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5
mars | march 2010
Vendredi | Friday
CINEMA
6 pm
•"Kourtrajmé:
A New New Wave in French Urban Cinema"
This event features three filmmakers from the urban artistic
collective, Kourtrajmé.
Kourtrajmé Productions is a collective of emerging French and Francophone
visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians.
The brainchild of internationally acclaimed directors Mathieu Kassovitz
and Vincent Cassel, this production house and artist collective has garnered
increasing attention and acclaim after getting millions of hits on online
sites like Dailymotion and YouTube.
Founded by Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras and Toumani Sangaré, Kourtrajmé’s
playful innovations and cutting interventions in popular culture and society
represent the cultural dreams, lives and crises of transnational urban
and peri-urban French youth today.
Ladj Ly ("365 jours à Clichy-Montfermeil"), Toumani Sangaré
(founder of Kourtrajmé Afrique), and Nicolas Le Phat Tan (actor/director,
appearing in "Sheitan" entre autres) will be on hand to share
the group's provocative short films, documentaries, and music videos as
well as answer questions from the audience.
Admission is free
USC's School of Cinematic Arts
room 108
ART
EXHIBITION
7 pm
•Family
Portrait: Wolf, Grandma and other accomplices
An exhibition of paintings by French artist Valérie
Daval
On show is a series of paintings encompassing real and
fictional characters, including animals that look strangely human.
Originally inspired by the little Red Riding Hood story, the artist has
developed her own myth, which echoes her own history.
Little by little, the children are turned into animals and, as in a game
of hide and seek, accomplices appear.
Daval was born in Normandy, but during her childhood her
family moved to several different places in France. Daval started painting
when she was a child, and took part in various painting workshops. After
moving to Sarthe, she signed in with Guy Brunet’s workshop and attended
Le Mans’ School of Fine Arts.
After graduating, she began visual research work, which
took her through various stages working on portraits and mythology. “A
unique color and gesture spring from each of us.” She draws her inspiration
from her memory guided by the feelings she had in front of the landscapes,
the people and even the animals she encountered.
Daval has made Los Angeles her home since 2007.
Show from March 5 through March 31
Free and open to the public
Alliance Française de Pasadena
34 E. Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
afdepasadena.org
Phone (626) 683-3774
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6
mars | march 2010
Samedi | Saturday
GASTRONOMIE
3-5 pm
•Wine
class: Un Goût de Provence (A Taste of Provence)
You're hearing the crickets, smelling lavender, eating
Ratatouille with a glass of Rosé... you might be in Provence!
This time, stay in L.A and save on all travel expenses. We'll take you
on a tour of the most famous AOCs from the Côtes du
Ventoux down to the vineyards facing the Mediterranean Sea.
Enjoy whites, roses and reds from one of the most heavenly places in the
world!
This 2 hour-class will cover a vineyard
exploration, to help you understand what makes these wine regions so special.
You
will taste wines that are particularly representative of the area.
Each session includes 5 to 6 wines.
Light appetizers will be served to accompany the wines, including artisan
cheeses and other
gourmet delicacies.
Classes are limited in size for a great interactive,
learning and fun atmosphere!
Tickets: 1 for $66 - 2 for $88
Questions?
please email Jean-Baptiste at jb@lawinetasting.com
Where? SB Lofts
548 S Spring St, loft #610
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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10
mars | march 2010
Mercredi | Wednesday
THEATRE
•Marguerite
Duras: L'Amant
suivi de la Musica Deuxième
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"L'Amant" followed by “La Musica Deuxième,”
with performances by French actress Astrid Bas, American actor Daniel
Pettrow, and violinist Ami Flammer.
Intimate Theatre with subtitles
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Tickets: $20 (students $10)
For Ticket Sales & Information
please call (310) 286-0553
or email at trk@lyceeonline.org
The theatre is is located on Pico Blvd.
inside Le Lycée Français campus, accross from the Rancho
Park Golf Course. Cross street is Beverly Glen.
No parking facilty. Street parking is allowed on the streets surrounding
the theatre, on E. Pico after 6:00 PM and on W. Pico after 7:00 PM.
Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
10361 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90064
MUSIQUE
| MUSIC
8:00 p.m.
•Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France
featuring Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, which recorded
rapturously received versions of Maurice Ravel’s “Daphnis
et Chloe” and “Bolero” in recent years, presents an all-Ravel
concert in Royce Hall.
