Month: August 2014

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Caramel (2014-08-23)
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/clodjee/14907974460&quot; title="Caramel by Clodjee Pelletier, document.write(“”); on Flickr”>Caramel

Tokyo – The city of glass

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WARNING: May contains trace of spoilers! People allergic to the discussion of any plot’s elements before seeing a movie are strongly advised to take the necessary precautions for their safety and should avoid reading further.
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“A powerful tale of madness in Tokyo that explores the nature of sex and love!“

“Toru, document.write(“”); a graduate student who runs a bar in Shinjuku Ni-chome, Tokyo’s gay district, meets Yong, a Korean man, and he falls in love. This seemingly ordinary event is somehow linked to a 20-year-old homicide case, and Confession of a Mask by Yukio Mishima is the key connecting them. Toru’s life takes an expected turn when a detective begins investigating two people whom Toru knows, Haruko Agaki, his old university professor, and Yusuke Honma, the lover ofthe victim in the 20-year-old murder. There are skeletons in someone’s closet.”

(Text from the Festival’s program)


This movie is quite interesting because movies rarely talks about the Japanese gay scene — unless they want to make a parody of it. Unfortunately, the storytelling is VERY confusing. There are lots of flashbacks and, for a while, it looks like there is two parallel stories, but they finally meet — very clumsily — in the end. However you eventually get what the story is about. It’s a movie about love, dream, hope, and obsessive narcissism.

Also there is a lot of shonen love in this movie. Way too much or at least more than it is necessary to convey what the movie is about (and many people left the theatre at the first graphic and realistic gay sex scene; Those can be a real turn off for most prudish viewers and, lets be frank here, there are lots of those).

Despite these caveat this is nevertheless a good and enjoyable movie if you are interested in Japanese popular and underground culture.

You can also find an interesting video on Youtube showing the red carpet entrance & presentation of the production team, as well as interviews (all in Japanese unfortunately).
Tokyo: The city of glass (???????????? / Tôkyô: Koko wa Glass no Machi): Japan, 2014, 110 min.; Dir.: Kazuhiro Teranishi; Scr.: Oroba Irie & Kazuhiro Teranishi; Phot.: Shigeru Iwamatsu; Ed.: Kumiko Arai; Mus.: Naoto Okabe; Cast: Atsushi Kimura, JK, Tomoko Nakajima, Maroka Uchiyama, Ginzi Yoshikawa, Reiko Tajima. Film screened at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 22nd, 2014 (Cinema Quartier Latin 15, 19h00 – the theatre was half full but there was less people at the end) as part of the “Focus on World Cinema” segment.
For more information you can visit the following websites:
Tokyo: The city of glass © 2013 Tokyo movie.

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Gros tournesol / Big sunflower (2014-07-25)
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One Third

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WARNING: May contains trace of spoilers! People allergic to the discussion of any plot’s elements before seeing a movie are strongly advised to take the necessary precautions for their safety and should avoid reading further.
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“Three small-time crooks — [Shuu, document.write(“”); ] manager of the Honey Bunny nightclub, Koji, an ex-motorcycle gang leader turned club waiter, and Big Ken, a Korean BBQ chain owner and club regular — desparate to turn their lifes around, manage to pull a successful bank heist in broad daylight and they return to hide out in Honey Bunny. Although they had agreed to each getting an equal third of the money they stole, their greed gets the better of them, with much bargaining and cheating. It turns out, however, they they are not the only ones after the loot. Will they see any of it all all?”

(Text from the Festival’s program)


Shuu is the manager for the night club “Honey Bunny” and a horse-race gambler. On his way to the bank to deposit the club’s takings he stops at the race tracks. Unexpectedly, he wins but in his excitement loses the bag containing the club’s money. The owner is a ruthless yakuza and he fears for his life. However, his friend Maria, a wanna-be actress, help him get a loan from an even ruthless loan-shark so he can pay back the club’s money. He has one week to pay back the loan or he dies. He persuades his friend Koji, who works at the “Honey Bunny”, and Ken, one of the customer, to rob a bank. They are all deeply in debts and desperate to turn around their life. They succeed but quarrels over dividing the loot. And, to make their tribulation worse, other parties are also interested in getting their hands on the stolen money!

I was expecting this one to be a third-rate film, but it ended up not so bad after all. It has lots of cheeky humour and movie references that make the movie quite enjoyable. Unfortunately, the plot is so circumvolved (plots and counter plots) that it doesn’t really work as each new development make what happened before less credible (but in such comedy, does it really matter?).

Also the premise of the story (a bunch of robbers quarrelling over their loot) is not original at all since I remember seeing a very similar one in another movie titled Crazy-ism. Although this movie is funnier and much more entertaining. Does our trio of incidental robbers succeed to pull through? Actually, we really never know since the movie leaves us with a kind of open ending. Quite clever.
One third (??????? / Sanbun no ichi): Japan, 2014, 119 min.; Dir.: Hiroshi Shinagawa; Scr.: Hiroshi Shinagawa (based on a novel by Hanta Kinoshita); Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara (Shuu), Koki Tanaka (Koji), Ryuichi Kosugi (Ken), Mika Nakashima (Maria), Yosuke Kubozuka (Hama), Shinnosuke Ikehata (Shibugaki), Ryo Kimura, Sho Aikawa, Mitsu Dan, Ayumi Shimozono. Film screened at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 22nd, 2014 (Cinema Quartier Latin 15, 14h30 – the theatre was three-quarter full but a few people left after the first half-hour) as part of the “Focus on World Cinema” segment.

