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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.
The First French Canadian Film Noir. Presented in collaboration with Éléphant : mémoire du cinéma québécois
When a nagging wife commits suicide, her husband is threatened with a murder frame by his lawyer, unless he kills a certain female reporter for him. (imdb)
Fedor Ozep
Fedor Ozep was a Russian director and screenwriter. He began his film career in Russia, as a screenwriter alongside the director Yakov Protazanov. He directed his first film in 1925 with Boris Barnet. In 1928, he left the USSR for Germany, where he made a film, and then found refuge in France in 1933 where he made five films. When war broke out, he was arrested, managed to escape, and settled in the United States where he made a single film. He made his last three films in Quebec, and died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills in 1949.
Photo: Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
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