Outdoor screenings
Livart courtyard – 3980 St-Denis
From June 23 to August 29, Cinéma Public and Livart present Bleu soir, a series of screenings and events in the courtyard of the art centre. With this year’s Bring Your Own Wine formula, there’s no need to choose between the call of the terrace and that of the cinema!
International cinema
Two heartbroken Hong Kong policemen, both abandoned by former lovers, cross paths at the takeaway stand of the Midnight Express, where Faye, an ethereal, pixie-like waitress, works. Anything goes in Wong’s beautifully shot, totally unexpected film.
Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong
language: Cantonese, English
subtitles: French or English
98 min
Homegrown cinema
Elvis Gratton wins the Elvis Presley impersonation contest and a trip to Santa Banana. Back in Quebec, Elvis is determined to set our society’s moral standards straight.
Pierre Falardeau, Julien Poulin
Québec (Canada)
language: French, English
89 min
Event
Cinéma Public is delighted to welcome two programs from Festival Émergence de Montréal, for their 5th edition! In the privacy of your own home, each person has their own story to tell. Through the lens of the camera, we’ll travel to unfamiliar places, unexplored universes and, why not, inside your head?
Multiple directors
Québec (Canada)
64 min
Event
Cinéma Public is delighted to welcome two programs from Festival Émergence de Montréal, for their 5th edition! Ready to experience a range of emotions, the artists fine-tune their choreography, get ready to perform… Let’s open the curtains and let the show begin.
Multiple filmmakers
Québec (Canada)
63 min
Homegrown cinema
Enticed by the idea of staging the Passion and embodying the character of Jesus, Daniel sets out to find actors willing to leave everything behind. Superimposed on the story of Christ is a discourse on consumer society, the creation of the universe and the meaning of life.
Denys Arcand
Québec (Canada), France
language: French, English
subtitles: English
120 min
International cinema
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. Le bonheur examines the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
Agnès Varda
France
language: French
subtitles: English
80 min
International cinema
Twins Delphine and Solange yearn for big-city life. When a fair passes through their quiet harbour town, the chance to escape opens up.
Jacques Demy
France
language: French, English
subtitles: English
126 min
Cinéma international
Lou, a somewhat misanthropic gym manager, falls in love with Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder chasing her dream. But their love unleashes violence, dragging them into a life of crime. A lightning-quick film that’s off the beaten track.
Rose Glass
United Kingdom, United States
language: English
subtitles: French
104 min
International cinema
A world both familiar and strange emerges from a series of vignettes woven around a pair of would-be lovers: Richard, a single shoe salesman, and Christine, a lonely video artist.
Miranda July
United States, United Kingdom
language: English
subtitles: French
85 min
International cinema
A full moon, a New York night, love and music in the air… Loretta, a down-on-her-luck accountant in love, finds her feelings about her engagement to the staid Johnny questioned after she meets his brother Ronny, and a night at the opera changes everything.
Norman Jewison
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
102 min
International cinema
Five cities. Five cabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Five transitory tales of urban travel and existential angst. Crossing time zones, continents and languages, Night on Earth moves through scenes of hilarious comedy, nocturnal poetry and dark fatalism.
Jim Jarmusch
United Kingdom, France, Germany
language: English, French, Italian, Finnish, German
subtitles: French
129 min
International cinema
Three drag queens are scheduled to perform at a cabaret on the other side of the country. Between them and their hotel lies the desert, immense and barren…
Stephan Elliott
Australia
language: English
subtitles: French
104 min