For more information you can visit the following websites:
One third © 2014 Sanbun no ichi Production Committee.

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Salaud, on t’aime

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“Un photographe de guerre et père absent, document.write(“”); qui s’est plus occupé de son appareil photo que de ses quatre filles, coule des jours heureux dans les Alpes avec sa nouvelle compagne. Il va voir sa vie basculer le jour où son meilleur ami va tenter de le réconcilier avec sa famille en leur racontant un gros mensonge.”

“Jacques, a retired war photographer, is attempting to live a peaceful life in the Alps. With a new girlfriend, Nathalie, he appears content, but his old friend Frédéric knows better. There is a little matter of four daughters, each one from a different conquest, each one estranged from him, and each leaving their shadow on Jacques’s emotional life. Realizing that reconciliation is the thing Jacques craves most, Frédéric, a doctor, concocts a little lie to convince the daughters to visit their absentee father. Well, not so little. In fact, it’s a really big lie, and as the family gathers, as accounts are settled through tears and laugher, the lie gets harder and harder to retract.”

(Texte tiré du programme / Text from the festival’s program)

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Lelouche est un incontournable alors il m’était impossible d’y échapper. Il nous offre ici un film presqu’autobiographique. C’est l’histoire d’un photographe qui s’est tellement donné à sa carrière qu’il n’a jamais été présent pour ses quatres (ou cinq) enfants (toutes des filles) qu’il a eu chacune avec des femmes différentes. Cependant, alors qu’il songe à la retraite après avoir connu tant de succès, il a des regrets pour cette vie de famille qu’il n’a jamais eut et que ses filles lui refusent maintenant.

“J’ai eu la chance d’avoir sept enfants avec cinq femmes différentes et je me suis dit que ça pourrait faire un bon sujet pour un film,” nous affirme le cinéaste.

C’est du Lelouche à son meilleur où l’on croque dans la vie à pleine dents. Un beau film, riche en émotions. Lelouche se dit d’ailleurs n’être qu’un reporter d’émotions, mais ici il va plus loin. Nous seulement il nous fait vivre les émotions de ses personnages, des états d’âme complexes et parfois difficiles à vivre, mais il en profite pour manipuler les nôtres!

Lelouche lors de la conférence de presse de Salaud, on t’aime (photos: MM)

Toutefois, j’ai lu sur Facebook des commentaires qui démolissent complètement le film (bon, tout les goûts sont dans la nature et chacun a droit à son opinion mais il y parfois des gens qui n’aiment vraiment rien parce que c’est leur nature grognonne ou simplement pour être iconoclaste). Johnny Holliday n’est peut-être pas un acteur (mais quelle bouille, alors!) par contre dans la vie les amoureux ne sont pas toujours super passionnés — surtout quand on a eut de multiples relations (bon, peut être que Sandrine Bonnaire n’était pas très expressive mais était-ce le rôle ou sa performance?). Moi je ne suis pas du genre à décortiquer les films mais j’adopte plutôt le point de vue du cinéphile : le film m’a captivé, ému et j’ai eu du plaisir à la regarder. C’est une belle histoire (que j’ai trouvé crédible), avec de superbes images pour me faire oublier un instant où je suis et qui je suis. Je ne demande rien de plus.

Lelouche sur le tapis rouge arrivant pour la cérémonie d’ouverture du FFM (Photos: CJP)

C’est donc un film à voir, pour ses émotions certes, mais aussi pour sa superbe photographie et son casting stellaire : Johnny Holliday, Eddie Mitchell, Sandrine Bonnaire, Valérie Kaprisky et je n’ai pas pu m’empêcher de remarquer la jeune Jenna Thiam (Hiver) qui jouait Léna dans la série télé “Les revenants” (2012).

Vous pouvez voir Lelouche présenter son film à partir de la minute 19:10 dans notre video de la cérémonie d’ouverture.
Salaud, on t’aime : France, 2014, 124 min.; Dir.: Claude Lelouch; Scr.: Claude Lelouch et Valérie Perrin; Phot.: Robert Alazraki; Ed.: Stéphane Mazalaigue; Mus.: Francis Lai, Christian Gaubert; Cast: Johnny Hallyday (Jacques Kaminsky), Eddy Mitchell (Frédéric), Sandrine Bonnaire (Nathalie), Irène Jacob (Printemps), Pauline Lefèvre (Été), Sarah Kazemy (Automne), Jenna Thiam (Hiver), Agnès Soral (Bianca), Valérie Kaprisky (Francia). Film projeté en ouverture du Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal le 21 août, 2014 (Cinema Impérial, 19h30 — le cinéma était pratiquement plein!) dans le cadre du segment “Hors concours”.
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FFM – Cérémonie d’ouverture

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Voici notre video de la cérémonie d’ouverture du FFM 2014 (sur Vimeo)
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Here’s our video of the 2014 MWFF Opening Ceremony (on Vimeo)

L’image du chat-medi

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Mitsou (2014-08-08)
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FFM – album photos

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Voici notre album photos du Festival des films du monde 2014 sur Flickr
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Here’s our 2014 Montreal World Film Festival pictures gallery on Flickr

Pour la libre négociation!

