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Le Programme October – November 2018
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Contents/Highlights
Ciné Lumière 3–17
Comédie-Française 18
14-18 Centenary 19–20
South Ken Kids Festival 21 Ciné Lumière 20th Anniversary Spotlight on the Comédie- 14 - 18 Centenary
3 Oct - 28 Nov Française 10 - 23 Nov
p.3 11 Oct - June pp.19 - 20
Kids & Families 22 p.18
Music 23–24
Talks & Exhibitions 25–26
We Support 27
We Recommend 28
62th BFI London Film Festival 26th French Film Festival France Now
La Médiathèque/Culturethèque 29 11 - 21 Oct 7 - 14 Nov 27 Nov - 1 Dec
p.8 pp.10 - 14 Home Theatre, Manchester
p.27
French Courses 30
General Information 31–35
front cover image: Shoplifters by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Programme design by dothtm
Ciné Lumière 20th Anniversary
© Julien Panie-Jerico
Ciné Lumière Turns 20! Promise at Dawn Les Demoiselles de
Inaugurated in 1998 by its honorary patron Catherine
Deneuve, Ciné Lumière celebrates its 20th anniversary
La Promesse de l’Aube Rochefort
FRA | 2017 | 131 mins | dir. Eric Barbier, with Charlotte
in style with a series of festive screenings kicking off Gainsbourg, Pierre Niney | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs The Young Girls of Rochefort
on 3 October with the UK premiere of Promise at Dawn UK Premiere FRA | 1967 | 125 mins | dir. Jacques Demy, with Catherine
attended by its lead actor Pierre Niney. Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Georges Chakiris, Gene Kelly
From his difficult childhood across Eastern Europe to his cert. PG | in French with EN subs | Sing-along screening
The celebrations continue well into the French Film exploits as a pilot in the French Air Force during World
Festival with the UK Premieres of Sink or Swim (7 Nov), War II, from his literary accomplishments as Romain Gary Starring real-life sisters (Deneuve and Dorléac) as two
a comedy hit starring the crème de la crème of French or Emile Ajar to his diplomatic career, there was more twins looking for romance, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
acting talents, as well as Return of the Hero (8 Nov) than one life in Roman Kacew’s existence. In Promise features crazy mod costumes, a multi-coloured set
marking the return in top form of our hero, Jean Dujardin. at Dawn, adapted from his eponymous fictionalised- and a buoyant, jazzy score by Michel Legrand. Join in to
memoir, it appears that the drive to become one of the sing along in a Karaoke-style screening! Fancy dress
Beloved classics are also on the menu, from Cyrano de major novelists of the 20th century came from his ever- encouraged!
Bergerac, presented in a restored version and in all its demanding mother Nina, whose boundless maternal love
regained glory, in the presence of Jean-Paul Rappeneau would also be his burden to bear for life. Wed 28 Nov 8.30pm
(14 Nov), to the sing-along screening of Jacques Demy’s
cult musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (28 Nov). Wed 3 Oct 6.30pm Introduced by Jacques Demy’s daughter, Rosalie Varda
On top of that, members of the audience Followed by a Q&A with actor Pierre Niney Special screening celebrating
aged 20 will be in for a special treat with a the 20th anniversary of Ciné Lumière
2 For 1 offer on selected screenings. and of French magazine Ici Londres
For further details, visit:
institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere-anniversary
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Ciné Lumière New Releases
Climax Jalouse Tehran Taboo
FRA | 2018 | 95 mins | dir. Gaspar Noé, with Sofia Boutella, FRA | 2017 | 102 mins | dir. David Foenkinos & Stéphane DEU/AUT | 2017 | 96 mins | dir. Ali Soozandeh, with Farhad
Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub | cert. 18 | in French with Foenkinos, with Karin Viard, Anne Dorval, Dara Tombroff Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali, Rozita Assadollahy | cert. tbc
EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs in Persian with EN subs
From director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void, Almost overnight, Nathalie Pêcheux, a divorced French Through rotoscoping animation, Ali Soozandeh presents
Love) comes Climax, the hypnotic, hallucinatory and teacher, changes from a loving mother into a jealous a brilliantly crafted take on the taboos of modern day
ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends monster. Her first target is her stunning 18-year-old Tehran. When prostitute and single mum Pari moves into
into delirium over the course of one wintry night. Tracking daughter Mathilde, a ballet dancer, but her field of attack an apartment with her mute son, she forms a friendship
their journey from jubilation to chaos and full-fledged soon extends to her friends, colleagues, and even her with her new neighbour Sara, a middle class mullah, only
anarchy, Noé observes crushes, rivalries, and violence neighbours. After the success of their film Delicacy, author too happy to share her own secrets. As stories of sex,
amid a collective psychedelic meltdown. and screenwriter David Foenkinos pairs up again with his drugs and corruption unravel, the lives of these two allies
brother Stéphane Foenkinos to portray a woman's radical prove more alike than they think...
Fri 5 Oct 4pm and unexpected shift of character that oscillates between
Sat 6 Oct 6.30pm black comedy and psychological thriller. Fri 5 Oct 8.40pm Tue 9 Oct 6.30pm
Wed 10 Oct 6.30pm Sat 6 Oct 8.40pm Wed 10 Oct 8.40pm
Fri 5 Oct 6.30pm Tue 9 Oct 8.40pm Sun 7 Oct 6.30pm Thu 25 Oct 8.40pm
Sat 6 Oct 4.10pm Wed 10 Oct 4pm Mon 8 Oct 6.30pm
Sun 7 Oct 8.30pm Wed 24 Oct 4pm, 8.40pm
Mon 8 Oct 8.30pm
FRENCHFILMFIRST
EXCLUSIVE
Ciné Lumière New Releases
Dogman A Woman Captured 3 Days in Quiberon
ITA/FRA | 2018 | 102 mins | dir. Matteo Garrone, with Marcello HUN | 2017 | 89 mins | dir. Bernadett Tuza-Ritter | doc 3 Tage in Quiberon
Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano | cert. 15 | in Italian cert. tbc | in Hungarian with EN subs DEU/FRA/AUT | 2018 | 115 mins | dir. Emilie Atef, with Marie
with EN subs Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Charly Hübner | cert. tbc
Never before has slavery been seen from such an in German, French & English with EN subs
Matteo Garrone, the master filmmaker behind Gomorrah intimate angle than in Hungarian filmmaker Bernadett
returns to the crime thriller genre with the tension filled Tuza-Ritter’s documentary. Surprisingly allowed to enter 1981. Over a period of 3 days, a journalist and a
and relentlessly captivating Dogman which won his lead the domestic queendom of Etta, the director cautiously photographer come to witness the cracks and scars of
actor Marcello Fonte the Best Actor Award at this year’s forms a bound with Marish, a 53 year old woman who the talented and beautiful actress Romy Schneider in her
Cannes Film Festival. Marcello is a small and gentle has been kept as a domestic slave for 10 years. This seaside spa hotel in Quiberon. Capturing the charm and
dog groomer who finds himself involved in a dangerous encounter opens up Marish’s eyes on her condition and vulnerability of the German icon, little do they know that
relationship of subjugation with Simone, a violent former provokes an impetus for freedom. her fate is sealed and that they are recording the swan
boxer who terrorises the entire neighbourhood. song of a fading jewel. French-Iranian director Emily Atef,
Fri 2 Nov 6.30pm offers a heart-wrenching biographical study in B&W of a
Fri 26 Oct 4pm, 6.20pm Thu 1 Nov 8.30pm Sat 3 Nov 4.15pm fallen star.
