Name: Screening | “Peau d'Âne” with Camille Taboulay and Hélène Demy
Start: 2023-12-05T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-12-05T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Reid Hall

Screening | “Peau d'Âne” with Camille Taboulay and Hélène Demy

TheColumbia Global Paris Centeraddresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.Nestled in the Montparnasse district,Reid Hallhosts several Columbia University initiatives:Columbia Global Centers | Paris, theInstitute for Ideas and Imagination,Columbia Undergraduate Programs,M.A. in History and Literature, and theGSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.The Paris Center is part of Columbia Global, which brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Its mission is to address complex global challenges through groundbreaking scholarly pursuits, leadership development, cutting-edge research, and projects that aim for social impact. Its long-term goal is to reimagine the university’s role in society as not only a nexus for learning and intellectual exploration but also as a catalyst for creativity and impact locally, regionally, and globally. Columbia Global includes eleven Global Centers, as well as the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Committee on Global Thought, and Columbia World Projects.

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Join Professor Walter Frisch for a screening of Peau d'Âne (Donkey Skin) followed by a Q&A with Camille Taboulay and Hélène Demy.

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Film in French with English subtitles / Film en français sous-titré anglais.Discussion in French and English | Discussion en français et en anglais.Co-sponsored by <a href="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris" title="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Columbia Global Centers | Paris</a> and the <a href="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/" title="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute for Ideas and Imagination</a>.About the filmPeau d'Âne dir. Jacques Demy (1970)In a magical land, a widower king (Jean Marais) decrees that he will wed his daughter, the princess (Catherine Deneuve), because she's the only woman able to match his former queen's beauty. To dodge the incestuous union, the princess—with the help of a magical fairy (Delphine Seyrig)—disguises herself as a donkey and escapes to a neighboring kingdom. There, the donkey-skinned maiden encounters a handsome prince (Jacques Perrin) who falls in love with her. Fascinated by it since childhood, Demy began adapting this 1695 fairy tale by Charles Perrault into a script as early as 1962. Michel Legrand wrote the music.En-chanté: The World of Jacques Demy and Michel LegrandThis year 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the beloved French film musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, created by director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand. This bittersweet tale of two young lovers is sung from beginning to end, with no spoken dialogue—a bold and unique idea at the time. To celebrate the anniversary, this series will present it alongside two other classic musical films by Demy and Legrand, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1966) and Peau d’Âne (1970). Together, the three form a kind of trilogy, exploring themes of love, separation, regret, and family. All feature the actress whom Les Parapluies helped launch to stardom, Catherine Deneuve. Legrand’s magnificent musical scores range across many styles, including jazz, the romantic, and the neo-baroque. Prior to the screenings, Walter Frisch will present remarks to discuss the social, cultural, historical, and musical contexts of the films within their time and within the careers of Demy and Legrand.Walter FrischWalter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1982. Frisch is a specialist in the music of composers from the Austro-German sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Schubert to Schoenberg. He has written numerous articles and two books on Brahms, including Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation (1984) and Brahms: The Four Symphonies (1996, 2003). Frisch’s publications on Schoenberg include the book The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 (1993) and the edited volume Schoenberg and His World (1999). His volume in the series, Music in the Nineteenth Century, was published in Fall 2012. His book Arlen and Harburg’s Over the Rainbow appeared in 2017. His latest work, Harold Arlen and His Songs, Oxford University Press, is forthcoming.Camille TaboulayHolder of a Bachelor's degree in art history, Camille Taboulay was a Critic for Cahiers du Cinéma for 8 years, then screenwriter for cinema and television. She is the author of the book <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Cin%C3%A9ma-enchant%C3%A9-Jacques-Demy/dp/2866421671" title="https://www.amazon.fr/Cin%C3%A9ma-enchant%C3%A9-Jacques-Demy/dp/2866421671" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Le cinéma enchanté de Jacques Demy</a>.Hélène DemyYounger sister of Jacques Demy, Hélène Demy served as a script assistant for Peau D'Âne.The placeTo be notified of our upcoming events, we invite you to <a href="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters" title="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">sign up for our fortnightly newsletter</a>.For nearly sixty years, Columbia University students and faculty have come to study, teach, or pursue their research at <a href="https://reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu/" title="https://reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Reid Hall</a>, an exceptional space in the world of international education and cultural exchange. Our public events draw on the rich resources of the Columbia campus and our local partners, creating a "third space" of intellectual exploration and research that resists easy categorization. Our workshops, lectures, and performances bring together a diverse audience to address pressing issues through creative, rigorous, and open dialogue.Today, Reid Hall is home to several Columbia University initiatives: <a href="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris" title="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Columbia Global Centers | Paris</a>, <a href="https://paris.undergrad.columbia.edu/" title="https://paris.undergrad.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Columbia Undergraduate Programs</a>, <a href="https://historyandliterature.columbia.edu/" title="https://historyandliterature.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">M.A. in History and Literature</a>, <a href="https://www.arch.columbia.edu/programs/6-new-york-paris-certificate" title="https://www.arch.columbia.edu/programs/6-new-york-paris-certificate" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Columbia’s architecture program</a>, and the <a href="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/" title="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute for Ideas and Imagination</a>. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research collaborations, regional partnerships, and public events.The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of Columbia Global Centers | Paris or its affiliates.

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