French Movies in New York

Voici la liste des productions et films français à découvrir cette semaine dans les salles obscures new-yorkaises.

A noter tout particulièrement sur vos tablettes, le festival annuel Rendez-vous with French Cinema, qui a fait son ouverture hier. Toutes les infos ci-dessous...

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	Green Zone Directed by Paul Greengrass, 115 minutes, France/USA/Spain/UK, Universal Pictures, 2010. With Igal Naor, Said Faraj, Matt Damon. United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary exposé of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was present as American forces attempted to set up a provisional government on the grounds surrounding former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's opulent palace. In this fictional thriller set during the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad, director Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland use Chandrasekaran's novel as the foundation for the story of an officer who joins forces with a senior CIA officer to unearth evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. For showtimes and tickets, click here .
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	A Prophet | Un Prophète Directed by Jacques Audiard, 150 minutes, France/Italy, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009. With Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and now an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, this exhilarating crime epic from director Jacques Audiard follows an illiterate French-Arab prison inmate’s six-year odyssey from new kid on the cell block to underworld kingpin. Along the way, Malik (remarkable newcomer Tahar Rahim) learns how to read not just books but people, too, as the protégé of a brutal Corsican gang leader (the electrifying Niels Arestrup), until the pupil threatens to overtake the master, playing every one of Paris’ rival gangland factions to his own advantage. Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Broadway btw. 62nd and 63rd, New York, NY 10023, (212) 757-2280 | Angelika Film Center, 18 West Houston Street New York, NY 10012, (800) 326-3264 | Cobbie Hill Cinemas, 265 Court St. Brooklyn, NY 11231, (718) 596-9113 | Kew Gardens, 81-05 Lefferts Blvd., Kew Gardens, NY 11415, (718) 441-9835 | Stampfel Movies Malverne Quad Cinemas, 350 Hempstead Avenue, Malverne, NY 11565, (516) 599-6966 Link
	The Secret of Kells | Brendan et le Secret de Kells Directed by Tomm Moore, 75 minutes, Ireland/France/Belgium, Gkids, 2009. The new animated masterpiece from the producers of Kirikou and the Sorceress and The Triplets of Belleville , The Secret of Kells film blends fantasy and mythology to create a richly detailed and striking visual landscape, folding traditionally Celtic influences into a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes. Hailed by international critics as one of the most beautiful films of the year and winner of the audience award at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival, The Secret of Kells has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Film. City Cinemas Village East, 181 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003, (800)326-3264 Link
	The Ghost Writer Directed by Roman Polanski, 128 minutes, France/Germany/UK, Summit Distribution, 2010. With Ewan McGregor, Jon Bernthal, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan. Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level— sexual, political and literary. In a world in which nothing, and no one, is as it seems, The Ghost quickly discovers that the past can be deadly—and that history is decided by whoever stays alive to write it. Lincoln Plaza Cinemas | City Cinemas 1, 2 & 3 | Regal E-Walk 13 | Clearview Chelsea Cinemas | National Amusements Edgewater Multiplex Cinemas | Regal Cinemas Union Square | BAM Rose Cinemas | United Artists Brandon Cinemas | Clearview Tenafly Cinema 4 | Clearview Bronxville Cinemas | Regal Cinemas New Roc City | Clearview Clairidge Cinemas | Clearview Larchmount Playhouse | Clearview Washington Township Cinemas | CJM Maplewood Sixplex | Stampfel Movies Malverne Quad Cinemas | Cranford Theatre | National Amusements White Plains | Roberts Chatham Theatre | National Amusements All Westchester Saw Mill Multiplex | Stampfel Movies Bellmore | Bowtie Plaza 3 Link
	The White Ribbon | Le Ruban Blanc Directed by Michael Haneke, 144 minutes, Austria/Germany/France/ Italy, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery. Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Broadway Between 62nd and 63rd, New York, NY 10023, (212) 757-2280 | Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, New York, NY 10014, (212) 727-8110 | Cedar Lane Cinemas, 503 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, NJ 07666, (201) 836-3334 Link