Lauded music director Myung-Whun Chung will lead a program that includes
suites from “Daphnis et Chloe,” as well as “Ma Mère
L'Oye” and Ravel’s masterpiece, “La Valse.”
Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, one of today’s most innovative
and respected soloists, will join the orchestra for an unforgettable “Shéhérazade.”
Tickets: $85, 70, 45, 34*
($18 UCLA students)
UCLA
Royce
Hall
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12
mars | march 2010
Vendredi | Friday
ART
SHOW
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
•Pure
Vibrant Color
 Opening
show for the group show 'Pure Vibrant Color' including French artist
Pascaline Doucin-Dahlke
pascalinedoucindahlke.com
Hours:
Monday through Friday 9am-5pm,
Closed Saturday & Sunday
http://www.highstudio.net/art_upcomingshows.php
High Studio
11 East High Street
Moorpark, CA 93021
(805) 523-7957
CINEMA
7:30 pm
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Toni - The Films of Jean Renoir
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1935/b&w/81 min.
Scr: Jean Renoir, Carl Einstein; dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Charles Blavette,
Jenny Helia. Celia Montalván, Édouard Delmont
Inspired by a report of a crime passionel within
a community of migrant laborers, Renoir decided to make a film entirely
on location in Martigues, with its Provençal landscape of
vineyards and rocky hills, and to cast nonprofessionals, mostly
Italian migrants, in many of the roles.
François Truffaut called Toni "a
tragedy in which the sun takes the place of Fate," an apt description
for a film that portrays the natural world of the migrants with
a powerful realism.
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9:20 pm
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Swamp Water - The Films of Jean Renoir
1941/b&w/88 min.
Scr: Dudley Nichols; dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Walter Brennan, Walter Huston,
Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
For his Hollywood debut Renoir settled on a script by Dudley
Nichols, the author of several films by John Ford, Renoir's favorite American
director, that tells the story of a young man living in a backward town
who stumbles upon a fugitive from justice and his wild-child daughter
hiding in a nearby swamp.
Although Renoir may have been attracted to the folkloric elements of the
script and its focus on outsiders, he seized on the visual possibilities
of the setting and convinced Fox to let him shoot on location.
Ticket Prices
$10 general admission.
$7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Included: Your film ticket covers both films in a double bill,
except where noted, and includes entrance to the museum galleries as well.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Leo S. Bing Theater
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
lacma.org
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13
mars | march 2010
Samedi | Saturday
2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
•
A Celebration of Francophone Africa and the French Caribbean islands
with Kimberly S. Newberry, actress, and the African film scholar Moussa
Bocoum.
Come, and share the enchantment of Franco-African cultures
for an afternoon to appreciate:
- Tandem French/English readings of classical Francophone African literature,
- A dazzling multimedia presentation, a rare insight into the creative
genius of African filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene,
- A musical trek through the African continent,
- A light and delicious culinary delight from one of our Francophone African
countries.
Ticket Price: $12 for members of Alliance and students.
$17 for non-members.
To RSVP, call us at (310) 652-0306 or send an e-mail at adminafdela@gmail.com.
All profits generated from this event will be donated to a charity for
Haitian Earthquake Victims.
For more information about this event please contact Marielle
Bruant-Carlson 310.235.32.38 or visit www.afdela.org
Where: At the Alliance Francaise de Los Angeles,
10390 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 120
Los Angeles, CA 90025
CONFERENCE
| LECTURE
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
•Outside
of the Box: Portraiture after Ingres
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Speaker : Leah Lehmbeck, Assistant Curator, Norton
Simon Museum
In 1867, the year of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s immense
memorial exhibition, portraiture reached its apogee in France.
At this same moment, however, the genre was making its most significant
and lasting shift away from its traditions.
Taken up by the Impressionists and continued by masters such as
Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp and Warhol, the conventions of portraiture
were undermined, challenged, subverted and silenced—and yet
simultaneously reinforced by these avant-garde artists.
In this lecture, Lehmbeck traces these changes in the genre from
the mid-19th century to the present day.
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Norton
Simon Museum of Art
411 W. Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91105-1825
626.449.6840
CINEMA
7:30 pm
•French
Cancan - The Films of Jean Renoir
1955/color/102 min.
