 «I have not seen A Monkey in Winter for forty years - I am delighted to be present at the screening in Lyon and pay homage to Henri Verneuil,” declared Jean-Paul Belmondo, a special guest of the festival. Lumière will also feature will screen Pierrot le Fou by
Jean-Luc Godard, Doulos: The Finger Man by Jean-Pierre Melville and Itinerary of a Spoiled Child by Claude Lelouch and, Chinese Adventures in China by Philippe de Broca. Taken from the eponymous novel by Antoine Blondin, A Monkey in Winter was made by Verneuil in 1962, based on a screenplay by François Boyer and a script by Michel Audiard. Suzanne Flon, Paul Frankeur, and Noël Roquevert star alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Gabin.  A great success upon its release on May 11, 1962, and broadcast multiple times on French television, A Monkey in Winter has been restored and digitized at the initiative of rights-holders Roissy Films by the laboratory Digital Factory, with the support of the CNC. And for the first time in many years, it will be available to film theaters, distributed by Tamasa International.The black and white films by Henri Verneuil (A Monkey in Winter, People of No Importance, Village Feud/ The Hunting Ground, The Lovers of Lisbon, Forbidden Fruit, The President, Any Number Can Win, Greed in the Sun) are paid tribute this year, with 14 restored Bergman films, films by Hal Ashby, homages to filmmakers Christine Pascal and Germaine Dulac, an Art of Noir series, and a multitude of events. The Opening Night of the Lumière festival will take place on Monday, October 14 at 7:45pm at the Halle Tony Garnier, and will be attended by many special guests. On sale in late June, the Opening Night is already sold out. Moreover, A Monkey in Winter will be screened another time during the festival. And succeeding Ken Loach, the American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino will receive the Lumière Award 2013, which will be presented on Friday, October 18, in the presence of many guests. The full program of Lumière 2013 will be available in early September. Chaired by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, the Lumière festival is an event devoted to classic cinema. It is funded by the Grand Lyon, the Région Rhône-Alpes, the CNC and the Conseil Général du Rhône With one hundred films screened in some 40 film theaters, with grand events of Greater Lyon and 250 screenings, the festival will gather an audience of nearly 100,000 viewers in a single a week. It starts on October 14 and ends on October 20. |
| See the film clip from A Monkey in Winter |
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