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University of LouisvilleFRENCH FILM FESTNovember 3 - 18, 20115 CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FILMS IN 16 DAYS!SERIES SPONSORED by
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Thursday, Nov. 3 & Friday, Nov. 4 Thursday - 5:00 pm & 8:00 pm Friday - 2:30 pm MATINEE White Material35mm Screening. Drama, 2009. 106 Minutes. French with English subtitles.MPAA Classification: Not Rated. Directed by Claire Denis. Written by Claire Denis and Marie N'Diaye, Lucie Borleteau. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankolé, William Nadylam, Adèle Ado, Ali Barkai, Daniel Tchangang, Michel Subor. “’White Material,’ the latest from director Claire Denis, deals with the love and self-delusion of a white plantation owner who finds herself in the midst of a revolution in Africa. …Zigzagging back and forth across a short span of time, the movie presents us with Maria (Huppert), a French woman doing everything she can to harvest her crop as her unnamed African nation descends into chaos and medieval butchery. At first, her motives seem commercial. But gradually we come to realize that what we're really seeing is a woman struggling to hold on to the country, the home and the life she loves. Her self-delusion - that she belongs, that she is not regarded as just more ‘white material’ - derives not from arrogance but desperation. Her husband (Christopher Lambert) can't tear her away, because he's no match for that love.” -Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle) IMDb Webpage |
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Tuesday, Nov. 8 & Wednesday, Nov. 9 Tuesday - 5:00 pm & 8:00 pm Wednesday - 2:30 pm MATINEE A Prophet35mm Screening. Crime, 2009. 155 Minutes. French with English subtitles.MPAA Classification: R Directed by Jacques Audiard. Written by Thomas Bidegain and Jacques Audiard. Original screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit. Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen, Antoine Basler, Leïla Bekhti. Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brécourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison. Beyond the division of Corsicans and Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans who with their guard connections rule what happens in the prison), he has no known friends or enemies inside. He is just hoping to serve his time in peace and without incident, despite having no prospects once he's out of jail since he's illiterate and has no support outside of the prison. Due to logistics, the head of Corsican inmates, a sadistic mafioso named César Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the Corsicans' activities, not only regarding what happens inside the prison, but also continued criminal activities outside. The innocent Malik has no idea what to do but cooperate. This move does not sit well with the other Corsicans, who only see Malik as a dirty Arab, and the Muslims who now mistrust him. But as time goes on, Malik works to save himself while in prison, while setting up his life post prison on his own terms. Both his demon and his salvation in prison is the specter of one of the first people he really got to know during his incarceration. (Written by Huggo). IMDb Webpage |
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Thursday, Nov. 10 & Friday, Nov. 11 Thursday - 5:00 pm & 8:00 pm Friday - 2:30 pm MATINEE Of Gods and Men35mm Screening. Drama, 2010. 122 Minutes. French with English subtitles.MPAA Classification: PG-13. Directed by Xavier Beauvois. Written by Xavier Beauvois Adaptation (dialogue) and Etienne Comar. Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin, Loïc Pichon, Xavier Maly, Jean-Marie Frin. Xavier Beauvois has made a deeply thought-out film in "Of Gods and Men," based on the true story of nine Roman Catholic monks whose lives of peace, contemplation and service were disrupted by an outbreak of Islamic fundamentalist violence near their monastery in Algeria. Beauvois begins the film by showing us monastic life with specificity and detail. The monks offer free clothing and medical service. They make and sell honey, and spend a good deal of every day in private study and group prayer. Then they hear of insane incidents of slaughter, of a young woman murdered for not wearing a veil, of foreign construction workers whose throats were cut on a building site. And they have to decide whether to flee, or to stay, or to do something in between - to relocate to a safer part of the country, or to have some monks leave and some remain. Much of the film involves the monks' agonized rumination over these questions and about what role men of faith should play in such a crisis. Part of the film's success comes from the fact that the notion of staying, despite the threats, begins to make logical sense even to a relatively secular movie audience full of people thinking, "Get out of there!" for two hours straight. –Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle) IMDb Webpage |
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Tuesday, Nov. 15 & Wednesday, Nov. 16 Tuesday - 5:00 pm & 8:00 pm Wednesday - 2:30 pm MATINEE Carlos35mm Screening. Crime, Biography, 2009. 165 Minutes. French with English subtitles.MPAA Classification: Not Rated Directed by Olivier Assayas. Written by Olivier Assayas, Dan Franck, & Daniel Leconte. Cast: Édgar Ramírez as 'Carlos', Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Fadi Abi Samra, Ahmad Kaabour, Talal El-Jordi, Juana Acosta, Nora von Waldstätten, Christoph Bach, Rodney El Haddad. "Carlos," a monumental work about the infamous and mysterious celebrity terrorist Carlos the Jackal, is a meticulous, documentary-style film…that delivers nonstop action and makes its [nearly three] hours of running time fly by. It is one of the best pictures of the year. French director Olivier Assayas' masterpiece, which whisks us to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, brilliantly re-creates the 1970s and '80s, when the horror of modern terrorism was beginning to take root... The tense, harrowing sequences at OPEC headquarters in Vienna and at the French Embassy in The Hague come off as so real that it feels as if you're watching live footage. Indeed, much of the movie feels like this. …The story begins in the 1970s, with Carlos' murderous missions in London and Paris for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. As the years pass, Carlos loses sight of his cause - did he ever have a cause in the first place? - and becomes a glorified terrorist for hire, more interested in creature comforts and fame than in helping the oppressed. "Carlos" may not explain why Ilich Ramirez Sanchez did what he did, but it provides a fascinating window into the violent, convoluted and incestuous world of terrorism. It's an epic period piece that seems more relevant today than ever. –Mick La Salle (San Francisco Chronicle) IMDb Webpage |
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Thursday, Nov. 17 & Friday, Nov. 18 Thursday - 5:00 pm & 8:00 pm Friday - 2:30 pm MATINEE Making Plans for Lena35mm Screening. Drama, 2009. 105 Minutes. French with English subtitles.MPAA Classification: Not Rated. Directed by Christophe Honoré . Written by Christophe Honoré & Geneviève Brisac. Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Marina Foïs, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Marc Barr, Fred Ulysse, Louis Garrel, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo. Christophe Honoré trades the whimsy of his quasi-musical "Paris Trilogy" for structurally ambitious psychodrama in Making Plans for Lena. Chiara Mastroianni is the 34-year-old title character, a single mom with the wardrobe of a college student and a responsibility allergy to match. Lena takes her two kids on a train trip to join her unhappily pregnant sister and blinded-by-young-love brother at the family's country estate: Worn thin by familial expectations, Lena is already close to a meltdown when she's forced to shoulder unexpected, unrelated visits from two men. Nigel (Jean-Marc Barr), the older husband Lena abruptly left upon discovering his mistress, makes it clear he's there to see their kids and not her; Simon (Honoré mainstay Louis Garrel) is the lusty dreamboat who Lena once led on and then failed to follow through with. …Nigel representing the adult world Lena can't hack; Simon, a temptation to slink farther away from it. –Karina Longworth (The Village Voice) IMDb Webpage |
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