28/05/2013
Ciné : Bob le flambeur
Both a tribute to classic American gangster films and the source of inspiration for French New Wave filmmakers, Bob le Flambeur is the first in a series of stylish noirs that Jean-Pierre Melville started in the mid-’50s. (more…)
03/06/2013
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD: Populaire
Screening for carers and their babies on Mon 3 Jun at 11.00am. (more…)
04/06/2013
Ciné : Le Clan des Siciliens
A Sicilian family, headed by Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin), plan to steal a cache of diamonds. (more…)
10/06/2013
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD : Thérèse Desqueyroux
Screening for carers and their babies on Mon 10 Jun at 11.00am. François Mauriac’s acclaimed novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to the screen by the inestimable Claude Miller, who passed away shortly after completing the film. (more…)
25/07/2013
Ciné : Populaire
Set in a vividly-coloured 1958, Régis Roinsard’s debut feature follows Rose Pamphyle (the delightful Déborah François, in a role far removed from her debut in the Dardenne brothers’ L’enfant), (more…)
Ciné : Glyndebourne: Hippolyte et Aricie (Live)
When Rameau died in 1764, the Mercure de France concluded its obituary with the words “Here lies the God of Harmony.” (more…)
Ciné : Thérèse Desqueyroux
François Mauriac’s acclaimed novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to the screen by the inestimable Claude Miller, who passed away shortly after completing the film. (more…)
Ciné : Something in the air (Après Mai)
Celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, Carlos) returns with this lovely, loosely autobiographical tale about a young aspiring artist caught up in a whirlwind of politics, art and sex in the fervid French youth scene of the early 1970s. (more…)
Ciné : In the House
François Ozon follows the glorious camp of Potiche with this superbly controlled, coolly ironic adaptation of Juan Mayorga’s play ‘The Boy in the Last Row’. (more…)
