David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, premiered 20 years ago, and is an imaginative catharsis about Hollywood as an inducer of dreams and desires, but also as a carburettor for obsessions and nightmares. Based on this delicate and singular meta-cinematic approach conceived by Lynch, Curtas prepared a program that reflects upon the mecca of cinema in the collective imagination of successive generations, named Hollywood Daydreams and Nightmares, with films such as: Sunset Boulevard, by Billy Wilder, Singin’in the Rain, by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, The Bad and the Beautiful by Vincente Minnelli and Realité, by Quentin Dupieux. Joining the celebration of Semaine de la Critique's 60th anniversary, we will present a program entitled Sweet Sixty, which brings together films by Julia Ducournau, João Paulo Miranda Maria, Bruno de Almeida, Tsai-Ming Liang and François Ozon.

PROGRAM HOLLYWOOD: DAYDREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

MULHOLLAND DRIVE, David Lynch · France/USA · 2001 · FIC · 147’

REALITÉ, Quentin Dupieux · France/Belgium/USA · 2014 · FIC · 95’

THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Vincente Minnelli · USA · 1952 · FIC · 118‘

SUNSET BOULEVARD, Billy Wilder · USA · 1950 · FIC · 110‘

SINGIN’IN THE RAIN, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · USA · 1952 · FIC · 110’

60th SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM

COMMAND ACTION, João Paulo Miranda Maria · Brasil · 2015 · FIC · 14’

HOME STORIES, Matthias Müller · Germany · 1990 · EXP · 6’

JUNIOR, Julia Ducournau · France · 2011 · FIC · 22’
NAJPIEKNIEJSZE FAJERWERKI EVER (THE BEST FIREWORKS EVER), Aleksandra Terpinska · Poland · 2017 · FIC · 30’

PIÈCE TOUCHÉE, Martin Arnold · Austria · 1989 · EXP · 16’

STAPLERFAHRER KLAUS – DER ERSTE ARBEITSTAG (FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS – THE FIRST DAY ON THE JOB), Jörg Wagner, Stefan Prehn · Germany · 2001 · FIC · 10’

THE DEBT, Bruno de Almeida · USA/Portugal · 1993 · FIC · 12’

UNE ROBE D’ÉTÉ, François Ozon · France · 1996 · FIC · 15’

WALKER, Tsai Ming-Liang · Taiwan · 2012 · FIC/EXP · 27’