French films with Chinese (and sometimes English) subtitles
Tickets: RMB 20 (Students: RMB 10)
Fidelity card: RMB 100/5 films + 1 free (Students: RMB 50)
Cinema, Institut Fran?ais de Chine
More information on activities: www.institutfrancais-chine.com
This winter, expect to thrill!
From December 2 to 30, the Institut fran?ais de Chine puts on the trench coat for an exclusive program on film noir. Murders, betrayals, rivalries and femmes fatales will have the honours inside a selection of 12 iconic movies. From the classics of Jean Gabin to the new talents, as well as some masterpieces of Jean-Pierre Melville, be on the trail of the most unforgettable crimes in the French cinema.
13m2
Friday 02 - 19:30 Friday 09 - 17:00 Monday 19 - 19:30
France, 2007
103’, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by: Barthélémy Grossmann
Cast: Barthélémy Grossmann, Lucien Jean-Baptiste
French with English and Chinese subtitles
Jose is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and his step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative way. Together with his two best friends,he decides to attack an armored vehicle, full of cash. But everything goes wrong and they’re forced into hiding,in a 13 square meters bunker. There, they will have to test their friendship, their motivations, as every move outside triggers even more paranoia.
Bob le Flambeur
Saturday 03 - 15:00 Friday 09 - 19:30 Friday 16 - 17:00
France, 1956
56’, Drama, Crime
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey
French with English and Chinese subtitles
In Paris’s Montmartre district, everyone knows Bob, a well-dressed compulsive gambler. He’s generous, moralistic, drives a two-toned convertible coupe, lives in a swank apartment, and has the respect of the police. But he’s on a losing streak, and even when he hits it big at the track, he loses at the Deauville casino. When he learns that the casino keeps a fortune on Grand Prix weekend, he plots a robbery. Subplots trace a seemingly innocent coquette’s social climb and the greed of a croupier’s wife who betrays the thieves.
Elevator to the Gallows
Friday 02 - 17:00 Mondav 12 - 19:30 Sunday 18 - 19:30 Friday 23 - 17:00
France, 1958
88’, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by: Louis malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet
French with English and Chinese subtitles
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex -paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things in his car, he finds he has forgotten the rope outside the window and he returns to the building to remove it...
Doulos
Saturday 03 - 17:00 Saturday 10 - 15:00 Friday 16 - 19:30
F r a n c e , 1962
135’, Crime, Drama, Thriller Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani
French with English and Chinese subtitles
Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend Silien brings him the needed equipment. But Silien is a police informer ... A movie whose “all characters are two-faced, all characters are false”, according to director Jean-Pierre Melville.
Oakley & Shaun White Air & Style Beijing 2011
Time: 2011/12/3
Venue: National Indoor Stadium
Price: RMB 80/180/280/380/580
Ticket Package: RMB 600
Tickets are available at 86-10-64177845
The Oakley and Shaun White present, Air & Style Beijing 2011, consists of two parts: the Qualification, and the Main Contest. Twelve riders compete in the Qualification, consisting of two runs each, and receive a cumulative score from those two runs. The four riders with the highest cumula-tive scores qualify to compete in the Main Contest. The Main Contest runs in a head to head, single elimination format, with each rider getting three runs per round. The highest scoring run is the only score that counts toward winning the round. The challenging rider goes first in the first two runs of each round, but the rider holding the highest score for the round so far, goes first for the third run of the round. The head to
head format leads to the final
four riders competing in the Super Final, where these four riders compete for 1st through 4th place.
The King’s Singers Concert
Time: 2011/12/11
Venue: NCPA-Concert Hall
Price: RMB 80/180/260/360/420/500/600
Tickets are available at 86-10-64177845
Described as possessing an “impeccably manicured vocal blend, enchanting the ear from first to last note” (Gramophone Magazine), The King’s Singers maintain the highest calibre of a cappella performance, and continue to be one of the most sought-after vocal ensembles in the world.
