Filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin at UPHF

Arnaud Desplechin is one of the most important and recognized French filmmakers of his generation in France and around the world.
His work has won numerous awards, including the César for Best Director for Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse in 2016.

His cinema acutely explores the bonds of friendship and family, the power of creative desire and amorous longing, social complexity and the violence of history on women and men.

He has succeeded in creating a "cinema family" with recurring characters and actors (Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Denis Podalydès but also Léa Seydoux or Catherine Deneuve) in films that are partly autobiographical. He moves away from this vein, notably in his English-language films (Esther Kahn in 2000 with Summer Phénix or Jimmy P. in 2013 with Benicio del Toro) or adaptations of novels (Tromperie, adapted from Philip Roth, in 2021).
Among his formal sources is the nouvelle vague; like François Truffaut, he is nourished by literature and cinematic erudition, which is how he offers narratives whose emotion is preserved as much by the memory of a landscape as a face, the tremor of a chosen word or a camera movement.

Arnaud Desplechin was born in Roubaix, his city and our region of Hauts-de-France is represented in several of his films from a variety of points of view: L'Aimée (2007) is a documentary about his parents' house on the eve of being put up for sale; Un conte de Noël - Roubaix ! (2009) is a family drama; and Roubaix, une lumière (2019) is a crime thriller, the first in his filmography, nominated seven times for the 2020 Césars and for which Roschdy Zem won the Best Actor award.
These multiple viewpoints create a composite image of the city and region, and we look forward to (re)seeing his film and hearing him talk about it.

Participation in the screening-debate requires prior registration through this form.

A parking lot is available directly on site for those wishing to join us by vehicle.

To facilitate access to the event, the establishment also provides a shuttle bus departing from the campus du Mont-Houy (parking lot opposite the Matisse building).
-Departure: 5:30pm (please arrive before 5:15pm to allow IDs to be checked)
. - Return: 21h30/22h (the bus will make a stop in downtown Valenciennes, near Les Tertiales before returning to the Mont-Houy campus).