Rois et Reine
Cette année, la collaboration avec le festival de films francophones CINEMANIA est l'occasion d'accueillir le cinéaste Arnaud Desplechin et d'échanger avec lui à propos de la singularité de son oeuvre ; de rendre hommage au musicien et compositeur de musiques de films François Dompierre et encore de mettre en place une journée de discussion sur le cinéma franco-manitobain.
In the presence of the director
Parallel stories tell of the current situation of two ex-lovers: Nora is a single mother who comes to care for her dying father; Ismael, a brilliant musician, is locked up in a mental hospital and plots his escape.
Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin (born 31 October 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. Desplechin's first feature-length movie, The Sentinel, premiered in 1992 at Cannes, starring Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, and Lászlo Szabó. Desplechin's 1996 film My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument was critically successful. In 2000, Desplechin made his first English-language film, Esther Kahn, adapted from a short story by Arthur Symons, and starred Summer Phoenix in the title role. The film was seen as a homage to François Truffaut's work. In 2019 film Oh Mercy! was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival constituting his seventh film selected in the main competition.