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Bouquet d’été (2014-07-24)
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Petit film du chat-medi / Little cat-urday’s movie

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C’est le temps du festival des films du monde alors pourquoi pas un petit video de chats? On y voit Saya et Caramel en train de jouer ce matin…
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It’s time for the World film festival so why not a little cat video? Here’s Saya & Caramel at play this morning…

(filmed with an iPhone 4S and edited on iMovie 10.0.4)

July in review

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July was a busy month, document.write(“”); but in a good way. During the first half of the month I took twelve days of vacation, but didn’t do much (at least it felt that way). The highlight was certainly the quick trip I took with my family to the Saguenay.
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For most of the month the weather was generally nice, rather hot but with only a few thunderstorms. At least I could stop worrying about my garage being flooded since the city finally repaired the sidewalk (although it took a while: I directly complained to city hall on June 20th, they did the markings on the 26th, then they’ve cut the sidewalk a week later, removed the old sidewalk on July 8th, installed the formwork on the 11th, poured the concrete on the 17th, did the asphalt on the 24th and gave the landscaping finishing touch on the 30th! Six weeks! Our taxes at work… but, hey, I am not complaining since I tried for three years to get it done). Now, after a day-and-half of rain and then three cold and overcast days (around 15’C!), we are wondering if this is already the end of the summer…

The other notable events of the last month were the return of the family of cats in our backyard (the mother and her three kittens now called Chausson [Socks], Mitsou [Honey] and Kuro [Blacky]), a knee injury (I fell hard on my left knee: it was swollen for a few days, I limped for a week and now, several weeks later, it hurts only when I put pressure on it or kneel—the problem is that I have to often crouch or kneel at my job; however, I went to the clinic earlier today [a wait of 4.5 hours for a 2-minute consultation!] and it is apparently a bursitis, a prepatellar bursitis to be precise, so they gave me some anti-inflammatory drug and told me to stay off my knee for at least a week) and my wife and I went to visit the Fabergé exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.


The situation at work didn’t really improved. I could never get use to such chaos, absurdity and inconsistency. It is sometimes so irritating and exasperating, even exhausting (with all the kneeling, running, box carrying and furniture moving—it feels like running a marathon and learn joggling at the same time: I just can’t do it), but I must do my best to ignore it, shut up and endure because I can’t change job for another year. Grin and bear it, as my wife says. Or maybe I’ll just get used to it… Such unhappiness is not good for my moral or even my health. It’s maddening! However, even if I fume and cry, there’s not much I can do but wait and hope for better days. So I take one day at a time… and try to pour my energy into something else.

Luckily, it seems that reduced commuting time left me less tired, so I was able to write a lot in the last month. I wrote comments on a few anime & manga related titles: manga (Joséphine Impératrice vol. 2), references (Dico Manga, GraphoLexique du Manga, Anime Classique Zettai, Manga: The complete guide, and language (Chineasy). However, I wrote mostly movie-related posts as I was starting to prepare for the Montreal World Film Festival. A month or two before the festival, I like to start posting festival news (Fantasia’s first, second and third wave of announcements, their Japanese line-up, as well as the MWFF announcements, programmation and Japanese line-up) and commenting on last year’s movies (Blindly in love, Mourning recipe, The Kiyosu conference, and Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi; there are two more to come later) in order to help generate interest. Later in fall, I plan to shift my interest toward Japanese literature…

On the world stage, people’s attention went mostly toward the situations in Ukraine (pro-russian rebels shooting down a commercial airplane) and in Gaza (Israel invading once more Palestinian territories). The latter is rather infuriating. I agree that it is a complex situation and that both sides bears the blame, but the arguments of self-defence (come on: tanks & missiles v. sling shots & homemade rockets?), human shields (they don’t hide behind civilians: they are ALL civilians and must share the same tiny space as it is the most densely populated area in the world!) or “they started it” (it depends on how many generations you want to go back: to my understanding it all started when Israel refused to share what was BOTH their ancestral land) are rather fallacious. So, I don’t understand why so many people would unconditionally defend Israel… On the opposite side, the fact that I call a spade a spade doesn’t make me an anti-Semite. In a democratic world, criticism should be embraced not extinguished. I just think it is sad that a nation with such a beautiful and tragic history & culture would knowingly commit apartheid and genocide since they have lived through it themselves. It makes it even more morally inexcusable! If their god has send them wandering into exile as a test, I guess they have miserably failed as they have not understood yet that we are all brothers in adversity and that we must learn to share. After all, Earth is rather small (and getting smaller) and such lesson is fundamental to everyone‘s survival… Unfortunately, I fear that the only way to put an end to this would be for the international community to strongly interpose itself in-between the belligerents, to set new borders and make Jerusalem into an international city. But it’s quite utopian. If not, we could always nuke both parties, because, the way it is now, it will only end with the total annihilation of either one nation.