Sat 27 Oct 4.15pm Fri 2 Nov 4pm Sun 4 Nov 6pm
Sun 28 Oct 6pm Sat 3 Nov 8.40pm Mon 5 Nov 6.30pm Fri 16 Nov 4pm, 8.45pm Wed 21 Nov 6.30pm
Mon 29 Oct 6.10pm Mon 5 Nov 8.30pm Sat 17 Nov 4pm Thu 22 Nov 8.30pm
Tue 30 Oct 6.30pm Tue 6 Nov 8.40pm Sun 18 Nov 8.15pm Mon 26 Nov 8.40pm
Wed 31 Oct 4pm Mon 19 Nov 6.10pm Thu 29 Nov 4pm
Tue 20 Nov 8.30pm Fri 30 Nov 6.15pm
See also Les Choses de la Vie and La Mort en direct p.17
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Ciné Lumière New Releases Re-Release
The Price of Everything Shoplifters Orpheus
USA | 2018 | 105 mins | dir. Nathaniel Kahn, with Amy Manbiki kazoku Orphée
Cappellazzo, George Condo, Njideka Akunyili Crosby | doc JPN | 2018 | 121 mins | dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, with Lily FRA | 1950 | 95 mins | dir. Jean Cocteau, with Jean Marais,
cert. tbc | in English Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu | cert. tbc | in Japanese François Périer, María Casares, Marie Déa, Juliette Gréco
with EN subs cert. PG | in French with EN subs | new print
Deep dive into the rarefied world of contemporary art
where everything can be bought and sold, The Price of Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, Hirokazu Cocteau’s gift for mixing real and imaginary worlds finds
Everything is a stunning exposé of the role of art in today’s Kore-eda’s (Nobody Knows) latest film Shoplifters is a its richest expression in this daring update of the Orpheus
consumerist society. Featuring collectors, dealers, profoundly moving drama about a poverty-stricken family myth. Jean Marais’ Orphée is a handsome and successful
auctioneers and a wide range of artists, from Jeff Koons petty thieving to make ends meet, when they come poet whose milieu is the café life of post-war Saint
to Gerhard Richter, this documentary holds a mirror across a shivering little girl foraging for scraps in the cold Germain-des-Prés. But his quest for inspiration takes
up to contemporary values and times, coaxing out the winter night. Taking her in for a few days, the family unit him on a perilous journey into the land of the dead, with
dynamics at play in pricing the priceless. is shaken, and they seem to live happily together until an the risk of losing all he holds dear.
unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the
Fri 23 Nov 7pm Thu 29 Nov 6.30pm bonds that unite them… Tue 23 Oct 6.30pm Thu 1 Nov 4pm
Sun 25 Nov 6pm Fri 30 Nov 4pm Thu 25 Oct 6.30pm Sun 4 Nov 4pm
Tue 27 Nov 6.30pm Fri 23 Nov 9pm Tue 27 Nov 8.40pm Sun 28 Oct 4pm Thu 15 Nov 4pm
Sat 24 Nov 8.30pm Wed 28 Nov 3.30pm, 6pm Wed 31 Oct 6.30pm
Sun 25 Nov 8.10pm Thu 29 Nov 8.40pm
Mon 26 Nov 6.15pm Fri 30 Nov 8.40pm
See also Jean Cocteau Retrospective (p.16)
Special Screenings Did You Miss It?
Gaspard at the Lisbon, Anecdotal The Seagull Cold War
Wedding Chronicle USA | 2018 | 99 mins | dir. Michael Mayer,
with Elisabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Michael
Zimna wojna
POL | 2018 | 90 mins | dir. Pawel Pawlikowski,
Gaspard va au mariage Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica Zegen | cert. 15 | in English with Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc
FRA/BEL | 2017 | 103 mins | dir. Antony POR | 1930 | 95 mins | dir. José Leitão de cert. 15 | in Polish & French with EN subs
Cordier, with Félix Moati, Laetitia Dosch, Barros| doc | cert. tbc | silent, in Portuguese Based on Anton Chekhov’s classic play,
Christa Théret | cert. tbc | in French with EN with EN subs The Seagull explores, the obsessive Winner of the Best Director Award at
subs | UK Premiere nature of love, the tangled relationships the Cannes Film Festival 2018, Pawel
For his debut film, renowned Portuguese between parents and children, and the Pawlikowski (Ida) melds the personal
Keeping a careful distance for many years filmmaker from the first half of the 20th transcendent value and psychic toll of art. with the political in this epic romance. In
with his family, 25 years old Gaspard (Félix century, José Leitão de Barros re-enacted One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, the ruins of post-war Poland, passionate
Moati) has to renew contact at the news episodes of a day in the life of Lisbon in this friends and family gather for a weekend lovers Wiktor and Zula are performing
of his father’s second marriage. When the kaleidoscopic homage to the Portuguese in the countryside. While everyone is musicians forced to play into the Soviet
eccentric Laura (Laetitia Dosch) agrees capital mixing documentary footage and caught up in passionately loving someone propaganda machine, who dream of
to play the role of his girlfriend for the fiction to surprising artistic effects. who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy escaping to the West. Sumptuously shot in
wedding, he finally feels ready to set foot unfolds. luminous B&W, Cold War spans decades
in his parent’s zoo and reunite with the Sat 3 Nov 6.15pm and nations to tell a heartbreaking story of
monkeys and tigers he grew up with… Tue 23 Oct 8.40pm ill-fated love.
but can he be prepared for the end of his With live musical accompaniment. Wed 24 Oct 6.30pm
childhood? Thu 25 Oct 4pm Thu 1 Nov 6.30pm
As part of Utopia, Fri 2 Nov 8.40pm
Sun 7 Oct 4pm UK Portuguese Sun 4 Nov 8pm
Film Festival. Wed 7 Nov 4pm
Followed by a Q&A with actress Laetitia
Dosch
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Ciné Lumière 62nd BFI London Film Festival
The Institut français is thrilled to
team up with BFI once again to
present the 62nd BFI London Film
Festival in partnership with American
Express®.
