Wednesday: Carte Noir IFI French Film Festival; Eoin McHugh's "hyper-surrealism"

FILM
Carte Noir IFI French Film Festival
Irish Film Institute until November 30 ifi.ie
This year's French Film Festival strikes an agreeable blend between fresh material and restored classics. Bruno Dumont's weird mystery Li'l Quinquin, originally made for French television, has kicked up great reviews around the world. Mathieu Amalric will be in town to discuss his Simenon adaptation The Blue Room. But the highlight must be Jean-Luc Godard's headache-inducing Goodbye to Language 3D (pictured).

ART
Eoin McHugh: the skies will be friendlier then
Kerlin Gallery, Anne's Lane, Sth Anne St, Dublin Until Dec 23 kerlin.ie
Eoin Mc Hugh's "hyper-surrealism" has won him a large following, and this new body of work is likely to continue the process. It includes huge collages of reconstructed Oriental carpets and a sculpture of a "flayed and headless beast" looming over a crouching infant. He draws on psychoanalytical history and the poems of Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney, though never obviously.