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Money, Monies, & Movies: A Film Screening Series
Special film screening series organised by Patrice Baubeau (MFO)
Echoing the recent release of the film L’Affaire Bojarski (Jean-Paul Salomé, 2025) the MFO is offering a series of screenings on movies and monies. Cinema was born both as an art form and as an industrial process, a phenomenon that delayed its full recognition as a cultural activity. At the same time, and from its very beginnings, it has taken a keen interest in money matters and their dramatic and dynamic tensions. More specifically, cinema developed as a time when the monetary role of gold and silver was declining. These two media have in common the fact that they “represent” reality, distorting it for their detractors, helping to create a new one for their admirers.
The proposed cycle does not aim at covering all the events, themes and plots that link together movies and monies, but will focus on its social and political dimensions.
27 January, 7.00pm, Maison Française d’Oxford – ‘The Fabulous History of Money ¼ A Revolutionary Idea’ – Frédéric Wilner 2025, 52min
10 February, 7.00pm, Maison Française d’Oxford – ‘Crésus’ – Jean Giono, 1960, 1h40min
24 February, 7.00pm, Maison Française d’Oxford – ‘La Banquière’ – Francis Girod 1980, 1h71min
Date:
27 January 2026, 19:00
Venue:
Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Speakers:
Speaker to be announced
Organising department:
Maison Française d'Oxford
Organiser contact email address:
communications@mfo.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/movies-money-filmscreeningseries
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Anne-Sophie Gabillas