Be the first to see the best of World
Cinema alongside some of the most
anticipated French films from 11 to 21
October at Ciné Lumière.
> screenings are listed p.34
> see dedicated Festival printed
programme & website:
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
11-21 October
image: Colette by Wash Westmoreland
2018
Ciné Lumière UK Iranian Film Festival
The UK Iranian Film
Festival returns at Ciné
Lumière with a selection of
features fresh out of Iran.
From Pig, the colourful
comedy by Mani Haghighi to
Mahnaz Afzali’s eco-friendly
documentary, Mother of
Earth, Iranian cinema is in
all its guises!
> screenings are listed pp.34
image: Pig by Mani Haghighi
> see dedicated Festival printed programme
& website: www.ukiff.org.uk
26 - 31 Oct
10
Ciné Lumière French Film Festival
From Sink or Swim to
Cyrano de Bergerac,
enjoy the full spectrum
of French cinema. The
French Film Festival is
back with a splash and
panache !
Sink or Swim L’Insoumis
Le Grand bain FRA/ITA | 1964 | 115 mins | dir. Alain Cavalier,
FRA | 2018 | 123 mins | dir. Gilles Lellouche, with Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret
with Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, cert. tbc | in French with EN subs
Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade new print
cert. tbc | in French with EN subs
UK Premiere | Launch Event Against the background of the Algerian
War of the 1960s, Thomas (Alain Delon)
A group of 40-something guys decide plays a deserter from the French
to form their local pool’s first ever Foreign Legion who is on the run from
synchronised swimming team – for men. the authorities. He helps to set free
Braving skepticism and ridicule and Dominique (Lea Massari), who has been
trained by a fallen champion trying to pull taken hostage by a group of terrorists.
herself together, the group set out on an Soon, Thomas finds himself caught
unlikely adventure. French director Gilles between the Foreign Legion and the
Lellouche made a splash at this year’s terrorists seeking revenge. Inspired by
Cannes festival with a hugely entertaining real events, Alain Cavalier’s L’Insoumis is
and moving comedy about dreams that presented on a brand new print.
can come true even if we don’t dare
believe in them. Thu 8 Nov 4pm
Wed 7 Nov 7.30pm
FRENCHFILMFIRST
EXCLUSIVECiné Lumière French Film Festival
Return of the Hero Woman Up! La Vérité Our Struggles
Le Retour du héro Numéro Une The Truth Nos batailles
FRA/BEL | 2018 | 90 mins | dir. Laurent FRA/BEL | 2017 | 110 mins | dir. Tonie France | 1960 | 127 mins | dir. Henri-Georges FRA/BEL | 2018 | 98 mins | dir. Guillaume
Tirard, with Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, Marshall, with Emmanuelle Devos, Suzanne Clouzot, with Charles Vanel, Brigitte Bardot, Senez, with Romain Duris, Laura Calamy,
Noémie Merlant | cert. tbc Clément, Richard Berry | cert. tbc | in French, Sami Frey, Marie-Jose Nat Laetitia Dosh, Lucie Debay | cert. tbc
in French with EN subs | UK Premiere English, Chinese with EN subs cert. 18 | in French with English subtitles | in French with EN subs | UK Premiere
new print
A charming comedy romp starring Emmanuelle Devos plays an ambitious After his first feature, Keeper, Guillaume
the ever-amusing Jean Dujardin as a corporate manager who aspires to be Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) is Senez looks again at fatherhood with this
swashbuckling swindler who tries to the first woman CEO of a major French on trial for the murder of her lover Gilbert intense and true to life drama. Olivier
take advantage of an aristocratic family. company. However, when she finally Tellier (Sami Frey). As the hearings go (Romain Duris) is abandoned by his wife
Captain Neuville vanished during one gets a shot at her position, she is quickly on, the accused’s true character comes and has to try and keep a household of
of Napoleon’s wars while engaged to threatened by personal and political to light. In this feature, winner of the two children going by himself, with the
Elisabeth’s (Mélanie Laurent) sister. factors. In this intelligent drama about 1961 Golden Globe for Best Foreign occasional help of his sister Betty (Laetitia
Elisabeth forged letters from Neuville to corporate sexism, director Tonie Marshall Film, Henri-Georges Clouzot depicts a Dosch) and, at times, their mother Joelle
cheer her sister up, but when a cowardly captures not only a topical but also a puritanical and hypocritical society that (Dominique Valadie).
and dishevelled Neuville returns, both are potent portrait of the sacrifices unique to shows no compassion for the monsters it
caught up in the lies. a woman’s ambition in male dominated creates. The result is a film of remarkable Fri 9 Nov 6.30pm
environments. precision and ruthless irony in which
Thu 8 Nov 6.30pm Brigitte Bardot gives the performance of See also Gaspard at the Wedding on Sun 7
Thu 8 Nov 8.40pm a lifetime. Oct (p.16)
Followed by a Q&A with director Tonie Fri 9 Nov 4pm
FRENCHFILMFIRST Marshall and actress Emmanuelle Devos
EXCLUSIVE (tbc)
1112
Ciné Lumière French Film Festival
© Casa Azul Films - Ecran Noir
The House by the Sea The Image Book One Nation, One King
La Villa Le Livre d’image Un peuple et son roi
FRA | 2017 | 107 mins | dir. Robert Guédiguian, with Ariane FRA/CHE | 2016 | 84 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard | cert. tbc FRA | 2017 | 121 mins | dir. Pierre Schoeller, with Gaspard
Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan | cert. tbc in Arabic, English, French & Italian with EN subs Ulliel, Adèle Haenel, Olivier Gourmet, Louis Garrel | cert. tbc
in French with EN subs in French with EN subs | UK Premiere
Following his most recent full-length works, Goodbye to
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa Language, Jean-Luc Godard pushes his exploration of In this inspirational and epic drama Pierre Schoeller (The
owned by an old man. His three children have gathered words, sounds and images to vivid new extremes in this Minister) conveys the scale of events of the 1789 French
by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh complex, dizzying mosaic of film, essay and collage. This Revolution from the point of view of ordinary people, who,
up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and polyphonic discourse about the contemporary condition for the first time, were able to power events and develop
the community spirit he created in this magical place. shows Godard, at 87, as intransigently and vitally a national consciousness instead of remaining passive
The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people confrontational as ever. victims.
will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
Guédiguian offers a deeply humanist and melancholic Sat 10 Nov 6pm Sat 10 Nov 8.30pm
tale supported by wonderful actors.
