This year’s edition at Ciné Lumière includes more than 30 films, some of them just released in France to great acclaim, such as L’amour ouf (Beating Hearts) starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil, Ma vie ma gueule (This Life of Mine) with Agnès Jaoui, or Souleymane’s Story by Boris Lojkine which was awarded the Jury Prize and Best Actor Prize in the Un Certain Regard selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Other highlights include Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré starring Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastrioanni, Emmanuelle by Audrey Diwan, a feminist update of the original 1970s film directed by Just Jaeckin, and Three Friends starring Camille Cottin, which will be presented by its director Emmanuel Mouret.
The selection includes Artus’s debut film Un petit truc en plus (A Little Something Extra) a smashing hit in France with over 10 million viewers, making it the 9th best-selling film in French cinema history and the most loved comedy of the year. The film will be released exclusively at Ciné Lumière from 2 December.
Londoners will also have a chance to attend a special screening of Black Tea and meet veteran filmmaker Abderahmane Sissako (Bamako, Timbuktu) and actor Nina Mélo.
Mathieu Amalric will present his latest film, Before It’s Too Late, a behind-the-scene documentary about the Emerson String Quartet, and introduce Filmlovers!, Arnaud Desplechin’s celluloid love letter to the magic of cinema.
Several other documentaries are showcased, including Elementary and The Belle from Gaza. Documentary filmmaker Sophie Fiennes will chair the Q&As with their respective directors, Claire Simon and Yolande Zauberman. In partnership with the International Documentary Festival of Marseille (FID Marseille), three documentaries are shown, including The Wolves, presented by director Isabelle Prim.
Completing the wide array of film genres and styles on offer, animated films, such as Savages by Claude Barras (My Life as a Courgette), are on the menu too.
Classics are brought back to the big screen thanks to recent 4K restorations, such as the iconic La Boum by Claude Pinoteau, and La Cérémonie, as part of Ciné Lumière’s Chabrol retrospective.
Venue
Ciné Lumière, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
T. 020 7871 3515 – box.office@institut-francais.org.uk – www.institut-francais.org.uk
Press contact
Natacha Antolini: natacha.antolini@institut-francais.org.uk / 020 7871 3520