Did you know that a diverse range of cultural events comes to life at the Mucem alongside its exhibitions? At the heart of the famous museum, you can enjoy exciting guided tours, participate in relaxing workshops, and on April 11, experience a marvelous ciné-concert featuring the Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. This event is an after-party for the International Music & Cinema Festival Marseille, which took place from March 25 to 29 and will return next spring, highlighting a gem of the seventh art. The featured masterpiece? Une femme disparaît (The Lady Vanishes, 1938) by Alfred Hitchcock, a suspense film whose tension, amplified by its music, promises to take us through all the highs and lows.emotions.
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A clever critique of totalitarianism...
A Hitchcockian masterpiece released on the eve of World War II, A Woman Disappears plunges the viewer into the heart of a train traveling through Central Europe. The story follows Iris Henderson, a young English woman on the verge of...entering London to get married. During her trip, she befriends a kind and elderly governess, Miss Froy, but after a brief nap, she finds it impossible to locate her again. Miss Froy has inexplicably vanished, and no one on board seems to remember her. With the help of Gilbert, an eccentric musicologist, Iris embarks on a frantic investigation to uncover the mystery, revealing along the way a network of spies and an underlying political conspiracy.
Between manipulation, deception, and a race against time, this gripping thriller offers a subtle critique of totalitarianism and the rise of Nazism, without ever naming them directly. It provides a sharp look at a troubled era, resonating particularly at the Mucem, where there's a connection to ethnographic investigations conducted in the 1930s by the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions, the predecessor of this place.
Avec Une femme disparaît, Hitchcock pose une intrigue solide, qui se joue de Christie, des caractères improbables de ses complotistes et espion·ne·s. Mise en scène efficace pour un récit qui l'est tout autant, on se laisse prendre au piège d'une intrigue riche en rebondissements. pic.twitter.com/T7naMm9XaE
— Thierry (@TPinsun) August 22, 2021
... Musical Revisit at Mucem! !
The event, supported by the Sud Region and the Ministry of Culture, is part of the International Music & Cinema Festival Marseille (MCM). To kick off the screening, the audience will get to enjoy The Cry, an animated short film created by the students of the School of New Images. It promises an immersive experience blending music and thrills, reminding everyone of the importance of cinema as a mirror and memory of the eras.
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Film-concert A Woman Disappears
Mucem
1, esplanade du J4 – 2nd floor
On Friday, April 11, 2025, at 8 PM
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