'. particular The Enigma of the Return (MacLehose Press). further with the opening of a new boutique 40-seat
Speakers include Victoria Broackes (V&A), Dr Nicholas cinema, enabling a more flexible and enriched
Cullinan (National Portrait Gallery), Clémentine The talk will be followed by a book signing and a music programming. Due to open at the beginning of 2019,
Deroudille, (independent curator), Stéphane Malfettes session with Guadeloupean drummer and composer Ciné Lumière, Screen 2, will be the perfect setting for
(Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration) and Nigel Arnaud Dolmen and pianist Leonardo Montana, after a wider range of films and events, from educational
Godrich (Producer, a.o Radiohead). Chaired by Eric de an introduction to ‘jazz creole’ from journalist Kevin Le screenings to documentaries, from short films to
Visscher (former director of Musée de la musique in Gendre. debates. It is still time to get involved in the Projet
Paris and Visiting Professor, V&A Research Institute). Lumière(s): each donation matters!
Mon 24 Sept 7pm
Wed 12 Sept 6.30pm | £7, conc. £5 To find out more and support the project, contact:
in English | £10, members & conc. £8 caroline.drevait@institutfrancais.org.uk
Followed by a screening of Queen and Béjart:
Ballet for Life (see p.6). Talk and film: £15, conc. £13
© Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II (Michael Jackson) by Kehinde Wiley and
Black Ebony I by Lyle Ashton Harris in Michael Jackson: On the Wall at the
National Portrait Gallery, London. Photograph by Jorge Herrera 1314
Kids & Families
We’re going back to school! It’s time to sharpen your pencils and get
ready for a new year of exciting activities at the Institut français! Kids Activities
The autumn wind is
blowing in London! The
Institut français is here to
shelter you from the cold
and entertain you with fun
tales, workshops, games,
and French learning labs!
CinéKids Screenings
Whether you’re nostalgic of your
summer holidays or excited to be back
in the classroom, new year means new
friends! Meet Le Petit Nicolas, Belle
et Sébastien and even the family of
Incredibles 2.
Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am
> all Kids & Families activities are listed p.23
> see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website:
www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families
image: The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales15
We Support
Mohamed Bourouissa From the Inside Out Soufiane Ababri …Sodade…
This exhibition explores the variety of ways For his first exhibition in the UK, Soufiane
that artists create personal narratives and Ababri creates new works that confront
celebrates the power of drawing to reflect themes of homophobia and racism
the complexity and diversity of female in order to dismantle mechanisms of
experience. domination—from post-colonialist to
patriarchal power structures—while
www.drawingroom.org.uk aiming to thwart oppressive social
dynamics.
19 Sept – 17 Dec Drawing Room
www.spacestudios.org.uk
For Liverpool Biennial 2018, Mohamed Ulla von Brandenburg: Sweet Feast In this world-class sunset spectacular,
Bourouissa creates a film and a 28 Sept – 24 Nov Spacestudios Cirque Rouages take to the sky above Pool
community garden inspired by a garden Quay on an ever-turning cable, offering a
made by a patient of the psychoanalyst Explore Ensemble combination of breathtaking circus and
Frantz Fanon in Algeria. magical storytelling.
www.biennial.com www.insideoutdorset.co.uk
Until 28 Oct Liverpool Biennial 14 & 15 Sept Inside Out Dorset Festival
Wilde Lieder Marx.Music Manimal: Gesticulating, a way of thinking
about the World
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Ulla von Brandenburg takes previous
has commissioned a new work to Frédéric Whitechapel Gallery exhibition Sweets In this performance, Les Souffleurs
Pattar for its season "Wilde Lieder (1973) as her inspiration for this new Commandos Hybrides become hybrid
Marx.Music". After its world premiere commission. She will re-enact this show The British ensemble presents Gérard beings, half-human half-animal in and
in Germany, the work will be premiered with local children in a new immersive and Grisey's epic masterwork Vortex around Boscombe, creating improvised
in Birmingham thanks to the support of colourful seating structure. Temporum alongside a new work for nests popping up in the landscape and
Diaphonique. ensemble and electronics by Lisa Illean. then disappearing again.
www.whitechapelgallery.org This programme is supported by the
www.bcmg.org.uk franco-british fund Diaphonique, and will www.insideoutdorset.co.uk
21 Sept – 31 Mar 2019 Whitechapel tour in Oxford and Cardiff in November.
4 Sept CBSO Centre, Birmingham Gallery 15 & 16 Sept Inside Out Dorset Festival
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30 Sept Kings Place
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Yves Klein Imarhan Michel Legrand Les Négresses Vertes
For the very first time in the UK, multi-
Oscar winner Michel Legrand will be
conducting a selection from 60 years'
worth of compositions with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra. It's a once-in-
a-lifetime opportunity to catch a giant of
popular music in action.
