The 2018 University of Louisville Tournées Film Festival
2018 French Film Fe
stival
University of Louisville
Floyd Theater, Student Activities Center
2100 South Floyd Street
February 1- March 2, 2018
Free and Open to the Public – All Films in French with English Subtitles
The 2018 University of Louisville Tournées Film Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, the Florence Gould Foundation, Highbrow Entertainment, the Speed Art Museum Cinema, Ms. Nancy Brown, and the following UofL partners: Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Student Activities Board, Film Liberation Unit, LGBT Center.
Thursday, February 1 – 5:00 (*) & 8:00 PM
(*) Introduction and post-screening discussion with Nathan Viner, Film Liberation Unit
Friday, February 2 – 2:00 PM
NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH [Ni le Ciel ni la Terre]
Clément Cogitore
2015 / 100 min.
When French soldiers stationed at a remote outpost in Afghanistan begin vanishing without a trace, their commander Captain Antarès Bonassieu (Jérémie Renier) assumes that enemy troops are responsible. Then he learns that the Taliban are also disappearing and realizes he may be facing the most invisible of enemies. A combination psychological thriller and ghost story, "Neither Heaven Nor Earth" reminds us that this is a part of the world where the terrain may hold mysteries older than time itself.
Thursday, February 8 – 5:00 (*) & 8:00 PM (*) Introduction and post-screening discussion with Wendy Yoder, Department of Classical and Modern Languages
Friday, February 9 – 2:00 PM
FATIMA
Philippe Faucon
2015 / 79 min.
Fatima is a middle-aged, divorced Algerian woman living in a French suburb, cleaning houses and offices from dawn to dusk to provide her spirited teenage daughters with a better future. It takes a workplace
accident for Fatima to finally pay attention to her own needs and discover a powerful means of expressing them through poetry. Faucon deftly presents a story of everyday racism, illiteracy, and the clash between traditional, older immigrant generations and their assimilating children.
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Thursday, February 15 – 5:00 (*) & 8:00 PM (*) Introduction and post-screening discussion with Stephen Roszell, family medicine, Norton Community Medical Associates
Friday, February 16 – 2:00 PM and Mary Bouldin, psychiatry, LifeSpring Health Systems
LATEST NEWS FROM THE COSMOS [Dernières Nouvelles du Cosmos]
Julie Bertuccelli
2016 / 89 min.
For most of her life, Hélène, an autistic child who lived with her parents in rural France, did not communicate. And then, at the age of 21-with no formal schooling and never taught to read or write-she did. By arranging laminated alphabet letters, Hélène created words, then phrases and finally a book, one letter at a time. Director Julie Bertuccelli prompts us to contemplate the nature of creativity and communication and the hidden potential in humans of all abilities.
Thursday, February 22 – 5:00 (*) & 8:00 PM (*) Introduction and post-screening discussion with Matthieu Dalle, Department of Classical and Modern Languages
Friday, February 23 – 2:00 PM
THIS IS OUR LAND [Chez Nous] (Premiere Screening)
Lucas Belvaux
2017 / 114 min.
An attractive working-class single mother naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the ultra-conservative Patriotic Bloc. With the help of the town's esteemed physician, the Populists' rhetoric seizes control of the minds of the electorate. Catherine Jacob plays the blonde-bobbed leader who never met an angry crowd she couldn't make angrier. In a premiere performance here, "This is Our Land" is a thought-provoking story of the right-wing populist surge in France and around the world.
Thursday, March 1 – 5:00 (*) & 8:00 PM (*) Introduction and post-screening discussion with Elizabeth Miller, UofL French MA graduate
Friday, March 2 – 2:00 PM
SUMMERTIME[La Belle Saison]
.Catherine Corsini
2015 / 105 min.
Carole and Delphine fall in love against the backdrop of early feminist activism in 1971 France. After living in the city, Delphine is called home to help with her family farm in the countryside and is forced to choose between her responsibility to them and the life of love she had in Paris with Carole. An enlightening tale about the infatuation of first love and its universal themes.
And at the Speed Art Museum Cinema
Sunday, February 11 – 1:00 PM
Jean Cocteau's
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
1946 / 96 min.
Introduction and post-screening discussion with John Greene (Department of Classical and Modern Languages)
Visually Stunning!
A Masterpiece.
Sunday, February 25 – 1:00 PM
LOUISE BY THE SHORE
Jean-François Laguionie
2016 / 75 min.
Introduction and post-screening discussion with Daniela Arias Ordonez (Louisville Children's Film Festival)
A Film of Lyric Beauty.
Web site: www.floydfilm.org/frenchfilm2018
Contact: Matthieu Dalle m.dalle@louisville.edu (502) 852-6115