Wednesday, February 27, 2019

 

RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA 2019


THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
AND UNIFRANCE
PRESENT

RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA
FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 10

Opening Night
Pierre Salvadori’s The Trouble with You,
nominated for nine César Awards


The RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA is always one of my favorite film events of the year.  

Each year there seems to be some idea, theme, mood, or special emphasis. This year there appears to be an emphasis on women directors, and a certain unease about the state of the world. 

Several actors and directors in this year's event have director or appeared in films seen here earlier. One returning director, Eva Husson, and one returning actor, Melvil Poupaud, visited New York in person two years ago, and I had the opportunity to speak with them. Here are my interviews with them from that visit. (See the links, below.)



Here is the Festival’s announcement of the RENDEZ-VOUS:

The 24th edition of the annual French cinema showcase features new work from Bruno Dumont, Mia Hansen-Løve, Quentin Dupieux, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, and more

The 2019 Opening Night selection is the New York premiere of The Trouble with You, the latest comic whirlwind from Rendez-Vous alum Pierre Salvadori (In the Courtyard), just nominated for nine César Awards including Best Film, Director, Screenplay, and all four acting categories. A standout of the 2018 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, this hilarious yet tender film stars Adèle Haenel as a woman coping with the recent loss of her husband, and features supporting performances by Audrey Tautou, Vincent Elbaz, and Damien Bonnard.
THE TROUBLE WITH YOU



Other highlight's of this year's lineup include...




This year’s lineup will showcase a number of films directed by women, including




The festival will also feature new work from Rendez-Vous favorites, including 




Additionally, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema will feature several directorial debuts, including




This year, Russell Banks will be UniFrance’s American ambassador for Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. A writer and poet known for his novels The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter, and Continental Drift, Banks will present a special screening of François Truffaut’s seminal French New Wave film The 400 Blows and participate in a free talk on French cinema with writer and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier. 


The 2019 festival will place a spotlight on young people, with educational screenings of The 400 Blows and Invisibles. In conjunction, the festival is holding a contest for cinephiles under 30: interested writers can submit a review of a Rendez-Vous film of their choice, and the best critique will win a round-trip flight to Paris and a free one-year subscription to TV5MONDE. 

Visit filmlinc.org for more information in the coming weeks.


Tickets go on sale Friday, February 8, with early access for Film Society members beginning Monday, February 4. Tickets are $17; $12 for members, students, seniors, and persons with disabilities; Opening Night tickets are $25; $20 for members and students. Learn more at filmlinc.org.


FILMS & DESCRIPTIONS

All films screen digitally in the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.) unless otherwise noted.

Opening Night
The Trouble with You / En liberté!
Pierre Salvadori, France, 2018, 108m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
A heartfelt performance from Adèle Haenel anchors the latest comic whirlwind from Pierre Salvadori, whose In the Courtyard played at Rendez-Vous in 2015. Haenel’s Yvonne is coping with the recent loss of her husband (Vincent Elbaz), a fellow police investigator and something of a folk hero in their small Riviera town. After she discovers that her partner’s golden reputation is totally fabricated, with one faux heist resulting in the jailing of an innocent jeweler (Pio Marmaï), Yvonne strives to salvage this man’s fate—and in the process tumbles through slapsticky fisticuffs and romantic intrigue. With supporting turns from Audrey Tautou and Damien Bonnard (Staying Vertical), this brilliantly written Cannes Directors’ Fortnight standout serves up a hilarious yet tender story of integrity and redemption. Nominated for nine César Awards including Best Film, Director, Screenplay, and all four acting categories.

