In collaboration with the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Palace invites you to (re)discover *The Ghost and Mrs. Muir* by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

This screening echoes the project initiated by Françoise Bloch with the productions Pieuvre 1, 2, and 3, and more specifically Pieuvre 2 (Ghosts), in which Mankiewicz’s film contributes to the playwright’s exploration.

Introduction by Françoise Bloch (in French). 

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, Joseph L. Mankiewicz

USA, 104 min., 1947, Original English Version with French/Dutch Subtitles

Synopsis: Mrs. Muir, an independent widow, and her young daughter, in Victorian England, find a new life in a small English seaside town at Gull Cottage. But this new life has a catch: an old sea dog named Capt. Daniel Gregg still resides there, in the form of a ghost who refuses to leave his home.

Special student rate: 5 euros 
This rate is available only at the Palace box office. (not available online)

PIEUVRE 1 + 2 & 3

From the depths of investigative theater emerges a show as sprawling as it is captivating. Between reality and fiction, Françoise Bloch weaves a narrative that bridges the personal and the collective. 

Far from conventional theatrical conventions, Pieuvre 1 + 2 & 3 unfolds from a personal experience, the starting point of an investigation within an intimate setting, as the audience is led to wander through various spaces on the stage. 

Pieuvre 1 (Traces) explores, through a news item—unless it is a so-called “tragic” event—the connections between the personal, the historical, and the political. In Pieuvre 2 (Ghosts), this same event sparks a poetic reflection on the presence of the dead among the living, as well as on our need for stories, fiction, and representation. Finally, in Pieuvre 3, the two actor-researchers and the musician participating in the journey grapple with a seemingly naive question: can theater allow a dead person to answer the questions of the living? 

The Pieuvre project draws its energy from a disappearance and examines the unsaid. Both rigorous and playful, with a humility that invites reflection, Pieuvre 1 + 2 unfolds as a solo illustrated lecture, while Pieuvre 3 offers a collective exploration. These forms complement one another and do not shy away from any digression.