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Rencontre 7ème Art Lausanne

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December 2023

Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne funded by Vincent Perez.

“The 6th edition of r7al last March was a firework display of creativity and talent… screenings, previews, conferences, masterclasses, book signings, but above all meetings and reunions between film lovers!
The cinema of yesterday, the cinema of today and the cinema of tomorrow…
A heartfelt THANK YOU to my friend Vincent and my friend Alexandrine (Kol) – his unfailing right-hand woman – for this priceless gift they have given for the 6th year to Lausanne and to all the people of Lausanne … or should I say the whole of Switzerland!
Everyone was invited to the Festival… and they’re already looking forward to the 2024 edition!
Happy and proud to be your Ambassador, my dear Vincent and Alexandrine, since the first cranking in 2018!
Unconditionally at your side,
Dominique “

Speaking louder than 1,000 words, this “best of” 2023 will give you a taste of the emotions you’ve experienced… and a foretaste of the emotions to come in 2024, which promises to be exceptional!

 

Join us in the r7al Friends to enjoy unforgettable experiences during the Meetings and throughout the year!

December 2021

Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne.
Miroir Miroir, from 12 to 20 March 2022.
The poster for the 5th edition and the first films in the selection.

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Dear friends,

The upcoming edition of Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, scheduled from March 12 to 20, will revolve around a fascinating and extremely rich theme: Mirror, Mirror, Cinema Facing Itself.

This 5th edition will be a fantastic opportunity to delve into the heart of the 7th Art by (re)discovering masterpieces and cult films centered on the subject of cinema, films that tell stories about cinema.

And to illustrate our theme, who else could be the absolute icon of the 7th Art?

“If we selected this intense and powerful photo of Marilyn Monroe to represent the 5th edition of Rencontres, it’s because it symbolizes the entirety of our upcoming theme in all its complexity. Doesn’t this frozen moment of one of the greatest stars cinema has ever known express, in a single image, in a randomly captured moment, the multiple reflections that cinema sends back to us? Beauty, fame, seduction, fantasy, mystification, but also illusion, fragility, and… tragedy?”
Vincent Perez, President of Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne.

These multiple reflections that cinema – and others too – sends back to us will be explored with our selection of films. Starting with these first 16 masterpieces that we are pleased to announce today. More will follow very soon.

