Spring cinema season on the theme of life course
In collaboration with the film-clubs of UNIL and EPFL and the National Film Archive, the NCCR LIVES organises a series of screenings during the Spring 2014. The launching will take place at the movie-theater Le Capitole in Lausanne on February 26. The following sessions will happen alternately at UNIL and EPFL. LIVES researchers will be present to stimulate debate. See the full list of movies. FREE ENTRY
PROGRAMME
- Wednesday 26 February – 20:30 (cocktail from 19:30)
Movie-theater Le Capitole, Lausanne
Mr. Nobody
Belgium, France, Canada, Germany – 2009 – 139’ – original English version with French subtitles
By Jaco van Dormael
Starring Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger
Nemo (Jared Leto), last human being to die of natural causes, remembers his pasts. Actually following an emotional trauma, the main character seems to have taken several paths, which led him to different places and kinds of existence.
Introduction to the theme of life course: Laura Bernardi, NCCR LIVES Deputy Director - Wednesday 5 March – 17:30
UNIL Unithèque 4215
The Ballad of Narayama
Japan – 1983 – 130’ – original Japanese version with French subtitles
By Shohei Inamura
Starring Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Takejo Aki, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki
A 69-year old woman must resign herself to follow the tradition of climbing the Narayama - the "oak mountain" - in order to die up there. She is however still in very good shape...
Discussant : Dario Spini, NCCR LIVES Director - Wednesday 12 March – 17:30
EPFL Polydôme
Big Fish
USA – 2003 – 125’ – original American version with French subtitles
By Tim Burton
Starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Marion Cotillard
A dying man tells his life in the form of bizarre and fairy tales to his son, who thinks he is a liar. But are these stories really lies? Here everything is a matter of imagination and proportions. - Wednesday 19 March – 17:30
UNIL Unithèque 4215
Story of the cat and the moon (animation)
Portugal – 1995 – 6’ – French version
By Pedro Serrazina
A poem, a story of silence and complicity. Shadow and light, the call of the night, the moon for passion... The story of dreams that come true.
Lisboetas (documentary)
Portugal – 2004 – 100’ – Portuguese version with English subtitles
By Sérgio Tréfaut
A moving musical documentary on the immigration wave that changed Portugal at the turn of the century. "Lisboetas" is an open window on new realities: ways of life, rights, religious practices, identities. A journey to an unfamiliar city.
Discussant : Ana Barbeiro, LIVES PhD Student - Wednesday 26 March – 17:30
EPFL Polydôme
Murarz (short film)
Poland – 1973 – 18’ – original Polish version with French subtitles
By Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring Jozef Malesa
The movie shows the vision of a Polish man facing communism after Staline's death, period called "the destalinisation process". It tracks his hopes and his disillusionments, caused by the totalitarian regime and a will for emancipation.
Personnel
Poland – 1975 – 72’ – original Polish version with French subtitles
By Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring Juliusz Machulski, Michal Tarkowski, Wlodzimierz Borunski
Romek, a 17-year old youngster, is hired as a taylor in an opera house. Through his eyes we take a look behind the scenes. A good exemple where Kieslowski re-create reality, fiction becoming the perfect loophole to show life and its foibles, without risking to really confront it. - Wednesday 2 April – 17:30
UNIL Unithèque 4215
Sean (documentary – short film)
USA – 1970 – 14’ - original American version
Following Sean (documentary)
USA – 2005 – 87’ - original American version with French subtitles
By Ralph Arlyck
Starring Ralph Arlyck, Sean Farrell
In 1969 in San Francisco, Ralph Arlyck films a little 4-year old kid. Sean talks about his daily life in a hippie family, surrounded by people hooked on amphetamines. Thirty years later, the film director traces back the boy and shoots the man he has become. But things have turned out differently than expected.
Discussant : Pierre Bataille, LIVES PhD Student - Wednesday 9 April – 17:30
EPFL Polydôme
Four Friends
USA – 1981 – 115’ - original American version with French subtitles
By Arthur Penn
Starring Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Jim Metzler, Tom Donaldson, Michael Huddleston, Reed Birney, Julia Murray, Elizabeth Lawrence
"Four Friends" is the story, sometimes funny sometimes tragic, of Georgia and her three buddies. All are in love with her and choose different ways to seduce her, thus impacting their own life course. - Wednesday 16 April - 17:30
UNIL Unithèque 4215
Dayereh (The Circle)
Iran, Italy, Switzerland – 2000 – 90’ – original Persian version with French subtitles
By Jafar Pahani
Starring Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryiam Parvin Almani, Mojgan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, Monir Arab
The movie is about three former female prisoners's fate in Tehran. It addresses these women's difficulties, as they are subjected to the hierarchy and the rules of the Iranian society, which are symbolised by access or denied access to different areas of the city.
Discussant : Hannah Klaas, LIVES PhD Student - Wednesday 30 April – 17:30
EPFL Polydôme
Monty Python: The Meaning of Life
USA – 1983 – 107’ - original American version with French subtitles
By Terry Jones
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Old employees of an insurance company rebel against junior newcomers who subjugate them. That is the opening scene of this crazy satire on life, from birth to death, through religion, mariage, and war... - Wednesday 7 May – 19 :00
La Grange de Dorigny
Screening of the short films and award ceremony of the Haut & Court film competition - Wednesday 14 May – 17:30 Presented by the film director
UNIL Unithèque 4215
Rodicas (documentary)
Germany – 2012 – 53’ – original English version with English subtitles
By Alice Gruia
Starring Rodica Gruia, Rodica Grill
After having immigrated to Sydney, Rodica Gruia and Rodica Grill became close friends. Both in their nineties, they live amazingly active lifes, alway chatting, shopping and going out to coffee shops or to the gym like teenagers. Two destinies full of spirit, energy and wisdom. - Wednesday 21 May – 17:30
EPFL Polydôme
Angst Essen Seele auf
Germany – 1974 – 89’ - original German version with French subtitles
By Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann
Emmi, a widowed cleaning lady aged more than 60, and Ali, a Morrocan immigrant twenty years younger than her, fall in love in Germany during the Sixties. Violent bias against them will soon produce effects...
Discussant : Stephanie Glaeser, LIVES PhD Student - Wednesday 28 May – 17:30
UNIL Unithèque 4215
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (documentary)
Great Britain – 2005 – 110’ - original British version with French subtitles
By Jeff Feuerzeig
Starring Daniel Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Bill Johnston
Portrait combining archives and recent images of Daniel Johnston, who was an American damned artist, songwriter and cartoonist suffering from manic depression.