Bertrand Bonello - Programme 2 : musique, art et danse
This first Canadian retrospective of the cinema of Bertrand Bonello, co-presented with the FNC on the occasion of the premiere of his new film La bête, offers a glimpse into one of the most singular and inventive universes of contemporary auteur cinema. Many of the films on the program have never been seen before in Quebec.
My New Picture
[Fr., 2007, 42 min, num., VOA]
A woman, wearing headphones, listens to music. The viewer's eyes and ears share in this sensory experience through the mental images the music generates.
Cindy: the Doll is Mine
[Fr., 2005, 15 min, num., VOA]
A brunette and a blonde.
A photographer and her model.
Two women who look strangely alike...
Sarah Winchester, opéra fantôme
[Fr., 2016, 23 min, num., VOF]
An opera ballet that doesn’t exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both scenes. A musician is testing sounds in Bastille’s pit. The choir are taking their place in the rehearsal studio. Both sides are fine tuning the work in progress of an opera ballet: Sarah Winchester, her grief, her madness, her home and her ghosts.
Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand Bonello, born on September 11, 1981 in Nice, is a French director, producer, screenwriter and composer. A classically trained musician, he has accompanied many artists such as Françoise Hardy, Elliot Murphy, Gérald de Palmas or Daniel Darc. His first feature film, Quelque chose d'organique (1998), presented at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section, immediately placed him in the new generation of filmmakers seeking to untangle the skein of carnal and mental relationships. In 2011, the film L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close was released, a daring fiction about a brothel, with a prestigious cast for a limited budget, acclaimed by the press, in official competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. 2014 was the filmmaker's banner year. After the success of L'Apollonide, Bonello was commissioned by the producer brothers Eric and Nicolas Altmayer to direct a biographical film about the famous fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. Saint Laurent was released in 2014, with Gaspard Ulliel in the title role. Bertrand Bonello wanted to show what "it cost the couturier to be Yves Saint Laurent every day," between creation, depression and personal life setbacks. The film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Bertrand Bonello does not give up his great passion for music. In 2014 he released his third album, Accidents (Nuun Records), a quasi-instrumental album between classical and synthesizers. He is co-president of SRF from 2018 to 2020. As well as co-president of BLOC in 2020.
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