Jacques Prévert: Showcasing the artistic genius

Jacques Prévert, « Hôtel des ventes », collage sur illustration. Collection Bibliothèque nationale de France © Fatras/Succession Jacques Prévert

This June, on the occasion of the 40th death anniversary of the Jacques Prévert, the Alliance Française de Pune in association with the Institut Français and in collaboration with Gyaan Adab and Lost the Plot presents ‘JACQUES PRÉVERT: SHOWCASING THE ARTISTIC GENIUS’ in order to commemorate this author, poet, scriptwriter and lyricist, with a three-week-long event that will bring to the public the masterpieces of Prévert’s genius mind at work through exhibitions of Prévert’s collages, film screenings and more.

The event will include exhibitions of Prévert’s collages, each to be preceded by inauguration events aimed at giving the spectators an insight into his life and work. Prévert’s collages have the same themes and concerns as in his writings using which he invites the public, through incongruous image associations and misappropriations, to look at the world as it really is, as he denounces with great humour and vehemence the power of politics and of the Church, a society with its injustices, the condition of women, the oppressed, animals…

To Prévert, his different means of expression – cinema, literature and collages- all come from the same approach: the art of assembling and editing. Apart from his poetry and collages, Prévert is known for having contributed to some of the gems of world cinema. He wrote a number of screenplays; among them were the scripts for Jean Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936) as well as Marcel Carné’s Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows, 1938) and Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945). The dual-award-winning film and Oscar-nominated (for original screenplay) Children of Paradise, will be screened in its two parts at Lost the Plot, Aundh.

EXHIBITIONS OF PRÉVERT’S COLLAGES:

When:  June 9 – 15 & June 22 – 28, 10 am to 6:30 pm

Where: Gyaan Adab, Kalyani Nagar & AF Pune’s Media Center, Kalya Chhaya Campus

Film Screenings at Lost the Plot, Seasons Hotel, Aundh

The award-winning film LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (Children of Paradise)

Part I: BOULEVARD DU CRIME (Boulevard of Crime) June 14 | 8 pm

Part II: L’HOMME BLANC (Man in White) June 28 | 8 pm