       Cinema Newsletter July 28, 2011 |
You don't need to travel to France this summer, there are plenty of French films to go see instead! And theaters are the best places to stay cool... Bonne lecture.
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Point Blank Opening July 29. Samuel (Lellouche) is a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital. When his very pregnant wife (Anaya) is kidnapped before his helpless eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, he comes to and his cell phone rings: he has three hours to get Sartet (Zem), a man under police surveillance, out of the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and save the lives of his wife and unborn child ? |
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Mysteries of Lisbon Opening August 5. Spanning three decades, Mysteries of Lisbon plunges us into a whirlwind of adventures, coincidences, revelations, vengeance, betrayals and love affairs, wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage that takes us to Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and as far as Brazil. Evoking the complex intertwined narratives of Charles Dickens, the film’s central character is Joao, the illegitimate child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and follows Joao’s quest to discover the truth of his parentage. |
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Over your cities grass will grow Opening August 10. The film bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer's alchemical creative processes and renders in film, as a cinematic journey, the personal universe he has built at his hill-studio estate in the South of France. |
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Sarah's Keys In modern-day Paris, a journalist (Kristin Scott Thomas) finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942. |
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The Tree Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn - along with her four young children - struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then the tree’s enormous roots slowly begin to encroach on the abode and threaten their fragile existence… |
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The Names of Love Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: "Make love, not war" to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results -- until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy), the duo improbably fall in love. Amid the bubbly amour, humorous lasciviousness and moments of sheer madness, filmmaker Michel Leclerc injects satirical riffs on hot-button sociopolitical issues. |
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams', a breathtaking new 3D documentary from the incomparable Werner Herzog ('Encounters at the End of the World,' 'Grizzly Man') follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, home to the most ancient visual art known to have been created by man. |
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L'Age d'Or Friday July 29, at 7:30 pm @ Anthology Film Archives The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general. |
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Wild Reeds Running time 110 minutes, France, 1994. With Elodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel. Wednesday August 3, at 4pm @ MOMA Theater 2 Gallery Set in the French countryside shortly after the Algerian war, this moving story of lost innocence centers on a sensitive, intelligent teenage boy who falls in love with a handsome farm boy. Coming between them, both sexually and politically, is their teacher's daughter, Maïté, an ardent Communist, and their classmate Henri, a pied noir militantly opposed to Algerian independence. |
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Purple Noon Friday, August 5, at 4pm @ MOMA Theater 2 This early, successful adaptation of the Highsmith novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, features a young Alain Delon at his most handsome, persuasive, and deadly. The film is a delicious French thriller (by an American ex-pat) set during the heat of summer in a millionaire’s playground, where yachts, alcohol, and women abound.
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Talking Head Filmmakers as varied as Jean Eustache, Shirley Clarke, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, and Wang Bing, among many others, have constructed unforgettable films out of nothing more than the unvarnished testimony of a single individual. These filmmakers have chosen to focus on men and women whose eloquence and charisma, and the momentousness of the events they’ve experienced or witnessed, render their testimony so compelling that the usual documentary affectations would only serve as distractions. In this series, Anthology Film Archives presents two French Films: Sobibor, October 14, 1945, 4 pm: Saturday August 6, at 9pm For further information: click here |
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On Sundance Channel
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On TV5 MONDE To find out about French programs shown on TV5 MONDE : click here |
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On Eurochannel To find out about French programs shown on Eurochannel : click here |
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On Eurocinema Même en Rêve, Alice Taylor, 2006. |
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• Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Aki Kaurismaki’s much-acclaimed Le Havre, which premiered in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival • The Weinstein Company has acquired the rights of Untouchable, starring Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy. |
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