BLEAT
Yorgos Lanthimos
World Premiere
The Artist on the Composer
A GNO and NEON co-production
6, 7, 8 May 2022 | Starts at: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring Emma Stone and Damien Bonnard
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ highly anticipated new film, Bleat –the second work to be commissioned as part of the GNO and NEON programme The Artist on the Composer– is to have its world-first premieres accompanied by live music ensembles on 6, 7 and 8 May 2022 inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC. The Greek National Opera’s participation in the co-production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [
] to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.
The award-winning Greek filmmaker accepted the invitation extended by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis and NEON Director Elina Kountouri to produce, write, and direct the short film Bleat, shot on the Greek island of Tinos in February 2020, and starring Oscar-winning American actor Emma Stone and acclaimed French actor Damien Bonnard.
The Artist on the Composer programme –run by the Greek National Opera and NEON [
]– connects pioneering contemporary artists and filmmakers/producers with orchestral music performed live. Through works that spring from the programme’s new commissions, each artist responds to, and enters into dialogue with pieces by classical composers, free from every standard operatic convention, trope and storyline, in the hope of reaching audiences who may never have connected with opera before.
Following on from The Artist on the Composer’s first commission –a 2019 installation by Nikos Navridis– the gifted and internationally renowned Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos takes on the programme’s second commission to create a new cinematic work that will always be presented with the live accompaniment of music ensembles. The work’s music script consists of pieces by J. S. Bach / Knut Nystedt and Toshio Hosokawa, performed live inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall by the soloists Angelina Tkatcheva (cimbalom) and Wu Wei (sheng), the “Maria Callas” quartet, and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.
Visual Arts Programme • New production • World premiere
Music and Visual Arts Cycle • A GNO and NEON co-production
The Artist on the Composer
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Second Commission Yorgos Lanthimos: Bleat
6, 7, 8 May 2022
Start times: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Emma Stone, Damien Bonnard
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach / Knut Nystedt, Toshio Hosokawa
Cimbalom: Angelina Tkatcheva
Sheng: Wu Wei
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
With the participation of the “Maria Callas” quartet and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
Set designer: Anna Georgiadou
Costume designer: Angelos Mentis
Choreographer: Christos Papadopoulos
Director of photography: Thodoros Mihopoulos
Film editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Executive producer: Rebecca Skinner
Producer: Eleni Kossyfidou

贫困潦倒的弗兰克一家育有五子，第六个孩子也即将出生，另一对律师中产夫妇则无法生育，两家人开始了一场游走于法律暗面的交易。影片用悬疑片的类型桥段颇有新意地包装了人口贩卖这个旧主题，角色的阶层差异难掩人性共通，律师知法犯法更显无奈与讽刺。该片使用特殊的1.50:1画幅收紧了景别，聚焦人物表情与心理状态，凸显出法律秩序下的个体选择。提名2023年凯撒奖最佳处女作奖和最佳女配角奖，荣获2023年卢米埃尔奖最佳处女作奖。

Agathe, 39, has but one obsession: to have a child.
She finds her ex, Marc-Antoine, a DJ, mixing techno in Marseille.
As she tries to talk to him into getting back together, plastic bags come to life and attack the city.

An intense desire for revenge fills Albert Bacheret: his daughter Marie. This father, exalted by violence, joins forces with Sayoko, to find and kill the culprits one by one. But at the same time, Sayoko leads her own mission of revenge which risks turning against Albert at any moment… Sayoko Mijima, a Japanese therapist based in Paris, helps Albert Bacheret find the murderer of his eight-year-old daughter who was killed by members of the Circle, a mysterious association involved in the trafficking of children’s organs. Together, they kidnap several suspects in turn and lock them in a warehouse to extract information from them. Between the quest for truth and the thirst for revenge, the duo will soon find themselves locked in a vicious spiral.