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THE FIRST 8 FILMS IN THE THEME, SELECTED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CINÉMATHÈQUE SUISSE AND SCREENED AT THE CINÉMATOGRAPHE:
  • La Nuit américaine, film miroir par excellence de François Truffaut, avec François Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset et Nathalie Baye, une déclaration d’amour au cinéma, un film-making of poétique relatant avec subtilité l’univers des plateaux de tournage, les rapports humains, l’amour, la vie…
  • Le chef-d’œuvre Huit et demi de Federico Fellini avec Marcello Mastroianni et Claudia Cardinale, considéré comme le travail le plus intime du réalisateur et l’un des meilleurs films de tous les temps, un regard quasi autobiographique sur le processus créatif, l’histoire d’un film qui ne se fera peut-être jamais, à travers les états d’âmes, les rêveries et les obsessions du metteur en scène.
  • Le Mépris, film culte de Jean-Luc Godard avec Brigitte Bardot et Michel Piccoli, dont le propos est l’un des plus clairs de la filmographie de son auteur : la mort du cinéma par l’abnégation d’un réalisateur au sein d’une superproduction, reflet d’un sentiment de doute s’immisçant au sein d’un couple, menant au mépris…
  • Le conte néo-réaliste Bellissima de Luchino Visconti, avec Anna Magnani et Walter Chiari, critique sociale sur la puissance de l’industrie cinématographique, broyeuse d’âmes innocentes et prêtes à tous les sacrifices pour toucher du doigt un certain miroir aux alouettes.
  • Good morning Babilonia, film subtil et épique des frères Paolo et Vittorio Taviani, avec Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida et Greta Scacchi, sur la destinée de deux frères maçons italiens partis chercher fortune aux États-Unis, une déclaration d’amour lyrique aux pionniers du 7e Art et un message : les cathédrales des temps à venir seront des bâtiments d’images, des temples de pellicule.
  • Le multi-oscarisé All about Eve de Joseph L. Mankiewicz, avec Bette Davis et Anne Baxter, qui raconte avec un cynisme redoutable le face à face entre une jeune actrice à l’ascension fulgurante et une gloire vieillissante, une plongée dans les coulisses d’un univers où mensonge et vérité, illusion et désillusion, loyauté et trahison s’entrecroisent et se confondent sans scrupule.
  • Ça tourne à Manhattan de Tom DiCillo avec Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener et Dermot Mulroney, comédie décalée et irrésistible où tout part en vrille sur un plateau de tournage, entre déboires techniques et sentimentaux du réalisateur, égos surdimensionnés des acteurs, techniciens qu’on ne prend pas au sérieux, rêves de célébrité et tournages de séquences qui trouvent un écho parfois saisissant avec les expériences personnelles de l’équipe, un film plein de dérision qui sent bon le vécu.
  • Adaptation de Spike Jonze avec Nicolas Cage et Meryl Streep, traitant de manière délirante le sensible sujet de la création, du syndrome de la page blanche et, en creux, des angoisses existentielles de l’auteur pour lequel tout se mélange… le scénario, les personnages, la vie réelle, de la fiction à la réalité et inversement…
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THE FIRST 8 FILMS IN THE THEME SHOWN IN PATHÉ THEATRES IN LAUSANNE .
  • The Player, a film reflecting on personal ambition in elite circles, between escape, seduction, and violence, set in the context of 90s Hollywood. Directed by the most nonconformist and iconoclastic filmmaker of New Hollywood, Robert Altman, with Tim Robbins more credible than ever as a substanceless producer willing to do anything to succeed.
  • The cult and corrosive film by Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, with Gloria Swanson, William Holden, and Erich von Stroheim. Named after the famous boulevard that crosses Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, lined with villas of Hollywood stars, it portrays the City of Angels and its tendency to violently plunge stars who enriched it into oblivion. A film about what changes – the world, the industry, business logic, audience expectations – and what never changes: vanity, ambition, hope, love of art.
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo with Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello. A work of rare poetry considered one of Woody Allen’s best films. In it, a bored woman cheats her melancholy by spending time at the movies and falls in love with a character who steps out of the screen to kiss her – realizing that in reality, a kiss doesn’t end with a fade to black. A reflection on the power of cinematographic illusion and the ambiguity of the relationship between the screen and reality, image and illusion.
  • A masterpiece of the 2000s and a must-see in David Lynch’s filmography, the enigma Mulholland Drive with Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, and Justin Theroux. A film with a mysterious narrative, its plot – unfolding in L.A. around two actresses in love – is open to interpretation, intertwining stories and characters. A true reflection on cinema that replaces our gaze with a fantasized world that aligns with our desires…
  • The masterful biopic Aviator by Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, and Kate Beckinsale. An exhilarating film about the eccentric and flamboyant billionaire Howard Hughes, a pioneer in civil aviation, inventor, producer, director, and insatiable seducer. An elegant fresco of the golden age of Hollywood.
  • The Cameraman by and with the genius gagman Buster Keaton. Keaton’s last silent masterpiece before the arrival of sound, demonstrating the extent of his authorial talent. Explores all possibilities offered by his elastic body, a film as a lesson in cinema, burlesque and groundbreaking, where even a monkey knows how to use a camera…
  • The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky, with Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev. A dreamlike and quasi-autobiographical film, a testimony and exposure of the director at work in his art, becoming the guinea pig of his own film, a sort of mirror of the unconscious.
  • Broken Embraces by Pedro Almodóvar with Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, and Lluis Homar. A true declaration of love to cinema, dazzling and exhilarating, taking the form of a broken love story between a director and the woman of his life. A sublime melodrama with shades of film noir.

Dear friends, an exciting program awaits us. Mirror, Mirror… When cinema looks at itself in a mirror, this is what it sees. But in the end, isn’t cinema simply a reflection of society, a reflection of ourselves?

Moreover, in Café Society, doesn’t Woody Allen make his character Bobby Dorfman, who comes to Los Angeles to try his luck, say: “Life is a comedy, written by a comico-sadistic screenwriter”?