	Eyes Wide Open | Tu n'Aimeras Point Directed by Haim Tabakman, 91 minutes, Israrel/Germany/France, New American Vision, 2009. With Zohar Shtrauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell. Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he hires Ezri, a handsome twenty-two year old student, as an apprentice and soon develops feelings for him. As the relationship grows, Aaron starts to neglect his family and community life, swept away by his love--and lust--for Ezri. But a foreboding guilt, inner torment and intense condemnation from the community catch up with him, leading him to make a radical decision. Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, New York, NY 10003, (212) 924-3363 Link
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Directed by Terry Gilliam, 122 minutes, UK/Canada/France, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009. With Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a traveling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Landmark's Sunshine Cinemas, 143 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10002, (212)777-3456 Link
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	The Film Society of Lincoln Center, IFC Center and BAM present  : " RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA " > > > March 11th - 21st Now in its 15th year, the wildly popular series presents another exclusive panorama of contemporary French cinema, from intimate personal stories to finely crafted forays into genre filmmaking. Testifying to the continuing vitality of French film, many filmmakers are featured for the first time: Alain Guiraudie, Laurent Perreau, Riad Sattouf, Axelle Ropert, Xabi Molia, and Mona Achache. Link
	Farewell Directed by Christian Carion, 112 minutes, France, NeoClassics Films, 2009. With Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ingeborga Dapkunaite. Actor-directors Emir Kusturica and Guillaume Canet co-star in this remarkable Cold War thriller about a key event in the downfall of the Soviet Union. In the early 1980s, a disillusioned KGB colonel (Kusturica) hands over top-secret documents to an ordinary French engineer (Canet) working for the Thomson news service in Moscow, inciting an international intelligence incident that reaches all the way to the desk of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan (Fred Ward). Cloak-and-dagger skullduggery abounds, but writer-director Christian Carion keeps the focus of this little-known true story on the richly human friendship between two unlikely comrades. Friday, March 12th at 9:30p.m. - IFC Center Link
	Welcome Directed by Philippe Lioret, 110 minutes, France, Film Movement, 2009. With Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana. Bilal, a young 17 year old Kurdish boy, has travelled through Middle East and Europe to join his girlfriend, freshly immigrated to England. But his journey comes to an abrupt end when he is stopped on the French side of the Channel. Having decided to swim across, Bilal goes to the local swimming pool to train. There he meets Simon, a swimming instructor in the midst of a divorce. To impress his wife and win back her heart, Simon decides to risk everything by taking Bilal under his wing. Friday, March 12th at 1:15p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Saturday, March 13th at 9p.m. - IFC Center Sunday, March 14th at 3:30p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Actor Vincent Lindon in person on March 14th! Link
	The Hedgehog | Le Hérisson Directed by Mona Achache, 100 minutes, France/Italy, 2009. With Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet. Muriel Barbery’s well-loved novel becomes a very timely fable in this touching rendition of the story of Paloma, a young girl bent on ending it all before she becomes an adult. Disgusted by the hypocrisy she sees in her parents and other adults, Paloma decides she wants no part of it; armed with her father’s High-8 camera, she goes about documenting the 165 days or so before she will meet her end, offering caustic (and often hilarious) asides about her family and the upper-middle class cocoon in which they live. Friday, March 12th at 3:50p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Saturday, March 13th at 4p.m. - IFC Center Sunday, March 14th at 8:45p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Director Mona Achache in person! Link
	Rapt Directed by Lucas Belvaux, 125 minutes, France/Belgium, 2009. With Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian. Belgian actor-director Lucas Belvaux returns with a claustrophobic, edge-of-your-seat nailbiter inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Édouard-Jean Empain. Yvan Attal stars as a millionaire businessman, gambler, and well-known playboy who is abducted on his way to the office and held for a king’s ransom. As his wife and attorney field the kidnappers’ demands, it becomes clear that the missing man’s enemies far outnumber his allies. Is his abduction a crime, or merely a case of just deserts? Friday, March 12th at 6:30p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Saturday, March 13th at 12:30p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Sunday, March 14th at 1:30p.m. - IFC Center Director Lucas Belvaux and actor Yvan Attal in person! Link
