Films in Summer in France

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  • La Grande Illusion
  • Jean Renoir

  • Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece returns in a stunning new digital restoration.

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  • The Rules of the Game introduced by Norman Wilner

  • NOW Magazine's Norman Wilner joins us to introduce the screening of The Rules of the Game.

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  • French Cancan
  • Jean Renoir

  • An eye-popping digital restoration of Jean Renoir's vibrant, high-kicking account of the founding of the Moulin Rouge in 1880s Paris.

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  • Army of Shadows
  • L'Armée des ombres
  • Jean-Pierre Melville

  • Film noir master Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece is a tense, gripping portrayal of honour and betrayal in the clandestine world of the French Resistance during the Nazi Occupation.

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  • Remorques
  • Stormy Waters
  • Jean Grémillon

  • A taciturn sea captain (Jean Gabin) falls into a passionate affair with a mysterious woman (Michèle Morgan) in this classic from neglected French master Jean Grémillon.

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  • Lumière d'été
  • Summer Light
  • Jean Grémillon

  • Often compared to The Rules of the Game, Jean Grémillon's influential masterwork examines the uneasy and finally explosive interactions between a group of corrupt, high-society carousers and a crew of workers over a long weekend at a country manor.

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  • Le Quai des brumes
  • Port of Shadows
  • Marcel Carné

  • A new digital restoration of Marcel Carné's doom-haunted masterpiece, about an army deserter (Jean Gabin) trying to flee from the fog-shrouded port city of Le Havre.

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  • Diabolique
  • Henri-Georges Clouzot

  • Henri-Georges Clouzot's deliciously dark tale of two women who conspire to murder their mutual paramour features one of the most famous and terrifying endings in cinema history.

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  • Les Enfants du paradis
  • Children of Paradise
  • Marcel Carné

  • Often considered to be France's answer to Gone With the Wind, Marcel Carné's sweeping romantic epic focuses on a love quadrangle set amidst the boisterous theatrical world of Paris in the 1840s.

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  • Le Plaisir
  • Max Ophüls

  • Chosen by Jean-Luc Godard as the best film made in postwar France, Max Ophüls' trio of de Maupassant tales features a dream cast headed by Jean Gabin and Danielle Darrieux.

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  • La Bandera
  • Julien Duvivier

  • Julien Duvivier's feverishly fatalistic drama shifts from Paris to Barcelona to sun-scorched Morocco, as a man on the run (Jean Gabin) tries to escape his past by joining the Spanish Foreign Legion.

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  • The 400 Blows
  • Les Quatre cents coups
  • François Truffaut

  • François Truffaut's autobiographical first feature, chronicling the misadventures of a twelve-year-old delinquent hero (the unforgettable Jean-Pierre Léaud), was an international sensation and a clarion call for the emerging French New Wave.

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  • Small Change
  • L'Argent de poche
  • François Truffaut

  • The first Toronto screening in well over a decade of François Truffaut's poetic comedy about the daily delights, passions and travails of children in provincial France.

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  • Belle de Jour
  • Luis Buñuel

  • A beautiful young housewife (Catherine Deneuve) satisfies her masochistic fantasies by working as a daytime prostitute in Luis Buñuel's chic, shocking and wittily surreal comedy.

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  • Jules et Jim
  • François Truffaut

  • François Truffaut's exuberant, sublimely romantic account of two best friends (Oskar Werner and Henri Serre) and their decades-long love triangle with the bewitching Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) is one of the most beloved classics of the French New Wave.

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  • The Bride Wore Black
  • La Mariée était en noir
  • François Truffaut

  • A vengeful woman (Jeanne Moreau) hunts down the five men who caused her husband's accidental death in François Truffaut's devilishly elegant homage to Hitchcock.

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  • L' Enfance nue
  • Naked Childhood
  • Maurice Pialat

  • Maurice Pialat's masterful feature debut follows in the hallowed tradition of Truffaut's The 400 Blows with its raw, intense portrait of a troubled adolescent shunted through a series of foster homes.

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  • La Peau douce
  • The Soft Skin
  • François Truffaut

  • The affair between a married, middle-aged magazine editor and an entrancing young stewardess turns fatal in François Truffaut's masterwork of erotic obsession.

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  • La Femme infidèle
  • The Unfaithful Wife
  • Claude Chabrol

  • Unavailable in Canada for more than three decades, Claude Chabrol's suspenseful, wryly perverse classic recounts the murderous consequences when a bored housewife drifts into an afternoon affair.

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  • Le Feu follet
  • The Fire Within
  • Louis Malle

  • A suicidal, alcoholic playboy makes his final rounds of friends, family and lovers in Louis Malle's masterful adaptation of the famous novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.

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  • Le Pont du Nord
  • Jacques Rivette

  • An ex-con (Bulle Ogier) and her leather-jacketed angel-protector (Pascale Ogier) chase and are chased through Paris on a scary treasure hunt in Jacques Rivette's paranoid, enigmatic and gloriously cinephilic thriller.

