Cinéclub: LES ORGUEILLEUX
March 4, 2009
CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre presents an evening with
Le Cinéclub de Montréal: «THE FILM SOCIETY»
Event: Screening of LES ORGUEILLEUX (1953) – plus short La Jetté.
Date: Wednesday, March 4th, 2009, 7:30pm
Tickets: A one evening Film Society membership is only $8. $6 for students (with ID) and seniors (65+). Available at the Segal Centre box office and Admission.com. Seating limited. Call the Segal Centre in adv. for tickets: 514-739-7944.
Address: CinemaSpace, 5170 Cote St. Catherine, corner Westbury. 2 blocks West of Métro Côte-Sainte-Catherine.
LA JETTÉ – (1962, U.S.A., 28 min.) Dir.: Chris Marker. Imagine a film about time travel and World War Three made up entirely of B&W photos that still has tremendous impact today, and you have a director that has achieved the near impossible. This challenging poetic film was “remade” by Terry Gilliam in 1995 as TWELVE MONKEYS. LA JETTÉ is another bit of essential viewing for fans of film history best viewed on our large screen. In French with English subtitles.
LES ORGUEILLEUX (1953, France, 105 min.) Directed by: Yves Allegret. Two of the biggest and most respected names of French cinema play the leads in this tense dramatic thriller shot entirely in the sweaty heat of Mexico. Nelly, (Michele Morgan) arrives in a remote Mexican town with her sick husband who dies a short while later. Now left alone, she has also lost her money and travel tickets. She is drawn to a scruffy drunk named Georges (Gerard Philipe) who, she discovers, is an expatriate doctor who never recovered from the tragic death of his wife. Can they save the town from being consumed by a deadly epidemic? Can they save themselves from each other? The on-screen chemistry between the two leads is mesmerising as they play out a gritty romance unlike anything seen in European films at the time.
A constant foreboding atmosphere, fluid camera work and a realistic setting draws the viewer into the heart of the danger. Two stand out scenes include Nelly’s painful inoculation from the virus and penniless Georges’ humiliating dance for a bottle of hard liquor. All part of a not-to-be missed film. In French with English subtitles.
Le Cinéclub de Montréal «The Film Society» events take place every second Wednesday, and are a co-production of Le Cinéclub de Montréal «The Film Society» and CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. To be on our mailing list, please email esoiferman@segalcentre.org
Le Cinéclub de Montréal: «THE FILM SOCIETY»
Event: Screening of LES ORGUEILLEUX (1953) – plus short La Jetté.
Date: Wednesday, March 4th, 2009, 7:30pm
Tickets: A one evening Film Society membership is only $8. $6 for students (with ID) and seniors (65+). Available at the Segal Centre box office and Admission.com. Seating limited. Call the Segal Centre in adv. for tickets: 514-739-7944.
Address: CinemaSpace, 5170 Cote St. Catherine, corner Westbury. 2 blocks West of Métro Côte-Sainte-Catherine.
LA JETTÉ – (1962, U.S.A., 28 min.) Dir.: Chris Marker. Imagine a film about time travel and World War Three made up entirely of B&W photos that still has tremendous impact today, and you have a director that has achieved the near impossible. This challenging poetic film was “remade” by Terry Gilliam in 1995 as TWELVE MONKEYS. LA JETTÉ is another bit of essential viewing for fans of film history best viewed on our large screen. In French with English subtitles.
LES ORGUEILLEUX (1953, France, 105 min.) Directed by: Yves Allegret. Two of the biggest and most respected names of French cinema play the leads in this tense dramatic thriller shot entirely in the sweaty heat of Mexico. Nelly, (Michele Morgan) arrives in a remote Mexican town with her sick husband who dies a short while later. Now left alone, she has also lost her money and travel tickets. She is drawn to a scruffy drunk named Georges (Gerard Philipe) who, she discovers, is an expatriate doctor who never recovered from the tragic death of his wife. Can they save the town from being consumed by a deadly epidemic? Can they save themselves from each other? The on-screen chemistry between the two leads is mesmerising as they play out a gritty romance unlike anything seen in European films at the time.
A constant foreboding atmosphere, fluid camera work and a realistic setting draws the viewer into the heart of the danger. Two stand out scenes include Nelly’s painful inoculation from the virus and penniless Georges’ humiliating dance for a bottle of hard liquor. All part of a not-to-be missed film. In French with English subtitles.
Le Cinéclub de Montréal «The Film Society» events take place every second Wednesday, and are a co-production of Le Cinéclub de Montréal «The Film Society» and CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. To be on our mailing list, please email esoiferman@segalcentre.org
