Four French films are on this week's schedule at the Gilberto Gerlach Cinema Room, at the Centro Integrado de Cultura (CIC). Sessions with films and debates, with themes of narrative, genre and language diversity, take place from Thursday to Sunday at 19:30 pm.
Séance de Cinema Français is produced by the Cinematic Session in partnership with Cineclube Cinema Unisul, supported by the Aliança Francesa Florianópolis and the Museum of Image and Sound of Santa Catarina (MIS/SC). On the occasion, there will be a tribute to Gilberto Gerlach (1943-2021), founder of the Cineclube Nossa Senhora do Desterro. Admission is free, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Check the schedule:
21/04 (Thursday):
19h30: conversation with Camille Malderez, a French doctoral student in Visual Arts at UDESC, a researcher on political conflicts in France and Latin America, and the recording images of these conflicts. Mediation by Allende Renck.
20h: La Haine
(The hate)
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Year: 1995
Duration: 1h35min
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Jew Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Arab Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) and boxer Hubert (Hubert Koundé) live in the suburbs of Paris and face daily discrimination and police abuse. During yet another run-in with law enforcement, Vinz finds a gun and vows to kill a police officer if his friend Abdel (Abdel Ahmed Ghili), beaten during interrogation, dies of his injuries.
22/04 (Friday):
19h30: Conversation with Allende Renck.
20h: Les Misérables
(The miserable)
Directed by: Ladj Ly
Year: 2020
Duration: 1h45min
Genre: Police / Drama
Synopsis: Stéphane (Damien Bonnard) is a young man who has just moved to Montfermeil and joins the commune's anti-crime squad. Put on the same team as Chris (Alexis Manenti) and Gwada (Djibril Zonga), two men of unconventional methods, he soon finds himself involved in the tension between the different gangs in the place.
23/04 (Saturday):
19h30: Conversation with Sandra Alves. Mediation by Allende Renck.
20h: Les Plages d'Agnes
(The beaches of Agnes)
Directed by: Agnes Varda
Year: 2011
Duration: 1h50min
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: With photographs, film fragments, interviews, and short performances, Varda composes an autobiography, on a journey from her childhood in Belgium to Paris, from discovering cinema to participating in the Nouvelle Vague, from marriage and children to life. after the death of Jacques Demy.
24/04 (Sunday):
19h30: Conversation with Andrey Lehnemann, film critic and newspaper columnist. Mediation by Allende Renck.
20h: Ascenseur for L'échafaud
(Lift to the scaffold)
Directed by: Louis Malle
Year: 1959
Duration: 1h33min
Genre: Police / Drama / Thriller
Synopsis: Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau) and her lover Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet) dream of being together and, for that, they hatch a plan to kill her husband. Julien murders the man, faking a suicide, and takes his things to the car. Soon he realizes he forgot his robe outside the window and decides to go back to get it. Trapped in the elevator, he recalls several clues that could incriminate him...
Start: 21/04/2022 20:00
End: 24/04/2022 22:00
Values: Free admission.
