Festival Froid Polar "They Shot The Piano Player"

This winter for the 10th edition, the detective story is in the spotlight. A genre to be enjoyed in all its forms! Investigations, crimes, victims, suspects, investigators and sometimes dark humor. A selection concocted by our Froid Polar group in partnership with the Questembert Media Library. The films offered are selected according to 6 categories in order to help you discover the detective genre through cinema and literature! The sessions are accompanied by speakers related to detective stories, surprises about the films await you! Usual prices. Sunday January 26 at 5 p.m. screening of the film "They Shot The Piano Player" VOSTF The contemporary detective story. An ode to jazz and a political thriller. Directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal – Spain, France, Portugal, Peru, As an introduction, Jean-Claude Capillon, professional musician, composer, will perform Bossa Nova pieces for us while recalling the origins of this music. A New York music journalist investigates the disappearance, on the eve of the coup d'état in Argentina, of Francisco Tenório Jr, a virtuoso Brazilian pianist. While celebrating jazz and Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting period of creative freedom, at a turning point in the history of Latin America in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent fell under the yoke of totalitarian regimes.

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