Archive 2009
Musik and Film - Alexandre Desplat
Chéri - Eine Komödie der Eitelkeiten (Chéri)Director: Stephen Frears, GB/F/D 2009, 93 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, Music: Alexandre Desplat
Léa is a parisian courtesan. She agrees to make the son of a good family a man. It starts as a playful flirt but ends as a six years lasting love... But: on the Vanity fair new schemes are made, not everybody likes this...
Das Leben: Eine Lüge (Un héros tr ès dis cret)
Director: Jacques Audiard, F 1996, 105 min, DVD, colour, ES
Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Music: Alexandre Desplat
A study of someone leading a strange double life: Tom is a rather unpleasant character who does some dirty work for an estate agency. He is also a pianist, however, who never completed his training to become a musician. When one day he is offered an audition, his life starts getting out of control.
Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring (Girl with a Pearl Earring)
Director: Peter Webber, GB/L 2003, 99 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Cilian Murphy, Music: Alexandre Desplat
Some paintings stubbornly refuse to give up their secrets. Who is the woman in the picture, and under what circumstances was she being painted? Based on the bestselling book, Peter Webber's film tells the story of Vermeer's famous painting, mixing historical facts and literary fiction.
Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button (The curious case of Benjamin Button)
Director: David Fincher, USA 2008, 166 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Music: Alexandre Desplat
The latest work of the thriller director, David Fincher, is adapted from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald: it tells the time-crossed life story of a man who is born as an old man and dies as a baby. Central theme of the film is Benjamin’s unfulfilled love. This epic, sometimes philosophical, film, has an outstanding cast of actors.
Der Wilde Schlag meines Herzens (De Battre Mon Coeur s'est arrêté)
Director: Jacques Audiard, F 2005, 107 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Aure Atika, Music: Alexandre Desplat
A study of someone leading a strange double life: Tom is a rather unpleasant character who does some dirty work for an estate agency. He is also a pianist, however, who never completed his training to become a musician. When one day he is offered an audition, his life starts getting out of control.
Die Queen (The Queen)
Director: Stephen Frears, GB/F/I 2006, 104 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Music: Alexandre Desplat
When Princess Diana is killed in a tragic car accident, Britain is in a state of shock. Queen Elizabeth II and her family hide behind the walls of Balmoral castle in Scotland. Veering from empathy to ridiculousness, the film shows the Queen’s suppressed passions.
The Army of Crime (L'armée du crime)
Director: Robert Guédiguian, F 2009, 139 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stevenin, Music: Alexandre Desplat
Paris, 1941. Missak leads an underground gang fighting the Nazis. News of their daring attacks eventually reaches Berlin. Under Gestapo orders, French police and collaborators hound Missak and his group until, to escape torture, one denounces the whole group. A show trial begins.
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
Director: Ulla Wagner, D 2008, 106 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Alexander Khuon, Wolfgang Böck, Music: Christine Aufderhaar
Early 1945. The Allies are just outside Hamburg. Lena Brücker gets to know a young sailor, Hermann Bremer, takes him as her lover and hides him from the Nazis in her apartment. She blossoms out although Hermann suffers from being locked in. When the war ends, she does not tell him of the changes outside… The filmmusic is composed by Christine Aufderhaar, who is on the Leo jury and who will speak personally about the film.