Fri 9 Nov 8.40pm
FRENCHFILMFIRST
EXCLUSIVECiné Lumière French Film Festival
© Claire Nicol
To the Ends of the When Margaux Comfort and The Trouble
World Meets Margaux Consolation in with You
Les Confins du Monde La Belle et la Belle France En Liberté!
FRA/BEL | 2017 | 103 mins | dir. Guillaume FRA | 2017 | 96 mins | dir. Sophie Fillières, FRA | 2018 | 107 mins | dir. Pierre Salvadori,
Nicloux, with Gaspard Ulliel, Guillaume with Sandrine Kiberlain, Agathe Bonitzer, Pour le réconfort with Adèle Haenel, Pio Marmaï, Audrey
Gioux, Lag-Khé Tran, Gérard Depardieu Melvil Poupaud, Lucie Desclozeaux | cert. tbc FRA | 2017 | 91 mins | dir. Vincent Macaigne, Tautou | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs
cert. tbc | in French with EN subs | UK | in French with EN subs | UK Premiere with Pauline Lorillard, Pascal Rénéric, UK Premiere
Premiere Emmanuel Matte, Laurent Papot | cert. tbc
Margaux, 20, meets Margaux, 45. in French with EN subs | UK Premiere The vivacious Adele Haenel stars as
In Indochina in 1945, the Viêt Minh are Everything unites them, in fact they are a Riviera detective who tries to make
fighting to liberate their country from the but one and only person at two different After squandering their inheritance amends after discovering her late
grips of French colonial power in a violent stages in their life. Writer-director Sophie while living la vie de bohème abroad, husband was a crooked cop in this
and gruesome guerrilla war. French Fillières has a knack for making off-kilter siblings Pascal and Pauline return to screwball crime romance. When she
soldier Robert Tassin (Gaspard Ulliel) films about women under influence. Her their childhood friends in the Loire Valley. realises her husband was not exactly the
narrowly escapes an attack on his first latest film portrays not one but two such Awaiting them is a tidal wave of pent-up model of virtue so idolised by their young
day on the ground and subsequently vows characters – who also happen to be the resentment from all those in their orbit, in son, and that an innocent young man,
to find the elusive offending commander same person, with the winning duo of particular a bitter, virulently anti-bourgeois Antoine, has spent eight years in prison as
Vo Binh and exact his revenge. This Sandrine Kiberlain and Agathe Bonitzer. nursing home manager who will stop at his scapegoat, she is thrown into turmoil.
emotionally haunting tale joins the ranks nothing to see the pair humiliated.
of the very best cinematic renderings of Sun 11 Nov 8.30pm Mon 12 Nov 8.40pm
the toll war takes on all sides. Mon 12 Nov 6.30pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Pierre
Sun 11 Nov 6.30pm Followed by a Q&A with director Vincent Salvadori (tbc)
Macaigne (tbc)
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Ciné Lumière French Film Festival
Each and Every Moment Sorry Angel Cyrano de Bergerac
De chaque instant Plaire, aimer et courir vite FRA | 1990 | 138 mins | dir. Jean Rappeneau, with Gérard
FRA/JAP | 2018 | 105 mins | dir. Nicolas Philibert | doc | cert. FRA | 2018 | 132 mins | dir. Christophe Honoré, with Vincent Depardieu, Vincent Pérez, Anne Brochet | cert. 12 | in French
tbc | in French with EN subs | UK Premiere Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès | cert. tbc with EN subs | new print | Closing night
in French with EN subs | UK Premiere
Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, La Maison de la Depardieu excels as the seventeenth-century Gascon
radio) returns with a documentary exploring the difficult 1990. Arthur is twenty and lives in Rennes. His life is swordsman and braggart whose unsightly nose
process during which thousands of students – mostly turned upside down when he makes the acquaintance of prevents him from confessing his love to his cousin
female – embark upon courses that will lead them to Jacques, a writer who lives in Paris with his young son. Roxane. Showered with awards throughout the world,
become nurses. This film follows the ups and downs of an During one summer, Arthur and Jacques will be drawn to Rappeneau’s film is a genuine cinematic triumph, as
apprenticeship that will confront them, often at a young one another and fall in love. But Jacques knows this love visually as it is verbally dazzling: the grace and pace of
age, with human fragility, suffering, illness, the flaws in has to be lived to the fullest… Rostand’s text is matched by the energetic camera-work,
souls and bodies. It therefore talks about us all, about our elegant mise-en-scène and faultlessly choreographed
humanity. Tue 13 Nov 8.30pm battle scenes.
Tue 13 Nov 6.20pm Followed by a Q&A with actor Vincent Lacoste (tbc) Wed 14 Nov 7.30pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Jean-Paul RappeneauCiné Lumière UK Jewish Film Festival
image: Memoir of Pain by Emmanuel Finkiel
Exploring the dark days and the new hopes underlying
Jewish culture, the UK Jewish Film Festival
showcases documentaries, bittersweet comedies and
whimsical debut films from all over the world, from
15 to 19 November at Ciné Lumière.