	New Films by the Lumière Brothers An unforgettable evening with one of the world’s great cinephiles: Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Frémaux returns to the Film Society with a selection of newly restored films by the inventors of cinema, Auguste and Louis Lumière, along with illuminating commentary about the brothers and the stories behind their films. Among the (re)discoveries are examples of the Lumières’ pioneering experiments with color—and even 3D. James Cameron, eat your heart out. Saturday, March 13th at 3:30p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Link
	The Refuge | Le Refuge Directed by François Ozon, 90 minutes, France, Strand Releasing, 2009. With Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Melvil Poupaud. Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day they overdose, and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she’s pregnant. Feeling lost, she runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis’ brother joins her in her refuge. Saturday, March 13th at 7p.m. - IFC Center Link
	The French Kissers | Les Beaux Gosses Directed by Riad Sattouf, 90 minutes, France, 2009. With Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolière, Julie Scheibling. Pimply-faced, hormonal 14-year-old Hervé and his heavy-metal sidekick Camel are on the scene in this hilariously crude and surprisingly touching coming-of-age comedy from comic-book artist Riad Sattouf. When Hervé catches the eye of his beautiful, self-assured classmate Aurore, it turns his whole sexually frustrated world upside down, to say nothing of Camel—who lives in fear of Hervé scoring before he does—and Hervé’s nosy single mom, who would love to see her son find a girlfriend…and give up that wadded-up sock on the nightstand. A movie for everyone who remembers the glories of first love, and the horrors of premature ejaculation. Friday, March 12th at 9:25p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Saturday, March 13th at 5:30p.m. - BAM Sunday, March 14th at 4:30p.m. - IFC Center Tuesday, March 16th at 3:45p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Director Riad Sattouf in person! Link
	Les Regrets Directed by Cédric Kahn, 105 minutes, France, 2009. With Yvan Attal, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Arly Jover, Philippe Katerine. In this spellbinder from director Cédric Kahn, a married Paris architect returns to his rural hometown to visit his dying mother, whereupon he rekindles a relationship with his former high-school girlfriend. They then go their separate ways, but before long, their impassioned text messages—the 21st-century equivalent of love letters—draw them back into each other’s arms. Is it love or merely blind obsession? Nothing is quite as it seems in a romantic drama with the pulse of a Hitchcock thriller. Friday, March 12th at 7p.m. - IFC Center Saturday, March 13th at 6:15p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Sunday, March 14th at 1p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Director Cédric Kahn and actor Yvan Attal in person! Link
	The King of Escape | Le Roi de l'Evasion Directed by Alain Guiraudie, 97 minutes, France, 2009. With Ludovic Berthillot, Hafsia Herzi, Pierre Laur. When a gay, portly, middle-aged tractor salesman helps to rescue a vivacious 16-year-old girl from a gang of bullies, she falls head over heels for her unlikely savior. And he decides to try batting for the other team. Soon, our postmodern Romeo and Juliet are on the run from uncomprehending parents and locals alike in this delightfully offbeat comedy from director Alain Guiraudie. Saturday, March 13th at 9p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Monday, March 15th at 3:45p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Tuesday, March 16th at 9:30p.m. - IFC Center Director Alain Guiraudie in person! Link
	The Wolberg Family | La Famille Wolberg Directed by Axelle Ropert, 80 minutes, France/Belgium, 2009. With François Damiens, Valérie Benguigui, Léopoldine Serre, Valentin Vigourt, Serge Bozon. He can make an amazing speech on American soul music to astounded school kids, meddle in the private life of his fellow citizens or even make his 18-year-old daughter swear that never, ever, will she leave the family home. This man’s name is Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial town, madly in love with his wife, an invasive father and a provocative son! This man is driven by his obsession with his family. It causes him to put these bonds to the test, checking their strength and fragility… Sunday, March 14th at 9:15p.m. - IFC Center Link
	OSS 117: Lost in Rio | OSS 117 : Rio Ne Répond Plus Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, 100 minutes, France, 2009. With Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Rüdiger Vogler, Alex Lutz. Based on a character created in the Fifties around the same time as James Bond, the OSS 117 series led to more than 90 novels and even a few movies, although none played as internationally as those of his British rival. Director Michel Hazanavicius has lovingly revived not only the character but the period: the Sixties-flavored set design and candy-colored cinematography perfectly conjure up the era, and the cartoonishly handsome Dujardin brings just the right touch of self-irony to his incarnation as France’s top spy. Monday, March 15th at 1p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Tuesday, March 16th at 8:45p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Wednesday, March 17th at 7p.m. - IFC Center Director Michel Hazanavicius and actor Jean Dujardin in person! Link
