Ciné Club "l'histoire et le cinéma"

On the program are three cycles: Cinema and History (from September to the end of December), a Kinuyo Tanaka focus (from January to the end of April) and a mini-retrospective Sidney Lumet (from May to the end of August). We start with four French films which, each in their own specific way, strive to put History into images...die... "The Name of the Rose" Sunday, September 28 at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, September 30 at 8:15 p.m. A film by Jean-Jacques Annaud – 1986 – 2h12 min In the year 1327, in a Benedictine abbey, monks are disappearing. A Franciscan, William of Baskerville, aided by the young novice Adso von Melk leads the investigation. It is the time when the Church, in full crisis, finds its spiritual and temporal power disputed. It is also the height of the Inquisition. A highly anticipated medieval thriller carefully prepared over three years, respecting the era as much as possible and costing a whopping nineteen million dollars. It is also a film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, always passionately drawn to his subjects. "Brotherhood of the Wolf" Sunday, October 26 at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, October 28 at 8:15 p.m. A film by Christophe Gans – 2001 – 2h30 min – Forbidden – Ages 12 In 1766, the knight Grégoire de Fronsac, commissioned by Louis XV, is sent to Gévaudan to track down and kill a mysterious beast that has been terrorizing the region for two years, sparing neither women nor children. Accompanied by Mani, his blood brother, a Mohawk Indian from New France, Fronsac quickly faces the hostility of the region's nobles. "If Versailles were told to me..." Sunday, November 23 at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, November 25 at 8 p.m. A film by Sacha Guitry – 1954 – 2h45 min The history of the Palace of Versailles, from Louis XIV to the present day. "Queen Margot" Sunday, December 21 at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, December 23 at 8 p.m. A film by Patrice Chéreau – 1994 – 2h41 min August 1572: Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles IX, is beautiful, young and Catholic. To strengthen France, Catherine de Medici, her mother, forcibly marries her to the Protestant Henri de Navarre. But the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre is looming. Sacrificed to the reasons of state, Margot will nevertheless experience love with another Huguenot: the Seigneur de la Mole. Regular prices.

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