New 2K restoration Nobuhiro Suwa’s second feature and breakout film, 2/Duo telescopes in on the seemingly mannered, domestic life of a young couple – Kei, a cash-strapped aspiring actor (Drive My Car’s Hidetoshi Nishijima) and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store (Eri Yu) – and finds in the vicissitudes of their relationship […]
April 1st screening with filmmaker Arnaud Valade in attendance Using footage from both amateur and professional sources, 2012/Through the Heart draws us into the intensity of the 2012 Quebec student strike protests and riots. While we are confronted with the brutality of the police, the film also reminds us of the power of this historic […]
Special screening in collaboration with 24 images for the release of their new issue “Panique! Le cinéma catastrophe dans tous ses états” SIX MILLION TONS OF ICY TERROR! A winter wonderland becomes a nightmare of destruction when an avalanche smashes into a ski resort and a holiday vacation becomes a struggle for survival. Once producer […]
Special screening in collaboration with 24 images for the release of their new issue “Panique! Le cinéma catastrophe dans tous ses états” This unforgettable tale of the atomic age swept the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards, and is the harrowing Eastern equivalent to American works like TESTAMENT and THE DAY AFTER. Five years after the lethal […]
Godard. Belmondo. Seberg. The iconic trio of this shattering and revolutionary Nouvelle Vague debut, co-written by François Truffaut. Cinéma Moderne is proud to present this new 4K restoration by Rialto Pictures, honoring the film’s 60th anniversary. Small-time crook Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) steals a car and murders a policeman. While on the run, he reconnects with […]
Special screening in collaboration with the Club ukrainien de Montréal In his acclaimed debut feature The Distant Barking of Dogs, filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont took on a 10-year-old child’s perspective of the war in Donbass in 2017. Three years later, the war still raging in Ukraine—and now on a scale that is difficult to comprehend—he […]
*In collaboration with the FNC Pierre-Olivier, Émilie, Steve and Nicolas, all aged 14 to 16, live in a Quebec City suburb and have the concerns you’d expect, from falling in love to finding friendship. One wild night, the group experiences something that changes how they see the world. Rough-edged, semi-improvisational and made on a shoestring, […]
In collaboration with RIDM The winner of this year’s Œil d’Or (Golden Eye) award at Cannes, this intriguing film portrays the hopeful spirit of the youth movement calling for urgent social change in India. Director Payal Kapadia weaves a narrative from the correspondence between two university students, L and K, whose romance is thwarted by […]
*PROGRAMME DOUBLE Film POP et MUTEK présentent: A Symphony of Noise Enrique Sánchez Lansch│Allemagne, 2021│96 min Matthew Herbert, musicien house et compositeur d’avant-garde basé au Royaume-Uni, s’est toujours considéré comme étant un peu espiègle. Cela dit, malgré toutes ses cascades et ses provocations, Herbert cherche avant tout à nous guider vers de nouvelles façons d’écouter. […]
This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give unforgettably harrowing performances as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express their ardor in terms the other can understand. This landmark American film […]