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Featuring over 50 artworks, this is the Catch the southern Algerian band 18 Sept Royal Festival Hall 17 years after their break up and 30 years
most comprehensive Yves Klein exhibition redefining Saharan music on their funk- after the release of their debut album,
in the UK to date reflecting his wide- influenced second album Temet. Le Crxssing the iconic and uncategorisable French
ranging practices, including paintings, group reunite for what is bound to be an
sculptures and large-scale installations. www.villageunderground.co.uk energetic anniversary celebration.
www.blenheimpalace.com 4 Sept Village Underground www.academymusicgroup.com
Until 7 Oct Blenheim Palace Antoine Tamestit & Orchestre 25 Sept O2 Academy Islington
Révolutionnaire et Romantique
The Outsider (L'Étranger) Courtauld Impressionists:
Antoine Tamestit performs Berlioz's From Manet to Cézanne
Albert Camus’ classic existentialist symphony with solo viola, Harold in Italy at
masterpiece about the human condition the Prom 71. The programme will mark This exhibition traces the development
is one of the great stories of the 20th the 150th anniversary year of the death of Le Crxssing is a unique festival that of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
Century. It is presented at Print Room Berlioz. celebrates creativity beyond boundaries paintings through a selection of over forty
at the Coronet in its first major UK through six verticals: music, art, cinema, masterpieces from the collection of the
production, and adapted by Booker Prize- www.bbc.co.uk gastronomy, fashion and comedy. Young Courtauld Gallery, including famous works
winning author Ben Okri. and emerging talents will showcase the by Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir,
5 Sept Royal Albert Hall fusions of French and British culture, Manet and Seurat.
www.the-print-room.org and their endless creative collaboration.
The Institut français will be offering VIP www.nationalgallery.org.uk
14 Sept - 13 Oct Print Room at the tickets on its social media pages, be sure
Coronet to follow. 17 Sept – 20 Jan National Gallery
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Cultural events in the 'We Support' and 'We Recommend' sections are
supported or recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art Projects,
Diaphonique, En Scène! and the French Music Export Office. 22 Sept Central Saint Martins, LondonSE
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The legendary French artist performs songs from
his 40 year career live at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Telephone: 020 7734 5259Aug /Sept Thu 30 Aug
The Guardians
3.45pm | film | p.3
Thu 6 Sept
Cold War
4pm, 8.45pm | film | p.3
Wed 12 Sept
e-Workshop
4pm | kids | p.14
Mon 17 Sept
Reinventing Marvin
6.10pm | film | p.4
Reinventing Marvin
8.40pm | film | p.4
Fri 28 Sept
Faces Places
4pm | film | p.4
The Trial C’est la Vie ! Cold War Horses of God + Q&A Sun 23 Sept The Gospel According to
Fri 24 Aug 6.30pm | film | p.12 6.30pm | film | p.4 4pm | film | p.3 8.30pm | film | p.8 Les Vacances du Petit André
The Apparition The Eyes of Orson Welles The Museum Goes Pop Nicolas 6.30pm | film | p. 5
3.45pm | film | p.7 8.45pm | film | p.3 Fri 7 Sept (Music) Tue 18 Sept 11am | film/kids | p.14 The Free Life + Q&A
The Eyes of Orson Welles The Heiresses 6.30pm | talk | p.13 Creative Photography Open House London 8.40pm | film | p.9
6.30pm | film | p.3 Fri 31 Aug 4pm | film | p.7 Queen and Béjart: Ballet for Studio from 12pm | p.12
The Guardians Cold War Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse Life + Q&A 4pm | kids | p.14 Sans toit ni loi Sat 29 Sept
8.45pm | film | p.3 4pm, 8.50pm | film | p.3 6.30pm | film | p.10 8.15pm | film | p.6 Reinventing Marvin 2pm | film | p.11 Café Philo
C’est la Vie ! Cold War 6pm | film | p.4 The Nun 10.30am | talk | p.12
Sat 25 Aug 6.30pm | film | p.4 8.40pm | film | p.3 Thu 13 Sept The Land + Q&A 4.10pm | film | p.7 Kids French Lab
Ida Art Club 8.20pm | film | p.8 Faces Places 11am | kids | p.14
2pm | film | p. 6 Sat 1 Sept Sat 8 Sept 4pm | kids | p.14 6.50pm | film | p.4 Flying the Nest
