Film at Lincoln Center and UniFrance present Rendez-Vous with French Cinema March 5–15 Tickets: filmlinc.org “A treasure trove.” — OPENING NIGHT The Truth Alice and the Mayor Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns with another New York Premiere New York Premiere Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nicolas Pariser, France/Belgium, edition that exemplifies the variety and vitality of France/Japan, 2019, 106m 2019, 103m contemporary French filmmaking. The films on display, In his follow-up to the Palme Alice (Anaïs Demoustier) leaves by emerging talents and established masters, raise ideas d’Or–winning Shoplifters, her Oxford philosophy professor- Hirokazu Kore-eda casts ship for a new communications both topical and eternal, and take audiences to entirely Catherine Deneuve and Juliette post at the mayor’s office in her unexpected places. Highlights from recent editions of Binoche in a film about the hometown of Lyon. But when the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema include Patricia Mazuy’s rippling tensions underlying a mayor (Fabrice Luchini) confides family gathering. Deneuve plays in her that he’s having trouble Paul Sanchez Is Back!, Mia Hansen-Løve’s Maya, Mikhaël Fabienne, a screen icon preparing generating ideas to improve the Hers’s Amanda, Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama, Justine to publish her memoirs. The ver- city, Alice realizes that her true sion of her life as presented on the task is to reawaken his progres- Triet’s In Bed with Victoria, and Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara. page, however, is critiqued by her sive spirit. Alice and the Mayor Co-presented with UniFrance, the 25th edition of Rendez- daughter Lumir (Binoche), visiting finds an unsentimental urgency in Fabienne’s secluded home with idealism. A selection of the 2019 Vous will demonstrate that the landscape of French cinema her American TV actor husband Cannes Film Festival Directors’ is as fertile, inspiring, and distinct as ever. (Ethan Hawke) and their young Fortnight. daughter. Resentments seep out, and eventually explode. Opening Saturday, March 7 1:00pm Organized by Florence Almozini with UniFrance. Night of the 2019 Venice Film Q&A with Nicolas Pariser Festival. An IFC Films release. Wednesday, March 11 9:30pm Thursday, March 5 6:30pm Introduced by Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke Thursday, March 5 9:15pm #rendezvous Tickets: filmlinc.org The Best Years of a Life Burning Ghost Cuties The Dazzled New York Premiere U.S. Premiere New York Premiere New York Premiere Claude Lelouch, France, 2019, Stéphane Batut, France, 2019, Maïmouna Doucouré, France, Sarah Suco, France, 2019, 99m 90m 104m 2020, 95m Actress-turned-director Sarah Jean-Louis Trintignant and Winner of the prestigious Prix Shy 11-year-old Amy (Fathia Suco’s debut feature is a mes- Anouk Aimée reprise their roles Jean Vigo, this smoldering feature Youssouf Abdillahi) discovers merizing slow burn set in an in this stirring sequel to Claude debut from Stéphane Batut is an that her neighbor Anjelica is part insular Catholic community. When Lelouch’s classic 1966 Palme entrancing tale of love and loss. of a hip-hop dance troupe, the promising 12-year-old acrobat d’Or–winner A Man and a Woman. Juste (Thimotée Robart) drifts “Cuties.” She soon finds she fits in Camille (a breakout Céleste Jean-Louis (Trintignant) now through a liminal Paris: able to with the group, who are in training Brunnquell) performs in a sketch struggles with dementia in a see spirits of the dead, he guides for a local competition. However, that seems to make light of prayer, nursing home, unable to recall them into the afterlife, while at Amy’s newfound talents conflict the church’s leader—known only his glory days as a racecar the same time he’s unsettled in his with her family’s traditional as “The Shepherd” (Jean-Pierre driver. His son (Antoine Sire) own personal purgatory. When, expectations for her. This vibrant Darroussin)—asks her parents to seeks out his former lover Anne entirely by chance, he runs into debut feature, which screened withdraw her from circus training. (Aimée), retired from producing long-lost acquaintance Agathe at both Sundance and the Berlin Her mother has become emo- films to maintain a fabric shop (Judith Chemla), he falls into an Film Festival, is exceptionally tionally dependent on the parish, in Normandy, to remind his now entanglement that’s not quite attuned to the internal yearnings while her father (Éric Caravaca) prickly and standoffish father of compatible with his ethereal and external pressures of adoles- seems brainwashed; amidst this, the affair that once brought him so world. cence. A Netflix release. covertly secular Camille and her much joy. younger brothers must come into Tuesday, March 10 1:45pm Tuesday, March 10 6:30pm their own. Saturday, March 7 3:45pm Friday, March 13 6:30pm Q&A with Maïmouna Doucouré Q&A with Claude Lelouch and Q&A with Stéphane Batut Thursday, March 12 2:00pm Sunday, March 8 6:30pm screenwriter Valérie Perrin Q&A with Sarah Suco Friday, March 13 4:15pm #rendezvous Tickets: filmlinc.org Deerskin An Easy Girl Happy Birthday Isadora’s Children New York Premiere North American Premiere New York Premiere North American Premiere Quentin Dupieux, France, 2019, Rebecca Zlotowski, France, 2019, Cédric Kahn, France/Belgium, Damien Manivel, France/South 77m 92m 2019, 101m Korea, 2019, 84m Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin (The Sixteen-year-old Naïma (Mina This buoyant and bittersweet Dance legend Isadora Duncan Artist) stars in this rollicking, Farid) passes languid summer ensemble piece directed by Cédric responded to the tragic death of lightly surrealist take on the days on the beaches of Cannes Kahn and headlined by Catherine her children by choreographing midlife crisis movie, directed by working in a restaurant and Deneuve tests the ties that bind a three-part piece called Mother. Rendez-Vous mainstay Quentin preparing for acting auditions. a family. Deneuve is matriarch In Isadora’s Children, Damien Dupieux (Keep an Eye Out!). When her glamorous cousin Andréa, whose family comes Manivel depicts a trio of char- Georges (Dujardin) drops sev- Sofia (Zahia Dehar) arrives for an together to celebrate her 70th acters engaging with Duncan’s eral thousand Euros on an Easy extended stay, Naïma begins to birthday. Everything seems in work: an introspective choreog- Rider–style, 100%-deerskin shadow her seemingly thrilling order until her mentally unstable rapher (Agathe Bonitzer) feeling jacket, then absconds to a country lifestyle, which gets complicated daughter Claire (Emmanuelle her way through the piece’s inn in a sleepy town far away when Sofia becomes entangled Bercot) reappears and old resent- movements; a dance teacher from his wife. There, he starts with two art dealers (Nuno Lopes ments surface, not least from and her student rehearsing for experimenting with a mini-DV and Benoît Magimel). Rebecca the teenager (Portrait of a Lady a recital; and a member of the camcorder, enlisting the help of Zlotowski’s fourth feature taps on Fire’s Luàna Bajrami) Claire audience (renowned dancer and an aspiring film editor (Portrait of into the universal hunger of abandoned. Kahn coaxes mood choreographer Elsa Wolliaston), a Lady on Fire’s Adèle Haenel) to adolescence, and imbues an swings of warmth and vitriol from who carries the memory of the assemble a most unusual docufic- empathetic coming-of-age story his cast in a film that takes place performance through a solitary tion. A Greenwich Entertainment with a sharp class critique. A over the course of one hectic day. evening. release. Netflix release. Thursday, March 12 9:15pm Friday, March 6 4:00pm Sunday, March 8 9:15pm Saturday, March 7 9:00pm Sunday, March 15 6:15pm Saturday, March 14 2:00pm Saturday, March 14 9:00pm Q&A with Rebecca Zlotowski Thursday, March 12 4:00pm #rendezvous Tickets: filmlinc.org Joan of Arc On a Magical Night Papicha Perfect Nanny U.S. Premiere New York Premiere New York Premiere New York Premiere Bruno Dumont, France, 2019, Christophe Honoré, France/ Mounia Meddour, France/Algeria/ Lucie Borleteau, France, 2019, 137m Belgium/Luxembourg, 2019, 87m Belgium/Qatar, 2019, 106m 100m Ten-year-old Lise Leplat Chiara Mastroianni won Best Nedjma (Lyna Khoudri) is a Young parents Myriam (Leïla Prudhomme commands the Actress in the Cannes Film university student during the Bekhti) and Paul (Antoine center of Bruno Dumont’s Festival’s Un Certain Regard Algerian Civil War. Although she’s Reinartz) think they’ve found the inventive reimagining of the section for her fierce perfor- studying French, her passion is perfect nanny in Louise (Karin story of Joan of Arc, a sequel to mance in this playful, fantastical fashion design: defying religious Viard). She comes with glowing Dumont’s musical Jeannette: The latest from Christophe Honoré. conservatism, she custom-makes references from multiple families, Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017) Mastroianni is a law professor dresses for her peers that are and she immediately takes a shine that’s singular and entrancing whose 25-year marriage to examples of individual expres- to their two young children. But as enough to stand on its own. Joan, Richard (singer-songwriter sion. Attacks on civilians are on Myriam reimmerses herself in her compelled by visions of God, Benjamin Biolay) is ruptured the rise from fundamentalist legal job, Louise entrenches her- leads the French charge against when he discovers texts from Islamist sects, and a shocking self deeper and deeper into their invading English forces, and is her younger lover on her phone. incident drives Nedjma to stage family life, her behavior growing later captured and put on trial for Honoré’s stylish and sensual a unique protest: a fashion show ever stranger. This adaptation heresy. Although this chapter is aesthetic makes for a swooning centered around repurposing of Leïla Slimani’s best-seller cinematically well-trod, Dumont reflection on love and memory the haik, a traditional veil, into is a vividly detailed, unsettling turns it into an uncanny, absurdist that becomes even more heart- secular garments.