Special Offer! A combined ticket for 2 films in the price of 1 – “Montand Est A Nous” + “Hidden Letters”

Montand Est A Nous / Thursday 9.3 / 14:00 / Recanati Hall, Tel Aviv Museum

France, 2021 / 100 min.

French. Hebrew subtitles

Director Yves Jeuland / Producer Félicie Roblin / Editor Lizi Gelber

Yves Montand, the 20th century heartthrob, is still an integral part of French culture even today, more than 30 years after his death. His unique voice made every chanson a hit, while his stage presence transformed him into a movie star and the favorite of Hollywood’s great directors and producers. He starred in French and American romance films (César and Rosalie, Let’s Make Love) alongside more serious fare (Jean de Florette and Costa-Gavras’s political thrillers).

 Montand dreamed of becoming a star from a young age. He succeeded, in part thanks to the women by his side – from Édith Piaf to Simone Signoret (whom he married) to Marilyn Monroe. Clips from Montand’s films and songs combined with archival footage paint a portrait of his meteoric rise from the son of immigrants to international star and political activist.

Hidden Letters / Thursday 9.3 / 17:30 / Recanati Hall, Tel Aviv Museum

China, 2022 / 87 min.

Mandarin. Hebrew subtitles

Directors Violet Du Feng, Zhao Qing / Producers Violet Du Feng, Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Jean Tsien, Su Kim / Cinematographers Feng Tiebing, Wei Gao / Editor John Farbrother

The film will be screened after a short introduction by historian Roni Deshe (in Hebrew).

For thousands of years and under a veil of secrecy, women in China shared a private language called Nushu among themselves. It was created when women were forbidden to learn to read and write and were ordered to be submissive to the men in their families. 

Today, Nushu is legal, but only few women are familiar with its complex signs. This film follows two of them in modern-day China: One is a young musician, who is soon to be married and is torn between traditional expectations of subservience and her attraction to the magical world of Nushu; the other is a tour guide at a Nushu museum who left a difficult, violent marriage. The result is an original and intriguing film that presents a rare, at times critical view into Chinese society.