October 2010Bulletin Culturel

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Planet in Focus

International Festival of Authors

NUIT BLANCHE

- Visual Arts- Festivals- Cinema- Lectures- Theatre- Dance- Exhibitions- Music- Television- Professionals

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What an opening for October: Scotiabank Nuit blanche is back for a fifth year in Toronto, presenting more than 130 projects including those of French artists Agnès Winter, France Dubois and Davide Balula.It’s a unique opportunity to share common experiences with your fellow citizens, and remember that inhabitants from Paris, Brussels, New York or Oran will also be up all night for this culture event: isn’t that what society is about, establishing invisible links between people?

Human society and its challenges are the very subject of the Planet in Focus festival. More than a hundred films or videos focusing on environment issues will be presented. Along some thirty other countries, France will be represented by two films.

Another must-go of October is the International Festival of Authors, celebrating reading during 10 days through numerous meetings between readers and authors, including French writer Marc Lévy.

Let me seize this opportunity to greet Joël Savary for his outstanding work. Having taken it on since September 1st, I’m looking forward to sharing lots of great experiences with you!

Claire Le Masne, Cultural Attaché

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Toronto's annual sunset to sunrise celebration of contemporary art returns to mark a five-year milestone. Discover art in galleries, museums and unexpected places. From building façades and city parks to alleyways and heritage buildings, choose from more than 130 destinations and chart your own path.

DAVIDE BALULA THE ENDLESS PACE (VARIATION FOR 60 DANCERS), 2009

Davide Balula lives and works in France, developing projects both in music and visual arts. On Nuit Blanche, he is presenting The Endless Pace (variation for 60 dancers), a performance involving 60 dancers, wherein the movements of the dancers materialize the passage of time. The dancers are aligned on the periphery of a circle, sitting and facing outwards. They become the face of a clock. Over the course of 12 hours, for the entire duration of Nuit Blanche, the dancers mimic the rotation of the second, minute and hour hands.

COMMERCE COURT – COURTYARD - 25 KING STREET WEST

AGNÈS WINTERMONUMENT TO SMILE, 2010

French artist Agnès Winter has been working in multi-disciplinary artistic projects. Monument to Smile is a giant projection by the artist in partnership with students from the photography program of OCAD University. Asking “can you smile for me?”, the students photographed several hundred smiling portraits in the different streets and neighbourhoods of Toronto in partnership with Agnès Winter over some weeks. On Nuit Blanche, 250 photographs of smiling faces of Torontonians will transform the façade of the Holt Renfrew Centre into a mosaic of portraits.

HOLT RENFREW - 50 BLOOR STREET WEST

FRANCE DUBOIS A MOMENT STILLED VOYAGEUR, 2010

The artistic practice of France Dubois combines photography, video and installation, producing new narrative forms with images taken from reality. In Voyageur, magnificent landscapes are projected on the windows of a minivan parked on the street. These moving images function as the vehicle's recorded memories. They may be the traces of past drives across the world, or the promise of future travels. The incitation to travel here is perhaps one that opens onto an internal geography.

YONGE STREET AT DUNDEE PLACE - 1 ADELAIDE STREET EAST

Visual ArtsSCOTIABANK NUIT BLANCHE OCTOBER 2

OCTOBER 2 - 6:57PM TO SUNRISE

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FestivalsINTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS (IFOA) OCTOBER 20-30

Now in its 31st year, the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) brings together the best writers of contemporary world literature for 11 days of readings, interviews, lectures, round table discussions, and public book signings from the 20th to the 30th October. This year, Marc Lévy is invited to present his last novel, Le Voleur d’ombres, published for Canada by McArthur & Company.

MARC LEVY

One of the main guests at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA), the French writer Marc Lévy, will be meeting his readers and signing his books at Harbourfront Centre from the 25th to the 27th of october.

