The Lady from Shanghai
A few years ago, we hosted a creative residency for photographer and cinephile Bertrand Carrière. This spring, we are publishing Tout ceci est impossible, an eloquent testament to that residency – an art book in which the arrangement of images is anything but random. Several of the films featured in this book will be screened as part of this program. Tout ceci est impossible is a co-edition between Somme toute and the Cinémathèque québécoise.
Sailor Michael O'Hara meets and falls in love with upper-class Elsa Bannister, who takes him on board of her husband's yacht for a long voyage. A murder case brings the sea voyage to a stormy climax.
Orson Welles
Orson Welles was an American director, actor, producer, and screenwriter, remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film. First drawn to the stage through Shakespeare, he gained national recognition with his radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. He is now considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His first film, Citizen Kane (1941), is consistently ranked among the most important films ever made. His distinctive directing style and acting deeply influenced generations of filmmakers, especially Stanley Kubrick. A precocious and polymorphous artist, fiercely devoted to his independence — a cigar enthusiast, bullfighter and illusionist — Welles never ceased to return to theater and literature throughout his career, adapting both great classics (Othello, Don Quixote) and contemporary works. Often at odds with the studio system and cultivating his own legend through spectacular, yet enigmatic effects, he left many films unfinished.
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