The European Season at the Cinémathèque Française
" Au fil du temps " de Wim Wenders
© Reverse Angle Productions
- from: 02.07.2008
- to: 28.07.2008
- In: Cinémathèque Française
Europe via films
Is there such a thing as "European cinema"?
How has cinema borne witness to a specifically European history since it came into being?
agenda
From Wednesday, July 2 to Monday, July 8, 2008
Practical
At the Cinémathèque Française,
films and discussions every day
Metro Bercy and Cour Saint-Emillion (lines 6 and 14)
Bus n 24, 64, 87
Is there such a thing as "European cinema"?
How has cinema borne witness to a specifically European history since it came into being?
The First World War is represented in "Sarajevo" by Max Ophüls. The increasing dangers marking the 1930's can be seen in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes", while Jorge Semprun's "Les Deux Mémoires" take another look at the Spanish Civil War. Europe's division during the Cold War is felt in Carol Reed's "The Third Man"...
Europe, a territory of nations and of various peoples, crisscrossed by emigration, is the theatre of stories focusing on showing the movements, uprootings, and various figures looking for their identities: "The Magliari" by Francesco Rosi, or Alain Tanner's "The Middle of the World".
"71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance" by Michael Haneke compare the reality experienced by poor emigrants from former Eastern Europe, with the one characterizing the civilized barbarism of industrial metropolises.
Europe, the unfindable object, is not only a dimension of history, but also a set of identifiable landscapes in a few films that have been able to represent them: Wim Wenders' "Kings of the Road" or Chantal Akerman's "Les Rendez-vous d'Anna".
Cinema has made Europe a space that is both concrete and mental.
"A century in Europe, A century of cinema" offers a partial and hypothetical trip, focusing on a rather simple question: Is Europe a cinema character?
Sponsoring partner : Orange
- Updated: 02.09.2008
