Tickets: https://franciaintezet.jegy.hu/
HUF 1 000 (Free with IF PASS)
17h15 - Band of Outsiders
Crime, b&w, 1964, FR, 95’ | dir: Jean-Luc Godard | French, English with HUN and ENG subtitles
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Written by Dolores Hitchens
Screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard
Director of photography: Raoul Coutard
Music by Michel Legrand
Cast: Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Anna Karina
Here, Godard takes the gangster film or heist genre, ‘disassembles’ it and then rebuilds it, naturally in his own image. Franz and Arthur, two gangster movie fans, are attracted to the cute Odile, more particularly when she mentions that her aunt has a pile of money stashed away in her house. The guys along with the reluctant girl start planning the robbery. Band of Outsiders complete with its iconic dance scene and race around the Louvre is a dark and yet playful classic of French Nouvelle Vague.
The screening will be introduced by film critic Varró Attila and followed by a round table discussion ‘Cult film or classic film? Bande à part, yesterday and today’ with Baski Sándor, Margitházi Beja and Varró Attila.
20:15 - Origins of the French New Wave: Avant-Garde Shorts
Film selection, FR, 92’ | French with HU and ENG subtitles
Love Exists, 1961, 19’ | dir: Maurice Pialat
A Story of Water, 1958, 12’ | dir: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard
Fool’s Mate, 1956, 27’ | dir: Jacques Rivette
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend, 1958, 13’ | dir: Jean-Luc Godard
All the Memory in the World, 1956, 21’ | dir: Alain Resnais
Before their landmark feature films, Maurice Pialat, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Alain Resnais were already experimenting with form, tone, and subject in these early short films produced by Pierre Braunberger, who helped launch several key figures of the French New Wave. L’Amour existe (Pialat) offers a melancholic and lyrical - yet critical - portrait of life in the Parisian suburbs, while Une Histoire d’eau (Truffaut and Godard) explores the outskirts of the capital with a romantic and playful touch. Le Coup du berger (Rivette) and Charlotte et son Jules (Godard) reveal the ironies of modern relationships, while Toute la mémoire du monde (Resnais) presents a dazzling formal study of the National Library as a metaphor for mechanized knowledge. Set in the streets or behind apartment walls, and through the use lightweight cameras, natural lighting, and bold editing, these shorts rethink cinematic language and reflect the changing face of postwar France, from urban developments and consumer culture to evolving human relationships. They reveal the first sketches of a cinematic revolution.
The screening will be introduced by Laurence Braunberger, director of the production company Les Films du Jeudi.