With Paris already swinging in warm 20C, Kyiv is trying to catch up with the help of French Spring festival.
In its eighth year, the event will present the selection of best French movies, art, literature and music in about a dozen cities across Ukraine.
This week’s highlights for Kyiv include:
Apr. 2 – 6, watch films featuring prominent French actress Isabelle Huppert. In “Special relationship” she plays a prostitute and in “Capacabana,” she’s obsessed with a Brazilian marketing agent. Huppert turns into a young bourgeois in “Loulou” and an aristocrat in “Madame Bovary,” but in “La ceremonie” you’ll see her as a crazy post office worker.
All films will be shown in French with Ukrainian subtitles in cinema “Kyiv”, 19 Velyka Vasylkivska St., 234-7381. Tickets: Hr 50.
For the full schedule, click here.
In addition, “Kyiv” will host a photo exhibition “Isabelle Huppert. Woman in portraits” featuring some 100 pictures taken during her 30 years onscreen. Free admission.
Apr. 5, French modern circus “Les Krilati” will put on a play “The Roots,” examining philosophical notions of transitions and choices in our daily lives, based on ideas of Nietzsche, Rilke and Satre.
The play is not entirely sad, as you may have thought, as the characters manage to find joy in small things, despite their tough life circumstances. Theater on Lypky, 15/17 Lypska St., 253-6219. Tickets: Hr 30-50.
The full schedule of events: www.ifu.com.ua
