France | 1930 | b&w | 86 mins | dir. Julien Duvivier, with Harry Baur, Paule Andral, Jackie Monnier, Jean Brudin, Gaston Jacquet | cert. U
A rare if not London premiere of Julien Duvivier's adaption of Irène Némirovsky's controversial novel David Golder. Harry Baur gives a heart-stopping performance as the rich Jewish businessman who, after the suicide of a friend due to the 1929 economic crisis, goes to join his wife and daughter at their luxurious summer villa in Biarritz. Appalled by their greed and coldness, Golder suffers a heart attack and sees his family for what it is. Paule Andral is memorable as the venal and cruel Mrs Golder hoping against hope that her husband dies. He recovers but has lost his faith in money and is a broken man. Duvivier is the expert at bleak family tension and the hate that lies just beneath the surface.
Followed by Q&A with Denise Epstein, daughter of Irène Némirovsky, and Henrietta Foster, BBC producer
France | 2009 | col | 102 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau | cert. tbc
With a formidable line-up including André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau and Dominique Pinon, Micmacs is an entertaining comedy from the director of Amelie about one man's plan to destroy two large weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Filled with visual gags and wit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest film is sure to leave you laughing on the edge of your seat.
France | 2009 | col | 102 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau | cert. tbc
With a formidable line-up including André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau and Dominique Pinon, Micmacs is an entertaining comedy from the director of Amelie about one man's plan to destroy two large weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Filled with visual gags and wit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest film is sure to leave you laughing on the edge of your seat.
Dream Flights Russia | 1982 | col | 92 mins | dir. Roman Balayan, with Oleg Yankovsky, Lyudmilla Gurchenko, Oleg Tabakov | cert. 12A | UK Premiere
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Sergei Makarov (Oleg Yankovsky) looks back over his life and finds that he has achieved nothing. He has neither found happiness for himself, nor been able to bring it to those closest to him: not to his long-suffering wife, his young mistress, nor friends or work colleagues...
Birds of Paradise Ukraine | 2008 | col | 94 mins | dir. Roman Balayan, with Oleg Yankovsky, Oksana Akinshina, Yegor Pozenko | cert. 15 | UK Premiere
This film is about the possibility of finding and preserving inner freedom during a period in which the Soviet state had total control over every aspect of a person’s life. It tells a story of survival and resistance during the last decade of the Soviet regime.
Russia | 1987 | col | 83 mins | dir. Roman Balayan, with Oleg Yankovsky, Yelena Safonova, Olga Ostoumova, Aleksandr Zbruev | cert. 12A | UK Premiere
Set in 1916, the film paints a psychological portrait of a young member of the intelligentsia, caught up in the turbulence of a particularly troublesome period in Russian history.
France | 2009 | col | 102 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau | cert. tbc
With a formidable line-up including André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau and Dominique Pinon, Micmacs is an entertaining comedy from the director of Amelie about one man's plan to destroy two large weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Filled with visual gags and wit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest film is sure to leave you laughing on the edge of your seat.
France | 2009 | col | 102 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau | cert. tbc
With a formidable line-up including André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau and Dominique Pinon, Micmacs is an entertaining comedy from the director of Amelie about one man's plan to destroy two large weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Filled with visual gags and wit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest film is sure to leave you laughing on the edge of your seat.
France | 2009 | col | 102 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau | cert. tbc
With a formidable line-up including André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau and Dominique Pinon, Micmacs is an entertaining comedy from the director of Amelie about one man's plan to destroy two large weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Filled with visual gags and wit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest film is sure to leave you laughing on the edge of your seat.
