2024 is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. The national humanities and art project "art shanghai European National Collection Exhibition" launched a new special unit - the Sino-French female film project "Her in Creation". The screening section of this special unit is jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Art Film Alliance and Shanghai Han and Tang Culture Exhibition Co., Ltd., and will be held in the form of "French Film Week" from June 28 to July 7 at Shanghai Cinemas and Shanghai Baidu. Meihui Cinema presents, screening for the audience 6 outstanding contemporary French women's films that have important historical significance in the history of film and have emerged in recent years.
Female filmmakers have an indelible impact on the origin, development and promotion of film art. "She in Creation" proposes the concept of "women behind the camera", that is, the identity and perspective of women standing behind the camera as gazers, narrators, and creators. With this as its core, "Her in Creation: Art Shanghai French Film Week" joins hands with the French Film Archive, one of the world's largest film archives, to select 6 works by female directors, spanning a century, including: the first female director in the history of world cinema The Empress (1917), one of the few extant feature films by Alice Guy, Sherman Dulac, the pioneer of the "Impressionist Film" movement and the founder of the "Pure Film" theory The feature film "The Artist's Soul" (Âme d'artiste, 1924) directed by Agnès Varda, the "Grandmother of the New Wave" in France, is a very special but rarely released " creation " in her creative career. "(les créatures, 1965, newly completed 4K restoration in 2023), Marguerite Duras's first directorial work "La Musica" (1966), French contemporary filmmaker Mia Hansen -Mia Hansen-Løve won the "Best Director Award" at the Berlin Film Festival for her work "L'Avenir" (2016) and "Le Hérisson" (2009) "Little Girl Blue" (2023) is a new "docudrama" written and directed by the well-known French filmmaker Mona Achache.
Creation
Things to come
Queen
Melancholic little girl
Artist's soul
Music
In the film exhibition, we can also see representative French actresses of different generations presenting unique interpretations under the camera, including: Delphine· Delphine Seyrig, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Marion Cotillard, etc.
It is worth mentioning that 4 of the 6 films presented this time were publicly screened in Chinese World Cinemas for the first time.
"Her in Creation: art shanghai French Film Week" is an extension and linkage of the theme exhibition of the same name held at One Source on the Bund, Shanghai from June 13 to July 13, 2024. The organizers hope to open up a museum and cinema The scene of overlap, mutual reflection, and hand-in-hand allows people who love movies to enter a different kind of movie world built by female filmmakers in a continuous historical narrative.
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