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In France, June is known as the music month! On the 21st of June French cities and villages are bursting in music to the sound of local bands and artist, it is the Fête de la musique, on of the most popular public event of the year. For the occasion, IFcinema à la carte offers a selection of French movies dedicated to music in all its forms.
Most of the movies are subtitled in english and can be watched online for free.
⇒https://ifcinema.institutfrancais.com/fr/streaming/alacarte
Program
Chante ton bac d’abord, David André
This film tells the stormy tale of a group of friends from Boulogne-sur-Mer, a French town hit by the financial crisis. A year between dreams and disillusion, imagined by teenagers from a working or middle class background, with songs that regularly add poetry, laughter, and emotion to reality.
Sur les chemins de la rumba, David-Pierre Fila
Rumba, also known as Gumba, meaning ‘belly button to belly button’ is a famous musical rhythm in Africa and Latin Africa. “Sur le chemin de la Rumba” is a Congolese film tracing Rumba’s musical history through Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and thence back to Africa. It takes the audience on an exquisitely filmed journey along the coast from the Congo to Cuba, Ecuador, and Ivory Coast in a trip drenched in well-known musical notes,
all the while melding this African musical art with the images and rhythms of the beautiful Congo basin, the source that gave it its shape and soul.
Quand les mains murmurent, Thierry Augé, 2012
10 students are studying orchestra direction at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse of Paris. From the first clumsy hand moves to the first encounter with the symphonical orchestra, the follow the teachings of their brillant and passionate teacher.
French Waves, Julian Starke, 2017
French Waves tells a history of French electronic music through its feature documentary, web series, immersive website and international live tour. Starting in the 1990s with the genre’s creation in Detroit and Chicago, followed by an exploration of rave culture and the French Touch movement, and ending with the very latest generation of electronic music, French Waves tells the story of a societal and generational phenomenon. By featuring different perspectives from iconic artists, the project traces electronic music’s path through Generations X, Y, and Z as it is passed down from those who were twenty in the 1990s to today’s digital natives. With an emphasis on transmission, audacity, diversity, and togetherness, French Waves’s approach is very much in keeping with the philosophy that has driven the electronic scene since the very beginning.
Violetta, Julie Deliquet (3ème scène de l’Opéra de Paris)
Mixing the mazes of the corridors of the Opera Bastille and the Gustave-Roussy hospital, we watch two actresses trying to get into the character of a diseased person. Throughout the film, time and space, as well as fiction and reality, become more and more confused. The passionate and violent feelings underwent by the two women tend to blend, showing different ways to express tragic emotions.
Les Divas du Taguerabt, Karim Moussaoui (3ème scène de l’Opéra de Paris
Karim Moussaoui reflects on the role an Opera House could play in the Algerian musical culture. With his crew, he sets off to the desert in search of the mysterious divas of the Taguerabt.
Vers le silence, Jean-Stéphane Bron (3ème scène de l’Opéra de Paris)
After the release of the documentary film “The Opera” in April 2017, the director Jean-Stéphane Bron followed the Music Director of the Opera de Paris, Philippe Jordan, and the Orchestra of Opera de Paris in the setting for rehearsals of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, whose interpretation is paradoxically based on… silence.