Anyway, I found lots of interesting news stories (on technology, sciences, popular culture, local interests, etc.) and I am gladly sharing with you those 175+ links (scraplinking, remember?):

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

Books, Digital Edition & Libraries

Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics

Health, home & garden

Humour
iPhoneography

Local news

Media, Culture, Entertainment & Society

Movie Festivals

Sciences & History

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

Union stuff & Montreal’s libraries / Régimes de retraite

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The MWFF schedule is available

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The schedule for the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival is now available on the festival web site [as a downloadable PDF file]!
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The Cinema Under the Stars program will take place after all. In a press release, document.write(“”); the festival announced that the free outdoor screenings will be back again this year for twelve nights. Beginning August 21 and running nightly at 8:30 pm through Labour Day (September 1), the Festival will show a wide selection of popular movies on the esplanade of the Place des Arts.

The festival also announced that it will be showing many italian movies again this year. As always the Montreal World Film Festival has a bumper crop of Italian films to show, this year more than ever. Starting with the president of the jury, Sergio Castellitto, and continuing through various sections of the Festival, lovers of Italian cinema will have plenty to celebrate. Thirteen films, produced or co-produced by Italy, are on show and Pupi Avati will be on hand for the premiere of his new film along with a large delegation of Italian film people. More details in the full press release.

Last Tuesday, the festival announced in a press release the details of the 45th Student Film Festival. Organized within the framework of the Montreal World Film Festival, the Student Film Festival, held August 23 to 27, 2014, has this year two competitive sections, comprising 26 Canadian films and 60 international films respectively. The winning films will share 6 prizes, including the Norman McLaren Prize for best Canadian film and the jury award Most Promising Director. Founded by Serge Losique in 1969, the Student Film Festival is the oldest film festival in Canada and was incorporated into the World Film Festival in 1985. The reputation of the Montreal festival has attracted many student films from around the world and this year, to accommodate the abundance of excellent foreign productions, an international competition was established and it features films from 18 countries!

Finally, a press release also detailed all the ticket options for the movie-goers attending the festival. Booklets of tickets and individual tickets to films of the Festival itself will go on sale August 16 to 21, from noon to 7 pm, at the box offices of the Imperial Cinema and the Cinéma du Quartier Latin. Festivalgoers may also purchase tickets online through Admission beginning August 22. The Festival run August 21 through September 1.

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L’image du mer-fleurie

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Multiples oeillets d’Inde en août
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Various Tagetes in August (2014-08-10)
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Yellow TagetesRed Tagetes

Japanese movies at the MWFF 2014

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In a press conference last tuesday, document.write(“”); the Montreal World Film Festival announced the programming of its 38th edition, which will be held from August 21st to September 1st. The festival will present 350 films including 160 feature-length movies (of which 100 will be world or international premieres, and 32 North American premieres), and 190 short films. 51 of those fiction features-length movies will be first features (the first film of its director), of which 19 will be in competition. It is less than the previous years but this rich selection from 74 countries is nevertheless quite a feat considering that the festival has been denied nearly one million dollars in subsidies this year! (On this subject, see my post [in french] “Le FFM se prépare à une 38e année difficile”). For more programming details, please read my post “Programmation FFM 2014” [in french] or check the full press release on the festival web site.
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The World Film Festival of Montreal will take place from August 21st to September 1st 2014, at the Imperial (1430 Bleury – Metro Place des Arts) and Quartier Latin (350 rue Emery – Berri-UQAM) theatres. Tickets will be available from August 16 at noon at the offices of the Imperial (CI) and the Latin Quarter (QL) theatres, and ticketing networks from August 22. Individual tickets are $ 10, Passports are $ 100 and Cinephile Card is $ 250. Booklets of 10 coupons redeemable against individual tickets are available for $ 70. More details on the festival website: www.ffm-montreal.org.

This year the festival is offering us eleven twelve Japanese features movies and three five short films: two feature films [and one short film] in the “World competition” category, three in “Out of competition”, five feature films and three four shorts in the “Focus on World Cinema” [all those short films are conveniently shown together] and one two feature films in the “Tribute to Michael J. Werner” [there’s another movie shown as a tribute to Alain Resnais]. There are no Japanese movies this year in “First Films World Competition”, “Documentary” or the “International selection of the Student Film Festival” categories.

At the press conference announcing the festival’s programming, Serge Losique reiterated his love for Japanese cinema. He tells us that Japan is one of the most film-loving countries in the world and has given us lots of great filmmakers (especially Akira Kurosawa). He tells us also that a Japanese film in competition this year will be accompanied by a host of top Japanese actors. The delegation for this film will include forty-five people, in addition to numerous representatives of Japanese media (from five television stations and eight newspapers)! [You can see the clip of Losique talking Japanese cinema from 1:05 to 2:00 mins on the press conference video that I posted on Vimeo and on my “Programmation FFM 2014” post [in french]]

More information on the festival’s japanese movies can be found on the Facebook page of the Canada-Japan Cultural Exchange magazine, Coco-Montreal.