1887 年，在巴黎决斗盛行之时，克莱芒-拉卡泽和玛丽-罗丝-阿斯蒂埃相遇了。他是一位魅力四射的武器大师，而她则是一位超前的女权主义者。克莱芒陷入了暴力的漩涡，决定向玛丽-罗丝传授决斗技巧。为了挽回面子，两人必须携手合作。为了捍卫自己的荣誉，他们会走多远？

1952年，妮基为了逃离麦卡锡主义时期的美国，同丈夫和女儿回到法国，但童年遭遇的不安回忆依旧在妮基的脑海中挥之不去。为了能够解脱出来，她试图从艺术中找到力量。本片是关于法裔美国艺术家妮基·圣法勒（Niki de Saint Phalle）的传记片，追溯了妮基从模特到画家的转型过程。除讲述她因精神崩溃在医院的治疗经历，更着重描绘了她的艺术治愈过程，特别是她闻名世界的以步枪射击作画的独特创作方式，还原了一位从不幸中重生的非凡艺术家。本片入围今年戛纳电影节一种关注单元.

罪咎和羞耻如何启齿？变态色魔连环诱拐杀害女童案轰动一时，代表遇害者家属的大律师倍感压力，家宅被传媒日夜包围。一个他掩藏三十年的秘密，却在此时浮上水面。知情的妻子一直三缄其口，女儿择善固执，但儿子无法接受真相，表面和谐一戳即破。改编新闻事件，重点不在案件调查及法庭审讯，擅长刻划家庭矛盾的华坚拿科士伙同戛纳影帝丹尼奥杜、凯撒奖影后艾曼纽德芙，再次直击家人之间复杂纠缠的情感关系，透过色辱，窥视人心黑洞。

在第12部故事片中，艾曼纽·莫雷特(Emmanuel Mouret)展示了三个有着不同态度和道德观念的亲密女性之间的爱情变化，她们捍卫自己的观点，主张自己的爱情选择。乔安娜离开了女儿的父亲维克多。尽管她相信自己的决定在道德上是正确的，但她还是忍受着可怕的后果。他最好的朋友桑德琳提倡一种理性的婚姻，一种没有爱但充满温柔的关系。与此同时，乔安娜的妹妹丽贝卡相信爱情是一种冒险，并与桑德琳的伴侣保持着一段秘密关系。

電影背景設於一法國小鎮，故事則由一名才華橫溢的越野電單車手Jojo的遭遇開展。一天有人揭露了這名少年的性取向，他頓時要與死黨Willy擺脫這個保守社區對他們的偏見。導演在他這部長片處女作中，感同身受似的細膩描述兩位主角如何面對恐同和社會期望的幽靈，以敏銳的目光解構友誼和身份的多層面貌，並對法國鄉郊的LGBTQ+青少年所面對的挑戰進行尖刻深入的探索。

Passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Beauvais have their patience tested to destruction when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air-conditioning. In the end, they are so fed up that they will do almost anything to get back home.

故事的主人翁是一名喜欢酗酒的作家，有一日，这名男子的癌性肿瘤来探访他。肿瘤跟他打招呼说：“哈啰，我是你的肿瘤。我觉得我们应该互相多些了解会比较好。”

Amel and her family learn that their landlord wants to get his apartment back in a few months. While Mouna, her eldest daughter, begins to have visions of Charles Martel, and their request for new social housing drags on, Amel has no choice but to reinvent herself.

The film follows Vincent who works the night shift on the Grand Ciel building site, which is set to be a futuristic district. When a worker disappears, Vincent and his colleagues suspect the team leader of hiding the body somewhere on site. But Vincent is soon party to strange manifestations, and another worker disappears.

In the south of France, the leader of a Gypsy community and her two sons struggle to save their clan threatened with eviction by rising waters. To survive, they will have to cross the boundaries of legality and fight their way through a dark and dangerous world... all the while concealing the unspoken secret that has haunted their family for seven years.

面临被驱逐的命运，一位吉普赛女族长与她的儿子们奋力拯救家族，同时隐藏着一个可能摧毁他们的黑暗秘密。

大卫柯尔斯基负责监督法国史上最高摩天大楼的建造工程，长期承受业主施压、工期紧迫与员工过劳的重担，生活紧绷如弦，某晚，他遇见一位气质出众的女子维多莉亚，瞬间为她着迷，身为跨国企业的人资主管，维多莉亚聪颖果决，掌控人生如同掌控职场，大卫很快被卷入她的世界，深陷一段迷人却危险的关系之中。