	I'm Glad that My Mother is Alive | Je Suis Heureux que ma Mère soit Vivante Directed by Claude & Nathan Miller, 90 minutes, France, 2009. With Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti. Our identities are clothes the shapes of which were designed by our childhood. Between the age of 7 and 20, Thomas was looking for Julie, his birth mother. Unknown to his adoptive parents he would find this woman who had abandoned him at 4 years and start a “parallel life” with her. But as the proverb goes: "You shouldn’t bet on two winning horses…" Monday, March 15th at 9:30p.m. - IFC Center Link
	Mademoiselle Chambon Directed by Stéphane Brizé, 90 minutes, France, 2009. With Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika. Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son. He feels confortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerizing, unlike any woman he has ever met before. This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organized life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret? Monday, March 15th at 7p.m. - IFC Center Link
	The Thorn in The Heart | L'Epine dans le Coeur Directed by Michel Gondry, 86 minutes, Oscilloscope Pictures, 2009. A filmmaker better known for his brilliant rendering of fantasy, Michel Gondry ventures into family history in this quietly affecting portrait of his aunt, schoolteacher Suzette Gondry. Revealing a new aspect of Gondry’s already considerable filmmaking talent, A Thorn in the Heart touchingly explores a complex relationship for which there are no easy answers or interpretations. Monday, March 15th at 6:15p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Wednesday, March 17th at 9:30p.m. - IFC Center Link
	Eight Times Up | Huit Fois Debout Directed by Xavi Molia, 103 minutes, France, Synkronized, 2009. With Frédéric Bocquet, Julie Gayet, François Miquelis, Denis Podalydès. Elsa barely scrapes by working a series of menial jobs, hoping against hope for the steady employment that will allow her to win back custody of her son. Her unemployed neighbor, Mathieu, is equally adept at failing job interviews…and making unwelcome romantic overtures at Elsa. When Elsa is evicted, however, she ventures into the woods, where Mathieu has set up a makeshift retreat. But can they really start over again in this makeshift Eden? In his disarming and poignant debut feature, director Xabi Molia examines the pressures of modern society through the eyes of two memorable misfits. Tuesday, March 16th at 8:45p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Wednesday, March 17th at 3:30 ( Walter Reade Theatre ) & 8p.m. ( IFC Center ) Director Xabi Molia and actress Julie Gayet in person! Link
	Restless | Le Bel Âge Directed by Laurent Perreau, 97 minutes, France, 2009. With Michjel Piccoli, Pauline Etienne, Eric Caracava, Marie Kremer. Laurent Perreau’s very impressive debut feature offers a unique take on the classic “coming of age” tale: the rapprochement between generations allows both grandfather and granddaughter to escape from the emotional confines to which they’ve banished themselves. As Maurice, Michel Piccoli gives one of his finest performances in years, allowing us to peer beneath the gruff exterior to feel all his vulnerability. Tuesday, March 16th at 7p.m. - IFC Center Wednesday, March 17th at 1p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Thursday, March 18th at 8:45p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Link
	The Army of Crime | L'Armée du Crime Directed by Ribert Guédiguian, 139 minutes, France, 2009. With Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. A taut, revealing thriller about the early days of the French Resistance, a time when so many of the movement’s leaders and foot soldiers were often foreigners—Poles, Jews, Armenians, Spaniards, Italians—who had to fear French collaborators as well as the Germans.  Varying in their actual homelands and in their reasons for joining the struggle, the one thing that unites them is the understanding that the Nazis oppression will only increase unless it is squarely confronted. To that end, they hatch a plot to assassinate a general, and show that resistance is indeed possible, but their activity attracts the attention of the German high command, which decides to teach the French population a different kind of lesson. Wednesday, March 17th at 6p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Thursday, March 18th at 9:30p.m. - IFC Center Link
