Let’s talk

Hello everybody,

On Thursday the 14th of November 2019, we met at Chantal’s for our monthly Let’s talk meeting. She always welcomes us in a very friendly way and we spend a nice time there exchanging in English, having tea and homemade cake. There were seven of us: Chantal, Françoise, Gisèle, Monique, Myriam, Philippe, Yvette.

We mostly talked about cinema since the topic of the day was the film Downton Abbey by Michael Engler. The characters are the same as in the successful series we saw previously on television. The movie takes place in 1927 when the Earl and Countess of Grantham, their family and staff who live in the castle are informed that King George V and Queen Mary will visit Downton Abbey in a tour through the country. What a fuss!!! All the actors and actresses are excellent and the dialogues are filled with a delicious British sense of humour.

Françoise told us that the film she liked most this year was Chambre 212 by Christophe Honoré with Chiara Mastroianni and Vincent Lacoste, a comedy dealing with the slow decline of a couple.  

Chantal and Yvette were impressed by the film Sorry we missed you by Ken Loach, a social and family drama showing the dehumanization of workers in our society. They said it was an “excellent Ken Loach” but warned us that it was particularly tough.

Philippe was enthusiastic about a British film of the 1980s entitled Little Lord Fountleroy by Jacky Gold, starring Jacky Schroder and Alec Guinness, explaining to us that the atmosphere in both films was more or less alike, a family heritage being at stake.

Next time in December we will be discussing the festival This is England, knowing that the spirit of Christmas will already be in our minds.

Best regards,

Yvette

Soirée d’ouverture du festival This is England

The trip, pour vous mettre en appétit pour la semaine!

The trip, long métrage d’ouverture

Soirée de lancement réussie, l’équipe du festival vous accueille toute la semaine à Kinepolis.

Toutes les séances débutent à 20H. Tarif 5, 50 euros, 4 euros pour les étudiants un pass 3 séances à 12 euros. Et votre ticket de parking remboursé! Isn’t it amazing?

Ce dimanche après-midi, un autre long métrage dans une très belle copie restaurée: Retour à Howard’s end à 17h à Kinepolis.

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Norwich light switch-on named as best in UK

Le tunnel de lumière de Norwich ouvre la saison de Noël avec brio

The Tunnel of Light on Hayhill, Norwich. Pictured is Samantha Skouros and her daughter Credit: ANTONY KELLY

Voir l’article du Norwich evening news :

https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/what-s-on/norwich-light-switch-on-2019-best-in-uk-oxford-street-1-6375779?fbclid=IwAR2XlMQU_gEpPX9ZOPGQu2hvJ1k-MQYe6xDb_YwSUNxnLMVwJAZDYWaaPjI

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Le jury de la 8ème édition du festival This is England

Guy Myhill, Joanna Coates et Anthony Baxter

Guy Myhill, membre du jury du festival This is England

Guy Myhill lives in Norwich. His feature film, The Goob, won numerous awards including the Golden Hitchcock at Dinard Film Festival. He is currently working on a 8 hour TV series, Bracondale, with Universal/NBC, and is co writer/director on Pop, a feature film with AM Pictures to be shot in Mauritius next spring. He is developing another feature length project Hard Hat Man, with the BFI.

GUY MYHILL est un réalisateur résidant à Norwich. Son long
métrage The Goob a remporté de nombreux prix, dont l’Hitchcock
d’Or au Festival de Dinard. Il travaille actuellement sur Bracondale,
une série en 8 épisodes en collaboration avec Universal/NBC.
Il a co-écrit Pop, un long métrage qu’il mettra en scène pour AM
Pictures et dont le tournage est prévu pour le printemps à l’Île Maurice.
Il développe également un autre film, Hard Hat Man, avec le soutien du British Film Institute.

