"
Kiki de Montparnasse" by Catel and
Bocquet 00:33
Sometime there is the right person in the right place to embody the time and palce. In the
1920s the place was
Paris and the person was Kiki de Montparnasse.
Born as
Alice Prin, she adopted the name
Kiki for her life as the most famous artist's model of her time.
Picasso,
Hemingway,
Man Ray, and virtually every important artist of the
Lost Generation fell under her spell.
The new graphic biography Kiki de Montparnasse by Catel
Muller and
Jose Luis Bocquet allows us to take another look at the icon. CANAPE listens to what experts say about her.
"Wakhan : An Other
Afghanistan" by Varial and Fabrice Nadjari 6:02
It may be difficult to imagine an Afghanistan without war but it exists today. The Wakkan
Corridor in the far north east of the country is so isolated that it remains untouched by the strife elsewhere. In
2011 two 33 year old
French photographers heard of this remarkable fact from an article in the
New York Times and decided to make a photographic chronicle of the region, something never done before.
Arriving by horse and donkey, the only modes of transportation in the largely roadless land, they walked
180 miles from one end of the region to the other. CANAPE takes a look at the striking images that that found of people living outside the modern world.
"
Americano" by
Mathieu Demy 12:17
The deep effects of divorce upon children may go even deeper if the change includes two countries. Mathieu Demy's first feature film Americano, which he wrote and in which he plays to central character, explores a son's search for an understanding of his recently deceased, long estranged mother as he comes to
Los Angeles to repatriate her body to
France. Demy mixes current footage with images from the
1981 film Documenteur directed by his own mother
Agnes Varda. The young filmmaker talks to CANAPE about a film that mixes times and places to portray the intimacy of family.
Robert Delpire :
A retrospective of his work 17:49
Over the past sixty years, the eyes and instincts of Robert Delpire have shaped much of the world's understanding of photography. A prolific publisher and exhibition organizer, with a razor-sharp comprehension of the graphic arts, Delpire has had a defining hand in the careers of many of the master photographers of recent history. The Cultural Services of the
French Embassy in collaboration with
Aperture Gallery,
The Gallery at
Hermès, and
La Maison Française of
New York University present Delpire & Co., an exhibition featuring a half century of achievement in the life and career of visionary French publisher, editor, and curator Robert Delpire. CANAPE takes a glimpse.
"Unforgivable" by
André Téchiné with
Carole Bouquet 22:06
The best mysteries may not have a defintive solution. They shift from whodunit to whydunit. The whys may multiply.
Andre Techine's latest film Unforgivable takes a disappearance among of set of French expats living as its starting points to render subtle psychology and astute social observation among characters of different classes and generations. As usual, Techine assembles at A-list of French actors.
Lead female performer Carole Bouquet sits down with to chat with CANAPE about the film and its filmmaker.
(Taped: 06/20/12)
Since
1996, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and
CUNY TV have produced together one of the few French programs to appear on
American television:
Canapé.
Stylish and modern, Canapé is the only program entirely devoted to French cultural events in
New York and the
United States. This monthly half-hour show includes film releases, book translations, exhibitions, festivals, ballets, concerts and theater productions.
Canapé is seen on the third Thursday of the month in a French-only version and repeated the fourth Thursday of the month in an English-subtitled version.
Watch more at
http://www.cuny.tv/show/canape
- published: 03 Jul 2012
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