	In The Beginning | A l'Origine Directed by Xavier Giannoli, 120 minutes, France, 2009. With François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Gérard Depardieu. François Cluzet gives a tour-de-force performance as a charismatic con man in this stranger-than-fiction true story from writer-director Xavier Giannoli. Arriving in an economically depressed town in the northern French region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, recently paroled Paul passes himself off as a rep for a major construction company and convinces the locals—including the comely lady mayor—that he’s there to restart a long-dormant highway project.  Soon, laid-off workers are back on the job and Paul is a local hero, until his past (in the form of shady ex-associate Gérard Depardieu) and his conscience catch up to him. Saturday, March 13th at 1:30p.m. - IFC Center Wednesday, March 17th at 9p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Thursday, March 18th at 3:45p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Link
	Making Plans for Lena | Non ma Fille, tu n'iras pas Danser Directed by Christophe Honoré, 105 minutes, France, 2009. With Chiara Mastroianni, Marina Foïs, Marie-Christine Barrault, Louis Garrel. Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Léna soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family of do-gooders who have decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy. Thursday, March 18th at 7p.m. - IFC Center Link
	The Law | La Loi Directed by Jules Dassin, 126 minutes, France/Italy, Oscilloscope Pictures, 1959. With Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Yves Montand, Marcello Mastroianni. This hugely entertaining, very wry film, directed with great style by Jules Dassin, features an international A-list cast—Yves Montand, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, and Pierre Brasseur, just for starters. Pitched between a romantic melodrama and a Fifties art film, The Law is set in a seemingly idyllic Italian seaside village where each night the local men gather at a tavern and decide which one will get to play “the Boss,” and spend the next 24 hours humiliating the others. Sunday, March 14th at 6:45p.m. - IFC Center Thursday, March 18th at 1p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Link
	New French Shorts Wonderful things can sometimes come in very small packages, as this prizewinning selection of provocative short films from France amply demonstrates. See tomorrow’s auteurs today! - Let's Go, Alonso | Allons-y, Alonso Camille Moulin-Dupré, 2009. An animated romp through French cinema. - The Girls | Les Filles Anna Mouglalis, 2009. A different kind of girls’ night out. - Reimmigration | L'aide au Retour Mohammed Latrèche, 2009. An immigrant family tries to avoid going back to its homeland. - All My Life | Toute Ma Vie Pierre Ferriere, 2009. Can your life really flash before your eyes? - The Great Forests | Les Grandes Forêts Frédéric Guelaff, 2009 Odd things come out, or go back into, the dark woods. - The Occupant | L'Occupant Gabriel Le Bomin, 2009. A strange bond develops a young boy and his “guest.” - One Last Cigarette | Une Dernière Cigarette Géraldine Maillet, 2009. Sharing a smoke, and possibly much more. Tuesday, March 16th at 1:30p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Thursday, March 18th at 6:30p.m. - Walter Reade Theatre Link
	IFC Center presents  " FRENCH CLASSICS " > > > March 12th - 18th To accompany our Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series, a special return engagement of two of French cinema’s most enduring crime masterpieces. Link
	Pickpocket Directed by Robert Bresson, 75 minutes, France, New Yorker Films, 1959. With Martin La Salle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri. Pickpocket was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s "Crime and Punishment", but all incidental anecdote and psychology has been stripped away. Employing few establishing shots and little camera movement, Bresson distills narrative down to a particular essence of looks, gestures, and precisely placed audio effects. (’The noises must become music,’ he wrote in his notebooks.) His mise-en-scène is as understated as his montage is aggressive—creating performances out of reaction shots, using sound to signify offscreen events. Bresson refers to this method as cinematography, opposing it to ‘the terrible habit of theater.’ Friday, March 12th at 11a.m. Monday, March 15th at 11a.m. Tuesday, March 16th at 11a.m. Link
	Pierrot le Fou Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 110 minutes, France/Italy, Janus Films, 1965. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani. Is Jean-Luc Godard’s unmissable movie a recapitulation of all the themes that came before in his oeuvre, a sneak peek at the dense cine-tracts that would follow, his most conventional film or his most beautiful one? Watching this staggeringly gorgeous new 35mm print, you’ll most likely find yourself echoing the sentiments of Marianne Renoir (Karina), on the lam with Ferdinand (Belmondo) on the Côte d’Azur: ‘I feel alive, and that’s all that matters.’ Friday, March 12th at 4:20p.m. Monday, March 15th at 4:20p.m. Tuesday, March 16th at 4:20p.m. Link
