CINE FOUGARO – open-air cinema

The Party | Blake Edwards, 1968, 99'
An excruciatingly funny comedy of errors with a bumbling Indian actor who ends up at a disastrous Hollywood part. Peter Sellers gives a master class of natural comedy in this tribute to chaos. A silent operetta of the absurd, with a firework display of directing tricks by Blake Edwards.

The Producers | Mel Brooks, 1967, 88'
A failed producer and his neurotic accountant plan to get rich by staging the worst musical of all time. A scathing satire of the entertainment industry with the lightning pace and the caustic humour of Mel Brooks. One of the American cinema's most subversive and politically outspoken comedies.

All about Eve | Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950, 138'
The story of an ambitious young woman who invades a diva's life to steal her glory. Sardonic screenplay, scintillating dialogues and some milestone acting, with Bette Davis at her sparkliest. An ironic commentary on vanity and the petty betrayals in the world of theatre.

Roman Holiday | William Wyler, 1954, 118'
A princess escapes for a day of freedom in Rome and meets a charming American journalist. A uniquely alluring and innocent Audrey Hepburn in her trademark role in this jewel of a romantic comedy full of nostalgia and Italian light.

Dolce vita | Federico Fellini, 1960, 174'
A journalist wanders around Roman nightlife in search of a meaning between futility and excess. Fellini directs a triumph of style and image, a symbol of European cinema. A sharp portrayal of people's inner void and the decadence of high society.

À bout de souffle - Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard, 1960, 90'
A small-time crook roams around Paris with an American student, in a hymn to freedom and lawlessness. Godard deconstructs classical filmmaking with his revolutionary style and his anarchic editing. The starting point of Nouvelle Vague, with its own indelible mark on modern cinema.

12 angry men | Sidney Lumet, 1957, 95'
Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a defendant, and one of them remains unconvinced. A masterful, claustrophobic drama with social and moral implications. Exemplary use of setting and dialogue, with Henry Fonda at his best.

Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 128'
A former policeman is haunted by the image of a woman he can neither forget nor understand. Hitchcock directs his most personal and psychoanalytical work, a labyrinthine film where the boundaries of gaze, memory and love are blurred.

The Maltese Falcon | John Huston, 1941, 100'
A private detective gets mixed up in a deadly game around a mysterious precious statuette in this epitome of the film-noire, with Humphrey Bogart as the definitive tough guy. Atmospheric, dark and elliptical, this is a cornerstone in American cinema.

Shichinin no Samurai - Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa, 1954, 207'
Seven warriors defend a village against bandits in an epic lesson of humanity, honour and collective action. Kurosawa directs with surgical precision and sculpts legendary heroes in one of the greatest epic films of all time which had a profound influence on Western cinematography.

A fistful of dollars | Sergio Leone, 1964, 99'
A mysterious stranger takes advantage of the vendetta between two rival gangs in a dusty city. Sergio Leone reworks the genre of Western films with stylised violence and an eerie atmosphere. Clint Eastwood is born as the emblematic "man without a name".