Scr/dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix
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Godard's comment that "Renoir is
French to the tip of his toes" is borne out by Renoir's choice
of subject for the film he would make on his return to France after
a fifteen-year absence: the birth of that quintessentially French
phenomenon, the Cancan.
In their fourth film together, Jean Gabin plays the robust
impresario Danglard, a womanizer and a theatrical visionary whose
ill-timed indiscretion threatens his plans to restore the Moulin Rouge
to its former glory.
"French Cancan is a tribute to the Paris of Auguste Renoir—though
beautifully contrived in the studio, it beguiles us into feeling fresh
air on the hills of Montmartre. "—David Thomson. |
9:25 pm
•The
Golden Coach - The Films of Jean Renoir
1953/color/103 min.
Scr: Jean Renoir, Renzo Avanzo, Giulio Macchi, Jack Kirkland, Ginette
Doynel; dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli,
Duncan Lamont
A commedia dell'arte troupe from Italy arrives in an eighteenth-century
Peruvian town where the Viceroy, infatuated by the leading actress Camilla,
presents her with the fabulous golden coach, a symbol of power, that he
intended for his mistress.
Ticket Prices
$10 general admission.
$7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Included: Your film ticket covers both films in a double bill,
except where noted, and includes entrance to the museum galleries as well.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Leo S. Bing Theater
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
lacma.org
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14
mars | march 2010
Dimanche | Sunday
SPORTS
 •Pétanque
Memorial Panache Triplette
Rancho Park courts
West Los Angeles
Pour plus d'info concernant tarif et horaires,
consulter l'association Los
Angeles Pétanque
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18
mars | march 2010
Jeudi | Thursday
GASTRONOMIE
7pm - 9 pm
•La
Cave aux Mystères - Class on French Cheese & Wine of the Bourgogne
Discover the delight of artisan cheese and wine from the
finest producers in France. Be part of an intimate class
focused on understanding what makes these small
production foods wonderful and delicious — with ample
opportunity to taste, sip and learn along the way.
How much?
$50 per person per class - limited to 25 attendees
(includes all wine & cheese pairings, take-home educational documents,
tasty appetizers + a fun & friendly atmosphere!)
Questions?
please email Jean-Baptiste at jb@lawinetasting.com
or visit lawinetasting.com
Where?
Miele Design Center
189 N. Robertson Blvd.
(1 block NORTH of Wilshire)
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
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19
mars | march 2010
Vendredi | Friday
CINEMA
7:30 pm
•
La bête humaine - The Films of Jean Renoir
1938/b&w/100 min.
Scr/dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux
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Lantier, an engineer, suspects that the
yard foreman and his wife have murdered a man on his train but, seeing
the fear in the woman's eyes, says nothing; his complicity leads to
an affair with the woman, but when he falls victim to her duplicitous
charms, his fate is sealed and the film hurtles to its pitiless ending.
In adapting Zola's novel to the present, Renoir retained the
theme of industrial progress as a force that crushes the humanity
of ordinary men, and positioned Lantier, a man haunted by a family
legacy of alcoholism and madness, as the central character.
With its documentary-like opening sequence of a mighty locomotive
racing along the tracks from Paris to Le Havre (the cameraman was
strapped to the front of the engine) and its chiaroscuro lighting,
La bête humaine has an intensity unlike any other Renoir
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9:20 pm
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The Woman on the Beach - The Films of Jean Renoir
1947/b&w/71 min.
Scr: Jean Renoir, Frank Davis, J.R. Michael Hogan; dir: Jean Renoir; w/
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
Renoir stated that he wanted to "make a love story
in which there was no love, in which the attractions were purely physical,"
and, despite the noir casting of Bennett as the femme fatale and Ryan
as the archetypal loner scarred by a traumatic past, the final result
was not a crime film but a cryptic love story steeped in an atmosphere
of impending violence, punctuated by surreal dreams, and set in an isolated
house vulnerable to fog and fire.
Jacques Rivette writes on the film, "The Woman on the Beach looks
like a film made by Fritz Lang… If there was ever a director who
conceives each part as a microcosm of the whole, it is Renoir."
Ticket Prices
$10 general admission.
$7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Included: Your film ticket covers both films in a double bill,
except where noted, and includes entrance to the museum galleries as well.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Leo S. Bing Theater
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
lacma.org
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20
mars | march 2010
Samedi | Saturday
CINEMA
7:30 pm
•
The Southerner- The Films of Jean Renoir
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1945/b&w/92 min.