Update [2014-08-15]: The schedule for the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival is now available on the festival web site [as a downloadable PDF file]!

Update [2014-08-20]: Details on each of the Japanese movies shown at the festival are now available on the festival’s web site.

After the jump, you will find a list of all the Festival’s Japanese movies with description [taken from the festival’s program] and supplemental links (more details and links will be added as the information become available):


The World Competition

  • Cape Nostalgia (???????? / Fushigina Misaki no Monogatari / The Tale Of A Cape): Japan, 2014, 117 min; Dir.: Izuru Narushima; Scr.: (based on Akio Morisawa novel); Prod.: Sayuri Yoshinaga; Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga (Etsuko), Hiroshi Abe (Koji), Yuko Takeuchi, Tsurube Shofukutei, Takashi Sasano, Eiko Koike, Shota Shunputei, Arata, Takeo Nakahara, Renji Ishibashi.

    “Etsuko Kashiwagi runs the Cape Café in a peaceful little town looking across the sea to distant Mt Fuji. It is the town’s favourite meeting place, where farmers, fishermen, hospital workers, clergy, and even the occasional police officer, gather to taste Etsuko’s special brew and trade gossip. The two most important things in Etsuko’s life are her jack-of-all-trades nephew Koji and the spring water she brings every day from a small island nearby. In every cup Etsuko brews is a prayer for the well-being of her customers, and coffee at her café is an uplifting experience for all. Koji is 45, and devoted to Etsuko, who lives in a shack beside her café. He is hot-tempered, quick to jump to conclusions and a bit of a troublemaker. The winds of change have started to blow through the placid existence of the Cape Café.” (from the Festival’s press release)

    Schedule: Fri 8/29 9:00 CI; Fri 8/29 19:00 CI; Sat 8/30 14:00 CI.

  • The light shines only there (????????? / Soko nomi nite Hikari Kagayaku): Japan, 2014, 120 min.; Dir.: Mipo O; Scr.: Ryo Takada (based on the novel by Yasushi Sato); Cast: Gou Ayano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Masaki Suda, Hiroko Isayama, Taijiro Tamura, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Hino.

    “ Tatsuo has given up working and is idling his life away. One day at a Pachinko parlour, he gets to know a coarse but friendly young man, Takuji. Tatsuo accepts Takuji’s invitation and follows him home, which turns out to be a rundown, isolated house. It is here that Tatsuo meets Takuji’s older sister, Chinatsu. They feel a quick mutual attraction and become close, but Chinatsu’s life is difficult as she struggles to support her family. Even so, Tatsuo remains steadfast in his love for Chinatsu, and his unwavering feelings begin to sway her. Since finding a connection with Chinatsu, Tatsuo’s reality quietly begins to regain its colour…” (from the Festival’s press release)

    Schedule: Sun 8/31 9:00 CI; Sun 8/31 19:00 CI; Mon 9/01 14:00 CI.

The World Competition — Short Films

  • Kemukujara: Japan, 2014, 13 min.; Dir.: Akihito Nonowe, Isao Sano, Konoka Takashiro. No dialogue. First episode of the stop motion experimental animation Keblujara. [Facebook]
    Schedule: Wed 8/27 9:00 CI; Wed 8/27 19:00 CI; Thu 8/28 14:00 CI.

World Great (Out of Competition)

  • Our family (??????? / Bokutachi no Kazoku): Japan, 2014, 117 min.; Dir.: Yuya Ishii; Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Mieko Harada, Sosuke Ikematsu, Kyozo Nagatsuka, Mei Kurokawa, Yusuke Santamaria, Shingo Tsurumi, Yuka Itaya, Mikako Ichikawa.

    The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

    Schedule: Sun 8/24 11:30 QL15; Mon 8/25 21:30 QL15; Tue 8/26 14:10 QL15.

  • A drop of the grapevine (??????? / Budou no namida / lit. “Tears of Grapes”): Japan, 2014, 117 min.; Dir. & Scr.: Yokiko Mishima; Cast: Yo Oizumi (Ao), Shota Sometani (Roku), Yuko Ando (Erika), Tomorowo Taguchi, Tomoya Maeno, Lily, Kitaro,
    Ren Osugi, Kyoko Enami.

    In Hokkaido, Ao grows grapes for wine while his younger brother, Roku, tends to the wheat field inherited from their father. Then a mysterious women enters their lives.

    Schedule: Sat 8/30 11:40 QL16; Sat 8/30 19:00 QL16; Sun 8/31 14:20 QL16.

  • A courtesan with flowered skin (???? / Hanayoi dochu): Japan, 2014, 102 min; Dir.: Keisuke Toyoshima; Cast: Yumi Adachi (Asagiri), Yasushi Fuchikami (Hanjiro), Ena Koshino, Yoko Mitsuya, Hanako Takigawa, Ayano Tachibana, Saki Takaoka, Tomochika, Kanji Tsuda.

    In 1860s Japan, popular courtesan Asagiri is about to be freed from her indentured service. One day at a local festival she meets a young artisan, Hanjiro, an encounter that changes her destiny.

    Schedule: Thu 8/28 10:00 QL15; Thu 8/28 19:00 QL15; Fri 8/29 17:00 QL15.