 Preceded by:
Les Indes galantes
Clément Cogitore, France, 2018, 5m
At the Paris Opera, members of three Krump street-dancing collectives collaborate to perform an excerpt from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s ballet in this electrifying short documentary from director Clément Cogitore and The Trouble with You renowned producer Philippe Martin.
Thursday, February 28, 6:30pm (Introduction by Pierre Salvadori and Pio Marmaï)
Thursday, February 28, 9:00pm (Introduction by Pierre Salvadori and Pio Marmaï)

The 400 Blows / Les Quatre cents coups
François Truffaut, France, 1959, 99m
French with English subtitles
When film critic François Truffaut was challenged to put into practice what he’d been preaching, he chose to tell the story of a 13-year-old wild child in Paris whose adventures were based on his own adolescence. Rejected or rebuffed by school, family, and community, young Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) sets out on his own, propelled toward one of the most famous of all movie endings: the legendary snapshot of a childhood on the brink. The 400 Blows marked the birth of Jean-Pierre Léaud as crown prince of the French New Wave, and of Truffaut as its runaway auteur.
Saturday, March 2, 1:00pm (Introduction by Russell Banks and Serge Toubiana)

Amanda
Mikhaël Hers, France, 2018, 107m
French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Vincent Lacoste leads Mikhaël Hers’s poignant new feature about trauma and its aftershocks. At first, David (Lacoste) is just beginning to figure out life in his early twenties, helping his sister (Ophélia Kolb) raise her 7-year-old daughter, Amanda (Isaure Multrier), and gently initiating a romance with a pianist (Stacy Martin, Nymphomaniac). This era of placidity is brutally ruptured, and a grief-stricken David must assume new responsibility for Amanda as a potential guardian. With an understated directorial touch, Hers creates a touching story of resilience deepened by delicately nuanced performances. Nominated for César Awards for Best Actor and Original Score.
Saturday, March 2, 6:00pm (Q&A with Mikhaël Hers)
Saturday, March 9, 1:30pm

THE ART OF SEDUCTION

 The Art of Seduction / Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Emmanuel Mouret, France, 2018, 110m
French with English subtitles
In Emmanuel Mouret's witty twist on Denis Diderot’s 18th-century novel Jacques the Fatalist, also the inspiration for Bresson’s Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, passion dissipates into jealousy and hardens into vengeance. The widowed Madame de La Pommeraye (Cécile de France) prides herself on maintaining a rational distance from matters of the heart, but against her better judgment, she gives in to a persistent and charming Marquis (Edouard Baer). When the affair loses its glow and the Marquis slips back into his libertine lifestyle, the Madame concocts an elaborate revenge plot, and finds two susceptible pawns in a mother and daughter duo (Alice Isaaz and Natalia Dontcheva) whose own social standing was sabotaged by a dishonest husband. Of a deliciously calculating piece with Dangerous Liaisons, The Art of Seduction weds a critique of privilege to an enthralling tale of deception. Nominated for six César Awards including Best Actress, Actor, Screenplay, Cinematography, and Costumes.
Friday, March 1, 9:00pm (Q&A with Emmanuel Mouret)
Monday, March 4, 4:00pm

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
Bruno Dumont, France, 2018, 200m
French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Bruno Dumont’s sequel to 2014’s Li’l Quinquin, which signified his bold break from social realism into madcap experimentalism, revisits its ragtag characters in a new absurdist epic that reckons with xenophobia in northern France. As gobs of ectoplasmic gunk fall from the sky without warning, the now-teenaged Coincoin must again evade the spluttering police captain Van der Weyden and his deputy Carpentier as they zoom through sparse pastoral vistas, on the hunt for clues. Although they’re utterly ill-equipped to connect these splats to the sudden materialization of identical twins around town, their moments of prophetic lucidity are as surprising as they are revealing. Across this expansive canvas, Coincoin and the Extra-Humans channels Jacques Tati, Antonin Artaud, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers into a deadpan fever dream, wholly singular and undeniably Dumont.
Sunday, March 3, 1:00pm (Q&A with Bruno Dumont)

The Freshmen / Première année
Thomas Lilti, France, 2018, 92m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Thomas Lilti, whose hospital drama Hippocrates played Rendez-Vous in 2015, draws upon his experience as a doctor once again for this affectionate tale of two medical-school freshmen. Antoine (Vincent Lacoste) is beginning his third attempt at the first year, which culminates in a cutthroat entrance exam before one can even opt into the medical concentration. When classes commence, he meets Benjamin (William Lebghil), an endearingly aloof new student whose upbringing in a medical family helps him intuitively grasp course concepts. As the two become fast friends and study partners, they embark on a year that pits academic automatism against the emotional highs and lows of discovering one’s calling in life. Nominated for a Best New Actor César Award.
Thursday, March 7, 9:00pm
Saturday, March 9, 3:45pm

