Découvrir July – August 2014

CINÉ CLUB
Explore the French art and culture through films...
Theme of the month: Historique
L’oeil de L’astronome
Date: 20 July | Time: 01:00 pm
Venue: AF Baroda Annexe
Synopsis: Summer 1610. One of the first telescope invented
by Galileo finally arrives in Prague, the capital of the German
Empire. For ten nights, Johannes Kepler, astronomer Rudolf
II can finally explore the sky using the new invention and see
that nobody has ever seen. The terrace where Kepler moved his
observatory becomes the place where the imperial court makes
an appointment. Night after night, people come to the show as
looking through the telescope, watch the dissection of a human eye, plotting against the
emperor. At the heart of this agitation, Johannes Kepler, unclassifiable and tireless, traces its
singular path between science and superstition, intolerance and freedom...
Quand l’Europe parlait français
Date: 17 August | Time: 01:00 pm
Venue: AF Baroda Annexe
Synopsis: The film tells the story of the French language in
the eighteenth century, the reign of Louis XIV on the eve of the
French Revolution, trying to decipher the springs its hegemony
in Europe at that time. The film project is to question what
makes a legend language: French has he been hegemonic as
could be before him Italian or Spanish, and English after? Or
is it that language embodies the values that exist today and
that would be attached to him by nature? To bring this question,
the film is based on two characters: one, Voltaire embodies
better than anyone his age and its values; another Fumaroli
Marc brings his historian of French essayist and scholar on the
hegemony of French and concrete during the eighteenth century events look: correspondence
and diplomacy, literature and art conversation, decorative arts and life lounges. The one and
the other, but in two opposite perspectives, guide us in the chronology of a abounding century.
The film takes us to meet the European elites who adopted French as their lifestyle. Experts
from the eighteenth century (antique historians, restorers, museum curators) to bring their
own table a key time.
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