Focus on World Cinema

  • Fly, Dakota, Fly! (??! ??? / Tobe! Dakota): Japan, 2014, 109 min; Dir.: Seiji Aburatani; Scr.: Kuniho Yasui, Naoyuki Tomomatsu; Phot.: Shigeru Komatsubara; Prod.: Kiyoshi Mizuno; Cast: Manami Higa, Masataka Kubota, Akira Emoto, Yoriko Douguchi, Kumi Nakamura, Miyoko Yoshimoto, Yukijiro Hotaru, Yukiyo Sono, Minoru Sawatari, Mark Chinnery, Dean Newcombe, Toshiki Ayata, Bengal.

    January 1946. A British military plane carrying diplomats makes a crash landing on the beach in a small village on a remote Japanese island. The pilots need help but the locals were enemies just half a year ago.

    Schedule: Sat 8/30 13:00 QL15; Sat 8/30 21:30 QL15; Sun 8/31 17:00 QL15.

  • Blossom bloom (????? / Sakura saku): Japan, 2014, 107 min.; Dir.: Mitsutoshi Tanaka; Scr.: Masashi Sada (based on his short story), Eriko Komatsu; Phot.: Takeshi Hamada; Prod.: Norihisa Ohara, Ryosuke Otani; Cast: Naoto Ogata (Shunsuke Osaki), Kaho Minami (Akiko), Tatsuya Fuji (Shuntaro), Karen Miyama, Masato Yano.

    With a highly paid job, a beautiful wife, and two independent teenage kids, not to mention his own father living with him at home, Shunkuze, 47, seems to have it all. But appearances can be deceiving.

    Schedule: Fri 8/22 19:20 QL12; Sat 8/23 11:40 QL12; Sun 8/24 16:40 QL12.

  • A sparkle of life (Sansan): Japan, 2014, 81 min.; Dir.: Bunji Satoyama; Phot.: Shogo Ueno; Ed.: Hitomi Katô; Mus.: Sayaka Asaoka, Asuka Matsumoto; Cast: Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Akira Takarada, Natsue Hyakumoto, Michiyo Miyata, Kanami Tagawa, Masatake Takei, Kei Takushima, Kazuko Tauchi, Yoichi Toyama, Toshiko Tsumura, Gaku Yamamoto.

    Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, 77 year-old Tae Tsurumoto decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.

    Schedule: Wed 8/27 19:20 QL14; Thu 8/28 12:30 QL14; Fri 8/29 14:10 QL14.

  • One third (??????? / Sanbun no ichi): Japan, 2014, 119 min.; Dir.: Hiroshi Shinagawa; Scr.: Hiroshi Shinagawa (based on a novel by Hanta Kinoshita); Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Koki Tanaka, Ryuichi Kosugi, Mika Nakashima, Yosuke Kubozuka, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Ryo Kimura, Sho Aikawa, Mitsu Dan, Ayumi Shimozono.

    Three small-time crooks desperate to turn their lives around manage to pull off a successful bank hit in broad daylight. But they aren’t the only ones after the loot.

    Schedule: Fri 8/22 14:30 QL15; Sat 8/23 21:50 QL15; Mon 8/25 10:00 QL15.

  • Tokyo: The city of glass (???????????? / Tôkyô: Koko wa Glass no Machi): Japan, 2014, 100 min.; Dir.: Kazuhiro Teranishi; Scr.: Oroba Irie & Kazuhiro Teranishi; Phot.: Shigeru Iwamatsu; Ed.: Kumiko Arai; Mus.: Naoto Okabe; Cast: Atsushi Kimura, JK, Tomoko Nakajima.

    A graduate student who runs a bar in Shinjuku N-chome, Tokyo’s gay district, meets a Korean man and falls in love, but a 20-year-old homicide case makes this more than a love story.

    Schedule: Fri 8/22 19:00 QL15; Sat 8/23 10:00 QL15; Sun 8/24 14:00 QL15.

Focus on World Cinema — Short Films

  • All He Knows Right: Japan, 2014, 5 min.; Dir.: Akihito Nonowe, Isao Sano, Konoka Takashiro. No dialogue. Second episode of the stop motion experimental animation Keblujara. [Facebook]
  • No return on perishables (Koi ha kangaeruna, ai ha kanjiro): Japan, 2014, 18 min.; Dir.: Takatsugu Naito.
  • Suicide volunteers (Tokko Shigan): Japan, 2014, 25 min.; Dir.: Kenshow Onodera. [IMDb]
  • When the sun falls (Hi-wa-ochiru): Japan, 2014, 39 min.; Dir.: Yuji Kakizaki. [IMDb]
    All four shorts are shown together:
    Schedule: Tue 8/26 21:40 QL13; Wed 8/27 16:20 QL13.

Tributes

  • Norwegian wood (??????? / Noruwei no mori): Japan, 2010, 128 min.; Dir.: Tran Anh Hung; Scr.: Haruki Murakami (based on his novel) & Anh Hung Tran; Phot.: Pin Bing Lee; Prod.: Chihiro Kameyama, Shinji Ogawa; Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Tetsuji Tamayama, Kengo Kora, Reika Kirishima, Eriko Hatsune, Tokio Emoto, Shigesato Itoi, Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi. Shown as part of the tribute to Michael J. Werner.