The charm, wit and extraordinary musicianship of The King’s Singers is further enjoyed through many workshops and masterclasses. The group is “Prince Consort Ensemble in Residence” at The Royal College of Music in London, and holds a bi-annual summer course and residency at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Swan Lake by Imperial Russian Ballet


ARTISTS’ BELONGINGS
– Luo Yongjin Photography Exhibition
Essay: Monica Dematté
Opening: 16:00 - 18:00 / 22. 10. 2011
Duration: 10:00 - 18:00 / 23. 10. 2011- 16. 12. 2011
Venue: OFOTO Gallery. 2F, Building 13, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai. Tel: 86 - 21 - 6298 5416
www.ofoto-gallery.com
To See the World in an Artist’s Studio - Luo Yongjin’s Sharp Eyes
Luo Yongjin and I started twenty years ago to explore artists’ studios. It was the year 1990, April, and the two of us together met many artists, visited their studios or their houses (rooms, rather). At that time ‘contemporar y’ art was still an extremely small phenomenon and those devoted to it were struggling with many difficulties - first of all, their own understanding of a non-traditional and non-institutional way of making art. Luo Yongjin was then busy shooting a documentary - we wanted to leave a trace of the world of those artists - and taking pictures at the same time made the task very difficult. The frame of mind requested for shooting a video is different from that requested in shooting still pictures, as people familiar with these media know well, but there was no choice.
In that period Luo Yongjin was still under the influence of important western photographers like Cartier Bresson, he was somehow ‘catching the moment’and focusing on transient expressions, movements, gestures of the subjects. His subjects were mainly human beings. Nearly all of the pictures taken by the photographer at that time were portraits, although they were not perceived in that way by the people portrayed: very soon, Luo Yongjin had developed a very silent, unobserved, hidden way of shooting so that his work would not interfere with the subjects’ spontaneity.
I have said that his subjects were human beings - namely, the artists. A more correct expression would be, ‘artists in their environment’. Luo Yongjin would quickly catch the personality of the person portrayed not only observing her/him, but also very much through the environment around. The photographer is not a great talker, he does not like to spend much time chatting around. He is rather a great observer; his sharp eye catches even the smallest details of a place, of a landscape, of a person’s facial expression. He prefers to be able to move around freely without having to consider entertaining the person whose space he is in. I wonder whether it is a kind of shyness, or a ‘professional’decision, the one that made him neglect, with the passing of the years, human beings. I have the feeling that the ‘silent space’ the photographer enjoys when he is dealing with ‘non-human’ subjects, in the long run enables personalities like his to reach deeper into ‘reality’ without being constantly distracted by futile




talks and emotive interactions.
Luo Yongjin’s photos, starting from the ‘New residences’ in Luoyang(1997), have no longer had human beings as important subjects. However, everything photographed by Luo Yongjin is man-made. Every picture tells a story of human beings’ ‘macrocosms’ (the huge Cityscapes or the Government buildings, for instance) or ‘microcosms’, like the images of this new series: “Artists’ belongings”.
When Luo Yongjin told me, about two years ago, that he wanted to start a series of pictures on artists studios, I thought it was a good idea but I imagined something very different from what I saw several months later. I was imagining images portraying a whole environment, maybe taken with his 140 degrees rotating lens-camera. When I saw these works, and I realized that he had metaphorically used the magnifying lens to point out little object, shadows, drops, dusts... I was quite surprised and somehow touched.
I know personally most of the artists whose space has been ‘examined’ by Luo Yongjin’s scientific - yet affectionate - eye. I can see where the details chosen deeply reveal the owner’s personality. This is my personal way of enjoying these works, though. It is even more intimate when I see the pictures he has taken in my own house - and those are really telling how deeply my friend knows me.
But talking about feelings that can be shared by the common viewers, who know nothing about those people, those artists, I want to reassure them: really they do not miss anything relevant. One can only acknowledge that there are different layers of understanding in these images, like in every good,‘cultivated’ work of art. Although every picture carries a reference, i.e. the name of the owner of the space, this name is really not important for the fruition of the image. To know that there are dead flies underneath Song Haidong’s flower vase is completely irrelevant. What re- ally matters is the feeling that comes out of these ‘still lives’. What matters is the ability of the photographer to catch poetic, intimate, evocative images that even the occupants of the space are unaware of. He helps them - and the viewers - to trace beauty, emotions, extra-ordinary viewpoints (color dripping like an abstract painting, dust leaving interesting traces, perspectives never considered by the eyes...) in everyday environments.
I think Luo Yongjin is a passionate lover of life in every manifestation, he is able to find things that catch his attention everywhere. Through his eye and the camera he manages to transform them into something that can improve our life. He manages to elevate ordinary objects to another realm, so to inspire us, the viewers, and satisfy our need for some kind of aesthetics, of silence, of peace.
Monica DemattéVigolo Vattaro