	IFC Center presents : 2010 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films This program features the five films nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best Animated Short, plus three additional films named to the Academy’s shortlist. The first and the last shorts of this program are French : - French Roast Directed by Fabrice O. Joubert, 8 minutes, 2008. - Logorama Directed by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain, 16 minutes, 2009. Link
	ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES presents : " MARGUERITE DURAS ON FILM " > > > March 12th - 18th This retrospective is part of IN THE WORDS OF DURAS, a four-week festival, taking place from February 18 to March 18, celebrating Marguerite Duras, with film screenings, performances, and exhibits presented by Anthology, Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Link
	Destroy, She Said | Détruire, Dit-Elle Directed by Marguerite Duras, 100 minutes, France, 1969. With Catherine Sellers, Michel Lonsdale. Five people isolated in a hotel become enmeshed in a ritualistic game. Duras’s second film as a director is a psychodrama based on her own play, written in the wake of the events in Paris in May 1968. Many of the elements typical of Duras’s elliptical and often cinematic literature, such as her preoccupation with disjunctive experiences of space, place, and time, are skillfully translated to the screen. Friday, March 12th at 7p.m. Monday, March 15th at 9:15p.m. Link
	Nathalie Granger Directed by Marguerite Duras, 83 minutes, France, 1972. Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bose, Gérard Depardieu. An oblique and electrifying look at family and society, Nathalie Granger chronicles an afternoon in the benumbed lives of two women in their home on the outskirts of Paris. One is having trouble with her daughter, Nathalie, whose violent temper is making her unfit for public school. A sense of foreboding arises as they listen to radio reports of two teenagers who have murdered a child. Enter Gérard Depardieu as a traveling salesman, pathetic and somehow sinister, who is determined to sell the ladies of the house a washing machine they don’t need. Friday, March 12th at 9:15p.m. Tuesday, March 16th at 7p.m. Link
	Le Navire Night Directed by Marguerite Duras, 95 minutes, France, 1979. With Bulle Ogier, Dominique Sanda, Mathieu Carrière. Duras employs the ostensible film-within-a-film format, used so cleverly in The Truck , to tell of an extraordinary love affair conducted entirely by telephone. The voices of Duras and filmmaker Beno?t Jacquot provide the dialogue and narrate the movements of the actors. It’s a bold directorial intervention, part Kabuki, part Sacha Guitry, pure Duras. Saturday, March 13th at 4:30p.m. Tuesday, March 16th at 9p.m. Link
	India Song Directed by Marguerite Duras, 120 minutes, France, 1975. With Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière. In her best-known film, Duras effectively evokes the colonial India of the thirties, contrasting the indolent life of the colonialists with the squalor and suffering that lie just outside their gates and consciousness – though her camera never ventures from the abodes of the wealthy, and the film was in fact shot in Paris. The story concerns a beautiful woman, suffering from what Duras has called “colonial sickness”, who lives in a private desolation which none can enter. With its offscreen voices, a kind of distant dialogue counterpointed by image and music, India Song portrays what Richard Roud called an “India of the soul.” Saturday, March 13th at 6:30p.m. Wednesday, March 17th at 9:15p.m. Link
	The Truck | Le Camion Directed by Marguerite Duras, 80 minutes, France, 1977. Wirth Marguerite Duras and Gérard Depardieu. In the time-honored French tradition of L'Age d'Or and Rules of the Game , Duras’s Le Camion inspired fisticuffs between its supporters and detractors. Duras stars, along with Gérard Depardieu, a truck, and a landscape. The two sit around a table and essentially conjure up the truck and the desolately beautiful landscape as she reads him a screenplay for a film in which he plays a truck driver who picks up a female hitchhiker. Saturday, March 13th at 9p.m. Thiursday, March 18th at 7p.m. Link
	Césarée & L'Homme Atlantique Both films directed by Marguerite Duras. - Césarée 1978, 12 minutes. The stories of Césarée, a city in Palestine, and Bérénice, queen of the Jews, are told with Duras’s own voice against the backdrop of still and moving images of Parisian monuments. - L'Homme Atlantique 1981, 45 minutes. Made using outtakes from Agatha , this film explores writing and the image’s disappearance. Sunday, March 14th at 4:45p.m. Monday, March 15th at 7:30p.m. Link
	Agatha et les Lectures Illimitées Directed by Marguerite Duras, 90 minutes, France, 1981. With Yann Andréa, Bulle Ogier. A crystalline expression of Duras’s central themes – memory, desire, lost or forbidden love – Agatha stars Duras’s companion Yann Andréa and Bulle Ogier as brother and sister. They arrange to rendez-vous in the Hôtel des Roches Noires in the seaside village of Trouville because the hotel reminds them of the house they grew up in. There, engulfed by an expanse of sea and sky which turns into a confluence of memory, they wander through the château of endless windows and mirrors and empty rooms, finally confronting their incestuous desires. Among Duras’s most radical experiments, Agatha not only separates image and text, but also concludes with a bravura, sustained use of black frame over which the denouement of the tale is narrated. Sunday, March 14th at 6:15p.m. Thursday, March 18th at 9p.m. Link
