Dancer in the Dark
Our summer cycle will be festive or not. Sound and image, song and dance, instrument and breathing, strings and gestures: so many possible combinations to express what cinema and music can achieve and express together. Musicals, concert films, catchy music. Jazz, classical, contemporary, disco, punk... Revolt and enchantment, distress and emphasis, joy and rhythm, melancholy and bass, laughter and stridency: diverse expressions characterizing cinema and music's historical alliance, will definitely make us fly, dream, dance!
From the 30's to the present day and across all possible genres, this cycle aims to open our minds at a time when we most need it. The first week of July will be an eventful one, as the cycle will open with several evenings in cabaret mode, where we will present for the first time concert films produced in Quebec during the confinement, with the participation of major artists of the current music scene: Klô Pelgag, Marie Davidson and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Selma, a young immigrant mother, is slowly going blind. While trying to save enough money to save her son from the same fate, she escapes into the world of musicals she loves.
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on a Danish television series, von Trier's career has spanned more than five decades. Considered a major figure of the European film industry, he and his works have been variously described as ambitious and provocative, as well as technically innovative. His films offer confrontational examinations of existential, social, psychosexual, and political issues, and deal with subjects such as mercy, sacrifice, and mental health. He frequently collaborates with the actors Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgård. Von Trier co-created the avant-garde filmmaking movement Dogme95 alongside fellow director Thomas Vinterberg and co-founded the Danish film production company Zentropa. He is best known for Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), and Melancholia (2011).