> screenings are listed p.35
> see dedicated Festival printed programme
& website: ukjewishfilm.org
15 - 19 November16
Ciné Lumière Jean Cocteau Retrospective
Le Testament La Belle et la bête L'Aigle à deux Les Parents
d’Orphée Beauty and the Beast têtes terribles
FRA | 1946 | 96 mins | dir. Jean Cocteau, with
FRA | 1960 | 83 mins | dir. Jean Cocteau, with Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély | cert. The Eagle With Two Heads The Storm Within
Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, María Casares PG | in French with EN subs. FRA | 1948 | 98 mins | dir. Jean Cocteau, with FRA | 1948 |105 mins | dir. Jean Cocteau, with
cert. PG | in French with EN subs. Edwige Feuillère, Silvia Monfort, Jean Marais Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray
When a merchant is told that he must die cert. tbc | in French with EN subs. cert. tbc | in French with EN subs
Orpheus is in love with the Princess of for picking a rose from the Beast’s garden,
Death, while his chauffeur, the angel his courageous daughter offers to go back A queen lives secluded in her chambers Adapted from his own play, Les Parents
Heurtebise, falls in love with the poet’s to the Beast in her father’s place. The mourning the loss of her husband on terribles sees Yvonne and Georges caught
wife Eurydice. When Heurtebise takes Beast falls in love with her and proposes their wedding day ten years from then. up in their obsessive love for their son
Eurydice to the Underworld, Orpheus marriage. She refuses, but eventually, she Stanislas a suicidal poet and anarchist Michel (Jean Marais) and Madeleine
follows her to get her back. Probably is drawn to the repellent but strangely enters her apartments with the intent of (Georges' mistress). At the revelation
Cocteau’s finest film, this is a perfect fascinating Beast. Mixing fantasy and killing her. When he appears, wounded, of the impending marriage of the two
marriage between Greek legend and his realism, with undercurrents of eroticism, fleeing the guards, she is struck by his lovebirds, Yvonne fears she might lose her
own personal mythology. Cocteau took this classic fairy tale to a resemblance to the late king and instead grip over her dear son and orchestrates
new level. of having him arrested, she hides him. with the help of her a husband a plan to
Sun 28 Oct 2pm A singular passion grows between the prevent the wedding.
Sun 4 Nov 2pm sovereign and her assassin.
Followed by a dicussion with Nick Walker Thu 15 Nov 8.40pm Sun 18 Nov 2pm
(Rochester Kino) Tue 6 Nov 6.30pm
See also Orpheus (p.6) and Sight & Sound
season Fantastique: The Dream Worlds of
French Cinema at the BFIClassics
© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Pierre–Auguste Renoir, La Loge (Theatre Box) (detail), 1874
Les Choses La Mort en direct
de la Vie Death Watch
FRA/GER | 1980 | 128 mins | dir. Bertrand
FRA | 1970 | 89 mins | dir. Claude Sautet, with Tavernier, with Romy Schneider, Harvey
Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton | cert. 15
cert. 15 | in French with EN subs in French with EN subs
Claude Sautet’s film begins with the Set in the near future, Bertrand
aftermath of a violent car crash along Tavernier’s film is surprisingly prophetic
a rural motorway. As the man, Pierre in the way it reflects on film as voyeurism
(Piccoli), lies in a semi-conscious and simulacrum, foreshadowing reality
stupor, his life flashes before his eyes— TV and CCTV. Diagnosed with a terminal
specifically, his complex entanglement disease, in a world where illness is rare,
with two very different women: his Katherine (Romy Schneider) sells the
dutiful, long-suffering wife (Massari) TV rights to her death, but then hides,
and his adoring, free-spirited mistress just to be unwittingly filmed by the one
(Schneider). One scene follows another person she trusts, Roddy (Harvey Keitel)
in fragmented, free-associative fashion, who happens to have cameras implanted
ingeniously filmed by Sautet with an army behind his eyes. And so the show begins…
of slo-mo cameras in a manner that Until 20 January 2019
recalls the climax of Bonnie and Clyde. Fri 16 Nov 6.15pm Book online • nationalgallery.org.uk
This exhibition is a collaboration between
Wed 21 Nov 4pm the National Gallery and The Courtauld Gallery Members go free
Sun 7 Oct 2pm
Wed 21 Nov 8.45pm See also 3 Days in Quiberon (p.5)
Thu 22 Nov 4pm18
Spotlight on the Comédie-Française
image: Cyrano de Bergerac drawing by Cabu © V. Cabut
Cabu, the Spectacular Britannicus
To celebrate the return of the Comédie-Française to
the Barbican in June after an absence of 19 years from
Spectator
the UK, the Institut français presents its new 2018-2019
theatre season through a series of broadcasts from the Theatre Broadcast from la Comédie-Française
prestigious Parisian institution, also known as La Maison Author: Jean Racine | Stage director: Stéphane Braunschweig
de Molière, from October to June. Drawings Exhibition Costume designer: Thibault Vancraenenbrœck | with the
Troupe and actors of the Académie de la Comédie-Française
Britannicus, Lucrezia, Cyrano, Alceste, Viola and Electre Illustrating the theatre column for Le Figaro between 1969 Tragedy in 5 acts | 120 mins | in French with EN subs
will all come to life to draw you into the worlds of the and 1971, and regularly commenting on theatre news in
great theatre classics. From passion and betrayal to Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo, French caricaturist Cabu The Troupe de la Comédie-Française revisits the past in
murder and manipulation, experience the most intense was a passionate theatre lover, who could often be found light of the present in Stéphane Braunschweig’s staging
emotions on the big screen of Ciné Lumière with these at the Comédie-Française, whipping out his pen at any of Racine’s Britannicus. Enter the corridors of power in
six unmissable broadcasts, which will be introduced by occasion to portray the actors of this venerable house. a complex web of intrigue orchestrated by Nero, young
artists from the Comédie-Française. These drawings offer a rare occasion to (re)discover the ruler of Rome who gradually transforms into a tyrant with
actors of the Comédie-Française as well as its repertory the machiavelic endeavour to eliminate his half-brother,
Kicking off the season on 11 October, the exhibition Cabu, through the critical and demanding eye of one of France’s Britannicus, the rightful heir to the throne.
the Spectacular Spectator unveils a selection of drawings most influential illustrators.
