EVENTS

Americano

Mathieu Demy
2011 - France - 105mn
With Mathieu Demy, Salma Hayek, Géraldine Chaplin, Chiara Mastroianni, Carlos Bardem, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Pablo Garcia, André Wilms
California, Martin has to go back to the town he grew up in to take care of formalities concerning his mother’s will. When he arrives in Los Angeles, he meets Linda, a family friend, who takes him to his mother’s apartment, where childhood memories come back to the surface. Incapable of dealing with this ordeal, he escapes to Tijuana, where he gets lost tracking Lola, a young Mexican woman he used to know, and who played an important role in his mother’s life. He finds her at the Americano, a club where she dances every evening… But as part of the mourning process he has to revisit his past.

Mathieu Demy has acted for Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, Renaud Cohen, Orso Miret, Benoît Cohen, Pascal Bonitzer, André Téchiné and Céline Sciamma. Following his short films Le Plafond, which won an award in Angers in 2001 and La Bourde shot four years later, in 2011 he made his first feature, Americano, with Selma Hayek.

Les Chansons d'amour

Christophe Honoré
2007 - France - 95mn
With Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Toutes les chansons d’amour racontent la même histoire : «Il y a trop de gens qui t’aiment»... «Je ne pourrais jamais vivre sans toi»... «Sorry Angel»… Les Chansons d’amour raconte aussi cette histoire-là.

Christophe Honoré made his first short, Nous deux, and then went on to make his first feature, 17 fois Cécile Cassard (Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard), which was presented in Un Certain Regard, the screenplay of which won the Audience Award in Angers. He then made Ma Mère (My Mother) with Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel, and Dans Paris, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight, with Romain Duris and Louis Garrel. In 2007, his first musical Les Chansons d’amour was in the official selection in Cannes. In parallel, he works as a writer, scriptwriter and stage director. After La Belle personne (The Beautiful Person), Non ma fille tu n’iras pas danser (Making Plans for Lena) and L’Homme au bain (Man at Bath), in 2011 he made Les Bien-Aimés (The Beloved) with Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni and Ludivine Sagnier, which closed the last Cannes Film Festival.