	The Children | Les Enfants Directed by Marguerite Duras, 94 minutes, France, 1985. With André Dussolier, Pierre Arditi, Daniel Gélin. A marvelous piece of absurdist cinema that is, on one level at least, Duras’s most entertaining and accessible work, Les Enfants concerns a seven-year-old boy, Ernesto, who is portrayed by a forty-year-old man (Axel Bougousslavsky). In his child’s wisdom, Ernesto decides to quit school, since knowledge can count for nothing in a meaningless world. Within the effectively stark framework which Duras has established throughout her oeuvre, rarely have the nuances of character been given such free play, nor the human condition been decried with such warm, sad humor. Sunday, March 14th at 8:15p.m. Wedesnday, March 17th at 7p.m. Link
	FIAF presents : New York, I Love You | New York, Je t'Aime Two segments directed by Yvan Attal, 103 minutes, 2009. With Maggie Q, Ethan Hawke, Chris Cooper, Robin Wright Penn. The passions of the city that never sleeps come to life in New York, I Love You (a follow-up to 2006’s Paris, je t'aime)—a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers, featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of spontaneous, surprising, and electrifying human connections that unfold beneath the New York skyline. Saturday, March 13th at 7:30p.m. The screening with be followed by a Q&A with actor-director Yvan Attal and moderated by Ronnie Scheib. An Attal's short film from 1997 will also be screened. Link
	FIAF presents  " THE WHIMSICAL WORLD OF BELGIAN CINEMA " > > > Tuesdays in March FIAF presents a selection of films that showcase some of the richness and diversity of Belgian cinema. Regardless of genre, they all share a twisted, surreal, and deadpan humor that is uniquely l’humour belge . Link
	C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous | Man Bites Dog Directed by Rémy Belvaux & André Bonzel, 95 mnutes, Belgium, 1992. With Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert. Three filmmakers track the daily activities of Ben, who loves poetry and philosophy. He is also an unrepentant serial killer. Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes, Man Bites Dog is an unsettling portrait of the media and its relationship to the subjects it covers that remains frighteningly relevant today. Tuesday, March 16th at 12:30, 4 & 7:30p.m. The screenings will be preceeded by Il court, il court le Monde , a 1987 Belgiam short film. Link
	GKIDS presents : "NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL 2010" The New York International Children's Film Festival is the country's largest annual film festival for kids, featuring intelligent and thought-provoking films from around the world. The Festival also has monthly screenings at select New York theaters and produces an annual nationwide tour. Link
.	Fantastic Planet | La Planète Sauvage Directed by René Laloux, 72 minutes, France, 1973. This psychedelic landmark in feature animation by René Laloux has become a cult classic, with its trippy sci-fi tale of humans enslaved by an alien race of super-intelligent blue giants and treated as dumb pets. When one human child escapes from his master he opens up a new world of knowledge to the humans and sparks a rebellion. Saturday, March 13th at 4:30p.m. Link
.	Stella Directed by Sylvie Verheyde, 102 minutes, France, 2008. With Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodriguès, Laëtitia Guérard. In this wonderfully tender, autobiographical coming-of-age story, a precocious young girl made wise beyond her years from a bohemian upbringing is forced to adjust when she enters a wealthy private school. The film features stunning cinematography, with an ethereal light that makes even the grimy bar fl oors and wood-paneled hotel rooms look like beautiful postcards to a bygone era, and is backed by a superb instrumental soundtrack infused with French disco hits. But the true standout is newcomer Léora Barbara, whose multifaceted performance as the wryly philosophical Stella is both prickly and loveable, a charming outsider you want desperately to succeed. Saturday, March 13th at 8:45p.m. Link
.	Amuse-Bouche : French Short Animation Total running time: 80 minutes A tantalizing collection of recent works from some of France’s most creative and influential animators. Anchoring the lineup, Sylvain Chomet’s The Old Lady and the Pigeons garnered top prizes at Annecy and BAFTA, an Oscar nomination, and paved the way for his next film, the ground breaking Triplets of Belleville . Also included are current Oscar nominated French Roast from Fabrice Joubert, the Oscar nominated Oktapodi , and additional award-winning shorts from cartoon masters Serge Elissalde, Marie Caillou, Jerome Boulbes and others. Saturday, March 13th at 10:30a.m. Link

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