CARTE NOIRE IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2013

The 2013 Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival ran from November 20th to December 1st 2013. Special guests included actress Emmanuelle Devos, director Arnaud Desplechin, and documentarian Nicolas Philibert.

Festival guests director Jérôme Bonnell and actress Emmanuelle Devos will be in attendance at the screening and will participate in a Q&A with David O Mahony of Access Cinema. Taking an early morning…

Wednesday 20th Nov 2013 20.00

JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN

Festival guest director Arnaud Desplechin will participate in a Q&A after the screening on Thursday, November 21st with John Maguire, Film critic & feature writer for The Sunday Business Post.…

Thursday 21st Nov 2013 20.45 Saturday 23rd Nov 2013 16.15

KINGS AND QUEEN

Emmanuelle Devos will participate in a post-screening Q&A with journalist and film critic Paul Whittington. Novel-like in structure as well as scope, Kings and Queen is an ingenious, sprawling chronicle of the seemingly…

Thursday 21st Nov 2013 18.00

ARNAUD DESPLECHIN MASTERCLASS: WORKING WITH ACTORS

We are delighted to announce that Arnaud Desplechin will be hosting a masterclass during the Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival. Arnaud Desplechin won the Jean Vigo Short Film Prize with his…

Friday 22nd Nov 2013 11.00

Adapted from Rachel Cusk's book Arlington Park, Isabelle Czajka’s film portrays the quotidian obligations of a group of suburban housewives and mothers. Juliette (Emmanuelle Devos) and family have recently relocated,…

Friday 22nd Nov 2013 21.10 Saturday 23rd Nov 2013 14.00

A CHRISTMAS TALE

Arnaud Desplechin will take part in a post-screening Q&A hosted by filmmaker Michael Kinirons. A kind of sibling to Kings and Queen, A Christmas Tale is an inspired portrayal of the fractured Vuillard…

Friday 22nd Nov 2013 18.00

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR

Detailing the life of a young woman coming to terms with her sexuality from her later school years into the start of her adult working life, Abdellatif Kechiche’s adaptation of Julie Maroh’s graphic novel…

Friday 22nd Nov 2013 20.00

While on her summer holiday with her family, beautiful Isabelle loses her virginity. An experience which leaves her cold. She wants something more and takes to prostitution, becoming addicted to…

Saturday 23rd Nov 2013 18.45

MA MAMAN EST EN AMÉRIQUE, ELLE A RENCONTRÉ BUFFALO BILL

The Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival links up with the IFI Family programme this month for a French animation based on the best-selling children’s book of the same name.…

Sunday 24th Nov 2013 11.00 Saturday 30th Nov 2013 11.00

BLAME IT ON VOLTAIRE

Abdellatif Kechiche impressed from the beginning with this sprawling tale of a North African immigrant attempting to make a better life for himself in France. Admitted on a temporary visa,…

Sunday 24th Nov 2013 13.30

We are pleased to welcome Festival Guest Dr. Douglas Smith who will introduce this screening. Shot in the summer of 1960 by Raoul Coutard – renowned here for his work on Rocky Road…

Sunday 24th Nov 2013 16.30

MY BLUE-EYED GIRL

Several interrelated families are on holiday on the sunny Île de Ré, off France’s west coast. The assembled children, ranging widely in age, pass their lazy summer days with sailing, games of checkers, and explorations of the…

Sunday 24th Nov 2013 18.45

TOM AT THE FARM

The precocious Xavier Dolan, still just 24 years old (but with a phenomenal amount of awards and acclaim under his belt), moves into genre territory with his fourth feature, delivering…

Sunday 24th Nov 2013 20.45

Katell Quillévéré’s debut feature Love Like Poison saw her justly fêted as an exciting new voice in French cinema, and her second film confirms her promise. A moving, realist drama…

Monday 25th Nov 2013 20.45 Thursday 28th Nov 2013 16.15

Director Emmanuelle Bercot will participate in a Q&A with filmaker Conor Horgan after the screening on Saturday, November 30th. Catherine Deneuve relishes her central role in this offbeat road movie…

Tuesday 26th Nov 2013 18.30 Saturday 30th Nov 2013 16.00

Substitute teacher Baptiste (Pierre Rochefort), good at his job and popular with students, enjoys the freedom it affords him to relocate at will. When student Mathias, whose parents are divorced,…

Wednesday 27th Nov 2013 20.30 Thursday 28th Nov 2013 18.30

ME, MYSELF AND MUM

Actor-director Guillaume Gallienne’s adaptation of his own one-man hit stage show revisits his sexually confused youth and his complicated relationship with his mother (also played by Gallienne, convincing in full…

Wednesday 27th Nov 2013 18.30 Thursday 28th Nov 2013 20.45

Based on the pursuits of Olympic show jumping champion Pierre Durand, Jr., this rousing equestrian biopic from Quebecois director Christian Duguay focusses on the athlete’s relationship with his obstinate, but…

Friday 29th Nov 2013 20.40 Sunday 1st Dec 2013 16.10

LA MAISON DE LA RADIO

Director Nicolas Philibert will participate in a post-screening Q&A hosted by producer and journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain. Assembled to evoke a day in the life of the state broadcasting company, Radio…

Friday 29th Nov 2013 18.30

DOCUMENTEUR + INCIDENT URBAIN

For those unfamiliar with the work of gifted filmmaker Agnès Varda, Documenteur makes an ideal starting point given its poetic visual style and evocative sense of place. As with much of her work, Documenteur focusses on a…

Saturday 30th Nov 2013 13.00

Thierry de Peretti’s film, loosely based on real events, takes place in the seedy underbelly of sunny, tourist-friendly Corsica. After a group of teenagers treat themselves to a party in an unoccupied villa, their petty theft of…

Saturday 30th Nov 2013 18.30

CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915

Previously the subject of a biopic starring Isabelle Adjani, sculptor Camille Claudel is here portrayed by Juliette Binoche in the first instance of director Bruno Dumont working with an established…

Saturday 30th Nov 2013 20.30

THE LAST OF THE UNJUST

Dr. Joseph Cohen will introduce this screening. This astonishing documentary focusses on a series of interviews Lanzmann conducted in 1975 with Benjamin Murmelstein, a contentious figure appointed by the Nazis…

Sunday 1st Dec 2013 12.00

THE ENCLOSURE OF TIME + WHEELS AND REELS

The Enclosure of Time, winner of this year’s Prix Jean Vigo, is the eighth instalment in director Jean-Charles Fitoussi’s series of films in which chance plays a leading role. Here,…

Sunday 1st Dec 2013 18.45

At the core of this affecting drama are the exploits of Gary Manda (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet), a somewhat shady unskilled labourer desperate for cash, hastily employed at the film’s…

Sunday 1st Dec 2013 20.45