CinémaTuesdays

Homage to Yves Montand

June 3,10, 17 & 24, 2008
July 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2008

Though born in Italy, Yves Montand will forever be a French icon—in fact, The New York Times memorialized him as “the quintessential French romantic, half-adventurer, half-intellectual.” A true master of the arts, he began his career as a singer, epitomizing Paris in dancehall songs with Édith Piaf. As an actor, he worked with the greatest directors of his age: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Costa-Gavras, and Alain Corneau. FIAF celebrates the career and life of Montand through a selection of works that show his diversity as an actor and his continuing appeal as a movie star for more than forty years.

The Wages of Fear

Le salaire de la peur

Tuesday, June 3 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953. B&W. 148 min.
With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel
In French with English subtitles

A thriller with few peers, The Wages of Fear finds four men in a South American jungle hired to deliver nitroglycerine to a distant oil field by truck. Tension builds between the men to unbearable levels on remote roads where the tiniest jolt could result in death.

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The Loneliness
of the Long Distance Singer

La solitude du chanteur de fond

Tuesday, June 10 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

Chris Marker, 1974. Color. 74 min.
Yves Montand, Chris Marker
In French with English subtitles

As a filmmaker, Chris Marker has always been very much a diarist, crafting intimate portraits of his subjects. The same is true with this, his affectionate look at Montand, which includes conversations with costars, his wife Simone Signoret, and Montand himself. Essential viewing for fans of both Marker and Montand, the film teems with insight into the life of this great French artist.

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The Case Against Ferrot

Police Python 357

Tuesday, June 17 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

Alain Corneau, 1976. Color. 125 min.
With Yves Montand, François Périer, Simone Signoret
In French with English subtitles

Montand plays against type in this stirring thriller as loner policeman Ferrot. Striking up an affair with a young woman, he pays little mind to the fact that she is also seeing his superior, Commissioner Ganay. Yet when the woman is murdered and all clues inexplicably point to Ferrot, he regards it less as coincidence than conspiracy.

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Delusions of Grandeur

La folie des grandeurs

Tuesday, June 24 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

Gérard Oury, 1971. Color. 108 min.
With Yves Montand, Louis de Funès
In French with English subtitles

This costume comedy set in Renaissance Spain abounds with delightful treasures, including the two leads. De Funès is a wonder to watch as Don Salluste, the scorned tax collector to the King, and Montand is a risky, brilliant choice for Blaze, his valet. With revenge and royal outrage fueling its inspired absurdity, the film is a clear predecessor to farces such as The Visitors.

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Womanlight

Clair de femme

Tuesday, July 1 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

Costa-Gavras, 1979. Color. 105 min.
With Yves Montand, Romy Schneider
In French*

*Please note that due to issues obtaining the very rare print of this film, a digital version will be screened that will not include English subtitles. We sincerely regret any inconvenience this may cause.

A chance conversation between strangers Michel (Montand) and Lydia (Schneider) reveals that they are both in mourning— he is recently widowed and she has lost her daughter. Finding comfort and compassion in each other, they struggle to build a relationship together, still haunted by their respective losses. The last film that Montand and Schneider made together, it proved a late career triumph for both.

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Jean de Florette

Tuesday, July 8 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

Claude Berri, 1986. Color. 120 min.
With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
In French with English subtitles

The first of Claude Berri’s internationally acclaimed adaptations of Marcel Pagnol's novels, Jean de Florette stands as a rousing meditation on greed and the cruelty borne of it. César (Montand) and his nephew Ugolin (Auteuil) eye an abandoned property with a bounteous spring. When the new owner refuses to sell the land, the duo are forced to take more extreme measures.

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Manon of the Spring

Manon des sources

Tuesday, July 15 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm

Claude Berri, 1986. Color. 113 min.
With Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart
In French with English subtitles

The sequel to Jean de Florette, and in every respect as great a film. Manon (Béart), now a grown woman, seeks retribution on those who caused her father’s death, including those who did nothing to stop it. Soon she discovers that the scope of her revenge includes the man who has fallen in love with her. A magnificent end to this profound and epic tragedy.

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Z

Tuesday, July 22 at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm*

Costa-Gavras, 1969. Color. 127 min.
With Yves Montand, Irène Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Charles Denner
In French with English subtitles

Montand is The Deputy, a scientist brutally beaten by an angry mob before delivering a controversial address. After dying during surgery, The Deputy is martyred, and the country is galvanized by investigation and murmurs of conspiracy. It is no surprise to some that the deeper the inquiry continues, the further the government is implicated.

*Film critic Elliot Stein will introduce the 7:30pm screening.

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In French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted

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Curated by Marie Losier.

CinémaTuesdays is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Special thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. American Airlines is the official airline of FIAF. CinémaTuesdays is sponsored by the generous support of Lillet.

Images ©:
Criterion Collection/Photofest (The Wages of Fear)
Gaumont Intl./Photofest (Delusions of Grandeur)
Pathé Renn production-D.D. Productions-France 2 cinéma (Manon of the Spring)
Orion Pictures/ Photofest (Jean de Florette)
Cinema V/Photofest (Z)