Boucar Diouf (Québec)
Thursday, February 20th – 7 p.m.
Jules-Verne School Auditorium
Bringing the French culture to the classroom
Saturday, February 22 – 4:00pm
At the Instituto Italiano di Cultura (Suite 500-510 W Hastings St)
THE AUTHOR:
Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, Poland. A recipient of all of Poland’s top literary awards, she is one of the most critically acclaimed authors of her generation. After finishing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, she initially practiced as a therapist and often cites C.G. Jung as an inspiration for her work, in which mythmaking has become a hallmark. Since the publication of her first book in 1989, a collection of poems, Tokarczuk has published ten volumes of stories, novellas, and novels, and one book-length essay(on Boleslaw Prus’s novel The Doll. In English her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, as has her novel House of Day, House of Night. In 1998 Tokarczuk moved to a small village near the Czech border and now divides her time between there and Wroclaw. For her latest novel, Bieguni [The Runners], she received Poland’s top book award, the Nike Prize, in 2008.
Friday February 7 – 6.30pm
At the Alliance Française Auditorium
Limited space! Please reserve before Wednesday, February 4!
$20 non-members
Menu to be announced! Stay posted!
“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.
“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/
Starting Wednesday, February 5 – 7:00pm
At Alliance Française auditorium
Born in 1952 in Kiev, Ukraine, Jerzy Yuri Zawistowski (Tivaud) spent his youth studying ballet. Within the halls of the Opera House in Kiev, he often spent time admiring stage installations and learning from a painter-sculptor between rehearsals. A love of visual arts was born from this experience and the seed of his craft began to grow. He went on to perfect his craft through the study of restoration at the Restoration Studio of the Hermitage Museum in St-Petersburg, Russia, and in 1979 enrolled at the Technical College of Industrial Art in his hometown of Kiev. Following an exploration into journalism and photography, he moved to Israel in 1989 where he worked as a Landscaper in Jerusalem and produced his first solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures in Tel Aviv in 1991.
Always on the lookout for new experiences and inspiration, Yuri immigrated to Canada in 1993. From his new home of Montreal, Quebec, he became a great admirer of the National Ballet of Canada and rekindled his love for this art form through drawings, paintings and sculptures inspired by music and dance. Over the next 18 years, his body of work increased significantly to include over 200 pieces today; some of which have been showcased in a dozen of exhibitions, including a Russian exposition at Montreal’s City Hall. During this period, he further polished his craft through 15 years of restoring antique furniture and sculptures, and also worked 2 years as a design assistant under master iron craftsman and fellow UkrainianOleg Shyshkin of the multi-award winningWrought Iron Art Ltd. in Oakville, Ontario.
“I aim to materialize the beauty of movement, through the expression of bodies moving through space, thus creating a universe that is my own; a synthesis of crafts and a new perspective on classical dance.” – Tivaud
http://www.alliancefrancaise.ca/cultural-events/exhibitions/tivaud/
Pré-vente : membre 20$ – non-membre 25$
À la porte : Membre 25$ – non-membre 30$
Julie Trépanier © Julie Artacho
… a happy play (…) think Amelie with a dash of light therapy, in the dead of winter. You’ll feel like singing as you leave.
— La Presse, Montréal
Sophie and François wander between love and friendship. They like each other, but don’t want to commit. As Lea, freshly arrived from the countryside, looks for her friend Sophie in the city, François introduces his former lover to Robert, who already knows Lea quite… intimately. Things just get out of hand from there, with our four singletons alternately lying and telling the truth about how they feel and who they are, all in the name of love. And between the reality of these four lives and the script that François is writing, who can tell what’s real and what’s not?
This hilarious romantic comedy is rife with insight, the author of Bashir Lazar offering us organized chaos at its finest, where happenstance, spontaneity and theatricality intertwine in tangled finery.