Category: Cinema

Friday February 7 – 6.30pm

At the Alliance Française Auditorium

Limited space! Please reserve before Wednesday, February 4!  

$20 non-members

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“L’amour dure trois ans” directed by Frederic Beigbeder
-14A

1h38min – 2012 – Comedy / Romance – in French with English subtitles.

Starring Gaspard Proust, Louise Bourgouin, Joey Starr….

A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin’s radiant and gorgeouswife, his entire life is turned upside down.

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“JEAN-LUC CINEMA GODARD”

From Thursday, February 6th to Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
At the Cinematheque (1131 Howe St, Vancouver)

“Still the single most influential artist to take cinema as his medium … No film artist who has ever lived would be more justified than Jean-Luc Godard in thinking: Le cinéma c’est moi.”J. HOBERMAN,NEW YORK TIMES

Since the 1960’s French New Wave, of which Jean-Luc Godard was a pre-eminent emissary, French cinema has never been the same again. The wave, preceded by Godard and his friends (Truffaut, Chabrol, Rivette, Resnais, Marker, Varda, critics at “Les Cahiers du Cinéma”) broke the dikes of film conservatism and “put a mess in the French cinema” that “made everything possible” (François Truffaut). Godard reinvented the theory of cinema: cinema is not about showing a false truth, a convincing illusion anymore, but a cinematic reality so powerful that it is suficient to itself. Godard also reinvented the way to tell a story, creating original bonds with the spectator trough the use of the mise en abîme, playing with the time of the plot and distancing himself from scenarios that were at this time too close to literature. But if Jean-Luc Godard is well-known for being a talented and an avant-garde artist, he also is an extremly lucid witness of his time, particularly during the 1960’s. He was an insighful observer of the “Glorious Thirty”, of the women’s liberation movement and he even foresaw the student unrest of May 1968.
As one of the inventors of modern cinema, Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time ( who deeply influenced Lars Von Trier’s Dogma 95, Quentin Tarantino, Leos Carax etc…) and he gave so much to cinema that the cinema(theque) is now eager to give back paying a tribute to that avant-gardist genius through the screening of his first 16 features, from 1959 to 1967.

http://www.alliancefrancaise.ca/cultural-events/cinema/jean-luc-cinema-godard/