Marc Lévy is a French bestselling writer since his very successful debut in 2000. Born near Paris, he left France when he was 23 to go to the USA and created a society in art design and image effects. After having spent more than seven years in the USA, he decided to come back in Paris and created an architects’ agency with two of his friends. He has been the director of the agency for ten years. Marc Lévy started writing as an amateur. He liked imagining and writing stories. He decided to send his first manuscript to several publishers and got an answer from Robert Laffont who published Et si c’était vrai…, his first novel, which became a tremendous success.

Since then, he spends his time on his writing and brings the reader in a universe full of infinite possibilities. By January 2006, more than ten millions of copies of his five books, all translations and editions in different languages included, had been sold. His next novels, Mes amis, mes amours and Toutes ces choses qu’on ne s’est pas dites confirmed the enthusiasm of the readers. Le Voleur d’ombres, his last novel, has been on the bestseller list since its publishing in book stores, in June.

In 2009, he has been nominated as the biggest-selling French writer in France. His books have been translated in 41 different languages.

OCTOBER 25-27AUTHORS AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE - 235 QUEENS QUAY WEST – TORONTO

The IFOA also presents a number of special events, including readings by several Book Prizes finalists as well as the awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize.

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CinémaPLANET IN FOCUSINTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - OCT. 13-17

PLASTIC AND GLASS

BY TESSA JOOSSE (FRANCE, 2009, 9 MN)

This short film is an imaginative look at the humanity of those working in the recycling industry. A recycling factory worker sings about making amends with his lover on an island built from recycled materials, with factory workers and machines, garbage and trucks rounding out the score.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 11AMGARDINER MUSEUM

FOR THE BEST AND FOR THE ONION!

SANI ELHADJ MAGORI (FRANCE/ NIGER, 2008, 52 MN)

They have already been waiting for two years, but before Yaro can marry Salamatou, he must prove his worth by producing enough of the Purple Galmi onion, an essential part of the West African food diet and markets with over 400 000 tons of it per year being traded. Gossip and village politics come into play in this engrossing and entertaining film that brought home the award for best documentary at the African Movie Academy Awards 2009. For the Best and for the Onion! is an entertaining glance into cultural traditions and economics. All eyes are on the couple to see if the wedding will happen this time!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 12.30PMROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

Planet in Focus promotes the use of film and video to frame and explore social and ecological focal points, as a catalyst for public awareness, discussion and appropriate action on the ecological and social health of the planet. This year's festival spotilight is on Biodiversity. Two french films will be presented:

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AMONGST THE MANY FRENCH FILMS SCREENED THIS MONTH AT THE TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX:

TO OUR LOVES

MAURICE PIALAT, FRANCE,1983, 182 MN

A bracing success in the career of its often grievously overlooked director Maurice Pialat, À nos amours not only won the César (France's Academy Awards) for best picture of the year. Teenaged Sandrine Bonnaire starz as a sixteen-year-old who searches for oblivion in sex, attempting to find the love denied by her family—including the director himself as the alternately brutish and loving clan patriarch—in an increasingly promiscuous series of affairs.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 AT 7:15PM (IN PERSON WITH MOLLY HASKELL) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 6:00PM

AMELIE

JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET, FRANCE, 2001, 122 MN

An international sensation on its release, Amélie launched Audrey Tautou to stardom as the winsome young heroine whose rich fantasy life renders Paris a playground of the imagination. While working as a waitress in a Montmartre café and cheerfully spurning relationships after a few unsuccessful ventures, Amélie's chance discovery and return of a neighbour's long-lost childhood treasure convinces her to devote her life to helping others in lieu of finding romance for herself—until an odd young man who collects discarded pictures from photo booths (Mathieu Kassovitz) catches her eye.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8:15PMSUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 3:00PM

ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT by Louis & Auguste Lumière (France, 1896, 50 sec)

and A TRIP TO THE MOON

by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 14 mn)

