Rarities in the history of cinema

Each year, unknown and forgotten films are found, restored and brought back to cinema screens. A nomadic section with works from France, Italy, Tunisia, the Philippines, or Czechoslovakia of the 60s. Be curious!

Happiness  by Marcel L’Herbier (Le Bonheur, 1935, 1:50)
An anarchist shoots a star out of hatred for what she represents. But Cupid is sometimes tricky! Between romance and satire, a flamboyant melodrama “about-face” with Gaby Morlay, Charles Boyer and Michel Simon.
Pathé Bellecour Tue. 2:30pm | Institut Lumière theater 2 Sat. 11am

Goha  by Jacques Baratier (1957, 1:18)
The young wife of a respected scholar falls in love with a poor, innocent boy. Shot in Tunisia, with Omar Sharif and Claudia Cardinale in one of their first roles.
Pathé Bellecour Thu. 5pm | CNP Fri. 3pm

The Last Ones  by Vito Pandolfi and David Maria Turoldo (Gliultimi,1963,1h32)
The story of a family of shepherds, constantly mocked for their miserable condition. With strength and poetry, the film speaks of Friuli of the 1930s, a remote and poor land, which made its condition a value and not a shame.
CNP Tue. 8pm | Cinéma Opéra Thu. 2:45pm

All My Compatriots  by Vojtech Jasny (Všichnidobřírodáci,1968,1:55)
The social and political history of a country and the disastrous consequences of the forced Stalinist collectivization in a village from 1945 to 1968. All My Compatriots founded the Czech New Wave of cinema. Cinéma Opéra Tue. 5:30pm | Pathé Bellecour Fri. 10:30am

The Nail of Brightness  by Lino Brocka (Maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag, 1975, 2:06)
Ligaya leaves the countryside for Manila, hoping to find a better life. Without any news, Ligaya’s fiancé goes to look for her. A portrait of the powerful realism of human degradation in the Philippine capital.
Pathé Bellecour Tue. 10:30am | CNP Fri. 5:15pm

Cutter’s Way  by Ivan Passer (1981, 1:49)
A man is wrongly accused of murder. With a friend, a Vietnam veteran, he tries to find the killer. The disaster of a nation that left its last illusions in the Vietnam War. With Jeff Bridges.
Pathé Bellecour Wed. 9:45pm | Pathé Cordeliers Thu. 5pm | Institut Lumière Sun. 2:30pm