CARTE NOIRE IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2014

The 2014 Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival ran from November 19th to 30th 2014. Festival guests included director Pascale Ferran and film historian Antoine de Baecque.

LES COMBATTANTS

This film was released on Friday 19th June 2015 and is no longer screening. Following the death of their father, Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) agrees to help his brother with the…

Thursday 20th Nov 2014 14.00|18.30 Wednesday 1st Jun 2011

Maxime (Vincent Macaigne) returns to live with his father (Bernard Ménez) in Tonnerre (meaning ‘thunder’), a small town in the Burgundy region. With the young and pretty Mélodie, a journalist at the regional newspaper, Maxime finds love when…

Thursday 20th Nov 2014 20.45

Julien (Mathieu Amalric) and Esther (Stéphanie Cléau), both married to other people, indulge in an illicit sexual tryst. The affair leads to Julien being arrested and interrogated by the police, questioned for motives…

Friday 21st Nov 2014 19.15 Monday 24th Nov 2014 18.30

TWO IN THE WAVE

Two in the Wave is the story of a true friendship that goes awry. Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut meet in 1950: they go to the same cinema clubs, write for the same…

Friday 21st Nov 2014 21.15

FRENCH NEW WAVE AND CINEPHILIA (FREE EVENT)

We are delighted that Antoine de Baecque will share a one-hour conversation with Dr. Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Literature, UCD. The IFI would like to thank at MK2: Margot…

Saturday 22nd Nov 2014 12.00

MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

Antoine de Baecque will introduce this screening. Even though it was a considerable public and critical disappointment when it came out in 1969, it is one of Truffaut’s most beautiful films: secretive, intimate,…

Saturday 22nd Nov 2014 13.30

IF YOU DON’T, I WILL

Amidst a schedule of art openings, sessions with their personal trainer, social events and hiking, middle-aged couple Pomme and Pierre spend their time bickering. During one of their woodland walks an argument erupts:…

Saturday 22nd Nov 2014 16.00

Director Pascale Ferran will participate in a postscreening Q&A. People commute in a transitory world – a no man’s land of anonymity. The crowd as an ant hill of activity, a microcosm. Student…

Saturday 22nd Nov 2014 18.15

LOVE IS THE PERFECT CRIME

Marc, a professor of literature, is known as a serial seducer. He lives in a mountain chalet with his hyper-stylish sister Marianne (Karin Viard). A few days after the disappearance of Barbara, his…

Saturday 22nd Nov 2014 21.00

LADY CHATTERLEY

Director Pascale Ferran will participate in a post-screening Q&A. Constance Chatterley’s everyday life, in a fascinating portrayal by Marina Hands, is dull and comfortable – the clock chimes, mealtime, walks in the park… Her…

Sunday 23rd Nov 2014 14.00

TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER…

This is possibly Godard’s richest film, brimming with the various experiments that so fascinated him during the mid-’60s. This examination of suburban evolution focuses on the so-called ‘shooting stars’, part-time prostitutes that sold their…

Sunday 23rd Nov 2014 17.15

GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (3D)

This screening will be introduced by artist Gerard Byrne. Jean-Luc Godard continues to do what he’s done for his entire career, fearlessly exploring the possibilities of cinema, while consistently provoking audiences, demanding a…

Sunday 23rd Nov 2014 19.00

Based on Cyril Gély’s play, this fictitious encounter compresses the extraordinary yet true circumstances of late 1944. Under Hitler’s orders, if Paris should fall to enemy hands then ‘only as a field of…

Sunday 23rd Nov 2014 20.15

Gare du Nord train station in Paris, middle-aged Daniel (superbly played by Olivier Rabourdin [Of Gods and Men]), approaches Marek (Kirill Emelyanov), a male prostitute from Eastern Europe. They stare at each other…

Monday 24th Nov 2014 20.20

SCHOOL OF BABEL

Please note: a panel discussion on issues of language acquisition and language learning will take place immediately after the screening. Speakers: Dr. Barbara OToole, Marino Institute of Education; Dr. Deirdre Kirwan,…

Tuesday 25th Nov 2014 18.15

EAT YOUR BONES + INUPILUK

Eat Your Bones focuses on ‘big’ Fred, returned home after serving 15 years in prison for stealing trucks. Jason, his younger half-brother is fascinated by him. On the eve of his baptism, Jason…

Tuesday 25th Nov 2014 20.30

THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

Purporting to be the account of a real life incident when the controversial author went AWOL on a book tour, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq features Michel Houellebecq playing Michel Houellebecq, who is…

Wednesday 26th Nov 2014 18.30

We are delighted to announce that Laurent Lafitte will attend this screening. Muriel Bayen (Sandrine Kiberlain), a beautician and divorced mother, leads an orderly daily life and an active fantasy life. For…

Wednesday 26th Nov 2014 20.30

FOOL CIRCLE + THE LIZARDS (DOUBLE BILL)

We are delighted to be joined by Laurent Lafitte at this screening. ‘I’m calling you to bring you good news: dad is dead!’ Léon (Laurent Lafitte) and Bruno (Vincent Macaigne),…

Thursday 27th Nov 2014 18.15

Following 2010’s Copacabana, Marc Fitoussi works again with Isabelle Huppert (Brigitte) who with husband Xavier (a wonderful Jean-Pierre Darroussin), farms beef in Normandy. After encountering handsome young Parisian Stan (Pio Marmaï) at a…

Thursday 27th Nov 2014 20.30

Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde), a tax inspector travelling in provincial France, misses his train back to Paris. He asks Sylvie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) whom he meets in a café, to recommend a hotel. Striking up…

Friday 28th Nov 2014 18.15

Timbuktu is overtaken by jihadists, who are heavily armed and emboldened with indignant righteousness. They insist women cover up visible flesh, and clamp down by banning music, smoking, football and laughter, while improvised courts…

Friday 28th Nov 2014 20.30

LI’L QUINQUIN

Small-town life near Calais is disrupted when a chopped-up body is discovered inside a dead cow in a desolate WWII bunker. Inspector Van der Weyden, riddled with nervous ticks, and his sluggish, philosophical…

Saturday 29th Nov 2014 12.00

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON

The last film in the Six Moral Tales is an opportunity for Rohmer to use the full powers of the imagination. Initially he develops the theme of the double life; can we love…

Saturday 29th Nov 2014 16.00

THE YELLOW EYES OF THE CROCODILES

Director Cécile Telerman will participate in a post-screening Q&A. Forty-something, beautiful and rich, Iris lives an easy, empty Parisian life. Exploiting her kindly lawyer husband, she fills her days lunching or sweating in…

Saturday 29th Nov 2014 18.00

MINUSCULE: VALLEY OF THE LOST ANTS

A summer’s day. A peaceful clearing in the country. It’s hard to imagine the frenetic battle that will ensue after a young couple run to shelter from a storm, leaving…

Sunday 30th Nov 2014 11.00

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Alain Resnais Tribute and Marguerite Duras Centenary: Special Screening Introduced by Dr. Brigitte Le Juez, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, DCU and President of the Comparative Literature…

Sunday 30th Nov 2014 16.00