WHAT'S ON - 17/05/2012

• CAFÉ DE FLORE

  Emotive material, full-on performances and jaw-dropping cinematic bravura lift this latest from French-Canadian maverick Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.) to lofty heights of accomplishment. Is the love of our lives a once-only experience? That’s the question seemingly linking two disparate story threads. [...]

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  Times: 14.40|16.50|21.00

  

• CHARLIE CASANOVA

  Terry McMahon’s debut feature is an excoriating portrait of an entitled sociopath who, after running over a working-class girl, decides to remove himself from the constraints imposed by society and leave all his major choices to a deck of cards, [...]

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  Times: 17.00|21.00

  

• DAMSELS IN DISTRESS

  American cinema’s most urbane talent, writer-director Whit Stillman returns from a 13-year hiatus with this delightful fable of campus lives and loves. As new arrival Lily (Analeigh Tipton, from TV reality show America’s Next Top Model!) faces the challenge of [...]

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  Times: 15.00|19.00

  

• GOODBYE FIRST LOVE

  Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve confirms the promise of Father of My Children with this elegantly turned, thoroughly perceptive rites-of-passage story. When we first meet Camille (Lola Créton) she’s 15, waiting for her teenage lover Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), and convinced she’ll die [...]

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  Times: 16.10

  

• MONSIEUR LAZHAR

  The film which swept Canada’s end-of-year Genie Awards is an affecting chronicle of loss and acceptance. Children and staff at a Montreal primary school are numbed by the suicide of a much-loved teacher, and her unlikely replacement is a kindly [...]

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  Times: 14.15|20.50

  

• SUBMARINE + JOE DUNTHORNE Q&A

  Following his appearance at ‘Words on the Street: European Literature Night‘ on May 16th and in collaboration with the British Council, the IFI is delighted to welcome acclaimed author Joe Dunthorne on May 17th (18.20). He will introduce [...]

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  Times: 18.20

  

• THE MONK

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  A classic of Gothic literature, Matthew Gregory Lewis’ 1796 shocker The Monk was the first to depict a villainous priest as the central character. Although Luis Buñuel was stymied in his efforts to film it, he would [...]

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  Times: 19.00

  

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