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  • Céline et Julie vont en bateau
  • Celine and Julie Go Boating
  • Jacques Rivette

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  • Breathless
  • À Bout de souffle
  • Jean-Luc Godard

  • One of the most famous debuts in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's jazzy, virtuosic masterpiece about a small-time hoodlum on the run (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his blithely treacherous American girlfriend (Jean Seberg) brought about a revolution in film form and style.

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  • Vivre sa vie
  • My Life to Live
  • Jean-Luc Godard

  • Jean-Luc Godard's brilliantly Brechtian tale of a young woman (Anna Karina) gradually sliding into prostitution is one of the glories of the French New Wave.

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  • 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
  • Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle
  • Jean-Luc Godard

  • In one of his greatest films, Jean-Luc Godard uses the slim story of a young wife and mother who works afternoons as a prostitute as a springboard for a dazzling cinematic essay on materialism, contemporary alienation and the changing face of Paris.

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  • Pierrot le fou
  • Jean-Luc Godard

  • A bored novelist (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his beautiful, treacherous babysitter/mistress (Anna Karina) become embroiled in a seamy stew of guns, drugs and dirty money in Jean-Luc Godard's gloriously apocalyptic salute to amour fou.

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  • Le Combat dans l'île
  • Alain Cavalier

  • This buried treasure of '60s French cinema segues from politically-charged thriller to tenderly affecting romance as a young woman (the gorgeous Romy Schneider) discovers that her jealous and abusive husband (Jean-Louis Trintignant) has become embroiled with a shadowy, right-wing paramilitary group.

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  • Weekend introduced by Piers Handling

  • TIFF's Director & CEO introduces TIFF Cinematheque's screening of Jean-Luc Godard's horrifying and hilarious apocalyptic comedy.

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  • Last Year at Marienbad
  • L'Année dernière à Marienbad
  • Alain Resnais

  • In an otherworldly hotel, a mysterious man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair a year before ("at Marienbad — or was it Fredericksbad?") in Alain Resnais' eternally enigmatic and immensely influential masterwork.

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  • Muriel
  • Muriel, ou Le Temps d'un retour
  • Alain Resnais

  • A middle-aged widow reunites with her ex-lover and her stepson, who is haunted by a terrible event he witnessed during the Algerian War, in Alain Resnais' masterful meditation on time and memory.

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  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
  • Jacques Demy

  • The radiant young Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by Jacques Demy's exuberant, enthralling, and ever-enchanting musical classic.

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  • Cléo de 5 à 7
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Agnès Varda

  • A beautiful young pop singer spends two hours wandering through the summertime streets of Paris while awaiting a possibly fatal prognosis in this Nouvelle Vague masterpiece by Agnes Varda.

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  • Sans Soleil / La Jetée

  • Two masterful meditations on time and memory from the great Chris Marker.

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  • Van Gogh
  • Maurice Pialat

  • Maurice Pialat's brilliant, immensely moving depiction of the painter's last days was heralded as one of the best films of the 1990s.

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  • Le Rayon vert
  • Summer
  • Eric Rohmer

  • Unseen in Toronto for almost two decades, Eric Rohmer's marvellously funny and movingly humane comedy chronicles a young woman's desperate search for a companion to share her summer vacation in the south of France.

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  • The Mother and the Whore
  • La Maman et la putain
  • Jean Eustache

  • A narcissistic, would-be intellectual (Jean-Pierre Léaud) vacillates between two women in Jean Eustache's raw, intense and exhilaratingly excessive rumination on youthful disenchantment in the wake of May 1968.

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  • Eyes Without a Face
  • Les Yeux sans visage
  • Georges Franju

  • An unhinged scientist goes to gruesome lengths to repair the mutilated face of his beloved daughter in Georges Franju's hauntingly poetic horror masterpiece.

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  • Thomas the Imposter
  • Thomas L'Imposteur
  • Georges Franju

  • A young man with an exceedingly weak grasp on the divide between fiction and reality is thrown into the maelstrom of World War I in this essential and very rare classic by Georges Franju.

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  • Mademoiselle
  • Tony Richardson

  • Jean Genet wrote the script for this delectably depraved tale about a sadomasochistic schoolmistress (Jeanne Moreau) in a provincial French town who meets her match in a lustful, itinerant Italian labourer.

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  • Playtime
  • Jacques Tati

  • Jacques Tati's immortal, inexhaustibly inventive comedy classic returns in a rare 70mm print.

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  • Thérèse Desqueyroux
  • Georges Franju

  • Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, mon amour) gives a superlative performance as a provincial woman who is driven to murderous lengths to escape from her suffocating marriage in Georges Franju's compelling adaptation of the novel by François Mauriac.

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  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
  • Louis Malle

  • Louis Malle's brilliant debut feature stars an impossibly glamorous Jeanne Moreau as an iron-willed adulterer who engineers the perfect murder to escape from her stifling marriage.

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