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Intervista (Original languages with French subtitles)
Location
Main screening room
Date
September 17th, 2023
Duration
105 min
Cycle
Carte blanche à Pierre Jutras

Pierre Jutras worked at the Cinémathèque québécoise for 33 years, first as curator of Quebec and Canadian cinema, then as director of programming. He recently passed away, and to honor his memory, we were fortunate enough to prepare a carte blanche with him, reflecting on his highlights as a programmer and film-lover (the rediscovery of Jean Epstein and Ivan the Terrible, the revelation of Wang Bing and the extraordinary retrospective devoted to Manoel de Oliveira...).

Special Prize for the 40th anniversary of Federico Fellini's career, for his film and body of work at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Intervista
Directed by
Federico Fellini
Language
Original languages with French subtitles
Actors
Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio Mein
Origins
Italy, France
Year
1987
Duration
105 min
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Fantastic
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

Intervista is Fellini’s mockumentary self-portrait, set during the filming of a hypothetical adaptation of a Kafka novel. He takes the opportunity to revisit childhood memories and bring the legendary Mastroianni and Ekberg into the picture, more than 20 years after La Dolce Vita. The end of the road is coming into view.

Intervista
Awards

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini was one of the greatest Italian writers and directors of the 20th century, and one of the most illustrious filmmakers in the history of cinema. He won the Palme d'or at Cannes in 1960 for La dolce vita, and took home the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film four times (La strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8 ½ and Amarcord), a record he shares with his compatriot Vittorio De Sica. Initially associated with neo-realism, Fellini’s work evolved over the course of the 1960s toward a unique approach related to European modernism, a movement associated with Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard and Andrei Tarkovsky. His films grew increasingly to embrace a proliferation of themes, deliberate artifice and the complete erasure of boundaries between dream, imagination, hallucination and reality. On March 29, 1993, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him a lifetime achievement Oscar, “in recognition of his place as one of the screen’s master storytellers.”

Federico Fellini

Pierre Jutras

Born in 1945 in Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu, Pierre Jutras studied filmmaking at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Brussels in the 1970s, where he was introduced to documentary, fiction and experimental cinema. In 1978, he was hired by the Cinémathèque québécoise as Head of Quebec and Canadian Cinema and co-director of the Copie Zéro from 1979 to 1988. He was also behind the first restoration of the film Kamouraska, by Claude Jutra. In 1997, he became Director of Conversation and Programming at the Cinémathèque, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. Parallel to his professional activities, he directed Lamento pour un homme de lettres in 1988 and Petites chroniques cannibales 1 in 1997, the first segment of a trilogy that was never completed. He died in Montreal on June 22, 2023.

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L'exactitude d'une carte blanche, par Marco de Blois

« En parcourant cette liste, je le reconnais bien. Sa carte blanche met en évidence ses coups de cœur, ses hauts faits de programmateur et sa cinéphilie exigeante. »

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Federico Fellini aurait eu 100 ans en 2020. Il a fait partie de ces cinéastes qui ont triomphé de leur vivant, dont la reconnaissance de leur apport au cinéma a été affirmée sans ambages, ce qui en retour a sans doute influencé les films qu’ils ont pu encore faire. Non pas qu’il ait gagné des prix à tout coup...

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