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6:30 PM / CONFERENCE: WES ANDERSON, TRANSLATLANTIC FILMMAKER, by Julie Assouly (approximately 1h30)

Self-taught filmmaker, Wesley Wales Anderson aka Wes Anderson invites us on a 'transatlantic journey', a testament to the director's attachment to French culture. Truffaut, Renoir, Godard, are among the many references that run through his entire work. Often wrongly and simplistically labeled as quirky - eccentric, bizarre, offbeat - by Anglo-American critics, his cinema from Bottle Rocket (1996) to Asteroid City (2023), including Rushmore (1998), The French Dispatch (2021), or The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) is above all a complex cinema at the crossroads of arts and film genres (road movie, melodrama). Under the apparent lightness introduced by a colorful universe and a retro aesthetic, Wes Anderson deals with serious subjects without pathos or effusion of feelings, cultivating the deadpan game (impassive) that he imposes on a troupe of recurring actors building with him this singular universe.

Associate Professor in American Civilization at the University of Artois (Arras) and specialist in visual studies, Julie Assouly is the author of L'Amérique des Frères Coen (CNRS Éditions, 2015). Her latest work is titled Wes Anderson, transatlantic filmmaker (CNRS Éditions 2024).

Followed by the film:

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
By Wes Anderson. USA, Germany/2013/1h40.
Concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel, Monsieur Gustave is very successful with his wealthy female clients. One of them dies leaving him a painting of inestimable value. Gustave finds himself involved with his sidekick in a battle against the heirs.

The conference will be broadcast live from the Jean Eustache cinema in Pessac, as part of the UNIPOP program, from city to city.

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