Literary screenings
Cinéma Public and Les petites productions are teaming up again this autumn to present two screenings hosted by Montreal authors Évelyne de la Chenelière and Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette. These two evenings are an opportunity to immerse yourself in the cinephilia of these key literary figures. Évelyne will comment on the first film in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, which plunges us through the eyes of a child into the daily life of a modest family in rural Bengal in the 1920s. Anaïs, for her part, will present Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, a film that brings together desire, freedom and the power of art, both in its meaning and in its form.
The project poster was designed by Alice Dubois.
Champ libre: Évelyne de la Chenelière
Pather Panchali
A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him.
Satyajit Ray
India
language: Bengali
subtitles: French
110 min
Champ libre: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma.
Céline Sciamma
France
language: French
119 min min