by the late Cabu sketching actors and plays from the Mon 22 Oct 7pm
Comédie-Française. Thu 11 - Sun 14 Oct Exhibition
For further info: Free access during La Médiathèque opening hours
www.institut-francais.org.uk/comedie-francaise
Check dates of the forthcoming broadcasts on:
www.institut-francais.org.uk/comedie-francaise14-18 Armistice Centenary
Shoulder Arms Farewell My La Grande Illusion
As world leaders convene to
commemorate the centenary of the World
Indian Soldier
War One peace treaty (on 11 November
1918), and open the Paris Peace Forum USA | 1918 | 45 mins | dir. Charles Chaplin, France | 1937 | 113 mins | dir. Jean Renoir,
(11-13 November) the Institut français with Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd with Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel
presents a series of cultural and academic Chaplin | cert. tbc | in English FRA | 2016 | 60 mins | dir. Vijay Singh, with Dalio, Erich Von Stroheim | cert. U | in French
events aiming at enlightening one of the Paloma Coquant, Monique Soupart | cert. tbc with EN subtitles
founding times in 20th Century Europe. Charlie is a boot camp private who in French with EN subs
dreams of being a hero who goes on a Jean Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece is widely
Our programme includes Charles daring mission behind enemy lines in Vijay Singh recounts the story of Indian considered as one of the greatest films
Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms, shot in 1918, WW1 France. This film is an ultimate soldiers sent on the WW1 battlefield in of all times. In this World War One prison
Jean Renoir’s masterful war film La Charlie Chaplin classic for children and France through rare archives, historical drama starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay
Grande Illusion and the more recent grown-ups alike, released in 1918. testimonies, Indian war songs and and Erich von Stroheim, Renoir combines
Ceasefire by Emmanuel Courcol along insightful letters written by soldiers, a moving humanist message with a
with first-hand testimonies of Indian Sat 10 Nov 2pm 10,000 of whom were never to return to complex approach to both war and 1930s
soldiers sent on the French battlefield in their motherland. During their furlough politics.
Vijay Singh’s film Farewell My Indian Soldier The film will be preceded by a live piano on French barns, some Indian soldiers
and readings of letters from the Front introduction and French women developed affection for Sun 11 Nov 2pm
followed by discussions and more events each other, and children were born. These Wed 14 Nov 4pm
detailed hereinafter. Screening as part of CinéKids (£5) Indo-French children became the victims
of taboo. This film is inspired by the story As part of the French Film Festival
of one such child.
Followed by a dicussion with Nick Walker
Sat 10 Nov 4pm (Rochester Kino)
Followed by a Q&A with director Vijay
Singh
1920
14-18 Armistice Centenary
Ceasefire Letters from the Front, Biographies for Peace
Cessez le feu 1915-1919 Meet French artist, cartoonist and graphic novelist
Alexandre Franc, this year's artist in residence at the
FRA/BEL | 2016 | 103 mins | Emmanuel Courcol, with Romain
Duris, Céline Sallette | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Commemorating the Great War South Ken Kids Festival. Alexandre will share, discuss
and draw on his commitment to depict men, women and
In his first feature, director Emmanuel Courcol We will be commemorating the centenary of the end of children, pioneers and bold figures that made history and
convincingly creates the psychological and physical the Great War with a reading of some of the letters of a shaped the world as we know it. History is a story like any
horrors experienced in the aftermath of the First World young British nurse who joined the French Red Cross other and what a better way to discover it through the
War. Georges (Romain Duris) is a war hero who has been during the war, and a discussion around the fascinating people that fought for peace.
living a nomad and adventurous life in Africa for four book they are taken from, Trenches and Destruction.
years when he decides to come back to France. Having a Letters from the Front, 1915-1919. Pleasance Walker Fri 23 Nov 6.30pm
hard time finding his place in post-war society, Georges (Edited by Caroline Roaf, OxfordFolio, 2018). Caroline
makes the acquaintance of Hélène, a teacher, with whom Roaf, who first discovered the letters, and Professor in English and French | for ages 12+ and families | £5
he begins a tumultuous relationship and at the same Alison Light (Common People. The History of an English
time attempts to heal his wounds. Family, Penguin, 2015) will be discussing this young As part of the South Ken Kids Festival (p.21)
woman's experience of the horrors and deprivations of
Sun 11 Nov 4.20pm the war but also the art of letter writing and self writing.
As part of the French Film Festival Mon 12 Nov 3pm
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The Line-Up Special Treats A World of Books
Axel Scheffler and guests will return with a special Brilliantly bilingual throughout, the festival is an occasion
Can you feel it? It’s that South Ken Kids Festival time of live drawing launch event on Europe, while our tireless to celebrate children’s writing, illustration, translation, and
year again! Prepare yourself to meet the crème de la patron Quentin Blake will be exhibiting some of his children’s books in all their glory.
crème of children’s writers and illustrators coming from original drawings and share his love for Jean de La
both sides of the Channel, and beyond: Quentin Blake, Fontaine’s Fables. This year’s artist in residence, French There will also be some digital activities this year to
Clémentine Beauvais, Kris Di Giacomo, Victor Dixen, Tor graphic novelist Alexandre Franc will be talking about discover reading in a different way with very peculiar
Freeman, Magali Le Huche, David Litchfield and Axel some of the great lives that have inspired his work. Reading Machines and a digital workshop.
Scheffler will be appearing at the Institut français and in Other highlights include a musical and live drawing
partner London schools. performance Draw Me Some Music Our partner bookshops Librairie La Page and Tales on
revisiting The Story of Babar, the Little Moon Lane will be selling copies of all festival books –
Listen to best-selling young adult writers talk about Elephant. More live drawing events check our website for the times of booksignings!
their work, watch star illustrators draw, will bring together Magali Le Huche,
attend family film screenings, or take part Chris Haughton, Tor Freeman, For full details of the programme or to book an event,
in workshops, storytelling, and digital Ronan Badel and Axel Scheffler, and visit our website: www.southkenkidsfestival.co.uk
activities this year at the 21st South Ken will culminate in the many-handed
Kids festival! live drawing and music jam Impro!
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Embark on new adventures with our hair-raising programme for kids and the whole family!
CinéKids Screenings
What! A Giant Pear? That’s Incredible(s)! There’s
so many exciting films in English, in French or
in French with subtitles, pick your fancy! Kids Activities
Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am Read, play, sing, grow with our Tales
and Workshops, and meet the best
authors and illustrators from the UK
and France throughout October and
> all Kids & Families activities are listed pp.34-35 November. All this excitement will be
> see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website: culminating at the South Ken Kids
www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families Festival (see p.21)!Les Salons en Musique
© Julie-Cherki © Christophe Berlet
Le Concert de Célimène Daudet
Thibaut Garcia
l’Hostel-Dieu A product of two cultures, French and Haitian, pianist
Appointed BBC New Generation Artists in 2017, Thibaut Célimène Daudet’s playing has been described as
Baroque au Féminin Garcia is a Franco-Spanish guitarist who trained from “seductive, delicate and full of burning lyricism”. She has
Performers: Franck-Emmanuel Comte (harpsichord and the age of 16 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de released several recordings (Bach, Beethoven, Debussy,
conductor), Heather Newhouse (soprano), Benoît Morel (cello) Musique et de Danse de Paris. For the Institut français, Messiaen) and made regular appearances throughout
he will perform some pieces of his second album Bach Europe, the United States, Russia and China. The great-
Featured at this year’s London Festival of Baroque Music, Inspirations, juxtaposing famous works by Bach, including great-niece of Alphonse Daudet is also the founder of
le Concert de l’Hostel-Dieu presents a programme the mighty Chaconne that concludes his Partita n° 2 for the Haïti Piano Project, the first classical music festival in
dedicated to female composers and poets. This little- Violin Solo, with compositions inspired by the German Haïti.