GIRLS OF THE SUN

 Girls of the Sun / Les Filles du soleil
Eva Husson, France/Belgium/Georgia/Switzerland, 2018, 111m
English, French, Kurdish, and Arabic with English subtitles
An unshakable Golshifteh Farahani, as Bahar, the commander of an all-female unit of resistance fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan, holds the center of Girls of the Sun. Bahar’s squadron is comprised entirely of former captives who survived a massacre in Corduene, and their rage to fight stems from the grief of witnessing the slaughter of their loved ones. A French war journalist (Emmanuelle Bercot) assigned to cover ISIS’s invasion of Mount Sinjar is struck by Bahar’s adamant rejections of her fellow male soldiers’ more cautious strategies; instead, she suggests working together to pull off a riskier, but total, infiltration of the enemy headquarters. Drawing from true events, Eva Husson takes an uncompromising, female-driven look at the collective and individual strength it takes to resist oppression.
Friday, March 1, 1:30pm
Sunday, March 3, 8:30pm (Q&A with Eva Husson)

In Safe Hands / Pupille
Jeanne Herry, France/Belgium, 2018, 109m
French with English subtitles
Jeanne Herry crafts a story stemming from a delicate two-and-a-half-month state of limbo for a newborn child, Théo, who becomes a ward of the state after his mother gives him up for adoption at birth. In Safe Hands choreographs parallel strands of action: the search for potential parents undertaken by the social workers managing Théo’s case (Sandrine Kiberlain and Clotilde Mollet), the care and vigilance required for Théo’s foster father (Gilles Lellouche) to properly nurture him in the interim, and the nine-year journey of adoption applications and fractured marriage embarked upon by a possible mother (Élodie Bouchez). Within this institutional balancing act, Henry’s characters swing between intense determination, uncertainty, and, ultimately, joy: all par for the course while seeking the proper equilibrium for a person’s life to begin. Nominated for seven César Awards including Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay.
Monday, March 4, 6:15pm (Q&A with Élodie Bouchez)

Invisibles / Les Invisibles
Louis-Julien Petit, France, 2018, 102m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
With pathos and institutional nuance, Louis-Julien Petit’s third social-realist drama transforms its source nonfiction text by Claire Lajeunie into a spirited ensemble piece about a daytime shelter for homeless women. Following the municipal government’s decision to shut down the institution, largely due to the optics of meager reintegration statistics, the shelter’s conscientious all-female staff launches into action to help secure employment for as many women as possible. However, their increasingly assertive coaching sessions compel the social workers to confront the ways in which they, too, might be focusing more on printed résumés than people. In this buoyant character-driven study indebted to Stephen Frears and Ken Loach, Petit lays bare the broken and oppressive systems plaguing Paris’s approach to homelessness, while also emphasizing the social element of social work.
Thursday, March 7, 6:15pm
Friday, March 8, 1:30pm

Keep an Eye Out! / Au poste!
Quentin Dupieux, France, 2018, 73m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Tires and TVs have come to life—and thirsted for blood—in two of Quentin Dupieux’s earlier features, Rubber and Reality (Rendez-Vous 2015) respectively. With Keep an Eye Out!, the ever-unpredictable filmmaker and Brainfeeder-signed electronic musician returns with a seemingly intimately scaled bottle narrative: a minutiae-obsessed police inspector (a perfectly cast Benoît Poelvoorde, Man Bites Dog) bumbles and doubles back through the most agonizing interrogation of all time, much to the chagrin of the interviewee (Grégoire Ludig), who stumbled upon a dead body in front of his apartment building. When Poelvoorde’s inspector momentarily steps outside and leaves an anxious one-eyed officer (Marc Fraize) in charge, the story morphs into something more off-kilter. As one might expect from Dupieux, this is but one of several surprises in a film that is constantly in mesmerizing and darkly comedic flux.
Tuesday, March 5, 8:15pm
Sunday, March 10, 7:45pm

