FRENCH FILM AT EMQUARTIER
The Clap! French Film Festival 2018 will take place this weekend at Quartier CineArt, EmQuartier. Hosted by La Fete and Major Cineplex, the festival presents a collection of nine titles — from arthouse dramas to animation and historical films — of the kind that have impressed the festival’s audiences for the past two years. The films in the programme are as follows:
Today, June 1 2:30pm Ballerina
This animated film tells the story of an orphan girl who flees her home in Brittany to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina.
4:30pm Personal Shopper
This acclaimed thriller was directed by Olivier Assayas and stars American actress Kristen Stewart as Maureen, a personal shopper for a Parisian model. Maureen is also a psychic who’s been waiting for supernatural contact from her dead twin brother.
7pm Faces Places
One of last year’s best films, Faces Places is a documentary by legendary French director Agnes Varda and street artist JR. Together, they roam rural France to take photos of small people and celebrate their livelihoods with photographic artworks.
Tomorrow 2:30pm The Little Prince
The animated film tells the story of a girl who reads the book version of The Little Prince and enters the fantastical world of the book.
5pm Lumiere!
This documentary puts together some of the first motion pictures ever filmed by the Lumiere brothers, inventors of the cinematograph, as well as from their cameramen, set to record scenes from around the world in the late 19th century.
7pm See You Up There
This French fairytale-like story takes place in 1918. Edouard survived the trench war, though badly disfigured, and he’s become known as a masked painter with a great artistic gift. He and his friend Albert plan a great con to fool high society.
June 3 The Red Turtle. 2:30pm The Red Turtle
A nearly wordless French-Dutch animated film tells the philosophical story of a man shipwrecked on a deserted island. One day, a red turtle visits him, and his life is changed forever.
5pm The Graduation
A documentary film chronicling the life of students at La Femis, France’s most famous and hard-to-get-into film school.
7pm Long Way North
In this hand-drawn animated film set in 1882, a young Russian aristocrat goes on an adventure to the North Pole to find out what happened to her grandfather and save her family’s reputation.