Cinema was "born" in 1895 and from very early on it began to take two divergent but fundamentally unified paths: while the respective voyages described by the short documentary Arrivée d'un Train a la Ciotat and the pioneering science fiction fantasy Le Voyage dans la lune are quite literally worlds apart, they are united by their palpable sense of elation, of excitement in the opportunities proffered by this new medium.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 12:15PM (FREE)

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CHILDREN OF PARADISE

MARCEL CARNÉ, FRANCE 1945, 190MN

Set in the early nineteenth century along Paris' infamous Boulevard du Crime—the nexus of both the city's criminal underworld and its theatre scene—the film tells a fictionalized version of the lives of the famous mime Baptiste Debureau (Jean-Louis Barrault), the actor Frédérick Lemaître (Pierre Brasseur) and the notorious criminal Lacenaire (Marcel Herrand), all of whom are in love with the beautiful courtesan Garance (Arletty), who loves each man in her own way.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 AT 12:00PM

CARLOS

OLIVIER ASSAYAS, FRANCE/ GERMANY, 2009, 330 MN

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos is a central figure in the history of international terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, from pro-Palestinian activism to the Japanese Red Army. At once a figure of the violent extreme left and an opportunistic mercenary in the pay of powerful Middle Eastern secret services, he formed his own organization based on the other side of the Iron Curtain which was active during the final years of the Cold War. This film is the story of a revolutionary internationalist, both manipulator and manipulated, as he is carried along by the currents of contemporary history and his own folly.

OPENS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

JULES AND JIM

FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, FRANCE, 1962, 105 MN

Adapting the autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, Truffaut nimbly chronicles the years-long friendship between Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian etymologist, Jim (Henri Serre), a Parisian writer, and the enchanting, narcissistic and mercurial Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), the woman they both love, whose passion and vivacity both enriches their friendship and drives them towards tragedy.

OPENS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

DETAILS CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEBSITE AT WWW.TIFF.NET

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LecturesFRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - WINNIPEG

FRANÇOISE HAFFNERTHE 18TH CENTURY ON SCREEN / FRENCH CINEMA AND MODERNITY

Françoise Haffner has a PHD in literature and works at the University of Perpignan. The University of Manitoba invited her to express her vision on the adaptation of 18th Century French books (with the example of Dangerous Liaisons) and to talk about modernity in French cinema (Resnais, Godard and Duras).

WESTERN IDENTITY AND UNIFYING FORCEIN EUROPEAN AND NORTHAMERICAN RELATIONS

From the 1st to the 3rd of October will take place conferences about European identities which will allow several specialists from all around the world to debate and deal with these fundamental issues of identity and relationships between cultures. Philippe Nemo, a French professor in political and social philosophy as well as political history at ESCP Europe, will elaborate on his favourite theme of relationships between Europe and North America, questioning and enlightening the idea of Occident, which is essential in his theses.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 3 - 11AMUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, MACDONALD STEWART ART CENTRE - 50 STONE ROAD EAST

NEW MATERIAL/NEW FORMS (CONFERENCE)FAISCEAUX (MUSIC CREATION)

Thierry Alla, a musician, musicologist and composer, will bring together theory, with a public lecture entitled “New Material/New Forms”, and practice, with a concert. Opening the sixth edition of 5-Penny New Music Concerts, he will play a new creation, Faisceaux, with the distinguished chamber ensemble Proxima Centauri.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 5:30PMENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY935, CHEMIN DU LAC RAMSEY - SUDBURY

ADMISSION IS FREE

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 8:00PMST. PETER’S UNITED CHURCH 203 YORK STREET - SUDBURY.

$20, $15 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS.

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OCTOBER 3

18TH CENTURY ON SCREENTUESDAY OCTOBER 19 2PM-3:30PM

TUESDAY OCTOBER 26 2:30PM-4:30PMTUESDAY NOVEMBER 2 2:30PM-3:30PM

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FRENCH CINEMA AND MODERNITYWEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27 3:15PM

FRIDAY OCTOBER 29 2:30PMWEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 3 3:15PMDAFOE THEATRE - 106 FLETCHER

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TheatreSTRATFORD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

DANGEROUS LIAISONS (LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES)

In pre-Revolutionary France, the Marquise de Merteuil and her sometime lover the Vicomte de Valmont amuse themselves by plotting the seduction of two women of virtue. But as their cynical game proceeds, the players’ motives grow deeper – and more deadly.

UNTIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 FESTIVAL THEATRE

55 QUEEN STREET - STRATFORD

LAUNCHING OF THE 2010-2011 SEASONAT THE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE TORONTO

The 2010/2011 season of the Théâtre français de Toronto starts on October 27th with Les Fridolinades.Gratien Gélinas, nicknamed “The Father of Québec Dramatic Art,” created the character of Fridolin for radio in 1937, then for theatre the following year. Les Fridolinades immediately became revues or series of sketches, songs, parodies, and monologues on such varied topics as the second-class status of French-Canadians and World War II. The season will also include representations of Molière’s The School for Wives, Larry Tremblay’s Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre and Michel Tremblay’s Forever Yours, Mary Lou.

LES FRIDOLINADES BY GRATIEN GÉLINASOCTOBER 27TH TO NOVEMBER 7TH

THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE TORONTO – BERKELEY STREET THEATRE - 26 BERKELEY ST.

JACQUES PRÉVERT EVENING

The Alliance Française de Toronto is presenting an evening dedicated to the famous French poet Jacques Prévert. His works will be read and sung by the comedians and singers Raymond Accolas, Claude Naubert and Louise Naubert from the Toronto compagny "La Tangente".

OCTOBER 22 – 7:30PMALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE TORONTO – 24 SPADINA ROAD – $12

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STARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

The Koffler Centre of the Arts fundraising Gala, Stars of the 21st Century, is part of the inaugural opening of the renovated Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. For one night, the world’s most accomplished classical dance stars assemble for a prestigious ballet gala.

Along principal dancers from world-renowned ballet companies such as American Ballet Theatre, Berlin Opera Ballet, Anastasia Kirov Ballet, New York City Ballet, National Ballet of Portugal and the National Ballet of Canada, this event features two dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet, danseuse étoile Dorothée Gilbert and premier danseur Alessio Carbone.

OCTOBER 14, 2010 AT 8 PM SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS - TICKETS START AT $40

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ExhibitionsFRYDERYK CHOPIN & THE ROMANTIC PIANO

Commemorating the bicentennial of the renowned composer’s birth, the Royal Ontario Museum presents Fryderyk Chopin & the Romantic Piano, on display from October 9, 2010 to March 27, 2011. The intimate exhibition explores the life and legacy of 19th century Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin and the Romantic Age of music in which he played a pivotal role.

It features Chopin’s instrument of choice—a Pleyel grand piano—as well as letters by his contemporaries (George Sand, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz and Felix Mendelssohn), costume plates and decorative arts of the Romantic Period. ROM visitors will have a unique opportunity to view rarely displayed original musical scores, on limited-time loan from the Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw.

Complementing the exhibition, the ROM offers a variety of concerts, films and lectures.

OCTOBER 9 TO MARCH 27 2011 ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM - 100 QUEEN'S PARKFOR MORE INFORMATION: WWW.ROM.ON.CA

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FRANCOPHONIE EN FÊTE

The fifth festival « Francophonie en Fête » will take place from October 21st to October 24th. The festival proposes various music shows as well as numerous art creation workshops for a young audience. Several artists will give a show on the stages of the Distillery District, the Tranzac Club and the Glenn Gould Studio, where Daniel Lavoie will sing on October 23rd.