MAYA

 Maya
Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany, 2018, 107m
English and French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Across a remarkably contemplative range of work—including Goodbye First Love, Eden, and Things to Come—Mia Hansen-Løve has conjured visceral points of entry into philosophical themes; in Maya, she thoughtfully probes the private intricacies of rehabilitation. Four months after he was taken hostage in Syria, war journalist Gabriel (Roman Kolinka, Things to Come) returns home to France. Still coping internally with his trauma, Gabriel unmoors himself from now-alienating familiar faces and decamps to India, where he spent his childhood. While staying at his family’s old house in Goa, he strikes up a rapport with his godfather’s daughter, Maya (Aarshi Banerjee), who, feeling out of place, recently dropped out of school in London. As the two bond over their mutual restlessness, Hansen-Løve gently questions whether Gabriel’s self-imposed, ever-moving isolation truly constitutes healing. With Alex Descas and Johanna ter Steege.
Wednesday, March 6, 6:00pm (Q&A with Mia Hansen-Løve)
Thursday, March 7, 2:00pm

Meteorites / Les Méteorites
Romain Laguna, France, 2018, 85m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
After 16-year-old Nina (Zéa Duprez) sees a meteorite fall from the sky, she can’t find any physical evidence to prove what she witnessed. Instead, the mysterious event catalyzes an exploratory and quietly momentous summer, which sets the scene for Romain Laguna’s atmospheric first feature. Adrift after dropping out of school, Nina pursues love and lust with Morad (Billal Agab), her best friend’s older brother, who hails from an Algerian family in their otherwise culturally homogeneous village in the south of France. As their time passes, Nina senses a slight rift between the personal and shared stakes of their relationship, but the journey emerges as one of crucial self-discovery. Laguna crafts an evocative and tactile portrait of the hunger for experience that shapes our teenage years, and Duprez’s remarkably assured performance introduces a poised new talent.
Thursday, March 7, 4:15pm
Sunday, March 10, 3:30pm

Paul Sanchez Is Back! / Paul Sanchez est revenu!
Patricia Mazuy, France, 2018, 110m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
The police are reticent to believe that the notorious murderer Paul Sanchez is, indeed, back 10 years after he vanished without a trace. Yet adventure-hungry junior-officer Marion (César-winner Zita Hanrot, Fatima) can’t help obsessing over bread crumbs of hearsay, especially once a local reporter (Idir Chender, Occidental) begins receiving mysterious e-mails supposedly sent by Sanchez himself. Also starring Elle’s Laurent Lafitte, this long-awaited fifth feature from Patricia Mazuy (The King’s Daughters) spins a gripping caper with ample commentary on sensationalistic media narratives—but far from prosaic, it’s also an adrenaline rush of the imagination propelled by a percussive original score from John Cale.
Friday, March 8, 8:30pm
Saturday, March 9, 5:45pm

Raising Colors / Volontaire
Hélène Fillières, France, 2018, 100m
French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Much to the chagrin of her pacifist family, Sorbonne-educated Laure Baer (Diane Rouxel) ends up taking the first job offer she receives: an administrative position in the French Navy. As training begins, Laure assumes her post supporting the austere and withdrawn Commander Rivière (Lambert Wilson), she is surprised by how resonant she finds the codes of honor and discipline that structure military life. When her curiosity is piqued by the possibility of trying out for special ops, she commits herself to the challenge despite sexist dismissals of her capabilities, and strives to prove herself to the Chief Training Officer (Alex Descas). The second feature-film outing by actress Hélène Fillières (Tied) as a director captures a palpable electricity within the formality of ceremony, inextricable from a search for self.
Friday, March 1, 4:00pm
Sunday, March 3, 5:45pm (Q&A with Hélène Fillières)

SCHOOL'S OUT

 School’s Out / L’Heure de la sortie
Sébastien Marnier, France, 2018, 103m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
In his Venice-selected sophomore thriller, Sébastien Marnier (Faultless, Rendez-Vous 2017) sets his sights on a chilly class of gifted and talented students in the French countryside. After their teacher commits suicide during an exam, Pierre Hoffman (Laurent Lafitte, Elle) is called in as a long-term substitute. Expecting a class collectively reeling from this traumatic shock, Pierre is surprised to encounter a group of seemingly affectless mid-teens, mostly concerned with accelerating at an appropriate pace through their advanced-level courses. His sense that something is askew only grows more acute when he notices a strange turn-the-other-cheek approach to physical violence—both from the students and his fellow faculty members. As Pierre spirals further into a wormhole that references both J.G. Ballard and Patti Smith, Marnier maintains a sense of creeping unease that expands into a chilling capitalist critique.
Friday, March 8, 3:45pm
Saturday, March 9, 8:30pm (Q&A with Sébastien Marnier)

