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Lundi 20 novembre - de 18h00 ¨¤ 19h00
Journaliste de cin¨¦ma et auteur de ? Romy Schneider et Claude Sautet : un coup de foudre cr¨¦atif ? Jean-Pierre Lavoignat a commenc¨¦ sa carri¨¨re de journaliste ¨¤ l¡¯Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½±P tout en participant au lancement de ? ±Ê°ù±ð³¾¾±¨¨°ù±ð ? dont il est devenu, en 1982, le r¨¦dacteur en chef. En 1987, il a cr¨¦¨¦ ? Studio Magazine ?, dont il a ¨¦t¨¦ le directeur de la r¨¦daction adjoint, puis, ¨¤ partir de 1993, le directeur de la r¨¦daction, poste qu¡¯il a choisi de quitter en mars 2006 pour se consacrer ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦criture ainsi qu¡¯¨¤ la r¨¦alisation de documentaires pour la t¨¦l¨¦vision sur Spielberg, Jeunet, Claude Berri, G¨¦rard Oury, James Gray, Charlotte Gainsbourg et Jean Dujardin¡ Il est l¡¯auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont ? Romy Schneider et Claude Sautet : un coup de foudre cr¨¦atif ? paru en 2022.
On se souvient de l¡¯annonce brutale de la mort Romy Schneider, au printemps 1982, elle avait 43 ans et une longue carri¨¨re. A 15 ans, la cam¨¦ra la d¨¦couvre et ne la quitte pas, de Sissi&²Ô²ú²õ±è;¨¤&²Ô²ú²õ±è;La Passante du Sans-Souci. Combien de vies, combien de femmes incarne-t-elle sur un plateau, pendant pr¨¨s de trente ans ? Le temps de tisser des liens forts avec des acteurs, Delon, Piccoli et plusieurs cin¨¦astes. Que serait le cin¨¦ma de Claude Sautet sans Romy Schneider, petite fille ch¨¦rie de l¡¯Allemagne devenue une femme fran?aise, une figure incontournable du cin¨¦ma des ann¨¦es 1960 ¨C 1970, une beaut¨¦, une photog¨¦nie parfaite, des r?les de femmes qui choisissent leur destin, leurs amours¡Cinquante ans apr¨¨s la sortie de C¨¦sar et Rosalie, et quarante ans apr¨¨s la disparition de Romy Schneider, son aura et l¡¯affection que lui voue le public demeurent intactes, tout comme le regard de Claude Sautet, d¡¯une justesse ¨¦mouvante.
Jean-Pierre Lavoignat leur consacre un ouvrage qui retrace l¡¯incroyable tandem actrice-cin¨¦aste et les cinq films
Culte qu¡¯ils ont fait ensemble entre 1970 et 1978 : Les Choses de la vie, Max et les ferrailleurs, C¨¦sar et Rosalie,
Mado et Une
histoire simple.
Lorsqu¡¯ils se rencontrent, ni Romy Schneider ni Claude Sautet ne se doutent que chacun vient de d¨¦couvrir son alter ego. Le metteur en sc¨¨ne
a trouv¨¦ sa muse, l¡¯actrice son pygmalion. Chacun va magnifier le talent de l¡¯autre. ? Cette rencontre, dira Sautet, nous a illumin¨¦s tous
les deux ?.
Ce livre est un hommage, une d¨¦claration d¡¯amour ¨¤ un duo qui a boulevers¨¦ le cin¨¦ma fran?ais et ne cesse, aujourd¡¯hui encore, de nous
¨¦merveiller.
Vendredi 24 novembre - de 18h00 ¨¤ 19h00
Karine Silla est dramaturge, ¨¦crivaine, r¨¦alisatrice et sc¨¦nariste. Elle pr¨¦sentera ¨¤ ±Ê²¹°ù±ð²Ô³Ù³ó¨¨²õ±ð²õ son nouveau roman
intitul¨¦ ? Aline et les hommes de guerre ? dans lequel elle rend hommage ¨¤ la r¨¦sistante et pr¨ºtresse
s¨¦n¨¦galaise Aline Sito¨¦ Diatta morte en prison ¨¤ l¡¯aube de ses 25 ans.
"Aline Sito¨¦ Diatta na?t en 1920, au beau milieu des for¨ºts luxuriantes de la Casamance, dans le sud du S¨¦n¨¦gal. Enfant
d¨¦termin¨¦e, puis adolescente ind¨¦pendante, solitaire et douce, elle quitte la brousse pour se rendre ¨¤ Dakar afin d¡¯y travailler comme
gouvernante dans une famille de colons. C¡¯est l¨¤ qu¡¯elle entend, pour la premi¨¨re fois, des voix qui lui ordonnent de rentrer chez elle
pour lib¨¦rer son peuple. Pr?nant la d¨¦sob¨¦issance civile et la non-violence, Aline appelle les S¨¦n¨¦galais ¨¤ lutter pour leurs terres et le
respect qui leur reviennent de droit. S¡¯entourant des anciens, comme le veut la tradition diola, ¨¦coutant les conseils de son sage ami
Diacamoune, la jeune femme est vite ¨¦rig¨¦e en ic?ne de la r¨¦sistance, magn¨¦tique et insoumise, et est sacr¨¦e reine. Mena?ant l¡¯ordre ¨¦tabli
et mettant ¨¤ mal l¡¯administration fran?aise, Aline, la ? Jeanne
d¡¯Arc du S¨¦n¨¦gal ?,
devient l¡¯ennemie ¨¤ abattre, mettant, d¨¨s lors, sa jeune vie en danger. ? travers Aline, Karine Silla renoue avec l¡¯histoire de ses origines
et fait entendre la musique de tout un pays gr?ce ¨¤ son ¨¦criture aussi envo?tante et inspirante que la voix de cette femme de lutte et de
c?ur qui, plus jamais, ne nous quittera.
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