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News list
2008-06-30
2008-03-10
2007-10-15
New festival landscape 2008
2007-10-15
Watch the Festival TV
2007-10-04
Winners of The Golden Swans 2007
2007-09-29
Gala Award Show 2007
2007-09-28
Kim Fupz Aakeson to receive an Honorary Award
When Copenhagen International Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for the Gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 29 September, the Danish screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson will be presented with an Honorary Award.
2007-09-24
Sweepingly beautiful costumes and Israeli Night
Read about today´s events - Talkie with Manon Rasmussen and Israeli night
2007-09-23
Meet the director of Heartbeat Detector
come to the Turkish Night, see Ingmar Bergman´s masterpiece Shame and get behind the camera with Spielberg
2007-09-22
The Black Pimpernel - one of the real world´s heroes
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly invites you to the preview screening of The Black Pimpernel on Sunday, 23 September.
2007-09-21
Festive gala opening ceremony in Imperial
2007-09-18
Makram Khoury replaces Gillies MacKinnon in the jury
2007-09-17
Spielberg on Spielberg - behind the camera
Copenhagen International Film Festival will be the first festival to screen the brand-new documentary Spielberg on Spielberg, where the audience will have a unique possibility to step behind the camera with the director.
2007-09-13
The festival´s guests
The stars are waiting in the wings for the kick-off on 20 September, when Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for 10 days of tribute to European films and the capital’s cinemas fill up with world-famous and upcoming film directors and actors.
2007-09-13
New Danish Screen
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly welcomes you to the premieres of a string of exciting films from New Danish Screen.
2007-09-06
Tribute to Bergman and Renoir
Copenhagen International Film Festival will look back at two of Europe’s great filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir.
2007-09-04
This year’s nominations for the Alice Award
Eight films by female directors are this year competing for Copenhagen International Film Festival’s women’s award – the Alice Award.
2007-08-31
Jury 2007
2007-08-30
Patrice Leconte to attend Copenhagen IFF
Patrice Leconte will attend the French Day at Copenhagen International Film Festival.
2007-08-28
Kenneth Branagh to attend Copenhagen IFF
The Oscar-nominated director and actor Kenneth Branagh will attend this year’s film festival.
2007-08-27
This year’s competition films
When Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for this year’s film event on 20 September, the audience can experience 147 fantastic films. 11 of them will get special attention, namely the films in competition, which compete for the six categories of the festival’s Golden Swan award.
2007-08-23
Israeli film in the competition
Israeli film will play an important role at Copenhagen International Film Festival. This year, the festival’s competition series will feature the Israeli film The Band’s Visit, and the festival has decided to dedicate a whole series to Israeli film.
2007-08-20
This year´s festival is kicked off with The Diving Bell and concluded with Sleuth
Julian Schnabel’s Cannes-award-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly will open this year’s Copenhagen International Film Festival, and the 10 days of European film will be rounded off with Kenneth Branagh’s Sleuth.
2007-08-17
Come to the program launch
Copenhagen International Film Festival will launch this year’s program with both a biographical drama and a zombie thriller on Sunday, 2 September.
2007-08-13
New head of BUSTER
Füsun Eriksen has been appointed as the new head of BUSTER and will take up office on 1 September 2007
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The Human Beast La bête humaine
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Three of Jean Renoir’s masterpieces from the 1930s, The Marseillaise, The Rules of the Game and The Human Beast, each in their own way deal with class differences. Not surprisingly, Renoir’s sympathies lie with the common man, but he keeps up an almost tender ironic approach to the upper class. The Human Beast, which is based on a novel by Émile Zola, is a classic triangle drama. It takes place during the time of the great locomotive engines. The train journey from Paris to Le Havre has a raw, dynamic power that is almost documentary. The locomotives become big, black metaphors for the power of darkness, which can drive human beings to wild passions - and even murder. Jean Gabin plays the train driver, who is lured into a seductive woman’s sinister plans, but nothing turns out as expected. The sublime and evocative film mirrored the fatalistic state of mind in a Europe on the verge of a world war. Renoir himself wrote the screenplay, and got strong performances out of his actors.
Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
Jean Renoir’s work is a milestone in film history. His comprehensive career spanned all genres but his films were nonetheless characteristic of their maker. They also proved that he made his films for both audiences and critics. He had his debut in 1924, but had his breakthrough with the sound film he made in collaboration with the actor Michel Simon (Boudu Saved From Drowning). In the years leading up to World War II his topics became increasingly political. The unforgettable anti-war film The Grand Illusion (1937) and the elegantly bitter-sweet The Rules of the Game (1939) are highlights in a career, which was continued in the United States during the war, before he returned to Europe in the 1950s.
Before the screening, the British film historian Ronald Bergan will give an introduction to Renoir. Bergan is the author of the book “Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise” and is a critic, among others for The Guardian.
The film is shown in cooperation with Cinemateket.
27/9 Cinemateket - 21.15
Ikke i dansk biografdistribution
Director:
Jean Renoir
Screenplay:
Émile Zola
Cinematography:
Curt Courant
Cast:
Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy, Gérard Landry
Production:
Paris Film
Distributor:
Det Danske Filminstitut
Country:
Frankrig
Language:
Fransk
Subtitles:
Engelsk
Year:
1938
Duration:
100
Section: Tributes
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Tributes
The Human Beast
La bête humaine
27/9 Cinemateket - 21.15
Shame
Skammen
24/9 Cinemateket - 21.15
Ulzhan
Ulzhan
26/9 Metropol - 21.30
27/9 Park Bio - 21.30
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