Sink or Swim / Le grand bain
Gilles Lellouche, Belgium/France, 2018, 122m
French and Sinhalese with English subtitles
With buoyant energy, Gilles Lellouche choreographs and directs a stellar ensemble in pursuit of grace and discarded dreams—that is, a group of varyingly coordinated middle-aged men who find an outlet in synchronized swimming. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric, soulful yet understated) is the newbie to the group, having signed up on a whim to take his mind off of his unemployment and depression. As he gets to know his fellow swimmers, played by Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Philippe Katerine, he uncovers shared frustrations and disappointments, but also hope in a hobby that’s less about skill than teamwork. After a year of awkward and charmingly comedic practice sessions, Bertrand’s proposal that his motley crew train for the world championships fuels their conviction to prove that time has not passed them by. Nominated for 10 César Awards including Best Film, Director, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, and Cinematography.
Saturday, March 2, 8:45pm
Monday, March 4, 9:00pm

Film Comment Presents:
Sophia Antipolis
Virgil Vernier, France, 2018, 98m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
Virgil Vernier's follow-up to his acclaimed debut feature, Mercuriales (ND/NF 2015), takes stock of the state of the French socioeconomic order as embodied by the eponymous, dystopian business park and an eclectic ensemble of cult members, militiamen, and more. Once again working in richly textured Super 16mm, Vernier moves episodically from one character to another, tracking their movements, thoughts, and desires in the aftermath of the discovery of a young girl’s body, apparently burned alive, in one of the park's factories. A group portrait of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaffection in a veritable hothouse of late capitalism, Sophia Antipolisis a work as singularly political as it is sophisticatedly drawn.
Tuesday, March 5, 4:00pm
Sunday, March 10, 5:30pm

The Summer House / Les Estivants
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, France/Italy, 2018, 122m
French with English subtitles
U.S Premiere
The inherent slippage between reality and narrative becomes a power unto itself in Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s new feature. During an annual summer vacation to the family villa on the French Riviera, filmmaker Anna (Bruni Tedeschi) conceals a sudden split from her husband from her relatives and their spouses, all of whom are more volatile than usual while coping with the death of her brother. Palpably in her own head while interacting with her sister (Valeria Golino), her daughter (real-life daughter Oumy Bruni Garrel), and her screenwriting partner (real-life co-writer Noémie Lvovsky), Anna also prepares a film based on this recent loss, which is received coldly by her family. Meanwhile, the domestic staff (including Yolande Moreau and François Négret) negotiates for better pay and work conditions with a family they find increasingly self-absorbed. Like Bruni Tedeschi’s A Castle in Italy (2013), The Summer House invites autobiographical readings while also complicating the idea of art as personal exorcism.
Tuesday, March 5, 1:30pm
Friday, March 8, 6:00pm

The Time of the Pirates / Seuls les pirates
Gaël Lépingle, France, 2018, 89m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
Winner of the Grand Prix in the French competition at FIDMarseille, The Time of the Pirates boasts a structure that is at first vignette-based and patchwork before it quickly settles on a focal thread: the story of Géro, the spunky owner of a community theater troupe in the Loire Valley. As the local government threatens to demolish his house and theater to make way for public housing, the anarchy-loving actor, undeterred after losing his voice from his battle with cancer, plots an idiosyncratic defense against the forces that threaten to drain the life from both of his homes. Gaël Lépingle (Julien) rounds out this earnest and vibrant mosaic of quotidian resistance with Géro’s aspiring-playwright nephew Léo and a cohort of like-minded friends and refugees.
Tuesday, March 5, 6:15pm
Wednesday, March 6, 2:00pm