See you soon for more information…

THE RENCONTRES 7E ART LAUSANNE IN A FEW WORDS

Created in 2018 by actor and director Vincent Perez, the Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne contribute to the valorization of cinematographic heritage, in close collaboration with the Swiss Film Archive, which preserves over 85,000 films, 3 million photographs, and more than 500,000 posters (6th largest film archive in the world), as well as the cultural radiance of Lausanne. Centered around a theme, the annual event screens masterpieces to be (re)discovered on the big screen and invites internationally renowned artists to engage with the audience through masterclasses, conversations, and roundtable discussions. Over the years, the Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne have had the honor of hosting guests such as Christopher Walken, Joel Coen, Matt Dillon, Paul Auster, Darren Aronofsky, Barry Levinson, Jean Dujardin, Bertrand Blier, Agnès Jaoui, Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jean-Claude Rappeneau, Léa Seydoux, Fanny Ardant, Rossy de Palma, and many others…

Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne.
Mirror Mirror – 5th edition from March 12 to 20, 2022.
Masterpieces on the big screen.
Prestigious guests.
Exclusive encounters.
In-person and digital.

Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne 2021, video highlights :

The Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne 2021 program: See the program here

The Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne 2020 program: See the program here

November 2017

It was a great pride to be able to contribute to this project of reach international that has been the first edition of the Rencontres 7th Art Lausanne from 24 to 28 March 2018! 

To allow for this pioneering cultural event in Switzerland to take its full measure, I have worked in tandem with my friend Philippe Meylan for the creation of a Circle of Founding Patrons, friends committed to social causes that “make” Switzerland and contribute to its influence, both economic, as well as philanthropic and cultural! Our Circle of Patrons aims to grow over time… it is with gratitude that we invite you to join us – I am at your disposal for that! –  unless you choose to support this project by joining r7al Friends (more info on the website).

r7al need you to be able to keep its momentum to pursue the mission of HERITAGE and PROSPECTIVE !!!

r7al has hosted over 7,400 lovers of cinema in its various programs and sessions throughout Lausanne and in the historic Capitol Cinema. In only 5 days, the Swiss film library received 10% of its annual visits. These were days of deep sharing between screenings, high level conferences, improbable meetings and glamorous events… the objective of keeping cinema alive was attained!

Some of the most notable highlights include the participation of Christopher Walken, especially at the occasion of the closing evening of the festival, during which he received the first r7al prize in tribute to his exceptional career! 

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With Vincent Perez
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In the company of Madeline and Philippe Meylan
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Christopher Walken and his wife

Everyday, cinema lovers have been able to see the special guests that have come from around the world, at the occasion of round tables and conferences organized at Unil, ECAL or the Cinematheque, and attend screenings in the main cinema halls of the city (40 screenings in total, including award-winning films such as The Deer Hunter, Rain Man, Requiem for a Dream, Taxi Driver, The Wrestler, and Festen.)

Beyond the opening ceremony in a crowded Capitol – the largest Swiss cinema still in business – the key event was the ” cine-Brunch” of Sunday morning, led by the captivating Michel Hazanavicius, and with conversations with Darren Aronofsky, Thierry Frémaux, Alexandre Desplat , Tim Pope, Stephen Apkon , Hugh Hudson, Thomas Vinterberg, Fanny Ardant, Léa Seydoux, Rossy de Palma and Ursula Meier.
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With Vincent Perez
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In the company of Madeline and Philippe Meylan
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Christopher Walken and his wife
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Stephen Apkon
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Barry Levinson
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Michel Hazanavicius
and Bérénice Bejo
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Thomas Vinterberg

If I had to choose the main highlight of the event– a task that is oh so extremely difficult given that all has been proposed was perfectly faithful to the purpose and spirit of the festival –it would be the ” Speak with Her ” lecture and debate series, offering insight on Women’s place in the professional world in general, and in the cinema industry. Organized by Women in Motion, the remarkable and committed testimony of Rossy de Palma, an ode to “Women Empowerment” was particularly strong and engaging!

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Rossy de Palma and Vicent Perez

Señora de Palma has expressed her joy to attend the first r7al, stating: “I will be present at all of the editions, I am very proud of Vincent, he organized a fantastic event!”.

 In the PROSPECTIVE approach, the organizers of r7al, partnered with major universities of the region (EPFL, UNIL, ECAL, EHL EJMA and HEIG-VD). Their stages have received the most of conversations with renowned directors, actors, producers, composers, authors, as well as other professionals of the cinema industry. All these conferences were open to the public.

In this area, one of the most compelling topics of discussion was the emerging role of virtual reality in cinema. Producers and developers of novel technologies thus had the opportunity to exchange forecasts and projects. Vincent Perez and the team of the Rencontres du 7e Art thank the partners and sponsors who have made all this possible, as well as the very many participants for their presence!

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