known area in Renaissance music grew out from the maestro.
new emphasis placed on women’s education by the Programme:
humanists. Conductor Franck-Emmanuel Comte will Mon 22 Oct 7.30pm Franz Liszt, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
discuss the key values of this time with journalist and £15, members £13, students £5 (extract from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
novelist Jessica Duchen before the concert. Claude Debussy, 12 préludes (livre II)
Programme: Thu 29 Nov 7.30pm
Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo & Elisabeth Jacquet de £15, members £13, students £5
la Guerre: Arie, lamenti, cantata and sonata
Thu 4 Oct 7.30pm (pre-concert talk – 6.30pm)
£15, members £13, students £5, including a free drink
after the concert
As part of Les Salons en Musique, a chamber music concerts series supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet
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Prévert, Piano & Music Rendezvous Music Rendezvous Impro!
Poetry with Brigitte with Voyou A wild annual rendezvous offered by the
South Ken Kids Festival, Impro! features
Classical Stand-Up As a prelude to their highly expected Electro Pop on stage its guest illustrators (Axel
concert on 9 October at the Islington Scheffler, Kris di Giacomo, Magali Le
Embark on a musical and poetic journey Assembly Hall, the Brigitte duo will give The Institut français’s series of intimate Huche, Joe Todd Stanton and more)
through time and history with the up a public press conference followed by a musical encounters continues with creating live unique drawings projected
and coming 21 years old concert pianist signing session at the Institut français. Thibaud Vanhooland aka Voyou – a singer onto the screen of Ciné Lumière to the
Alexandre Prévert, graduated from the Meet the Brigitte and fall under their spell! and producer who has been charming sound of French saxophonist Sylvain
Conservatoire de Paris. His one-of-a-kind French audiences with his radiant Rifflet.
stand-up One-Man-Show melds fabulous Mon 8 Oct 6pm electronic pop and lyrics that address love
pieces of great classical composers (from £7, members £5 and boredom with a total lack of cynicism. Sat 24 Nov 5.30pm
Liszt to Paganini) with the words of grand The performance will be followed by a
British poets. Q&A. in English | £7 | Age 3+
See full programme at: Tue 13 Nov 7.30pm As part of the South Ken Kids Festival
www.institut-francais.org.uk/music
in French & English | £7, members £5
Thu 25 Oct 7.30pm
£7, members £5
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Chanel Haute Couture in Reading Group
Pictures The Reading Group is back for a brand new season
around carefully chosen and acclaimed French authors.
Cathleen Naundorf, one of fashion’s most acclaimed Join our unique bilingual literary discussion with a little
photographers, invites us to a spellbinding journey into French twist.
the world of Chanel Haute Couture. She gained exclusive
access to Chanel's archives to handpick gowns and Thu 18 Oct | Small Country, by Gaël Faye (2017) - tr. by S.
photograph them against theatrical backdrops of her own Ardizzone
design. The result is a unique book of ethereal, cinematic
photographs that capture the exquisiteness of the haute Thu 15 Nov | La Peste (The Plague), by A. Camus
couture ensembles. On the occasion of the launch of her
book Women of Singular Beauty: Chanel Haute Couture 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy)
(Rizzoli), she will present exclusive shots and discuss French | £5, members £3
her vision of fashion and creative process with curator
Café Philo
Catherine Troiano (Victoria and Albert Museum).
Thu 4 Oct 7.30pm
Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical
in English | £9, members & conc. £7 issues in an informal setting, the Institut’s Café Philo
Followed by a book signing meets every Saturday.
Sat 6, 20 & 27 Oct, 10 & 17 Nov | in French
Sat 13 Oct & 3 Nov | in English
10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | contact: cmichel@cmichel.comExhibitions
Outstanding
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aged 5 to 15
Quentin Blake’s Quentin Blake
Pens Ink and Goes Bilingual
Places Quentin Blake is the parrain of the South
Ken Kids Festival, and every year he brings
Quentin Blake’s ties to France are no us different gifts. This year, he has made
secret, and this autumn he is publishing a selection of original drawings from
a new book in which they hold a special children’s books published both in English
place. Pens Ink and Places is an account and in French, for an exceptional display in
of his work over the past five years, which the Salons of the Institut français. These
features both his mural decoration for the include The Green Ship/Le Bateau Vert,
Bibliothèque Quentin Blake at the Institut Cockatoos/Les Cacatoès and his latest
français and his drawings for Figaro book The Five of Us/Pas de Panique!
Littéraire and Gallimard’s Pléiade Agenda.
On the occasion of the publication of the Mon 19 - Sun 25 Nov
book, original works will be exhibited in All ages | Free access during La
the Salons for everyone to admire. Médiathèque opening hours For Open Days and
Thu 18 - Sat 27 Oct As part of the South Ken Kids Festival
2019-2020 registration,
All ages | Free access during La (p.21) please visit
Médiathèque opening hours
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Pierre Huyghe Music Theatre Wales Robolution by Les Particules France NOW - Focus on French Theatre in
Manchester
Pierre Huyghe, one of the world’s leading
conceptual artists, presents a major new With its focus France Now, HOME presents
exhibition transforming the Serpentine three contrasting performances from the
Gallery into a porous and contingent best of the French artistic contemporary
environment, housing different forms scene: Ballet Bar by the Pyramid company,
of cognition, emerging intelligences, J'ai trop peur by David Lescot and
biological reproduction and instinctual Submission by Michel Houellebecq. As part
behaviours. Exhibition supported by of En Scène!