The Truk
Sarah Marx, France/Ukraine, 2018, 83m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
After being released early from prison, Ulysse (Sandor Funtek, Blue Is the Warmest Color) must take over as the primary caregiver for his mother (devastatingly fleshed out by Sandrine Bonnaire), who is undergoing treatment for severe depression. Confronted by overwhelming debts and health-care costs, Ulysse reconnects with an old friend who plans to covertly sell ketamine from a food truck at an EDM festival. As Sarah Marx widens the range of parties involved in this drug ring, she emphasizes the broader contexts that give rise to their increasingly cutthroat desperation, throwing Ulysse’s precarious solution into jeopardy. The film’s handheld camerawork grounds each scene in a fragile immediacy evoking the Dardennes in this stinging debut feature about the bitter casualties of class disparity.
Wednesday, March 6, 4:00pm
Sunday, March 10, 1:30p

When Margaux Meets Margaux / La Belle et la belle
Sophie Fillières, France, 2018, 97m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
This irresistible fantastical tale from Sophie Fillières (If You Don’t, I Will, Rendez-Vous 2014) centers on a chance meeting between an impulsive but aimless twentysomething named Margaux (Fillières’s daughter Agathe Bonitzer, Right Here Right Now) and a disenchanted fortysomething who’s not only coincidentally named Margaux (Sandrine Kiberlain, Tip Top)… but also is Margaux. Accurately pulling from her past self’s proclivities, social circles, and future life events, the wiser Margaux revisits her memories and regrets to give herself retroactive advice and, possibly, a way to start over, including a stirring romance with a handsome suitor (Melvil Poupaud). From this surreal premise, Fillières crafts a lovingly philosophical ode to our personal paths and stumbles through love and life.
Friday, March 1, 6:15pm (Q&A with Sophie Fillières)
Wednesday, March 6, 8:45pm

Whatever Happened to My Revolution / Tout ce qu'il me reste de la révolution
Judith Davis, France, 2018, 88m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
Angèle’s parents first fell in love on the front lines of Maoist protests; now they are separated, and Angèle, an idealistic urban planner, struggles with the compromises her family has made in exchange for comfortable lives. Actress Judith Davis’s playful and passionate feature directorial debut follows Angèle, played by Davis herself, into a contemporary Paris that missed the revolutionary memo, long after the movements sparked by May ’68 have faded into history. Fueled by a bleeding activist heart that sometimes backs her into a corner, Angèle strives to reconcile her radical values with relatives who are trending more and more bourgeois. And faced with the opportunity to reconnect with her estranged mother (Mireille Perrier, J’entends plus la guitare), who has retreated from the dreams that Angèle is now pursuing, she locates the strength of her convictions in her dedication to meaningful interpersonal connection.
Saturday, March 2, 3:30pm (Q&A with Judith Davis)
Monday, March 4, 1:30pm


And here are the organizations that make this all possible! 

UNIFRANCE
For 70 years, UniFrance has been using its experience of the international marketplace to support French cinema worldwide. UniFrance is based in Paris and also has representatives in New York, Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo. Its membership brings together around 1,000 French producers, filmmaking talents, agents, and sales companies, which are working together to promote French film among foreign audiences, industry executives, and media.
UniFrance receives generous, year-round support from CNC, the French Ministry of Culture, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Institut français, PROCIREP, Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi,  Lacoste, Air France, and TitraFilm. The 24th edition of Rendez-vous with French Cinema benefits from the support of CNC, the French Ministry of Culture, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, PROCIREP, Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, Lacoste, TV5 Monde, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Sacem, and The ENGIE Foundation. For more information, visit en.unifrance.org

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film. Via year-round programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including Film Comment, the U.S.’s premier magazine about films and film culture, the Film Society endeavors to make the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broader audience, as well as to ensure that it will remain an essential art form for years to come.

The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Shutterstock, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. American Airlines is the Official Airline of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. For more information, visit www.filmlinc.org and follow @filmlinc on Twitter.


LINKS
EVA HUSSON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9wMmnxZPYE

3D version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIP32CxGvyA
(Although these are essentially the same interview, the 3D version was marked for only age appropriate viewers – perhaps because of the subject matter of the film, THE BANG GANG.)


