October 24, 2014

Festival 2014 Video

Let's take a look back at this great, dynamic short video about last year's event! (Hey, you might even be in there...).

We are gearing up for 2015 and we'll make sure to take on last year's success to make our 11th edition even better!

When we started Focus on French Cinema in 2005, Philippe Muyl was one of our very first guests and became a Founding Member of Focus on French Cinema, were he presented his timeless film Le Papillon (The Butterfly).

 

We couldn't be happier to see his French-Chinese movie The Nightingale (Le Promeneur d'oiseau) being in the race for a Foreign Language Film nomination at the Academy Awards, 10 years later...

We wish him the best of luck, along with the other French productions and co-productions:
- Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello, with Gaspard Ulliel)

- Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, with Ibrahim Ahmed)

- Two Days, One Night (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne, with Marion Cotillard).

- Matar a un hombre (Alejandro Almendras, with Daniel Candia)

- Mateo (Maria Gamboa, with Carlos Hernandez)

- Corn Island (George Ovashvili, with Ilyas Salman)

- Gett (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz, with R. Elkabetz)

- Human Capital (Paolo Virzi, with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)

- 1001 Gram (Bent Hamer, with Ane Dahl Torp)

- Eyes of a Thief (by & with Najwa Najjar)

- Turist (Ruben �stlund, with Johannes Kuhnke)

- Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, with Haluk Bilginer)

Diplomatie (Diplomacy) at the Avon this week!

How one night saved Paris from destruction

at the end of the nazi occupation.

Avon Theatre - Stamford, CT

French Cin�math�que | Thu., Nov. 13, 7:30pm

La Jalousie, by Philippe Garrel

"Its rough-edged beauty is very much of the moment" 

- The New Yorker

In French With English Subtitles Festival | Nov. 21-23

French film festival 

at the French Institute - Alliance Fran�aise

Antoine Bleck in Concert | Nov. 21, 8pm

Greenwich Arch Street Teen Center

Come listen to the "French Crooner" for a great evening in music. Doors open at 7pm, drinks sold separately. 

Tickets: $45 - $65 (front row).

Cin�-Salon at French institute - Alliance Fran�aise

November - December, every Tuesday

December 16: The Man who Loved Women

French writer Patrick Modiano, who just won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation", also wrote several screenplays for the big screen, including: Lacombe, Lucien (by Louis Malle), Le Fils de Gascogne (by Pascal Aubier), Bon Voyage (by Jean-Paul Rappeneau). Also, several of his novels were adapted: Une Jeunesse, Villa Triste (Le Parfum d'Yvonne) and Dimanches d'Ao�t (Te Quiero).