Photo du film Psychose d'Alfred Hitchcock
The Curtain Falls on Cannes Classics 2010
Roberto Rosselini, Stig Björkman, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ritwik Ghatak. To close its 2010 programme, Cannes Classics proposes a prestigious mix of genres.
This ultimate day of screenings devoted to restored copies, homages to great directors, and documentaries about cinema, will open with Le Ruisseau de Ripasottile, by Roberto Rosselini (Salle Buñuel, 17.00). Palme d’Or in 1946 for It Was Night in Rome, and President of the Jury in 1977, the Italian filmmaker made a 12 minute film in 1941 about the fauna of a stream in this hamlet north-east of Rome.
This short will be followed by a documentary by Stig Bjorkman about Ingmar Bergman (Salle Buñuel, 17.00, in the presence of the crew). Made this year from shots coming from diverse locations, Mais le cinéma reste ma maîtresse draws a novel portrait of the Swedish filmmaker, Prix de la Mise en Scène in 1956 for Au seuil de la vie, and Prix Spécial du Jury one year later for The Seventh Seal.
A restored version of Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock will follow in this final session of screenings (Salle du Soixantième, 19.45). Released in 1960, the film, famous for the ‘shower scene’ murder has been totally restored (1).
Finally, the Indian director Ritwik Ghatak will round off the 2010 programme with A River named Titash (Salle Buñuel, 20.00), the story of a young woman finding refuge in a community of fishermen. Screened for the first time in 1973, the film is inspired by a novel by Advaita Malla Barman (2).
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(1) Copy restored by Universal Pictures and Audionamix.
(2) The copies come from the National Cinema Archives of Kazakhztan, Hungary and India. They have been restored by the Cinémathèque de Bologne / l’Immagine Ritrovata.