MELVIL POUPAUD


2D 360 VERSION - https://youtu.be/_7QQeAewdI8


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Sunday, October 15, 2017

 

HELEN MIRREN TO RECEIVE 2018 CHAPLIN AWARD




THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

 presents

 HELEN MIRREN

 with the

 45th ANNUAL CHAPLIN AWARD 

 MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018 




Photo: Giles Keyte

Academy Award–winning actor Helen Mirren will be honored at the 45th Chaplin Award Gala on Monday, April 30, 2018. 

 Mirren has bestowed upon the world a series of iconic performances on stage, screen and television in a career spanning more than fifty years. The annual event will be attended by a host of notable guests and presenters and will include movie and interview clips, culminating in the presentation of the Chaplin Award.

 “Ever since her debut in Michael Powell’s Age of Consent in 1969, Helen Mirren has been lighting up screens with one finely crafted performance after another,” said Lesli Klainberg, the Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. “From her Oscar-winning role in The Queen to her brilliant work in The Long Good Friday, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Madness of King George, Gosford Park, The Tempest, The Last Station, Red, Hitchcock, Woman in Gold, and Eye in the Sky, she has shown her exquisite range and proven her commitment to excellence and the art of cinema.

 Mirren began acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and over the past five decades has become one of the most respected and recognizable figures in multiple media. In film, she is perhaps best known for The Queen, though she has appeared in more than sixty films, with notable recent titles including Trumbo and The Fate of the Furious. 

 Upcoming films include The Leisure Seeker, Winchester, and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. 

 In television she is best known for her role as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, her Emmy-winning performance in Elizabeth I, and Phil Spector, for which she won Best Actress at the SAG Awards. 

 On stage, she reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth II on the West End stage and on Broadway in The Audience to acclaimed reviews, winning both an Olivier Award and a Tony Award. Mirren was awarded the prestigious BAFTA Fellowship in 2014 for her outstanding career in film.
In 2006, The Queen was shown at the New York Film Festival. Here are some excerpts from the NYFF press conference, 
which included Helen Mirren and the Director, Stephen Frears.



QPORIT has also noted the appearances of Helen Mirren in the NYFF 2010 film of The Tempest where Julie Taymor cast the wizard Prospero as Prospera, played by Helen Mirren; and as the Host on SNL in 2011, where QPORIT’s comments on the Opening Monolog and a sketch with Helen Mirren say …

 "- Opening Monologue - Helen Mirren -- she's a dame -- (By the way, did you see her in the orgy scene in Caligula?)

 - Helen Mirren's Titties & Helen Mirren in her Dressing Room --"Her titties exist in a place beyond space & time." -- What SNL was made for!"
The Film Society’s Annual Gala began in 1972 when it honored Charlie Chaplin, who returned to the U.S. from exile to accept the commendation. Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin, and has been presented to many of the film industry’s most notable talents, including Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Federico Fellini, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, and, last year, Robert De Niro.

 For information about attending the gala, contact the Filmlinc Patron’s Desk at patrons@filmlinc.org or call (212) 875-5668. For sponsorship opportunities, contact egardner@filmlinc.org or call (212) 671-4559.

LINKS
HELEN MIRREN’S WEBSITE
http://www.helenmirren.com/

HELEN MIRREN ON IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000545/

HELEN MIRREN ON IBDB
http://m.ibdb.com/person.php?id=53256

HELEN MIRREN ON WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mirren




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Tuesday, August 08, 2017

 

Preview: CLOSING NIGHT - NYFF 55 2017 - WOODY ALLEN'S "WONDER WHEEL"


THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

WORLD PREMIERE
WOODY ALLEN'S WONDER WHEEL

CLOSING NIGHT
Sat Oct 14, 2017

55th NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL



Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel will be the Closing Night selection of the 55th New York Film Festival (September 28 – October 15), making its World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, October 14.

Kate Winslet
WONDER WHEEL
NYFF 55
Courtesy Amazon Studios

 “We’re in Coney Island in the 1950s. A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle-aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)—a situation from which layer upon layer of all-too-human complications develop. Allen and his cinematographer, the great Vittorio Storaro, working with a remarkable cast led by Winslet in a startlingly brave, powerhouse performance, have created a bracing and truly surprising movie experience.