    Tokyo, the late 1960s. Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly in tumult.

    Schedule: Sat 8/30 21:30 QL12; Sun 8/31 16:10 QL12.

  • Tôkyô Sonata (????????): Japan, 2008, 119 min.; Dir.: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Scr.: Max Mannix, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sachiko Tanaka; Phot.: Akiko Ashizawa; Ed.: Kôichi Takahashi; Mus.: Kazumasa Hashimoto; Cast: Kazumasa Hashimoto, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki, Yu Koyanagi, Koji Yakusho, Haruka Igawa. Shown as part of the tribute to Michael J. Werner.

    An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company, then detours into the comic, the macabre and the sublime.

    Schedule: Thu 8/28 16:30 QL12; Fri 8/29 16:30 QL12.

  • Hiroshima mon amour (???????? / Nij?yojikan no j?ji / lit. “Twenty-four-hour affair”): France / Japan, 1959, 90 min.; Dir.: Alain Resnais; Scr.: Marguerite Duras; Phot.: Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny; Mus.: Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco; Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud.

    A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

    Schedule: Sat 8/30 19:20 QL11.

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Programmation FFM 2014

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Lors d’une conférence de presse mardi le 5 août dernier le Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal a annoncé les grandes lignes de la programmation de sa 38e édition.
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On nous promet une sélection de qualité qui inclue environ 350 films (160 longs métrages et 190 courts métrages) en provenance de 74 pays. En plus de nous faire découvrir l’avenir du cinéma avec 51 premières oeuvres, document.write(“”); on y retrouvera une centaine de premières mondiales ou internationales et 32 premières nord-américaines. La programmation se divise en huit sections: la Compétition mondiale (32 films dont 13 courts métrages), la Compétition mondiale des premières oeuvres (19 longs métrages), les films Hors concours (17 longs métrages), Regards sur les cinémas du monde (77 longs métrages et 74 courts métrages), les Documentaires du monde (27 longs métrages et 7 courts métrages), les Hommages (dont 5 films en hommage à Michael J. Werner), le Festival du film étudiant: sélection nationale (26 courts métrages) et sélection internationale (60 courts métrages). De quoi plaire à tout les goûts!

Vous trouverez tous les détails de cette riche programmation dans le communiqué de presse (disponible aussi en anglais). Je vous recommande aussi de lire les commentaires que font Le Devoir (“Un FFM affaibli mais debout” par Odile Tremblay, 6 août 2014) et The Gazette (“Festival des films du monde acts globally” par T’cha Dunlevy, 5 août 2014) sur la programmation du FFM.

Vous pouvez également visionner quelques extraits de la conférence de presse sur Vimeo :


Bien sûr, avec le retrait de plusieurs subventions (à ce sujet voir mon billet “Le FFM se prépare à une 38e année difficile”, de même que le récent article du Devoir “L’incompréhensible assassinat du FFM” et l’éditorial de The Gazette du 6 août, “It’s time for Montreal’s main film festival to refocus” [en anglais]), il y aura des événements qui seront annulés ou dont l’avenir est encore incertain, comme les projections en plein air (le FFM cherche toujours un nouveau commanditaire) ou le sous-titrage bilingue des films en compétition (quoique la technologie rend maintenant cela plus facile et surtout moins coûteux). Toutefois, avec la diversité et la qualité habituelle de sa programmation, je ne suis pas sûr la plupart des amateurs fidèles du FFM voient vraiment une différence. Tout ce qu’ils veulent c’est voir de bons et beaux films et, pour cela, ils seront sûrement servi. Et, comme nous le rappel Serge Losique, le FFM est un festival très important, respecté à travers le monde. Il mérite donc toute notre attention et notre support.

Le Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal se tiendra du 21 août au 1er septembre 2014, aux cinémas Impérial (1430 rue de Bleury — Métro Place des Arts) et Quartier Latin (350 rue Emery — Métro Berri-UQAM). Les billets seront disponible dès le 16 août à midi aux guichets des cinémas Impérial et Quartier Latin, et en réseau de billetterie dès le 22 août. Les billets individuels sont $10, les Passeports sont $100 et la Carte Cinéphile est $250. Des carnets de 10 coupons échangeables contre des billets individuels sont également disponible pour $70. Plus de détails sur le site du festival: www.ffm-montreal.org.

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L’image du chat-medi

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Saya (2014-07-22)
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Fabergé

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Voici quelques photos de notre visite de l’exposition Fabergé au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal la semaine dernière. Cela ne rends vraiment pas justice à la splendeur des pièces exposées qu’il faut vraiment voir en personne…
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Here are some pictures from our visit last week to the Fabergé exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. This does not really do justice to the splendour of the exhibits that really must be seen in person…

L’image du mer-fleurie

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Sunflower / Tournesol
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My garden / Mon jardin (2014-07-25)
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L’Image du chat-medi

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Les nouveaux (et timides) chatons
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The new (and shy) kittens (2014-08-01)
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Découverte: Les contrées sauvages

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“L’auteur de Quartier lointain nous propose un périple à travers les grands espaces.”
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“Au milieu d’une nature cruelle et ses créatures hostiles, document.write(“”); l’homme est la proie de tout, et surtout de lui-même.”