Fluxus Art Projects.
www.homemcr.org
www.serpentinegalleries.org Music Theatre Wales presents Passion, a With the help of their onstage robot and
new co-production with National Dance armed with solid references from pop 27 Nov – 1 Dec HOME Manchester
3 Oct – 10 Feb Serpentine Galleries Company Wales of Pascal Dusapin’s culture, science fiction and scientific
highly acclaimed dance-opera, seen reports, Les Particules attempt to answer London Philharmonic Orchestra Performs
C'est la Vie, by Mohamed El Khatib widely across Europe but never in the some questions, with you! A conference- Dusapin
UK. This programme is supported by the theatre piece premiering in the UK as part
franco-british fund Diaphonique, and will of Voila! Europe Festival. Well-known contemporary French
tour throughout the UK in October and composer, Pascal Dusapin wrote a piece
November. www.voilafestival.co.uk inspired by Flann O’Brien’s novel At
Swim-Two Birds. After its world premiere
www.musictheatre.wales 6 & 8 Nov The Cockpit in Amsterdam, the work will be premiered
in London thanks to the support of
13 Oct Queen Elizabeth Hall Language Show Diaphonique.
For the Love of Corals Language enthusiasts and Francophiles, www.lpo.org.uk
we look forward to seeing you at the
In an on-stage conversation Mohamed and Obsidian Coast presents its inaugural Language Show! Join us at the Institut 28 Nov Royal Festival Hall
two friends anatomise their grief, with an exhibition, For the Love of Corals by artist français's stand to learn about our latest
intimacy and honesty that theatre often Sonia Levy, a cinematic inquiry that educational offer and support for French
aims at and rarely achieves. A unique focuses on the daily labour of caring for teachers in the UK, our comprehensive
theatrical experience, unforgettably close endangered beings to resuscitate them language courses and school activities,
to the bone, unexpectedly funny, and from their imminent human-induced and more.
unequivocally life-affirming. As part of extinction.Supported by Fluxus Art Project.
Cross-Channel Theatre. www.languageshowlive.co.uk
www.obsidiancoast.art Cultural events in the 'We Support' and 'We
www.the-print-room.org 9– 11 Nov Kensington Olympia, London Recommend' sections are supported or
recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art
27 Oct – 19 Jan Obsidian Coast Projects, Diaphonique, En Scène! and the French
12 Oct The Print Room at the Coronet (Bradford-on-Avon) Music Export Office.
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PAD London The Malady of Death Brigitte Agar Agar
(La Maladie de la mort)
Pioneering event for Art and Design Having sold over 400,000 albums and Having gained plaudits on both side of the
aficionados and collectors, PAD completed a tour both in France and channel, electronic pop duo Agar Agar
epitomises how modern art, photography, throughout the world of over 370 dates are releasing their accomplished and
design, decorative and tribal arts interact for previous album A bouche que veux-tu, surprisingly emotive debut album, The Dog
to reveal astonishing combinations and French duo Brigitte are back for their and the Future, at the end of September
create the most individual and staggering second UK show after a first visit earlier and playing their biggest ever UK headline
interiors. this year. show.
www.pad-fairs.com www.islingtonassemblyhall.co.uk www.villageunderground.co.uk
1 – 7 Oct Berkeley Square W1 9 Oct Islington Assembly Hall 23 Oct Village Underground
Katie Mitchell presents her own
The Height of the Storm – by Florian uncompromising stage adaptation of the Francis Cabrel Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu – Pergolesi,
Zeller provocative novella by Marguerite Duras. Stabat Mater
Outstanding actors Laetitia Dosch and Francis Cabrel’s music has brought
Nick Fletcher come together, with the audiences joy for forty years and now in Since the middle of the 18th century,
intense action unfolding both on stage and 2018 the legendary French artist performs Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater has been an
on a large screen to the words of narrator live at the Royal Albert Hall! Don’t miss absolute triumph all over Europe. Le
Irène Jacob. this special event featuring Cabrel’s Concert de l’Hotel Dieu will perform the
classic and influential hits. well-known piece in Saint John’s Smith
www.barbican.org.uk Square.
www.royalalberthall.com
3 – 6 Oct Barbican Centre www.sjss.org.uk
16 Oct Royal Albert Hall
Frieze London 20 Nov Saint John’s Smith Square
Starring two of the greatest actors of Nana Mouskouri – Forever Young
their generation on stage together for the Frieze London features more than 160 of Christine and the Queens
first time – Jonathan Pryce and Dame the world’s leading galleries. View and One of the most successful artists of all
Eileen Atkins – this major new play by buy art from over 1,000 of today’s major time, the legendary chanson singer Nana The French star returns to the UK
award-winning writer Florian Zeller is a artists, and experience the fair’s critically Mouskouri, known for hits such as The following her stratospheric success in
compelling and searing family drama. acclaimed curated sections and talks White Rose of Athens and Only Love will be 2016. A new album is on the way too, so
programme. returning to London for a unique show. there will be new tracks amid the firm
www.theheightofthestorm.com favourites.
www.frieze.com www.southbankcentre.co.uk
2 Oct – 1 Dec Wyndham’s Theatre www.metropolismusic.com
4–7 Oct Regent's Park 17 Oct Southbank Centre
20 – 21 Nov Eventim ApolloLa Médiathèque Culturethèque
La Médiathèque Online Artist in Residence: Culturethèque is Music
La Médiathèque hosts a collection of 45,000 documents
in French and about French culture, comprising books,
Alexandre Franc to My Ears
DVDs, CDs, audio books and video games, completed by In the run up to the South Ken Kids Festival in November, From rock, pop and dance, to jazz and classical music,
an extensive range of online resources. we are delighted to host illustrator Alexandre Franc as Culturethèque is buzzing with an incredible music
the festival artist in residence this year, from 17 to 24 selection. Discover new artists from independent labels,
Europresse | over 1,500 French and international November. Alexandre's practice is always colourful and with over 1 million titles available! Listen to new releases,
newspapers vivid and very volatile: comic-book artist, illustrator, writer browse your favourite genre or check our special
This service allows you to browse and download your for both children's books (La Véritable histoire de Léon or selections of artists currently on tour. Once registered,
favourite newspapers and magazines online. From Le Victor et l'Ourours) and grown-ups (The Real Life of Agatha you can even create your own playlists and access them
Monde and L'Express to specialised magazines, there is Christie). from any device.
something for everyone, including teens.
www.institut-francais.org.uk > La Mediatheque > The residency is supported by the Friends of the French www.culturetheque.com > Listen
Europresse Institute trust as part of Projet Lumière(s)
Culturetheque.com | over 200,000 resources
Our digital platform offers thousands of resources of all
kinds: videos, ebooks, magazines, podcasts, audiobooks,
French learning tools and some music too. To access the
full content, sign up for free and log in to Culturethèque.
Don't forget to check our blog, newsletter and Facebook
and Twitter accounts for the latest updates!
www.institut-francais.org.uk > La Mediatheque >
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