The Eyes of Orson Welles Café Philo Café Philo Cold War Wed 19 Sept C’est la Vie ! 2pm | film/kids | p.14
3.45pm | film | p.3 10.30am | talk | p.12 10.30am | talk | p.12 4pm | film | p.3 Baby Comptines 8.45pm | film | p.4 Game Lab
The Guardians The Big Bad Fox and... Baby Tales Les Plages d’Agnès 11am | kids | p.14 2.30pm | kids | p.14
6.15pm | film | p.3 2pm | film/kids | p.14 11am | kids | p.14 6.30pm | film | p.11 Let’s Play! Mon 24 Sept When You No Longer
The Apparition C’est la Vie ! The Big Bad Fox and... C’est la Vie ! 4pm | kids | p.14 Faces Places Love Me
8.50pm | film | p.7 4pm | film | p.4 2pm | film/kids | p.14 8.50pm | film | p.4 McQueen 6.45pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 4pm | film | p. 9
Cold War The Heiresses 4pm | film | p.5 Dany Laferrière + live music Julia Ist
Sun 26 Aug 6.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.3 4pm | film | p.7 Fri 14 Sept Cléo de 5 à 7 7pm | talk/music | p.13
La Pointe courte 6.20pm | film | p. 9
C’est la Vie ! Reinventing Marvin 6.30pm | film | p.11 The Gospel According to
2pm | film | p.10 Sun 2 Sept 6.10pm | film | p.4 4pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4 Reinventing Marvin Tue 25 Sept
Citizen Kane The Big Bad Fox and... Creative Photography André
Cold War McQueen 8.40pm | film | p.4
3.50pm | film | p.12 11am | film/kids | p.14 8.40pm | film | p.3 6.30pm | film | p.5 Studio 8.40pm | film | p. 5
The Eyes of Orson Welles L’une chante, l’autre pas Thu 20 Sept 4pm | kids | p.14 Sun 30 Sept
6.15pm | film | p.3 2pm | film | p. 10 Sun 9 Sept Sat 15 Sept Art Club Sans toit ni loi The Giant Pear
The Guardians C’est la Vie ! The Big Bad Fox and... Café Philo 4pm | kids | p.14 6.30pm | film | p.11 11am | film/kids | p.14
8.30pm | film | p.3 4.20pm | film | p.4 11am | film/kids | p.14 10.30am | talk | p.12 Reinventing Marvin Faces Places Jacquot de Nantes
Cold War Le Bonheur Le Petit Nicolas 4pm | film | p.4 8.40pm | film | p.4 2pm | film | p.11
Mon 27 Aug 6.45pm, 8.40pm | film | p.3 2pm | film | p.10 2pm | film/kids | p.14 Thierrée / Shechter /
The Trial Wed 26 Sept Faces Places
La Piscine Game Lab Pérez / Pite
2pm | film | p.12 Mon 3 Sept 4pm | film | p.6 2.30pm | kids | p.14 7pm | dance broadcast | p.6 e-Workshop 4.30pm, 8.30pm | film | p.4
The Eyes of Orson Welles Cold War 4pm | kids | p.14 The Gospel According to
C’est la Vie ! Cold War André
4.20pm | film | p.3 6.45pm | film | p.3 6.35pm | film | p.4 4pm | film | p.3 Fri 21 Sept Faces Places
Ida C’est la Vie ! Cold War Reinventing Marvin Faces Places 4pm | film | p.4 6.30pm | film | p. 5
6.30pm | film | p. 6 8.40pm | film | p.4 8.50pm | film | p.3 6pm | film | p.4 4pm, 6.30pm | film | p.4 Empowered
The Apparition Wajid + Q&A Reinventing Marvin 6.30pm | film | p.9
Tue 4 Sept Mon 10 Sept 8.40pm | film | p.4 Anchor and Hope + Q&A Part of London Spanish
8.20pm | film | p.7
Cold War Cold War
8.30pm | film | p.8
8.30pm | film | p.9 Film Festival (p8)
Tue 28 Aug 6.45pm, 8.40pm | film | p.3 6.30pm | film | p.3 Sun 16 Sept Sat 22 Sept
The Guardians C’est la Vie ! Les Vacances du Petit Café Philo Thu 27 Sept
Wed 5 Sept 10.30am | talk | p.12 Art Club
6.10pm | film | p.3 Nicolas The Institut français
Baby Comptines 8.30pm | film | p.4
Kids Tales
The Apparition 11am | film/kids | p.14 4pm | kids | p.14 (Cultural Centre) will open
11am | kids | p.14 Tue 11 Sept 11am | kids | p.14 Faces Places
8.45pm | film | p.7 Cléo de 5 à 7 at 1pm on Fri 24 Aug and
Cold War Creative Photography Open House London 4pm | film | p.4
Wed 29 Aug 4pm, 8.50pm | film | p.3 2pm | film | p.11 Mon 27 Aug
Studio What Men Wear + Q&A from 12pm | p.12 Reinventing Marvin
The Eyes of Orson Welles C’est la Vie ! 4pm | kids | p.14 Le Petit Nicolas 6.10pm | film | p.4 La Médiathèque &
3.45pm | film | p.3 6.30pm | film | p.4 4pm | film | p.5 Bibliothèque Quentin Blake
Reinventing Marvin + Q&A Reinventing Marvin 2pm | film/kids | p.14 The Bastards' Fig Tree
The Apparition 6.20pm | film | p.4 T(h)inker Club + Q&A will open at 1pm on Tue
6.10pm | film | p.7 6pm | film | p.4 28 Aug
The Heiresses Cold War 2.30pm | kids | p.14 8.40pm | film | p.9
The Guardians 9pm | film | p.7 Faces Places
8.45pm | film | p.3 8.30pm | film | p.3
4pm, 6.30pm | film | p.4
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