Scr/dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish,
Beulah Bondi, Norman Lloyd
Renoir, casting against type, chose Texas-born Zachary
Scott to play Sam Tucker, a desperately poor migrant cotton-picker
who strikes out on his own, moving his wife, two kids and crotchety
old mother onto an abandoned farm; a harsh winter follows but the
family's efforts point to a good harvest until a flood washes the
crop away.
Renoir called The Southerner "the most interesting film I've
made here. Another story too simple to tell. A poor family is born,
lives, dies…" The film was nominated for three Oscars
including Best Director and won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film
Festival.
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9:30 pm
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The River - The Films of Jean Renoir
1951/color/99 min.
Scr: Rumer Godden, Jean Renoir; dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Nora Swinburne, Patricia
Walters, Thomas E. Breen | Restored by The Academy Film Archive in cooperation
with The British Film Institute and Janus Films. Restoration funding provided
by The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
This sublime adaptation of a novel by Rumer Godden, who
was raised in India and collaborated during the shoot, was a challenge
to bring to the screen: the first Technicolor film shot in India, it involved
heavy equipment and long delays in printing the dailies; the cast was
almost entirely nonprofessional; local festivities and superstitions interfered
with the normal pace of production; and the locations needed frequent
adjustments to reflect a year of seasons.
The story is narrated by Harriet, now an adult, who recalls her life in
India at age fifteen, the year that Captain John came to visit; and through
her eyes we follow the day-to-day routine of a British colonial family,
share her adventures with her closest companions, an Indian girl and her
little brother, contemplate the natural beauty and mysterious culture
of a foreign land, and experience the pain and joy of first love.
Ticket Prices
$10 general admission.
$7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Included: Your film ticket covers both films in a double bill,
except where noted, and includes entrance to the museum galleries as well.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Leo S. Bing Theater
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
lacma.org
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21
mars | march 2010
Dimanche | Sunday
DERNIERS
JOURS | LAST DAY !
THEATRE
4 pm
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Cousin Bette - La Cousine Bette (Honoré de Balzac)
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The Antaeus Theater Company is proud to offer
to you a chance to experience a literary masterpiece in the flesh.
Paris 1840’s, Cousin Bette explores the themes of virtue
and vice set in classical French opulence juxtaposed with the squalor
of the times. Bette, a cunning spinster, subservient to her wealthy
family, decides enough is enough and plots their downfall.
Honoré de Balzac’s 1846 tour
de force, La cousine Bette, has been adapted for the stage
by the brilliant playwright Jeffrey Hatcher in exclusive collaboration
with The Antaeus Company.
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Tickets: $20- $34
special ticket price of $25 for groups of ten or more and, with advance
arrangement, a reception with the artists after the show!
Make your reservations soon by phone 818.506.1983
or email events@antaeus.org
The Antaeus Company and Antaeus Academy are located at the Deaf
West Theatre
5112 Lankershim Blvd.,
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Phone:818.506.5436
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26
mars | march 2010
Vendredi | Friday
7:00 P.M.
•
On the trail of the Emperor : La Route Napoléon
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Fulbright scholar and Professor Anne Prah-Perochon
will deliver a lecture on how the exiled and humiliated emperor
Napoléon undertook a final exploit of astonishing daring
to reclaim his throne, culminating in disaster at the battle of
Waterloo in 1815.
Packed with heroic deeds and extraordinary anecdotes,
it’s an epic tale that recounts Napoléon’s audacious
escape from his island prison in the Mediterranean. Once on the
mainland, he raises an army, makes his way through the French Alps
and in a bloodless coup d’état, regains Paris and rules
for 100 days.
The lecture traces his journey of unbridled ambition and stunning
defeat, traversing some of the most spectacular landscapes in Europe.
To this day, the road he forged through the French
countryside with 1,200 loyal men is called “La Route Napoléon”
and it winds from Golfe-Juan on the Côte d’Azur to Grenoble
in the French Alps.
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The lecture will be delivered in French, but
with a detailed outline available in English
Reservations required. Free for Alliance Française
members; non-members $10
E-mail afdepasadena@earthlink.net
afdepasadena.org
Phone (626) 683-3774
Alliance Française de Pasadena
34 E. Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
CINEMA
7:30
pm
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La Grande Illusion - The Films of Jean Renoir
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1937/b&w/104 min.
