In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark forest
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Laura Mulvey presents: her selection on LaCinetek
Theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey - best known for her work on the notion of the male gaze - has chosen a selection of films that have made a difference to her. This exceptional carte blanche is being organised to coincide with the Close-up dedicated to her at Bozar.
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Director of the month: Albert Serra
Spanish film director, born in Banyoles (Catalonia) in 1975.
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Tribute to Laurent Cantet
It is with great sorrow that LaCinetek pays tribute to Laurent Cantet, who passed away yesterday, Thursday 25 April, at the age of 63. Audiences have lost a great filmmaker, LaCinetek one of its founders and, above all, a very dear friend.
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Director of the month: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Japanese director, born in 1978 in Kanagawa Prefecture
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Director of the month: John Cameron Mitchell
American director and actor, born 1963 in El Paso (USA).
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Selection of the month: Medicine
"Believing in medicine would be the supreme madness if not believing in it were not an even greater one."
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Selection of the month: Investigations
"Just because a problem hasn't been solved doesn't mean it can't be solved."
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Marcello Mastroianni Retrospective
A scream: "Marcello, come here!"; an eternal fountain; then a strange silence. With La Dolce Vita, the myth of the seductive Mastroianni was born. Yet Marcello Mastroianni cultivated the art of contrast. An artist of oxymorons, a gentle provocateur with a melancholic lightness, he eludes any hasty categorisation: An awkward young father in Big Deal on Madonna Street, a vulnerable husband in Handsome Antonio, enigmatic in Antonioni's films, with multiple personalities in Ruiz's, and even pregnant in A Slightly Pregnant…
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Director of the month : Dominik Moll
French director and screenwriter, born in 1962 in Germany.
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Selection of the month : Beyond the clouds
"I see skies of blue, And clouds of white… And I think to myself, What a wonderful world."
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Director of the month : Peter Handke
Writer, playwright and director, born in Austria in 1942.
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Director of the month: Xavier Beauvois
Former resident of the Villa Medici in Rome, Xavier Beauvois taught himself cinema under the aegis of Jean Douchet.
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Director of the month: Rebecca Zlotowski
Rebecca Zlotowski is a French director, born in 1980 in Paris.
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Director of the month: Arthur Harari
Arthur Harari is a French director, born in 1981 in Paris.
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Selection of the month: Metamorphosis
This month, LaCinetek celebrates the art of the enchantress Circe, capable of changing bodies into others.
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Director of the month: Saeed Roustaee
Saeed Roustaee is an Iranian director, born in Tehran in 1989.
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Director of the month: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Lucile Hadzihalilovic, daughter of a Bosnian father and a French mother, grew up near the ocean in Morocco, as well as in the forest of the Vosges region in France.
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Selection of the month: It's a celebration!
In December, LaCinetek prepares the end of year festivities!