Cinéma Moderne is pleased to announce the return of the screenings in its theatre. The cinema will reopen today, Friday, July 3rd, in a room with reduced capacity to ensure the safety of cinephiles and staff. The kick-off will be given with the screening of the Cannes award-winning offbeat comedy It Must Be Heaven? by Elia Suleiman.
Some feature films by award-winning female directors will be released this month, including First Cow, a western directed by Kelly Reichardt presented in official competition at the Berlinale; The Hottest August, by Canadian filmmaker Brett Story, who paints an empathetic portrait of American society in a shaky time; Canción sin nombre by Peruvian director Melina León, a feminist, political and journalistic drama of great formal beauty, which takes place in Peru in the tense political climate of the 1980s, as Georgina becomes the victim of an inhuman plot after the birth of her first child; and Clemency, by Chinonye Chukwu, a drama exploring the torments of a prison director confronted with her values when one of her prisoners is sentenced to death, which made the director the first black woman to win the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Film buffs will also be able to discover the most recent work by Carlos Ferrand, Jongué, a Nomad’s Journey, relating to the life and legacy of Montreal photographer and writer Serge Emmanuel Jongué. Cinéma Moderne will take a journey into the past with the screening of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Cinéma Moderne’s online platform will continue to offer films for people from all over Quebec. Two new features will be added to the films already available: Whose Streets?, a documentary by Sabaah Folayan dealing with the murder of the African American Michael Brown by a police officer in 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as Searching for Ingmar Bergman by Margarethe von Trotta, a documentary through which the director explores the creative and personal life of one of the most striking and enigmatic figures in cinema.
COMING UP
STARTING JULY 3
It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman
France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine / 2019 / Original French, English, Spanish and Hebrew version with English subtitles / 102 minutes
Special Mention – Cannes 2019
*IN THEATRE
Les nuits de la pleine lune by Eric Rohmer
France / 1984 / Original French version with English subtitles / 138 minutes
Best Actress Pascal Ogier – Venice Film Festival 1984
Best film of the year – Top 10 Cahiers du Cinéma 1984
*ONLINE
STARTING JULY 10
First Cow by Kelly Reichardt
United States / 2020 / Original English version / 122 minutes
Golden Bear Nominee – Berlinale 2020
*IN THEATRE
In My Blood It Runs by Maya Newell
Australia / 2019 / Original multilingual version with English subtitles / 84 minutes
*ONLINE
Sovereign Soil by David Curtis
Canada / 2019 / Original multilingual version with French subtitles / 91 minutes
*ONLINE
STARTING JULY 11
Clemency by Chinonye Chukwu
United States / 2019 / Original English version with French subtitles / 113 minutes
U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize – Sundance 2019
*IN THEATRE
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand / 2010 / Original Lao and Thai version with English subtitles / 113 minutes
Golden Palm – Cannes Film Festival 2010
*IN THEATRE
STARTING JULY 17
The Hottest August BY Brett Story
Canada, United States / 2019 / Original English version / 95 minutes
*IN THEATRE
Perdrix by Erwan Le Duc
France / 2019 / Original French version with English subtitles / 99 minutes
Selection – Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2019
*IN THEATRE
Whose Streets? by Sabaah Folayan
United States / 2017 / Original English version / 103 minutes
*ONLINE
Regarding Gravity by Matthieu Brouillard
Quebec (Canada) / 2017 / Original French version with English subtitles / 79 minutes
*ONLINE
STARTING JULY 23
Amores modernos by Matias Meyer
Mexico, Switzerland / 2019 / Original Spanish version with English subtitles / 80 minutes
*IN THEATRE
STARTING JULY 24
Canción sin nombre by Melina León
Peru, Spain, United States / 2019 / Original Spanish version with English subtitles / 97 minutes
Selection – Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2019
*IN THEATRE
Jongué, a Nomad’s Journey by Carlos Ferrand
Quebec (Canada) / 2019 / Original French or English version / 80 minutes
*IN THEATRE (and online starting July 31)
Helmut Newton : The Bad and the Beautiful by Gero von Boehm
Germany / 2020 / Original German, English and French version with English subtitles / 90 minutes
*ONLINE
STARTING JULY 31
Searching for Ingmar Bergman by Margarethe von Trotta
Germany, France / 2018 / Original German, Swedish, English and French version with English subtitles / 99 minutes
*ONLINE
For more information, visit Cinéma Moderne’s website: cinemamoderne.com
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