Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2013 Feb 28 – Mar 10
French cinema is as varied and vital as ever in 2013, and this year’s edition of Rendez-vous with French Cinema covers the wide spectrum from grand and engaging entertainments like Régis Roinsard’s Populaire (Opening Night) to the work of uncompromising auteurs like Jean Claude Brisseau and Damien Odoul, rising independent voices including Héléna Klotz and Shalimar Preuss, and master filmmakers François Ozon, Patrice Leconte, Raymond Depardon, Nicolas Philibert, and the late Claude Miller. Presented by Unifrance Films and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Additional screenings take place at the IFC Center and BAM, visit rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com for more information.
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Opening Night, U.S. Premiere! Director Régis Roinsard, actors Romain Duris and Deborah François in person!
Stuck in the provinces of 1950s France, Rose (Deborah François) is taken under the wing of her handsome boss (Romain Duris) and develops astonishing skills as a high-speed typist, leading to unexpected fame.
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ALT_MINDS and the Art of French Transmedia
Free event! Creator Eric Viennot and cast member Ludivine Lebec in person!
Join Eric Viennot, one of Europe’s leading transmedia designers as he presents ALT_MINDS, an adventure spanning a web series, mobile applications, and live events that thrust the audience into the heart of an action-packed thriller.
Read more »Saturday, March 02
6:00pm
The Atomic Age
New York Premiere!
Across the span of a night in Paris, two lads guided purely by impulse and desire explore their emotional and physical limits in Klotz’s impressively mesmerizing feature debut.
Read more »Thursday, March 07
5:00pmFriday, March 08
10:00pm
Augustine
New York Premiere!
Director Alice Winocour in person March 5!
A progressive doctor/therapist takes a highly disturbed young woman prone to seizures under his wing for an unlikely recovery that points to her personal liberation.
Read more »Sunday, March 03
7:00pmTuesday, March 05
10:00pm
Bad Girl
North American Premiere!
Director Patrick Mille in person!
An unconventional family’s complex web of relations and legacies come to a peak with a mother’s (Carole Bouquet) health crisis and her daughter’s own life changes.
Read more »Wednesday, March 06
10:00pmThursday, March 07
7:00pm
The Day of Crows
Director Jean-Christophe Dessaint in person!
A wild child raised in the woods encounters the outside world in this enchanting hand-drawn animated feature featuring the voices of Jean Reno and Claude Chabrol in his last film credit.
Read more »Saturday, March 09
2:00pm
The Girl From Nowhere
North American Premiere!
Rescuing a young woman from the clutches of a thug, a retired math teacher (Brisseau, himself) finds in her a muse and possibly a mystical agent opening new gates of perception—and perhaps death.
Read more »Sunday, March 10
2:30pm
Granny’s Funeral
New York Premiere!
In Podalydes’ latest comedy, a pharmacist, emotionally pulled between a wife he’s not quite divorced from and his needy lover, contends with the death of a grandmother he barely knew.
Read more »Sunday, March 03
9:15pmMonday, March 04
4:45pm
In the House
New York Premiere!
Director François Ozon in person!
Swept up in the increasingly dazzling and inventive fiction writing of a precocious student, a high school literature teacher and frustrated author (Fabrice Luchini) married to a gallerist (Kristin Scott Thomas) sees real life overtake fiction.
Read more »Friday, March 01
10:00pm
Jappeloup
North American Premiere!
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider’s (Guillaume Canet) tense relationship with his horseman father (Daniel Auteuil).
Read more »Wednesday, March 06
4:30pmSaturday, March 09
6:30pm
Journal de France
North American Premiere!
Depardon’s brilliant self-portrait takes a surprising point of view on the great documentarian’s life—not only as a filmmaker, but as a photographer and maker of precise, expressive images capturing the entirety of French society over the decades.
Read more »Friday, March 08
5:15pmSunday, March 10
12:15pm
A Lady in Paris
North American Premiere!
Director Ilmar Raag in person on March 4!
A stunning, flinty and memorable Jeanne Moreau is the living, breathing center of Raag’s chamber drama of the testy, complicated relationship between an elderly Estonian woman in permanent Parisian exile (Moreau) and her wary Estonian maid (Laine Magi).
Read more »Friday, March 01
4:30pmSunday, March 03
4:15pmMonday, March 04
10:15pm
La Maison de la radio (Canceled)
CANCELED
Applying his attuned senses to operations at Radio France headquarters, nonfiction master Philibert reveals the vast, rich and unexpected world of radio production and the imagination of sound.
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My Blue-Eyed Girl
North American Premiere!
Preuss’ uncommonly sensitive and nuanced debut follows the eldest daughter of a family on holiday as she balances her growing desires for a prison inmate with her heartfelt but fraying familial love.
Read more »Tuesday, March 05
5:00pmSunday, March 10
4:40pm
The Nun
North American Premiere!
Director Guillaume Nicloux in person!
Drawing on the same Denis Diderot classic as Jacques Rivette’s 1966 drama, Nicloux’s version provides a fresh take on the story of a young woman’s (a stunning Pauline Etienne) harrowing experiences in nunneries, one run by a too-loving Mother Superior (Isabelle Huppert).
Read more »Saturday, March 02
10:00pm
Renoir
New York Premiere!
Director Gilles Bourdos in person!
Set during a pivotal time in the lives of master painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his war-wounded son Jean, Bourdos’ atmospheric drama explores the ways in which creative powers wax and wane as one generation gives way to the next.
Read more »Saturday, March 02
7:00pm
Rich is the Wolf
New York Premiere!
Perplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he’s recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues.
Read more »Saturday, March 09
4:30pm
The River
When a dashing captain arrives at a home on the banks of the Ganges River, a neighboring girl’s passions are ignited in ways she can barely control.
Read more »Sunday, March 03
2:00pm
The Suicide Shop
New York Premiere!
Master filmmaker Leconte makes a startling and unforgettable departure from his previous work with this whimsical, animated 3D musical about a family business offering certain special “end-of-life” services.
Read more »Saturday, March 02
4:30pmFriday, March 08
7:30pm
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
Franju’s version adheres closely to the novel’s flashback structure, featuring the brilliant cast of Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret and Edith Scob.
Read more »Saturday, March 02
2:00pm
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)
U.S. Premiere!
Producer Annie Miller and actor Audrey Tautou in person!
The late Miller’s final film elegantly adapts François Mauriac’s modern classic of a woman’s growing resistance to her suffocating marriage, and showcases a remarkable Audrey Tautou as the disturbed titular heroine.
Read more »Friday, March 01
7:15pm
Three Worlds
New York Premiere!
Director Catherine Corsini in person! Actor Raphaël Personnaz in person March 6!
A hit-and-run accident involving a hot-shot car salesman and an émigré worker from Moldavia triggers a chain of dramatic events with life-altering consequences.
Read more »Wednesday, March 06
7:15pmThursday, March 07
10:00pm
You, Me and Us
New York Premiere!
Director Jacques Doillon in person!
The tentative nature of relationships is explored in dazzling, three-dimensional fashion in this cleverly written and directed roundelay between current and former lovers.
Read more »Monday, March 04
7:00pmTuesday, March 05
7:00pm
You Will Be My Son
North American Premiere!
Director Gilles Legrand and actor Niels Arestrup in person!
Instead of grooming his son to inherit his lucrative wine-growing business, an imperious vintner (Niels Arestrup) looks to a talented California-based grower, rendering a harvest of jealousy and worse.
Read more »Sunday, March 10
6:30pm