OCTOBER 21ST – 6:00PM : LAUNCHING OF THE FESTIVALTHOMPSON-LANDRY GALLERY – 55 MILL STREET

MORE INFORMATION ON WWW.FRANCOPHONIE-EN-FETE.COM

OLIVIER CHAUZU - QUATRE COMPOSITEURS, TROIS ANNIVERSAIRES, UNE CRÉATION MONDIALEALLIANCE FRANÇAISE’S « POCKET CLASSICS » CYCLE

A renowned French pianist awarded the Claude Debussy Prize in 1990, Olivier Chauzu will play at the Alliance française works by composers Isaac Albéniz, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, as well as a piece by contemporary composer Philippe Forget which has never been played in Canada.

The program will include: Davidsbündlertänze by Schumann, Fragments de Soleil by Forget, Fête-Dieu à Séville by Albéniz, Troisième sonate en si mineur by Chopin.

OCTOBER 1ST – 7:30PMALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE TORONTO – 24 SPADINA ROAD – $12

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TelevisionLOUIS GARREL

LOVE SONGS CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ, 91 MN

Ismael lives with Julie. Alice, who works with Ismael, shares their bed and Alice's affections. On a night of tragedy, Jeanne, unaware, hooks up with Gwendal, whose teen-aged brother Erwann is the only one who can bring a shattered Ismael back to life.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 9:00PM

FRONTIER OF DAWN PHILIPPE GARREL, 102 MN

Carole is a movie star, she lives alone. Her husband works in Hollywood and neglects her. A photograph comes to her place to do a reporting on her. They become lovers. They live in the hotel in which François settles his shootings during two weeks, stopping by Carole’s place once in a while.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14 9:00PM

THE BULLETIN CULTUREL IS PROUD TO PRESENT A

SELECTION OF TFO FRENCH CINEMA PROGRAM:

HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT'S INFERNO

SERGE BROMBERG AND RUXANDRA MEDREA, 95 MN

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot directed an enigmatic and original project; an unlimited budget; a film, which was meant to be a cinematographic event at its release. However, after 3 weeks into filming, drama happens. The project is interrupted and the images, which were told to be “incredible”, will never be shown. Those images that have been forgotten for half a century have been recovered and they are more mind-blowing than the legend predicted.

MONDAY OCTOBER, 4 9:00PM

LOUIS GARREL

REGULAR LOVERSPHILIPPE GARREL, 175 MN

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friends. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself...

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 9:00PM

IN PARISCHRISTOPHE HONORÉ, 89 MN

Two brothers find themselves once again in their father's small Paris apartment. Paul is in the throes of depression after his breakup with longtime girlfriend while his carefree brother Jonathan frolicks in the streets and beds strangers. Their sad, smock-wearing father struggles to find a way to help Paul.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 9:00PM

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NEXT MONTH

ProfessionalsCall for proposals "Missions et Invitations" programs 2011Application deadline: October 30, 2010

The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs Translation Grant ProgramApplication deadline: October 15, 2010

The Centre National du Livre Translation Grant ProgramApplication deadline: January 11, 2011

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT DAVID GRESSOT :

DAVID.GRESSOT@DIPLOMATIE.GOUV.FRWWW.CONSULFRANCE-TORONTO.ORG

LITERATURE

A registered charitable organization, the Alliance Française is dedicated to promoting the use of French and the appreciation of cultures that share the French language in their common heritage. Established in 1902 with approximately 6,000 students and members, it operates as a cultural centre and language school with three centres in the Greater Toronto Area. Accredited by the Federal Government, it is the largest private French language school in Canada, with centres in Mississauga, Markham and North York.

WWW.ALLIANCE-FRANCAISE.CA

EH!U MEET THE EUROPEANS - EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL (NOVEMBER 18-30)

This festival is a unique cultural collaboration of the EU missions, showcasing the best of contemporary European cinema, featuring award-winning films from emerging and established filmmakers.

ADEL ABDESSEMED (NOVEMBER 26, 2010 - FEBRUARY 13, 2011)

OCAD will showcase the first solo exhibition in Canada of the contemporary artist Adel Abdessemed. On this occasion, OCAD will host the artist who will lead workshops’ sessions with the students and have a public lecture.