CINE CLUB FOR JULY 2011: THE WORLD OF THEATRE

Ciné-club: July 2011

All Film Screenings at M. L. Bhartia Auditorium

For the month of July, our ciné-club will focus on the films based on the backstage of the world of theatre.

Friday, 8 July 2011

5.30pm & 7.30pm

Une autre solitude/ Another loneliness

Director: Stéphane Metge 

1996- col- 78 min

The documentary about the backstage of the world of theatre is an intimate glance at the rehearsals of the play ‘In the solitude of cotton fields’, written by Bernard Marie Koltes, directed by Patrice Chéreau, with Pascal Greggory in the role of the Client and Patrice Chereau in the role of the Dealer.

Friday, 15 July 2011

5.30pm & 7.30pm

L'aventure du Théâtre du Soleil/ Adventures of the Theatre du Soleil  

Director: Catherine Vilpoux

2009 -79 min

This film weaves the elements of a fascinating biography of Ariane Mnouchkine and Théâtre du

Soleil. Through numerous archives, including some unpublished excerpts from performances, business meetings, travel, and interviews, Mnouchkine discusses his roots, his love of cinema, theater design, his meeting with the public, his political involvement in France and abroad. Théâtre du Soleil is a Parisian avant-garde theater founded in the 1960s as a reaction against traditional theatrical institutions in France. Their performances also frequently feature direct contact between the actors and audience members.

Friday, 22 July 2011

5.30pm & 7.30pm

Brook by Brook

Director: Simon Brook

2001- 72 min

Portrait of a man in private, at home; portrait of a man at work... Because he hides nothing from his son Simon (a young director of films and documentaries), the great British stage director Peter Brook, now 76, reveals for the first time something of his personal world as artist, father, and son. But Simon Brook never settles for the strictly biographical, he seeks to capture the essence of the paternal quest: a quest for life, for truth, far beyond a "mere" quest for theater. In English or French, the director tells how the vision of a primitive statue in a Zen garden, or a journey to Iran or Africa, determined his path, helped nurture his conception of the stage space (the emptiest, the least definite, the most open) for the actor's performance (the freest possible). Though he has never allowed himself to be filmed in rehearsals, we see him working on an improvisation with some of his oldest collaborators. The more Peter Brook ages, the greater his taste for adventure and experimentation is. This experimentation, he insists, must always precede analysis, so that theater always remains both familiar and distant, both commonplace and unexpected.

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