2023-10-13 10:05:45
The Cinécomédies festival is back in the capital of Flanders until Sunday. A weekend of big fun in perspective in the city’s dark rooms, with on the program: screenings of classics, previews, and a 6th edition which pays tribute to Michel Serrault, the actor who died in 2007.
An unmissable event that brings the whole family together for a journey to the heart of the most cult comedies in the history of French cinema.
After Jean Gabin, Pierre Richard, Gérard Oury, Bourvil and Jean-Paul Belmondo, CineComedies has chosen for its sixth edition to pay tribute to this cult and popular personality of French cinema, and offers a retrospective of his most emblematic comedies.
“Michel Serrault is an actor who is close to our hearts”, explains Jérémie Imbert, the artistic director and founder of CineComedies. THE festival has decided to do throughout the weekend, a free retrospective of its greatest comedies. Vou will be able to (re)discover:
And to delve into the artist’s career, the festival is also offering, until Sunday at the Palais Rihour, the first exhibition dedicated to the actor and entitled “Michel Serrault – Happiness is in laughter”. “This completely free exhibition, specifies Jérémy Imbertdesigned with her daughter Nathalie Serrault, is a great opportunity to discover the universe of this major figure of popular French cinema, his collaborations, his duet with Jean Poiret, his costumes and filming accessories, his key roles, through INA archive documents, photos and unpublished posters. »
After Jean Gabin, Pierre Richard, Gérard Oury, Bourvil and even Jean-Paul Belmondo, CineComedies pays tribute to Michel Serrault. • © CineComedies
This is the objective of this festival, supported since 2018 by the Association Les Amis de CineComedies. Bringing the audience together to laugh together. “Our desire explains Yann Marchet, the director of the festival, is to offer a joyful moment, through a rhythmic program, for the public, through meetings with big names in comedy”
Friday October 13, director Patrice Leconte, guest of honor of the festivahe will be at UGC Ciné Cité at 8 p.m. for the screening of the film The Grand Dukes.
Saturday October 14, meet at 5:30 p.m. UGC Ciné Cité for the screening of the film The Kings of Gag by Claude Zidi in the presence of Didier Kaminka, his screenwriter. Sunday October 15, at 5 p.m. Metropolisa tribute will be paid to the director Jacques Rozier, with the screening of Ninth Nénesse in the presence of his co-director and co-writer Pascal Thomas and his favorite actor Bernard Ménez. Sunday October 15, at 8:30 p.m., the festival will close at UGC Ciné Citéwith the projection of Travel in pajamas by Pascal Thomas in the presence of the film crew.
A meeting with the actor and director, Lucien Jean-Baptiste is also on the program for Sunday, at 2 p.m., at the UGC Ciné Cité, after the screening of The First Star.
CinéComedies is not just a vision in the rearview mirror, it is also the opportunity to discover the comedies of today, and who knows, perhaps, the cult comedies of tomorrow.
Several previews are scheduled for l’UGC :
” Our commitment, recalls Jérémy Imbertis also introduce comedies from all over the world. We will be particularly interested in burlesque and the zaniness of Hollywood comedies, through the documentary, The Screwball Comedy: a history of American comedy, Friday October 13 at 6 p.m. at the Le Métropole cinema »
And to illustrate this Hollywood sub-genre, two classics of the “screwball comedy” will be programmed: The Lady of Friday (by Howard Hawks, with Cary Grant, 1939) Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Le Métropole cinema and My Man Godfrey by Gregory La Cava, with William Powell and Carole Lombard (1936), Saturday at 2:30 p.m. also at the Le Métropole cinema.
In the end, until Sunday, around twenty cult films will be screened in different cultural venues in Lille: the UGC Ciné Cité, Le Métropole, Palais Rihour, Gare Saint-Sauveur and the Casino Barrière theater. A wonderful remedy against ambient gloom to consume without moderation.
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