Iceland | 2008 | col | 98 mins | dir. Baltasar Kormákur with Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Margret Vilhjalmsdottir, Laufey Eliasdottir | cert. tbc
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. Firstly, there's his irritable mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage. Secondly, his plans to build a golf course aren't going at all to plan. Thirdly his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move… When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet… After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
France | 2009 | col | 102 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau | cert. tbc
With a formidable line-up including André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau and Dominique Pinon, Micmacs is an entertaining comedy from the director of Amelie about one man's plan to destroy two large weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Filled with visual gags and wit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest film is sure to leave you laughing on the edge of your seat.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
France | 1968 | col | 120 mins | dir. Jacques Deray, with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin | cert. 15
While on holiday near St Tropez the couple Marianne and Jean-Paul enjoy lazing and making love around the pool. Things take a chillier turn when Marianne’s former lover appears with his teenage daughter. Delon suggested Schneider for the part of Marianne. The onscreen reunion of the former dream couple stirred many rumours and adds to the tension of this taught psychological drama, which also stars Delon’s Plein Soleil partner Maurice Ronet and a very young Jane Birkin. Lavishly photographed and here shown from a new print, it is pure indulgence.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Quebec/Switzerland/Lebanon/Romania/Morocco/France | 130 mins | with French or English subtitles On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Ciné lumière will present a selection of short films from Quebec, Switzerland, Lebanon, Romania, Morocco and France. These will undoubtedly provide an insight into the richness and the diversity of Francophone cultures. Read more
As part of the Francophone Week a special concert celebrating exciting French talent will present three live performances.
Féfé used to play in the legendary group Saïan Supa Crew, and has now gone solo. He released his first album Jeune à la retraite last year, which proved a big hit. Anne B is renewing the traditional 'chanson française' with her original French pop songs and subtle melodies. Her voice full of exquisite elegance and emotion takes us on a poetic and moving journey accross both sides of the channel - with Adrien Tronquart on guitar and Sjur Opsal on bass. Maro Bamako will offer an evening of vibrant sounds reflecting her Martinique and Malian origins ranging from jazz fusion, to hip hop and African rhythms. Read more
7.00pm | free | on a first come, first served basis
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
L'Affaire Farewell France / Russia | 2009 | col | 113 mins | dir. Christian Carion, with Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara | cert. tbc
Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion, Farewell, set in 1981, is a outstanding tale of Cold War espionage starring Emir Kusturica and Guillame Canet.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
France/Germany | 1935 | b&w | 110 mins | dir. Jacques Feyder, with Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat, André Alerme | cert. 12A
An award-winning and controversial film at it's time of release, La Kermesse héroïque is an early feminist farce. In a Flemish town in the 1660s, the local men fearfully await an invasion from the Spanish army. A solitary woman takes the helm and with the help of the other women in the town they succeed in stopping a likely furore.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
France/Italy | 1965 | col | 110 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina | cert. 15 Fed up with his wife and Paris, Jean-Paul Belmondo heads for the south of France with old flame Anna Karina, a gangster's moll. Based on Lionel White's novel Obsession, but mostly improvised as Godard was inspired by locations en route to the South, this is one of the director's very best films – a bewildering blend of genres and visual styles, shot in sun-splashed colour by Raoul Coutard, with a cameo by tough-guy director Sam Fuller and an explosive finale. 'Pierrot le fou isn't really a film,' said Godard on its release, 'it's an attempt at cinema.'
This evening marks the publication of A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma by Emilie Bickerton, the first full history in English of the legendary magazine. Emilie Bickerton will give an introduction before the screening and a Q&A afterwards.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
En mand kommer hjem Denmark | 2008 | col | 93 mins | dir. Thomas Vinterberg with Oliver Møller Knauer, Thomas Bo Larsen, Ronja Mannov Olesen | cert. 12A A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town's most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone's high expectations and the opera singer's triumphant return.
Le Père de mes enfants France | 2009 | col | 110 mins | dir. Mia Hansen-Love, with Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing | cert. 12
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer who devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family—gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company is on its last legs. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure.