Storaro uses light and color in a way that is stunning in and of itself but also integral to the mounting emotional power of the film. And at the center of it all is Kate Winslet’s absolutely remarkable performance—precious few actors are that talented, or fearless.”

The New York Film Festival has showcased Allen’s work on two other occasions: Bullets Over Broadway was Centerpiece of NYFF32 in 1994 and Celebrity was Opening Night of NYFF36 in 1998.

Amazon Studios will release Wonder Wheel on December 1, 2017, the first film the studio will distribute independently.

 Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying will be the Opening Night selection, and Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck will be the Centerpiece film. The retrospective section honors Robert Mitchum’s centenary.

Tickets for the 55th New York Film Festival will go on sale September 10. VIP passes and packages are on sale now and offer one of the earliest opportunities to purchase tickets and secure seats at some of the festival’s biggest events, including the just-announced Closing Night. (Note: Tickets for Opening and Closing Night are often hard to purchase individually; the best -- and sometimes only -- chance for the best seats for the best films may be to buy a package!)

 Learn more at:
filmlinc.org/packages.


Film Society of Lincoln Center 165 W. 65th St. New York, NY 10023

CAST & CREW

 WRITER, DIRECTOR >> Woody Allen
CINEMATOGRAPHER >> Vittorio Storaro
CAST >> Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, Debi Mazar, Justin Timberlake, James Belushi

LINKS

 WONDER WHEEL – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5825380/

 WOODY ALLEN – WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

 WOODY ALLEN – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000095
Since 1982, Woody Allen has made at least one movie every year!

 KATE WINSLET – WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Winslet

 KATE WINSLET – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000701

 JUNO TEMPLE – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1017334


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Sunday, March 12, 2017

 

Review: FRANTZ in RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA 2017


FRANTZ

Thursday, March 2, 9:15pm (Q&A with François Ozon)
Saturday, March 11, 1:00pm

THE 22nd RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA
MARCH 1-12, 2017

Tickets & more at
filmlinc.org

Preview at
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2017/02/preview-rendez-vous-with-french-cinema.html



Frantz


François Ozon, France/Germany, 2016, 113m
French and German with English subtitles


The new film from acclaimed director François Ozon is a sublime, heartrending saga of guilt, forgiveness, and forbidden love in post–World War I Europe. Based on Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 antiwar drama Broken Lullaby, it charts the complex bond that forms between two strangers: Anna (Paula Beer), a young German woman grieving the loss of her fiancé, Frantz, in the war, and Adrien (Pierre Niney), a former French soldier. What plays out between them is a haunting investigation of postwar trauma and healing rendered in gorgeous black-and-white that occasionally gives way—gloriously—to psychologically charged bursts of color. A Music Box Films release. 


Thursday, March 2, 9:15pm (Q&A with François Ozon)
Saturday, March 11, 1:00pm

TRAILER
REVIEW:

I don’t know what the director intended, but for me this film is a meditation on lying.

The characters lie to each other, sometimes to comfort them; sometimes they lie to themselves, to assuage their grief, or imagine love, or dodge their own guilt and stoke their hate. The acting is styled, and the film is shot in highly stylized black & white, rather than natural behavior and color. Even the plot has some “contrivances” that I think are unlikely to occur in life: either the plot itself is a “lie” or the happiness it suggests is a lie, because this film takes place in the aftermath of WW I, and the story suggests the smoke that will turn into the inferno of WW II.


CAST AND CREW
Director – Francois Ozon
Writers – Francois Ozon, Phillippe Piazzo; adapted from an Ernst Lubitsch film & a Maurice Rostand play.

Pierre Niney - Adrien Rivoire
Paula Beer - Anna
Ernst Stötzner - Doktor Hans Hoffmeister
Marie Gruber - Magda Hoffmeister
Johann von Bülow - Kreutz
Anton von Lucke - Frantz Hoffmeister
Cyrielle Clair - La mère d'Adrien
Alice de Lencquesaing - Fanny


LINKS

FRANTZ – IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5029608/

FRANCOIS OZON – WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon


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