IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2012

The 2012 IFI French Film Festival ran from November 14th-25th 2012. Special guests included actresses Juliette Binoche and Béatrice Dalle, actor Reda Kateb, and filmmaker Benoit Jacquot.

One expects a new film from Michael Haneke to be a sober and harrowing piece, and while this holds true of Palme d’Or–winning Love, it is also uncommonly gentle, intensely moving,…

Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 19.30

CAMILLE REWINDS

Winner of the Prix SACD in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, writer-director Noémie Lvovsky also takes the lead in this enjoyable comedy, which echoes Francis Ford Coppola’s Peggy Sue Got Married…

Thursday 15th Nov 2012 18.20 Monday 19th Nov 2012 18.10

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET

Veteran Alain Resnais returns with this cheekily-titled film, reportedly his last, proving that at 89 he can still be as fresh and innovative as any tyro. Following the death of…

Thursday 15th Nov 2012 20.30

GRANNY’S FUNERAL

Premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, director Bruno Podalydès’ new film treats the topics of infidelity and death with a light touch that provides genuine laughter throughout. Denis Podalydès (who…

Friday 16th Nov 2012 18.10 Tuesday 20th Nov 2012 15.40

When 19-year-old servant Augustine (Soko, also appearing in this year’s programme in Bye Bye Blondie) suffers a grand mal seizure while working, she is immediately sent to Paris’ Salpetriere psychiatric…

Friday 16th Nov 2012 20.40

We regret to announce that due to unforseen circumstances, Béatrice Dalle will not be in attendance that this screening as published. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Showing here in…

Saturday 17th Nov 2012 14.30

BYE BYE BLONDIE

We regret to announce that due to unforseen circumstances, Béatrice Dalle will not be in attendance that this screening as published. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Director Virginie Despentes’…

Saturday 17th Nov 2012 18.10

What starts as a sweet love story between chef Yann (Guillaume Canet, also known as the director of films such as Tell No One and Little White Lies and waitress…

Saturday 17th Nov 2012 20.40

Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator with the Irish Museum of Modern Art will introduce the screening. Documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (Être et avoir) shows audiences what happens behind the scenes at…

Sunday 18th Nov 2012 14.00

Winner of the Special Jury Prize in this year’s Un Certain Regard at Cannes, the new film from the directors of Aaltra and Mammuth is a typically oddball comedy starring…

Sunday 18th Nov 2012 18.10 Thursday 22nd Nov 2012 15.40

YOU WILL BE MY SON

Niels Arestrup (A Prophet) plays distinguished vintner Paul de Marseul, reaching the end of his career and concerned about his successor, especially pressing given the terminal illness of his right-hand…

Sunday 18th Nov 2012 20.40

Actor Reda Kateb regrettably has had to cancel his appearance at the IFI on Nov 19th due to filming commitments. The screening will go ahead as normal. Apologies for any…

Monday 19th Nov 2012 20.40 Friday 23rd Nov 2012 15.40

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

In the tradition of Le Dîner de cons and Polanski’s Carnage, What’s in a Name? is an adaptation of a comic play to the cinema. When two couples meet for…

Tuesday 20th Nov 2012 20.40 Saturday 24th Nov 2012 13.00

Update: we regret to inform that Director Héléna Klotz will no longer be able to attend this screening. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We first meet Parisian hipsters Victor (Eliott Paquet) and…

Tuesday 20th Nov 2012 18.10

Aliyah is a slow-burning portrait of Jewish Alex (Pio Marmai), a low-level drug dealer caught between dreams of something better and the burdensome reality of family ties, especially elder brother…

Wednesday 21st Nov 2012 18.10

FAREWELL, MY QUEEN

Director Benoit Jacquot will be in attendance at the screening on November 23rd and will participate in a Q&A hosted by Conor Horgan. This event is organised in partnership with the Screen…

Wednesday 21st Nov 2012 15.40 Friday 23rd Nov 2012 18.10

LAURENCE ANYWAYS

Shown in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, where it won Best Actress for Suzanne Clément, 23-year-old writer-director Xavier Dolan’s third film shows a confidence and ambition unrivalled among his contemporaries. Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) is…

Wednesday 21st Nov 2012 20.00

Brian Finnegan, Editor of GCN will introduce this screening. In this intriguing documentary, filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz focuses on eleven gay men and women over the age of 70 as they talk about…

Thursday 22nd Nov 2012 18.10

STEP UP TO THE PLATE

Paul Lacoste’s impressive documentary is set over the course of a year in the Bras family’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant in the south of France. Father Michel, typically exacting, has decided to hand over the…

Thursday 22nd Nov 2012 20.40

Kad Merad (Welcome To The Sticks), in an idea coincidentally used by Woody Allen in the recent To Rome With Love, plays Martin, an entirely ordinary man who suddenly and inexplicably finds himself…

Friday 23rd Nov 2012 20.40 Sunday 25th Nov 2012 15.40

Dr Douglas Smith, Head of French and Francophone Studies, UCD School of Languages and Literatures will introduce this screening. Directed by Michael Haneke, whose new film Love opens this…

Saturday 24th Nov 2012 15.40

ANOTHER WOMAN’S LIFE

Actress Juliette Binoche will be in attendance for the screening on November 24th and partake in a Q&A hosted by John Maguire. The feature directorial debut of actress Sylvie Testud (Lourdes)…

Saturday 24th Nov 2012 18.10 Sunday 25th Nov 2012 18.10

The final film from director Alain Corneau (Tous les matins du monde), recently treated to an American remake courtesy of Brian De Palma, Love Crime is a thriller set in the world of…

Saturday 24th Nov 2012 20.40

IFI FAMILY: ERNEST AND CELESTINE

This screening will be introduced by Head of IFI Education, Alicia McGivern. The IFI French Film Festival 2012 joins the monthly IFI Family programme with an exclusive screening of this…

Sunday 25th Nov 2012 11.00

The first feature from Barbet Schroeder, founder of Les Films du Losange, follows graduate Stefan (Klaus Grünberg) as he hitch-hikes from Germany to Paris on the first step of a…

Sunday 25th Nov 2012 13.00

Actress Alice de Lencquesaing will be in attendance at this screening and will participate in a Q&A hosted by Margaret Corkery. This event is organised in partnership with the Screen Directors…

Sunday 25th Nov 2012 20.40