'Deeply thoughtful and intelligent...a marvel' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
The Woman Next Door France | 1981 | col | 106 mins | dir. François Truffaut, with Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant | cert. 12A Truffaut's penultimate film pursues several themes that the director favored throughout his career, namely adultery, obsession, amour fou and the ever-thrilling crime passionnel. Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant) are two former lovers, thrown back together by destiny when Mathilde and her new husband move in next door. 'Love stories must have a beginning, a middle and an end', agree Bernard and Mathilde, who seem perpetually stuck between the second and third of these stages.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
France/Italy | 1965 | col | 110 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina | cert. 15 Fed up with his wife and Paris, Jean-Paul Belmondo heads for the south of France with old flame Anna Karina, a gangster's moll. Based on Lionel White's novel Obsession, but mostly improvised as Godard was inspired by locations en route to the South, this is one of the director's very best films – a bewildering blend of genres and visual styles, shot in sun-splashed colour by Raoul Coutard, with a cameo by tough-guy director Sam Fuller and an explosive finale. 'Pierrot le fou isn't really a film,' said Godard on its release, 'it's an attempt at cinema.'
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
France | 1996 | col | 97 mins | dir. Olivier Assayas, with Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud | cert. 15 This witty satire on film-making features Léaud as a washed-up auteur determined to remake Feuillade's silent classic Les Vampires in his own personal style. Hong-Kong superstar Cheung plays the film-within-the-film's heroine, Irma Vep (an anagram for vampire), a burglar who spends most of the film dressed in a tight, black, latex rubber catsuit, defending her director's odd choices to hostile crew members and journalists.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
France | 1959 | b&w | 98 mins | dir. Claude Chabrol, with Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont | cert. 12A Chabrol's debut feature is a powerful examination of male friendship and its consequences with Jean-Claude Brialy as a student who returns from Paris to his childhood home to find that his once-brilliant friend (Blain) has become an alcoholic after the loss of a child. A bleak and beautifully observed picture of provincial life, Le Beau Serge is generally regarded as the film that launched the New Wave.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Claire's Knee France | 1970 | col | 105 mins | dir. Eric Rohmer, with Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan | cert. PG One of Rhomer's most celebrated films casts Brialy as Jérôme, holidaying on Lake Annecy, who begins a light-hearted flirtation with his landlady's daughter, only to fall for her half-sister and develop an irrepressible desire to caress her knee.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
Germany/Denmark/Netherlands | 2009 | col | 105 mins | dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, with Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane | cert. tbc Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
The Gleaners & I France | 2000 | col | 82 mins | doc | dir. Agnès Varda | cert. U Why do food producers throw so much away when people go hungry? Agnès Varda, gleaner of images, follows other gleaners, people who collect what other people throw away, food and junk. This thought-provoking social and poetic documentary has been praised at many festivals and was voted the best documentary of 2001 by the National Society of Film Critics.
Kasi az gorbehayeh irani khabar nadareh Iran | 2009 | col | 101 mins | dir. Bahman Ghobadi, with Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad | cert. PG
Recently released from prison, two young musicians – a man and a woman – decide to form a band. Together they trawl the underworld of contemporary Tehran searching for other players. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan to escape from their clandestine existence, and dream of performing in Europe. But with no money and no passports, it won't be easy...Read more
Special Jury Prize Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2009.
Followed by Q&A with musicians and actors Negar Shaghaghi and Ashkan Koshanejad + live music performance
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With a formidable line-up including André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau and Dominique Pinon, Micmacs is an entertaining comedy from the director of Amelie about one man's plan to destroy two large weapons manufacturers, with a little help from his friends. Filled with visual gags and wit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest film is sure to leave you laughing on the edge of your seat.
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Sergei Makarov (Oleg Yankovsky) looks back over his life and finds that he has achieved nothing. He has neither found happiness for himself, nor been able to bring it to those closest to him: not to his long-suffering wife, his young mistress, nor friends or work colleagues...
Set in 1916, the film paints a psychological portrait of a young member of the intelligentsia, caught up in the turbulence of a particularly troublesome period in Russian history.
