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JANUARY 31, 2013

IN THIS ISSUE SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENTS

LECTURES

CONCERTS

EXHIBITIONS

CINEMA

STILL HAPPENING

Join Boston in French! Boston in French is an exciting website where you can connect with others who Overdrive: The Films of Léos Carax, love the French language and culture. Join today, with the Filmmaker in Person create a profile and share your love of French culture, Feb 15 – 24, 2013 art, movies, theatre and Harvard Film Archive especially the French 24 Quincy St., Cambridge language with others in the New England area! The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present Overdrive: The Films of Léos Join today! Carax , with an appearance by the filmmaker himself ( Sunday, February 24 at 7pm ).

One of the most talented film directors of his time, Leos Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. This retrospective will present his first major work Boy Meets Girl (1984), the famous Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge - 1991), the controversial Pola X (1999), Tokyo! (2008), Mauvais sang (Bad Blood - 1986) and Holy Motors (2012), which has emerged as one of last year’s most lauded films.

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Providence French Film Festival 2013

Feb 21- March 3, 2013 Cable Car Cinema 204 South Main St.,Providence, RI

Since 1996, the Providence French Film Festival has featured a dazzling display of French movies to francophiles across New England. This year, the brilliant selection includes Les Adieux à la reine ( Farewell, My Queen ), Les bien-aimés (Beloved ), La delicatesse ( Delicacy ), Holy Motors , Polisse , Vous n’avez encore rien vu! (You ain’t seen nothing yet ), and more.

AMOUR - Nominated for 5 Oscars included Best Picture

Now Playing Kendall Square Cinema Coolidge Corner Theatre West Newton Cinema

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Check your local listings for other showtimes

Provocative writer/director Michael Haneke , who previously won the Palme d'Or for The White Ribbon , won the prestigious Cannes award again for Amour ("Love"). Treating his characters with unusual warmth and sympathy, his new drama shows old age and death with unflinching honesty. This is a touching portrait of a longtime married couple, whose bond of love remains strong facing any hardship. It stars two of France's best-loved actors, both in their eighties: Jean-Louis Trintignant ( A Man and a Woman, Z, The Conformist ) and Emmanuelle Riva ( Hiroshima Mon Amour ). With Isabelle Huppert . Winner of 4 European Film Awards, including Best Film, Director, Actor and Actress.

SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENTS

Voyages en Francophonie 2013: Travel the French Speaking Countries in One Day!

March 2, 2013 from 10am to 5pm Newton Cultural Center 225 Nevada St., Newton

Education Française Greater Boston invites you to eat, read, talk, listen, and play in French, including food, art exhibits, dancing, reading, games, meetings with artists and chefs, individual country stalls, concerts and more!

Guided Tours in French at the MFA

Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston

The MFA organizes guided tours in French every Wednesday at 11:15pm . Guided tours are free with Museum admission and explore many different collections.

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Online My French Film Festival 2013

January 17- February 17, 2013

My French Film Festival, the worldwide, interactive, online festival of French cinema, is back in its third year offering 10 feature films and 10 shorts selected in competition.

Bangoo Planète: French Cartoons Online

Bangoo Planète est un nouveau service 100% francophone de vidéo à la demande sur Internet pour les enfants d’expatriés français et les francophiles vivant aux Etats-Unis.

Offre promotionnelle exceptionnelle: 1 mois offert puis $7.99 par mois sans engagement (offre réservée aux 5000 premiers abonnés)

LECTURES

European Conference at Harvard: Europe 2.0: Taking the Next Step

March 2, from 10am to 9pm, at Harvard Kennedy School March 3 from 8am to 6pm, at Harvard Business School

More than 30 international speakers from various domains, including Pierre Vimont (Secretary-General of the European External Action Service and former French Ambassador to the U.S.), Thomas Mayr-Harting (Head of the EU Delegation to the United Nations), and Rafael del Pino (Chairman of Ferrovial) among others, will come together to host a forum to discuss political and business ideas to take Europe forward. Click here to register.

CONCERTS

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French Violinist Renaud Capuçon Performs with the BSO

Feb 7-12, 2013 Symphony Hall 301 Massachusetts Ave, Boston

French violinist Renaud Capuçon , in his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut, joins the orchestra for Sibelius's Violin Concerto , a pinnacle of the concerto repertoire. The program also includes Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 .