Scr: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir; dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Jean Gabin,
Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
Renoir became an international figure with the commercial
success of Grand Illusion, which was acclaimed for its pacifist
and anti-war sentiments.
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9:30 pm
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The Elusive Corporal - The Films of Jean Renoir
1962/b&w/99 min.
Jean Renoir, Guy Lefrance; dir; Jean Renoir; w/ Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude
Brasseur, Claude Rich
A Parisian army corporal (Cassel) is captured when the
Germans invade France, but with the help of two friends, and later alone,
he goes to absurd lengths to break out of various Nazi prisons.
By turns humorous and sentimental, this slight tale is informed by Renoir's
trademark humanism.
"Renoir is clearly not interested in how prisoners escape but why.
Whereas Grand Illusion was concerned with the idea of fraternity, The
Elusive Corporal is concerned with the idea of liberty. Whereas the earlier
film suggested that class differences were more decisive than national
differences, the later film suggests that liberty means something different
for each man."—Andrew Sarris.
Ticket Prices
$10 general admission.
$7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Included: Your film ticket covers both films in a double bill,
except where noted, and includes entrance to the museum galleries as well.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Leo S. Bing Theater
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
lacma.org
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27
mars | march 2010
Samedi | Saturday
MUSIQUE
| MUSIC
8
pm
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Philippe Entremont, piano
In celebration of “Renoir in the 20th Century” exhibition
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One of the most recorded artists of all
time, internationally celebrated French pianist and conductor Philippe
Entremont makes a rare Los Angeles appearance, performing an intimate
piano recital in the galleries of the Renoir exhibition.
This specially ticketed recital will focus on French works from Renoir’s
time, including Debussy’s Images and Suite pour le Piano, along
with Ravel’s Sonatine, Gaspard de la Nuit, and others. |
Due to the gallery location of this concert, seating is
very limited.
BCAM | $100 includes champagne reception before the concert.
LACMA Parking Lot | Visitors may now park in the museum's new 6th St.
parking garage, accessed off of 6th St. just east of Fairfax. | $7 per
car, free for vehicles entering after 7 pm
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
lacma.org
CINEMA
7:30 pm
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La chienne - The Films of Jean Renoir
1931/b&w/95 min.
Scr: Jean Renoir, Andre Girard; dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Michel Simon, Janie
Marèse, Georges Flamant
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Heading home late from an office party, Legrand,
an unassuming clerk whose hobby as an amateur painter provides relief
from a boring job and a shrewish wife, intervenes in an argument between
Lulu, an attractive young woman, and Dédé, her inebriated
companion and abusive pimp.
Renoir's first sound film is one of his most visually inventive.
It is typical of Renoir that this sordid melodrama, with its flawed
creatures and immoral ending, is a film in which the dominant emotions
are tenderness and pity. |
9:15 pm
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La Marseillaise - The Films of Jean Renoir
1938/b&w/132 min.
Scr/dir: Jean Renoir; w/ Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet
A neorealist fresco of the early days of the French
Revolution, produced in the heady atmosphere of the leftist Popular Front
and funded by the trade unions, La Marseillaise begins in Marseille
where five hundred volunteers are preparing to march to Paris to participate
in the capture of the Tuileries and the fall of the monarchy.
For the critic André Bazin, "Renoir demythologizes history
by restoring it to man" noting that "the aristocrats are marvelously
individualized... Renoir gives each character a precise and subtle style.
The most developed from this point of view is Louis XVI."
The same detail can be found in the dialogue: according to Truffaut, La
Marseillaise "is the richest in culinary vocabulary of any Renoir
film," and Georges Sadoul wrote that "the Marseillaise troops
were played by actors from the south of France, trained by Pagnol to speak
dialect."
Ticket Prices
$10 general admission.
$7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Included: Your film ticket covers both films in a double bill,
except where noted, and includes entrance to the museum galleries as well.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Leo S. Bing Theater
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
lacma.org
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Feb 14–May 9, 2010
Renoir in the 20th Century
LACMA
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Ends March 21st 2010
Cousin Bette
La Cousine Bette
d'Honoré de Balzac
ANTEUS THEATRE
North Hollywood
CA 91601 Phone:818.506.5436
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Ends
May 30, 2010
Delacroix to Monet: Masterpieces of 19th-Century Painting
from the Walters Art Museum
Santa Barbara Museum
of Art
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