While on holiday near St Tropez the couple Marianne and Jean-Paul enjoy lazing and making love around the pool. Things take a chillier turn when Marianne’s former lover appears with his teenage daughter. Delon suggested Schneider for the part of Marianne. The onscreen reunion of the former dream couple stirred many rumours and adds to the tension of this taught psychological drama, which also stars Delon’s Plein Soleil partner Maurice Ronet and a very young Jane Birkin. Lavishly photographed and here shown from a new print, it is pure indulgence.
Féfé used to play in the legendary group Saïan Supa Crew, and has now gone solo. He released his first album Jeune à la retraite last year, which proved a big hit. Anne B is renewing the traditional 'chanson française' with her original French pop songs and subtle melodies. Her voice full of exquisite elegance and emotion takes us on a poetic and moving journey accross both sides of the channel - with Adrien Tronquart on guitar and Sjur Opsal on bass. Maro Bamako will offer an evening of vibrant sounds reflecting her Martinique and Malian origins ranging from jazz fusion, to hip hop and African rhythms.
Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion, Farewell, set in 1981, is a outstanding tale of Cold War espionage starring Emir Kusturica and Guillame Canet.
Storm, from director Hans-Christian Schmid is a political thriller inspired by the Serbian War crimes trials. Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian to testify against an alleged war criminal. As diplomatic interests collide and threats escalate, Hannah faces the trial of her life, torn between her strong beliefs in the system and her loyalty towards the witness. Storm is a gripping film about personal and political integrity.
An award-winning and controversial film at it's time of release, La Kermesse héroïque is an early feminist farce. In a Flemish town in the 1660s, the local men fearfully await an invasion from the Spanish army. A solitary woman takes the helm and with the help of the other women in the town they succeed in stopping a likely furore.
Fed up with his wife and Paris, Jean-Paul Belmondo heads for the south of France with old flame Anna Karina, a gangster's moll. Based on Lionel White's novel Obsession, but mostly improvised as Godard was inspired by locations en route to the South, this is one of the director's very best films – a bewildering blend of genres and visual styles, shot in sun-splashed colour by Raoul Coutard, with a cameo by tough-guy director Sam Fuller and an explosive finale. 'Pierrot le fou isn't really a film,' said Godard on its release, 'it's an attempt at cinema.'
A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town's most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone's high expectations and the opera singer's triumphant return.
Truffaut's penultimate film pursues several themes that the director favored throughout his career, namely adultery, obsession, amour fou and the ever-thrilling crime passionnel. Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant) are two former lovers, thrown back together by destiny when Mathilde and her new husband move in next door. 'Love stories must have a beginning, a middle and an end', agree Bernard and Mathilde, who seem perpetually stuck between the second and third of these stages.
This witty satire on film-making features Léaud as a washed-up auteur determined to remake Feuillade's silent classic Les Vampires in his own personal style. Hong-Kong superstar Cheung plays the film-within-the-film's heroine, Irma Vep (an anagram for vampire), a burglar who spends most of the film dressed in a tight, black, latex rubber catsuit, defending her director's odd choices to hostile crew members and journalists.
Chabrol's debut feature is a powerful examination of male friendship and its consequences with Jean-Claude Brialy as a student who returns from Paris to his childhood home to find that his once-brilliant friend (Blain) has become an alcoholic after the loss of a child. A bleak and beautifully observed picture of provincial life, Le Beau Serge is generally regarded as the film that launched the New Wave.
One of Rhomer's most celebrated films casts Brialy as Jérôme, holidaying on Lake Annecy, who begins a light-hearted flirtation with his landlady's daughter, only to fall for her half-sister and develop an irrepressible desire to caress her knee.
Why do food producers throw so much away when people go hungry? Agnès Varda, gleaner of images, follows other gleaners, people who collect what other people throw away, food and junk. This thought-provoking social and poetic documentary has been praised at many festivals and was voted the best documentary of 2001 by the National Society of Film Critics.
Recently released from prison, two young musicians – a man and a woman – decide to form a band. Together they trawl the underworld of contemporary Tehran searching for other players. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan to escape from their clandestine existence, and dream of performing in Europe. But with no money and no passports, it won't be easy...