Building on its success in 2009 with over 1500 spectators, it renews its participation in the Télérama Festival from January 19 to 25, 2011. In partnership with the magazine Télérama and the AFCAE (French Association of Art and Experimental Cinemas), to watch or rewatch on the big screen and in original version with French subtitles (VOSTF), 7 of the best films of 2010 selected by the Télérama magazine editors.
Thrillers by Polanski (The Ghost Writer) and Campanella (The Secret in Their Eyes), Oscar winner in 2010.
From Isabelle Huppert’s fight for freedom (White Material)
to Jane Campion’s work on the love life of John Keats (Bright Star), Woody Allen’s latest comedy (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger), Raúl Ruiz’s epic saga (Mysteries of Lisbon), or even the adventures of Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated fable for young and old…
Around the screenings, MEETINGS/DEBATES with specialists and academics, a MEETING/SIGNING with a France Culture journalist, Florence Colombani, a FILM CRITIQUE signed by a historian.
THE EVENTS
Friday, January 21 at 8 p.m. / The Secret in Their Eyes
MEETING/DEBATE led by Daniel Rocchia,
Cinema teacher,
Director of the “À-propos” collection of the Nice CRDP.
Saturday, January 21 at 8 p.m. / The Ghost Writer
MEETING/SIGNING by Florence Colombani,
Journalist with Le Point and France Culture,
Presentation of her book Roman Polanski: Life and Destiny of an Artist (Ed. Philippe Rey),
in partnership with the Librairie Masséna.
Sunday, January 22 at 2 p.m. / Mysteries of Lisbon
FILM CRITIQUE (in the film sheet) / POST-FILM DEBATE led by Pedro Da Nóbrega,
Historian and Lusophone.
THE FILM SELECTION
The Ghost Writer
By Roman Polanski
France-Germany-UK / 2008 / 2h08 / VOSTF
With Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall
Based on the novel The Ghost by Robert Harris
A famous successful British “ghostwriter” accepts to complete the memoirs of the former British Prime Minister,
Adam Lang. But from the start of this collaboration, the project seems perilous: a shadow hangs over the accidental death
of the previous writer, Lang’s former right-hand man…
Silver Bear at the 60th Berlin Festival – 2009
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de sus ojos)
By Juan José Campanella
Argentina-Spain / 2009 / 2h09 / VOSTF
With Ricardo Darin, Soledad Vilamil, Pablo Rago…
Based on La Pregunta de sus ojos by E. Sacheri
Buenos Aires, 1974. Benjamin Esposito investigates the violent murder of a young woman. 25 years later, he decides
to write a novel based on this “closed” case that he witnessed and was involved in. He thus delves back into this dark
period of Argentina where the atmosphere was suffocating and appearances deceiving…
2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Film
Bright Star
By Jane Campion (Palme d’Or 1993 – The Piano)
USA-UK-Australia / 2006 / 1h59 / VOSTF
With Abbie Cornish, Ben Whislaw, Paul Schneider…
Based on the biography and poems of John Keats
London, 1818. A young 23-year-old English poet, John Keats, and his neighbor Fanny Brawne begin a secret love affair.
Keats, touched by Fanny’s efforts to help her sick younger brother, agrees to teach her poetry.
2009 Cannes Festival – In competition
White Material
By Claire Denis, co-written with Marie Ndiaye
France / 2008 / 1h42
With Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle…
Inspired by Vaincue in the Bush by Doris Lessing
Somewhere in Africa, in a region in the grip of civil war, Maria, a white woman from the wealthy minority, refuses to
abandon her coffee plantation before the end of the harvest. As the uprising of the impoverished multitude looms,
she fights not to give in.
66th Venice Film Festival 2009 – In competition
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
By Woody Allen
USA-UK / 2010 / 1h38 / VOSTF
With Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins…
Alfie, succumbing to the midlife crisis, abruptly ends 40 years of marriage by abandoning his wife Helena.
After a suicide attempt and a quickly stopped analysis, she finds unexpected comfort with a clairvoyant,
Cristal, who predicts her a love story with a “tall dark stranger”…
2010 Cannes Festival – Out of competition
Mysteries of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa)
By Raúl Ruiz
Portugal / 2010 / 4h26 / VOSTF
With Adriano Luz, Clotilde Hesme, Ricardo Pereira…
Based on the eponymous work by C. Castelo Branco
An epic saga, a constant whirlwind of adventures and misadventures, coincidences and revelations, feelings and violent
passions, revenges, thwarted and illegitimate loves in a turbulent journey through Portugal, France, Italy, and Brazil.
Silver Shell at the San Sebastián Festival
Fantastic Mr. Fox
By Wes Anderson
USA / 2009 / 1h28 / Animation / VOSTF
With the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep
Based on Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Three farmers have allied to capture Mr. Fox, the slyest of chicken thieves, and his family. But Mr. Fox has more than
one trick up his sleeve and has devised a brilliant plan to get them out of trouble. A fable for young and old!
2010 Oscar and Best Animated Film at the 2010 Annecy Festival
THE MAGNAN SPACE welcomes you in its Jean Vigo room,
31, rue Louis de Coppet – 06000 Nice
Rates: €3 with the Télérama PASS (valid for 2 people)
available in the issues of January 12 & 19, 2011)
€6 (full price)
€5 (members, students, unemployed, under 16 years)
