Free Sunday at the Fabre museum, “Ultima Patagonia” at the Nestor-Burma cinema, “Le Corniaud” at the Pathé Comédie, les Théâtrales at the Opéra, Cap à l’Est, Vitaa at the Zénith Sud or closing night of L’Illuminé in Rabelais, discover our selection of outings for this Sunday, December 1st in Montpellier.
80th anniversary of the Liberation Exhibition
Fabre Museum. On December 2, 1944, the “First Exhibition of the Liberation” opened, organized in a Fabre museum emptied of a large part of its collections. At 2 p.m., visit to the display of Montpellier artists during the Second World War. At 3 p.m., History of the Fabre Museum during the Second World War. At 3:30 p.m., the MNR from the Fabre museum. At 4 p.m., round table “Collecting, preserving and promoting the memory of the Second World War”.
> This Sunday, December 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Fabre museum, 39 boulevard Bonnes Nouvelles in Montpellier. Activities, visits… find the program for the day on the museum website. Free. Contact on 04 67 14 83 00.
Southern Science: “Ultima Patagonia. The Last Frontier”
Scientific film. With Philippe Martin (ecologist, photographer – Éditions Matorral, diver, participant in Gilles Santantonio’s expeditions). Documentary by Gilles Santantonio (France, 2024, 1h31). Accompanied by two representatives of the Kawésqar people, around forty researcher-explorers are trying to unravel the secrets of the limestone island of Madre de Dios, in Chilean Patagonia.
> This Sunday, December 1 at 10:45 a.m. at the Nestor-Burma cinema, 2 rue Marcellin-Albert in Montpellier. Single price €5. Contact on 04 67 61 09 62.
The Timeless: “Le Corniaud”
Movie theater. Comedy (1h50) by Gérard Oury, with Louis de Funès, Bourvil, Jacques Ary. Saroyan, a trafficker, uses an honest merchant, named Antoine Maréchal, to take a Cadillac filled with heroin from Naples to Bordeaux.
> This Sunday, December 1 at 2 p.m. at the Pathé Comédie cinema, 10 place de la Comédie in Montpellier. Single price €7.
Les Théâtrales: “Love in others”
Theater. A comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, with Virginie Hocq, Jonathan Lambert, Arié Elmaleh, Andy Cocq, Julie Delarme, Sophie Bouilloux. The Fosters, the Phillips and the Chestnuts know each other well, the three men work together. Franck Foster is the head of this little world and Bob Phillips hopes to become his number two very soon, William Chestnut has just joined the company.
> This Sunday, December 1 at 4:30 p.m. at the Opéra Comédie, Place de la Comédie in Montpellier. From €39 to €69.
Heading east: “Anora”
Festival. Drama comedy (2h19, prohibited for children under 12) by Sean Baker, with Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov. Anora, a young stripper from Brooklyn, transforms into a modern-day Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. Without thinking, she enthusiastically marries her prince charming; but when the news reaches Russia, the fairy tale is quickly threatened…
> This Sunday, December 1 at 5:50 p.m. at the Nestor-Burma cinema, 2 rue Marcellin-Albert in Montpellier. Individual price €6.60. Contact on 04 67 61 09 62.
Vitaa – “The Tour”
Concert. For his 5th solo album, Vitaa took the gamble of returning to a more intimate and personal subject. Entitled “Charlotte”, from her first name, this album aims to address the duality of the immense career that she knows, successes and failures, coupled with a life as a woman, now a mother, who has gained in maturity and who takes a sincere look and cold on the current world and its future anxieties.
> This Sunday, December 1 at 6 p.m. at the Zénith Sud, avenue Albert-Einstein in Montpellier. From €39 to €69.
L’Illuminaté, closing night: “Mary and Max”
Animated cinema. In the presence of Guillaume Banniard, editor-in-chief of the magazine “L’Infini Détail”. Animation, comedy (1h32) by Adam Elliot, with Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Over more than 20 years, an epistolary relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby and lonely 8-year-old girl, living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horowitz, an obese 44-year-old Jewish man suffering from Alzheimer’s syndrome. Asperger and living in New York.
> This Sunday, December 1 at 8:30 p.m. at the Rabelais center, 27 boulevard Sarrail in Montpellier. Full price €6.50, reduced price €5. The Illuminated – Animated Film Festival
