Alliance Française de Pune presents Jacques Prévert’s Artistic Genius

This June, on the occasion of the 40th death anniversary of the

Jacques Prévert

, the

Alliance Française de Pune

presents Jacques Prévert: Showcasing The

Artistic Genius

in order to commemorate this author, poet, scriptwriter and lyricist, with a three-week-long event that will bring to the public the masterpieces of Prévert's genius mind at work through exhibitions of his collages, film screenings and more.

Prévert's collages have the same themes and concerns as in his writings using which he invites the public, through incongruous image associations and misappropriations, to look at the world as it really is, as he denounces with great humour and vehemence the power of politics and of the Church, a society with its injustices, the condition of women, the oppressed, animals.

To Prévert, his different means of expression - cinema, literature and collages- all come from the same approach: the art of assembling and editing. Apart from his poetry and collages, Prévert is known for having contributed to some of the gems of world cinema. He wrote a number of screenplays; among them were the scripts for Jean Renoir's Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936) as well as Marcel Carné's Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows, 1938) and Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945). The dual-award-winning film and Oscar-nominated (for original screenplay) Children of Paradise will be screened in its two parts at

Lost the Plot

, Aundh.

Exhibitions of Prévert's collages:

Gyaan Adab

, Kalyaninagar 10th - 15th June, 10 am - 6.30pm

Kalya Chhaya Campus 22nd -28th June, 10 am - 6 pm

Film screenings: Lost the Plot, Aundh

The award-winning film Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children of Paradise) PART I: Boulevard Du Crime (Boulevard of Crime) 14th June | 8 pm PART II: L'homme Blanc (Man in White) 28th June, 8 pm




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