Conversations with my Gardener

Conversations with my Gardener is the adaptation for cinema of the novel with the same name by Henri Cueco. Having established a good reputation as a painter in Paris, a man in his fifties returns to his origins in rural France by acquiring the house where he grew up. However, he lacks the ambition and the skill to maintain the reasonably large piece of land around the building. He therefore posts a local advertisement to hire a gardener. The first candidate, who turns out to be the one accepted, is an old mate of his. They were together at the local school, but had lost track of each other and are now reunited. The mate becomes the gardener.

LA MÔME

The film recounts the unparalleled life and career of Edith Piaf, from childhood to glory, success and pain, and from Belleville to New York. Following a destiny that outdoes any fiction, the film shows the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman. Intimate, intense, fragile and indestructible, devoted to her art, open to any sacrifice, Piaf is truly immortal.

JAMES BOND

Casino Royale

For his first mission, James Bond must defeat Le Chiffre the all-powerful private financier of international terrorist organisations. In order to bankrupt him and dismantle the largest criminal network that has ever existed, Bond must beat him in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. The beautiful Vesper, an agent for the Treasury, accompanies him to ensure that 007 looks after the British Government’s money, which is used for Bond’s buy-in, but nothing turns out as foreseen.

Vernissage Zwy Milshtein

Angélus exhibits works of expressionist painter Zwy Milshtein on 10th November 2006.   
Zwy Milshtein was born in the Moldavian city of Chișinău in 1934. It was Rumanian at the time, but fell under Soviet control in 1944. From 1943 to 1944, he studied painting at the Young Pioneer Palace of Tiflis in Georgia, then in Bucharest in 1946 under the supervision of painter George Ștefănescu. Milshtein left for Israel in 1947 with his brother and mother, then in Cyprus he studied sculpture with Ben Tsvi. In 1948, in Israel, he studied with painters Raitler, Avni, Ardon and Mokady. Until 1956, he lived with Yochewed Kashi, the first woman parachutist in Israel. They have a son, Oury Milshtein, who was born in Paris in 1957. In 1956, he received a grant from the Norman Foundation...

Salvador Dalí’s Angelus

The Angelus by Jean-François Millet was copied and reinterpreted by many artists in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has become a kind of icon in visual art. Salvador Dalí was especially fascinated by this work and wrote a whole book on it in 1938, entitled The Tragic Myth of the Angelus by Millet.