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Outdoor cinema and concerts in Ménilmontant! A neighborhood festival that, neither too famous nor completely in the shadows, keeps steadily moving along and returns to Paris for its 19th edition: the Festival des Canotiers. Admit it: the name alone is enough to make you dream of blazing sunshine on the forecourt of the church on place Maurice Chevalier and around the area… Free admission!
The day-by-day program Concerts at 8:30 p.m., screenings at 10:15 p.m.: each evening offers an original artistic pairing of live music and outdoor cinema. Here are the details: Wednesday, June 10 Concert: L'Echo râleur. The rock ’n’ choral group Acapella Originâle et Culottée champions a festive repertoire of pop and rock standards and original songs, with wild choreography! Film: 1984, by Michael Radford. In 1984, the world is divided into three totalitarian empires, Océania, Eurasia, and Estasia, which are constantly at war. In a miserable London apartment, amid a jumble of streets and apocalyptic buildings, Winston Smith, number 6079, survives. Thursday, June 11 Concert: Captain Simard. A unique concentrate of Parisian cheek and popular music: lyrics tinged with biting humor, insolent swagger, and irreverent surrealism, Film: La cravate, by Mathias Théry and Etienne Chaillou. Bastien is twenty years old and has been active for five years in the main far-right party. When the presidential campaign begins, his superior invites him to get more involved. Friday, June 12 Concert: Zelva (Florence Tosi). A passion for beautiful texts that have something to say, and a desire to create intense, rare moments for the audience. Film: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. Téhéran 1978: Marjane, age 8, dreams of the future and imagines herself as a prophet saving the world. Pampered by modern, cultured parents and especially close to her grandmother, she follows with excitement the events that will lead to the revolution and bring about the fall of the Shah's regime. Saturday, June 13 Concert: Les Griots Métropolitains. These musician-storytellers tell us wordless stories through a groove repertoire of compositions and rearrangements of older pieces. Film: Thelma et Louise, by Ridley Scott. Two friends, Thelma and Louise, frustrated by monotonous lives, one with her husband and the other with her boyfriend, decide to treat themselves to a weekend on the beautiful roads of Arkansas. First stop, first saloon, first trouble, and everything changes.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Asso Ménil Mon Temps