In conjunction with its ongoing International Film Forum, Carleton College will host French filmmaker Marion Stalens, the director of Juliette Binoche, Sketches for a Portrait (Juliette Binoche dans les yeux) (2009). Stalens will present a talk entitled “Between Fiction and Reality, Fine Lines” on Tuesday, April 15 at 5 p.m. in Leighton Hall Room 304. This event is free and open to the public.
In advance of Stalens’ appearance, Carleton will present three short films on Sunday, April 13 at 2:30 p.m.—Danse Afrique Danse, Le Voyage du Fauteuil, and Silence or Exile. The following evening on April 14 at 7 p.m., the public is also invited to a screening of Juliette Binoche, Sketches for a Portrait.
In this film, Stalens provides a new view of Binoche, an Oscar-winning actress and the director’s sister, by providing a window onto her artistic life beyond the red carpet. This portrait explores Binoche’s complex personality as an artist, revealing her artistic depth by capturing her throughout 2008 at work on a variety of different projects in disciplines ranging from cinema to dance to painting. The close relationship between the director and her subject infuses the film with a sense of intimacy and authenticity that invites the public to share in this extraordinary artist’s world.
An actor, screenwriter, film director and world-renowned photographer, Stalens made her first film in 2001. Her projects tackle the art world as well as social topics where the common denominator is a reflection upon our shared living. Her works include Invitation to Leave France (2007) and The Reconciliation, (2004), which documents life in South Africa a decade after Apartheid's end.
This event is co-sponsored by the Carleton College Department of French and Francophone Studies and the Christopher U. Light Lectureship. For more information about this event, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4252. Leighton Hall is located at the end of College Street on the Carleton campus in Northfield. The Weitz Center for Creativity is located on Third and College Streets in Northfield.