Renoir
Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift – her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with tears but with placid curiosity about […]
L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche (The Stranger of the Great Arch)
In 1983, François Mitterrand decided to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his presidency: the Grande Arche de la Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe! To everyone’s surprise, Otto von Spreckelsen, a professor in Copenhagen, won the competition. Overnight, this 53-year-old, unknown in France, arrived in Paris […]
In a Lonely Place
Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history. Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) and his neighbour Laurel (Gloria […]
