[Program title] Conte et Raconte Ⅲ
[Film title] Royal de Luxe
[Date] ①2010.6.12-7.3 ②2010.7.10-7.31
[Screen time] ①Le Mythe du Géant：1hour 33min ②La visite du Sultan des Indes sur son éléphant à voyager dans le temps : 52 min
Royal de Luxe
①Le Mythe du Géant （Screening time：1hour 33min）
2006／France／Colour／93 min／French
②La visite du Sultan des Indes sur son éléphant à voyager dans le temps (Screening time : 52 min)
2007／France／Colour／52 min／French
[Date] ①June 12-July 3, 2010 ②July 10 –July 31,2010
Screening every Saturdays （Reservation only／Admission Free）
For Reservations, please call 03-3569-3300 （Open hour:11:00～19:00）
(FAX 03-3569-3612)
About programme
As the third program in the Conte et Raconte, we will show two documentary films on performances featuring giant puppets whose stage is the city itself.
Director Jean-Luc Courcoult came upon the idea one day: Is it possible to tell a story to an entire city? Could we create a situation where people in town suddenly encounter a fairy tale world, becoming directly incorporated into a story? Since the 1990s, the French street theater company Royal de Luxe has performed around the world, using giant puppets and transforming the cities themselves into stages. The overwhelming scale of their performances has surprised people, tiny as peas in comparison, leaving vivid traces in people’s hearts with the puppets’ gestures and expressions full of emotion. These traces will forever live on in the minds of those who experienced the performance, and they will retell the stories that the giants served to them in their own words, even after the banquet is over. The documentaries in the present program follow this unique street theater company that has performed for over ten years, and show how the stories expand in people’s imagination and continue to grow infinitely through words.