In Paradise to Stay - Songs Inspired by Nadia Boulanger

Sunday, February 10 at 3pm Winchester Unitarian Church 478 Main St., Winchester

Operatic contralto Marion Dry, member of the Winchester (MA)/ St.Germain-en-Laye (France) twin city group , accompanied by pianist James Busby will present a program of French & American art songs inspired by the great musical teacher Nadia Boulanger.

Musique pour la chambre du roi, by Musical Offering

> Saturday, February 16, 7:30pm Church of Our Saviour 25, Monmouth St., Brookline

> Sunday, February 17, 4:00pm (FREE) Springfield Jewish Community Center 1160 Dickinson St, Springfield

Musical Offering presents music from the royal privy chamber featuring the ravishong Pièces de clavecin en concerts by Rameau, sonatas by de La Guerre, cantatas by Clérambault, and Telemann's Quatuors parisiens .

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Divine Songs - Exchanges between Secular Song and Sacred Music

March 2, 2013 at 8:00pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden St., Cambridge

Johannes Ockeghem's endlessly fascinating sacred music has been characterized as mystical; his songs, each one a gem of invention, can be funny, heartwrenching, or profound. The program presented by Blue Heron includes French songs and sacred music based on them.

EXHIBITIONS

Revolutions: Photographs of the Arab Spring by Remi Ochlik

Through Feb 22, 2013 The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University 700 Beacon St., Boston

The Consulate General of France in Boston and The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University co-present a photo exhibition celebrating the work of Remi Ochlik , a French photographer who died in Syria last February with Marie Colvin, an award-winning American journalist.

Prints by Georges Rouault at Worcester Art Museum

Through March 14, 2013 Worcester Art Museum 55 Salisbury St., Worcester

One of the most distinctive French artists of the 20th century, Georges Rouault is renowned for simple images that carry profound emotions. This exhibition presents a selection of the artist’s prints done between 1917 and 1948. In these bold images of the seamy side of life, Rouault saw the want of divine grace and the miracle of redemption.

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Cézanne's The Large Bathers at the MFA

Through May 12, 2013 Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston

A loan by the Philadelphia Museum of Art has allowed for this extraordinary occasion to see two French masterpieces hanging side by side: Paul Cézanne’s " The Large Bathers " and " Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? " by Paul Gauguin.

CINEMA

Hors Satan by Bruno Dumont

Feb 2-11, 2013 Harvard Film Archive 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

From his stark tale of a mysterious loner who appears in the coastal dunes outside a rural town and seems to posses superhuman powers, Bruno Dumont skillfully constructs an allegory that keeps us speculating whether these powers are holy or satanic, and whether the two might amount to the same thing.

ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival Presents The Straight Line

Feb 2, 2013 at 7pm Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston

The French film The Straight Line (La Ligne Droite ) will be shown as part of the 2nd annual Boston ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival. In this sports drama, a long-distance runner, Yannick, who has lost his sight, agrees to train with Leila, an ex-athlete with a criminal past...

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Le Tableau at the Providence Children's Film Festival

> Saturday, Feb 16, 2013, 3:30 PM, RISD Auditorium > Monday, Feb 18, 2013, 1:20 PM, Metcalf Auditorium

Questions of social stratification, class injustice, racism, and existential uncertainty abound in Jean-François Laguionie ’s animated feature Le Tableau ( The Painting ), a children’s film whose plain, unadorned title belies the artistic beauty that saturates each and every one of its 76 minutes.

Power, Freedom and Madness: Contemporary Francophone Caribbean Film Festival

Images Cinema 50 Spring St., Williamstown

Williams College presents a film festival exploring questions of leadership, power and freedom in the French-speaking Caribbean, featuring three recent movies.

February 18, Toussaint L'Ouverture by Philippe Niang (2012) February 25, Aliker by Guy Deslauriers (2008) March 4, Moloch Tropical by Raoul Peck (2009)

STILL HAPPENING

Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Royalty on Paper at the MFA

Through June 16, 2013 Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston

This exhibition features examples of the various ways in which European rulers and their aristocratic followers have been represented on paper from the 16th century to 1900. The majority of these images are skillful propaganda intended to convey the

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splendor, power, and virtues of the various monarchs.

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