Bringing the French culture to the classroom
Pré-vente : membre 20$ – non-membre 25$
À la porte : Membre 25$ – non-membre 30$
“Starring Gérard Depardieu as the colourful Dumas and Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde as his downtrodden employee, L’Autre Dumas (The Other Dumas) mixes fiction with fact as it traces Maquet’s attempts to outshine his master in the public eye. Through its retelling of the collaboration, the film has reignited a vigorous debate in Parisian literary circles about the real nature of the duo’s professional teamwork.” The Guardian
Wednesday 29 January – 7.00pm
At the Alliance Française Auditorium
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“Dumas” directed by Safy Nebbou
105min – 2010 – Drama / Comedy / History – in French with English subtitles.
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoord, Dominique Blanc….
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.
Étienne Pilon, Dany Boudreault, Patrice Dubois and Mani Soleymanlou © Danny Taillon
The most audacious element is having given five actors, five bodies, and five voices, the story of the wounded hero. Abrasive, efficient, this audacious production fleshes out the different aspects of the main character, his changing states, and the conflicts that move him this way and that.
— Voir, Montréal
Gaston Talbot tells us from the beginning: “I travel a lot.” And yet you immediately understand that he has never travelled. He says: “To keep in touch.” And yet you see that he doesn’t speak English, but rather French through English words. Gaston Talbot never stops starting over, constantly correcting and revising what he has to say about himself, his mother, his troubled childhood games with Pierre Gagnon, not to mention the disturbing dream from which he emerged, after years of silence, speaking English. Little by little, Gaston Talbot sucks you into his downward spiral where the constantly whirling truth takes you over the edge.
Originally performed by Jean-Louis Millette, this classic monologue thundered onto the scene when it was created in 1995. Claude Poissant is now revisiting this “psychological striptease”, this time for five separate actors. Breathtaking.
Suite au spectacle « Vancouver symphonique » présenté le 10 décembre 2011, dans le cadre du 17ième Coup de cœur francophone de Vancouver, le Centre a le plaisir d’annoncer le lancement de l’album compact enregistré en direct devant public au Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Ce spectacle mettait en vedette douze artistes /duos/groupes francophones en musique et chanson originaires de la région de Vancouver, accompagnés de l’Orchestre symphonique de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique. Produit par le Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver, tant le spectacle que l’album veulent marquer la contribution de la communauté francophone artistique de Vancouver aux célébrations du 125ième anniversaire de la ville de Vancouver, qui coïncidaient également avec le 25ième anniversaire de fondation du festival Coup de cœur francophone, à Montréal, en 1987, et le 75ième anniversaire de Radio-Canada, diffuseur officiel du Coup de cœur francophone en Colombie-Britannique et ailleurs, au Canada.
Le lancement a lieu le jeudi 22 mars à midi, dans le Studio 700 de la Société Radio-Canada, à Vancouver. Certains des artistes étaient présents
