Marina Vlady,
presents her selection of films
PostED ON 01.10.2019
Her precocious burst onto the film scene could have foretold of a swift and short-lived career. But the fearless Marina Vlady has had the talent to choose great directors and build herself an impressive path. She will grace us with her presence at the festival this year!
She is only sixteen when André Cayatte's Before the Deluge earns her the SACD Suzanne-Bianchetti Award, given to the most promising young actress of the moment. Marina Vlady impresses by her maturity in her role as a lure, an accomplice of a theft of valuable stamps that will allow her and her friends to flee Europe, which they believe is on the brink of WWIII...
Born of noble parents, Russian immigrants, Catherine Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff, her birth name, follows the example of her older sister Etiennette, known as Odile Versois, who started out in the cinema a year before her. At the end of the 1950s, Marina Vlady has established herself as a captivating beauty, notably in films by her then-husband, actor and filmmaker Robert Hossein (like the thriller Nude in a White Car / Night Is Not for Sleep). But Vlady does not aspire to become a starlet. She makes bold decisions, which will lead her to a series of remarkable encounters with stellar directors: Marco Ferreri (The Conjugal Bed, which garners her a best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963), Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight), Jean-Luc Godard (Two or Three Things I Know About Her).
The little-known and remarkable movie, Time to Live by Bernard Paul (1969), documents France in the late 1960s. Afterwards, in a whirlwind, Marina Vlady abruptly puts her career on hold for love, marrying Vladimir Vissotski, a singer, actor and poet protester, whose records are made in France, yet can only be found in the USSR on pirated mini-cassettes! Vlady later returns to the cinema and shoots a film in Russian, Lika: Chekhov’s Love / Subject for a Short Story by Sergei Yutkevich, known for Othello. In the years that follow, she works with an international array of filmmakers: Bertrand Tavernier (Let Joy Reign Supreme), Hungarian Márta Mészáros (The Two of Them) and Argentine Fernando Solanas (Tangos, The Exile of Gardel), among others…A rich career of an inspired actress and a liberated woman.
During the Lumière festival,
Marina Vlady will introduce
Before the Deluge by André Cayatte
In the psychosis of a new world conflict, five young people decide to flee. They organize a burglary and fall into a spiral of violence... A surprising and emotionally charged film, with Bernard Blier and newcomer at the time, Marina Vlady.
Before the Deluge by André Cayatte (1954, 2:18)
A restoration performed especially for the festival by Gaumont at the Eclair laboratory, 4K scan, 2K restoration, with the participation of the CNC.
The film is also screened as part of the André Cayatte retrospective at Lumière 2019.
Distribution : Gaumont
Saturday, October 19 at 5 pm in Ecully - Introduced by Marina Vlady
Sunday, October 20 at 10:30 am at the Institut Lumière – Introduced by Marina Vlady
Other screenings of the film:
Monday, October 14 at 10:45 am at Pathé Bellecour
Wednesday October 16 at 3:45 pm at the Lumière Fourmi
Friday, October 18 at 5 pm at the Lumière Terreaux - Introduced by Noel Herpe
The Conjugal Bed by Marco Ferreri
Alfonso marries Regina, a young virgin Catholic. Insatiable, she exhausts Alfonso until she becomes pregnant... A cruel and obsessive film with Marina Vlady, alternating candor and perversity, winning her the Best Actress award in Cannes.
The Conjugal Bed by Marco Ferreri (Una storia moderna - The Ape regina, 1963, 1:35)
4K restoration by TF1 Studio, made from the French and Italian sound and image negatives, with the support of the CNC and the Cineteca di Bologna. Digital work performed in 2019 by the L'Image Retrouvée laboratory - Paris. New restoration screened exclusively at the Lumière festival.
Distribution: TF1 Studio
Sunday, October 20 at 11 am at Lumière Terreaux - Introduced by Marina Vlady
Other screenings of the film:
Sunday, October 13 at 9:45 pm at the Lumière Fourmi- Introduced by Philippe Le Guay
Friday, October 18 at 7:30 pm at the Villa Lumière
Time to Live by Bernard Paul
Louis is spending all his time working overtime at his construction job to ensure his family has a "great life” and can move out of public housing, but he is missing the point... A lyrical film of truth and a rare lucidity. A movie supported at the time by a pair of press officers: Pierre Rissient and Bertrand Tavernier.
Time to Live by Bernard Paul (1969, 1h45)
Distribution : Gaumont
Thursday October 17 at 4:30 pm at Pathé Bellecour - Introduced by Marina Vlady
Other screening of the film:
Sunday, October 13 at 7:45 pm at the Villa Lumière
Lika: Chekhov’s Love / Subject for a Short Story by Sergueï Youtkevitch
Chekhov relives the love story that inspired his play The Seagull... The Russian filmmaker delicately films solitude, source of creation.
Lika: Chekhov’s Love / Subject for a Short Story by Sergueï Youtkevitch
(Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo rasskaza, 1969, 1h26)
Distribution : Arkeion
Thursday, October 17 at 5:15 pm at the Bellecour Lumière - Introduced by Marina Vlady
Friday, October 18 at 10:45 am at the Villa Lumière - Introduced by Marina Vlady
Let Joy Reign Supreme by Bertrand Tavernier
The Duke of Orléans (Philippe Noiret), seconded by the greedy Abbot Dubois (Jean Rochefort), has been the regent since the death of Louis XIV. He lives in debauchery, while a famine rages on. A Breton rebellion is on the horizon... The hit trio of Noiret, Rochefort and Marielle star in this this great film about years of upheavals that led to the Revolution.
Screening event: Saturday, October 19 at 6:45 pm at the Institut Lumière in the presence of Marina Vlady and Bertrand Tavernier.
Let Joy Reign Supreme by Bertrand Tavernier
(1975, 1:54)
New print of the film made especially for the festival by Studiocanal.
Distribution : Tamasa
Thursday, October 17 at 7:30 pm at Comoedia - Introduced by Marina Vlady
Saturday, October 19 at 6:45 pm at the Institut Lumière - Introduced by Marina Vlady and Bertrand Tavernier
Other screening of the film:
Wednesday, October 16 at 11 am at UGC Confluence - Introduced by Jean-Paul Salomé
The Two of Them by Márta Mészáros
Juli flees her alcoholic husband to the shelter for workers led by Mária. Although the two women are vastly different, their friendship will transform their lives... A beautiful film that questions the family and relationships of love.
The Two of Them by Márta Mészáros
(Ök ketten, 1977, 1:32)
Restoration 4k of 2017 by the Hungarian National Film Fund - Film Archive at the Hungarian Film Lab from the original negatives. Digital color calibration supervised by the director of photography, János Kende.
Friday, October 18 at 4:45 pm at Pathé Bellecour - Introduced by Marina Vlady
Other screening of the film:
Tuesday, October 15 at 7:15 pm at the Lumière Fourmi
Meet / attend the master class by Marina Vlady
at the Comédie Odéon
Saturday, October 19 at 11:15 am
Marina Vlady chose this selection of movies from her filmography especially for the 2019 Lumière festival, allowing us to plunge into several decades of international cinema.