“Dans cette anthologie en deux tomes, nous découvrons une facette encore méconnue en France de l’oeuvre de Taniguchi : l’époque où, nourri de bande dessinée européenne, il s’essayait à la BD de genre en y insufflant ce qui est aujourd’hui encore sa marque de fabrique : un immense talent de raconteur d’histoires.”

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Animeland nous apprend qu’un nouveau manga de Jirô Taniguchi devrait paraître en France cette automne!

Il s’agit de Les Contrées Sauvages (???? / K?ya yori / From Wilderness) une anthologie de onze histoires publiée au Japon en 2012 par Kobunsha — incluant “Nazuke enu mono” [??????? / Innommable] préalablement publié en 2010 par Kodansha dans Comic Box Amasia, ainsi que “K?ya o ayume” [????? / Le désert d’Ayume], “Rongunaifu” [?????? / Long couteau], “???” [?], “Geronimo” [?????], “Mori e” [?? / Vers la forêt], “Tsuki ni hoeru” [????? / Hurlant à la lune], “Saketa h?k?” [????? / Hurlemant déchiré], “Y?kara no mori” [?????? / La forêt de Yukar], “ Taka” [? / Le Faucon] et “Irataka no juzu” [??????? / Le Rosaire d’Irataka].

La version française devrait paraître chez Casterman (collection Sakka) en deux volumes dont le premier sortira en septembre.

Les Contrées Sauvages vol. 1, par Jirô Taniguchi. Paris: Casterman (collection Sakka), septembre 2014. 240 pgs, 13.95 €, ISBN: 9782203084438.

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Données sur les emprunts de livres

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Un article dans la Gazette du 29 juillet fait une intéressante analyse des données sur les emprunts de livres dans les bibliothèques publiques de Montréal. L’auteur de cet article, document.write(“”); Roberto Rocha (dont la chronique Data Points se spécialise dans ce genre d”interprétation de données), fait ce qui me semble la première analyse indépendante des méta-data sur les bibliothèques publiques que la Ville de Montréal avait rendu publique il y a quelques années au sein de son “Portail de données ouvertes”. On y trouve les statistiques d’emprunt pour les 4,4 millions de documents des 45 bibliothèques de la ville collectées depuis leur inclusion dans le catalogue Nelligan (c’est-à-dire entre le 27 juin 2007 et le 30 août 2011). Le site n’indique pas avoir été mis à jour depuis mais pourtant M. Rocha donne des statistiques pour l’année courante…
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Les conclusions sont très étonnantes: il en ressort que la littérature jeunesse prédomine très largement les emprunts et tout particulièrement la bande-dessinée et les mangas ! Le top 10 des emprunts toutes catégories depuis le début de la compilation des données est le suivant:

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• Naruto (manga)
• Garfield (BD)
• Winx club (BD / novelisation)
• Les Légendaires (BD)
• Détective Conan (manga)
• Les Simpson (BD)
• One Piece (manga)
• Yu-Gi-Oh (manga)
• Fruits basket (manga)
• Caillou (livre d’images)

Toutefois, si l’on tient compte des différents volumes de chaque série et des variantes dans les titres on obtient un tableau un peu différent dont les trois premières positions sont occupées par les mangas Fruits basket, One Piece et la BD Les p’tits diables. On y retrouve trois autres mangas: Chocola & Vanilla (Sugar Sugar Rune) [4e position], Doraemon [5e] et Détective Conan [13e] ainsi que des séries télé comme Dexter [7e], Lost [10e] et The Sopranos [12e]. A noter la présence de la série de littérature jeunessse Psy malgré moi en onzième position.

Je suis fort heureux de constater que les jeunes usagés utilisent beaucoup les bibliothèques (toutefois il ne faut pas oublier que les jeunes n’ont pas l’exclusivité de la lecture de BD!) et que les mangas font si bonnes figures parmi les emprunts — peut-être qu’ils obtiendront finalement le respect qu’ils méritent! Malheureusement, l’article ne donne aucune statistique pour les titres de littérature jeunesse en tant que tel (excluant la BD et les documentaires). J’aurais été bien curieux de voir les titres jeunesses le plus lus tant en anglais qu’en français…

Le top 3 des romans anglais (fiction) inclus The girl with the dragon tattoo (Stieg Larson), Nine Dragons (Michael Connelly) et Fifty shades of Grey (E.L. James).

Le top 3 des romans français inclus A.N.G.E. (Anne Robillard), Mémoires d’un quartier (Louise Tremblay-d’Essiambre) et Aya de Yopougon (Marguerite Abouet).

Chose amusante, le documentaire anglais (non-fiction) le plus populaire est Driving a passenger vehicle alors que le documentaire français le plus populaire est… Conduire un véhicule de promenade ! Il est vrai que ces manuels pour les cours de conduite sont très empruntés.

Vous trouverez plus de détails (et les chiffres exacts) dans l’article lui-même (en anglais).

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