FILM ( Screenings ) "Guernica / Statues also die / Night and Fog" As part of Rendezvous with French Cinema at Alliance Francaise - 5th March 09

• Time : 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm

• Duration : 75 mins.

• Event Details : Screening of the films 'Guernica', 'Statues also die / Les statues meurent aussi' and 'Nuit et brouillard / Night and Fog'.
• As part of Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
• Guernica
• 1950 – B&W-13’
• Directed by : Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens
• On 26 April 1937, Guernica, a Spanish Basque town, was bombarded non-stop for over three hours, leaving 2,000 dead, all civilians. Alain Resnais borrows a poetic tribute from Paul Eluard to the martyred town and combines it with the paintings produced by Pablo Picasso from 1902 to 1949. By teaming up the communist poet’s anguished poem with the Spanish painter’s art, Alain Resnais composes a cinematographic lament on the vulnerability of man and his terrible ferocity.
• Statues also die / Les statues meurent aussi
• 1953 – B&W-30’
• Directed by: Alain Resnais, Chris Marker
• “We were asked to make a film on Negro art. Chris Marker and I had this question: why is Negro art in the Paris Museum of Man while Greek and Egyptian art is in the Louvre?” : A commission from Présence Africaine magazine leads Alain Resnais and Chris Marker to celebrate the beauty and mystery of African objects. The authors vehemently criticise the acculturation mechanisms imposed on the African continent by colonisation and defend the idea of continuity and fraternity between the African and European civilisations.
• Awards :
• 1954 - Prix Jean Vigo : Prix Jean Vigo, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker
• Nuit et brouillard / Night and Fog
• 1955 – B&W-32’
• Directed by: Alain Resnais
• In 1955, the French Second World War History Committee asked Alain Resnais to make a film to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps. The film is in two parts: 1933: the launch of Hitler’s machine and the creation of the first camps, the description of their architecture, the hierarchy, and the heinous treatment of the camp prisoners. 1943: the description of the extermination, the gas chambers and the management of the death camps. Jean Cayrol’s sober narration warns viewers tempted to avert their eyes from these horrendous images of the risk of seeing their memories become as murky as “frigid and muddy water”.
• Awards:
• 1956 - Prix Jean Vigo : Prix Jean Vigo, Alain Resnais

• Directed by : Jean-Luc Godard

• Year : 1960

• Cast : Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau, Bernard Dhéran, Carlo Brandt, Jacques Mathou, Urbain Cancelier

• Places : M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française, Next to Annex building of India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
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