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Le jury de la 8ème édition du festival This is England

Anthony Baxter, Joanna Coates et Guy Myhill

Anthony Baxter, jury du festival This is England

Anthony Baxter is one of the UK’s most accomplished and fearless documentary filmmakers.  His iconic film You’ve Been Trumped (2011) won 12 awards and, has been translated into a dozen languages.  Baxter’s A Dangerous Game (2014) is a searing indictment of the profound ecological and social impact of luxury golf resorts around the world. You’ve Been Trumped Too (2016) was released on the eve of the US Presidential vote, and was also critically acclaimed as a powerful and prescient warning of the nature of a Trump Presidency. “There could hardly be a more urgent or relevant film than this” wrote Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. Baxter’s films have combined a distinctive voice, a creative flair, and an investigative persistence that “cannot be shaken off,” according to the New York Times.  He has acted as a judge at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and given a variety of masterclasses in filmmaking in the United Kingdom, and also in Afghanistan. FLINT (2020), which recently had its preview screening at the Hamptons International Film Festival, has been in the making for five years and will be released next year.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/flint-residents-punished-poisoned-water

Baxter is also directing Eye of the Storm, a documentary about leading Scottish landscape painter James Morrison for the BBC.

Anthony Baxter est un des plus talentueux et intrépides documentaristes du Royaume Uni. Son film emblématique You’ve been trumped (2011) a glané 12 récompenses et, a été traduit en une douzaine de langues. A Dangerous Game (2014) est une virulente dénonciation du profond impact écologique et social des luxueux terrains de golf dans le monde entier. You’ve Been Trumped Too (2016) est sorti à la veille des élections présidentielles aux Etats-Unis, et a été bien reçu par la critique comme étant une puissante mise en garde annonciatrice sur la nature de la présidence Trump. « Il ne peut pratiquement pas y avoir de film plus pressant ou pertinent que celui-ci» a écrit Peter Bradshaw dans Le Guardian. Les films de Baxter ont combiné une voix particulière, un sens artistique, et une persévérance d’investigation dont « on ne peut pas se débarrasser »,  selon le New York Times. Il a été membre du jury au festival du documentaire de Sheffield, a donné de différentes master classes de cinéma au Royaume Uni, ainsi qu’en Afghanistan. FLINT (2020), qui a été récemment présenté en avant-première au festival international de films de Hampton, est en préparation depuis cinq ans et sortira l’an prochain. Baxter réalise aussi actuellement pour la BBC Eye of the Storm, un documentaire sur le principal peintre paysagiste Ecossais James Morrison.

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Le jury de la 8ème édition du festival This is England

Joanna Coates, Anthony Baxter et Guy Myhill.

Joanna Coates, membre du jury 2019 du festival This is England

Joanna Coates is an award-winning director and screenwriter. Her debut feature drama, Hide and Seek, won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival, and she has been BAFTA-nominated for her non-fiction directing. Hide and Seek’s international release followed the success of her short films Where Are They Now? and Little Ones. She is currently in development on several projects, with BFI/Creative England, producer Camille Gatin (The Girl With All The Gifts) and executive producer Peter Rommel (Cloud 9, Wetlands) and is in pre-production for an upcoming feature Venice. She teaches film at Norwich University of the Arts.

Hide and seek trailer

Joanna Coates est une réalisatrice et une scénariste primée. Son premier long métrage dramatique, Hide and Seek, a remporté le prix Michael Powell au Festival International du Film d’Edimbourg en 2014, et elle a été nominée au BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) pour sa réalisation de documentaires. La sortie internationale de Hide and Seek, a eu le même succès que ses courts-métrages Where Are They Now? et Little Ones. Actuellement elle a plusieurs projets en cours, avec BFI/Creative England, la productrice Camille Gatin (The Girl With All The Gifts) et le producteur exécutif Peter Rommel (Cloud 9Wetlands) et est en pré-production pour un prochain long métrage Venice. Elle enseigne le cinéma à l’Université des Arts de Norwich.

Traduction Norbert Féron

Let’s talk

“Hello,

We came on Friday, October 10 to Chantal’s home for a new « Let’s Talk ».We were five : Gisèle,Yvette,Monique, Myriam and myself, Françoise. First,Yvette talked about the novelist Margaret Atwood. She summed up her last book « Hagseed ». It was very interesting.

We talked also about Woody Allen’s film « A Rainy Day in New York ». We all agreed it’s  one of his best films.We remembered some of his other movies and discussed about our favourite.

After a break with tea and a home-made chocolate, we inevitably talked about the huge fire at the chemical plant Lubrizol. We saw pictures and discussed, asking ourselves some questions.

For the next conversation, we have decided that we will speak about the film « Dowtown  Abbey ». We all want to see the film and we will attend the next « Let’s Talk » with pleasure.

Friendly yours ».

Françoise H.