Film at and UniFrance present Rendez-Vous with French Cinema March 5–15

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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, /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 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 ’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 Directors’ is as fertile, inspiring, and distinct as ever. () 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 : 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. Papicha tells thriller that probes our tendencies mood piece. A KimStim release. rending thanks to the brilliant an unflinching story of resistance to trust those we barely know. A cast. A Strand Releasing release. and resilience. A Distrib Films Distrib Films release. Wednesday, March 11 6:15pm release. Q&A with Bruno Dumont Friday, March 6 8:45pm Monday, March 9 6:15pm Friday, March 13 1:30pm Q&A with Chiara Mastroianni Friday, March 6 1:15pm Q&A with Lucie Borleteau Monday, March 9 4:15pm Thursday, March 12 6:15pm Wednesday, March 11 1:45pm Q&A with Mounia Meddour

#rendezvous Tickets: filmlinc.org SCHEDULE All screenings take place at the Walter Reade Theater. * Free Talks take place in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater. In-Person Appearance

THU March 5 MON March 9 SAT March 14 5:00  Special Event: A Conversation 2:00  Who You Think I Am 2:00  Isadora’s Children with Juliette Binoche and 4:15  On a Magical Night 4:00  The Specials Ethan Hawke 5:00  Free Talk: From Book 6:30  Someone, Somewhere 6:30  Opening Night: The Truth to Film* 9:00  Deerskin 9:15  Opening Night: The Truth 6:15  Perfect Nanny 9:00  Someone, Somewhere SUN March 15 FRI March 6 1:30  Spread Your Wings 1:45  Papicha TUE March 10 4:00  South Terminal 4:00  Isadora’s Children 1:45  Burning Ghost 6:15  Happy Birthday 6:00  Who You Think I Am 4:00  School Life 8:45  The Specials 8:45  On a Magical Night 6:30  Cuties 9:15  Proxima SAT March 7 Screening Tickets 1:00  Alice and the Mayor WED March 11 $12 Members, Students, 3:45  The Best Years of a Life 1:45  Perfect Nanny Seniors (62+), and Persons 5:00  Free Talk: Exploring Space 4:00  South Terminal with Disabilities on Film* 6:15  Joan of Arc $17 General Public 6:15  Proxima 9:30  Alice and the Mayor 9:00  An Easy Girl The Truth Tickets: THU March 12 Opening Night & Conversation SUN March 8 2:00  Cuties $20 Members, Students, 1:00  School Life 4:00  An Easy Girl Seniors (62+), and Persons 3:00  Free Talk: Serge Toubiana 6:15  Papicha with Disabilities on Helen Scott* 9:15  Happy Birthday $25 General Public 4:00  Spellbound 6:30  The Dazzled FRI March 13 SPECIAL STUDENT SAVINGS! 9:15  Deerskin 1:30  Joan of Arc $50 All-Access Pass 4:15  The Dazzled (valid ID required, 6:30  Burning Ghost excludes Opening Night 9:15  Spellbound and March 5 Conversation)

#rendezvous Tickets: filmlinc.org Proxima School Life Someone, Somewhere South Terminal New York Premiere North American Premiere New York Premiere U.S. Premiere Alice Winocour, France/Germany, Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Cédric Klapisch, France/ Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France/ 2019, 107m Idir, France, 2019, 111m Belgium, 2019, 110m Algeria, 2019, 96m Sarah (Eva Green), an astronaut The new vice principal of a middle In this almost-romance from The haunting, experiential latest living in Cologne, is selected for school in Parisian suburb Saint- Cédric Klapisch, warehouse from Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche a yearlong spaceflight. Before Denis, Samia (Zita Hanrot) is employee Rémy (François Civil) centers on a doctor (Ramzy liftoff, she must spend a gru- warned by her fellow teachers and research assistant Mélanie Bedia) in nineties Algeria, which eling year at a training facility that the students are unmotivated (Ana Girardot) have never met, is rapidly becoming a war zone. in Moscow, separated from and hard to discipline. She sees but they live parallel lives: they He spends his days tending to her young daughter, who’s left things differently, however, when reside in neighboring buildings, the wounded and comforting the in the care of her ex-husband she gets to know the students, ride the same subway route, and suffering, yet maintains a stoic (Lars Eidinger). The only woman especially Yanis (Liam Pierron), are troubled by bouts of insomnia neutrality toward the ambiguous involved in the mission, Sarah who’s sharp and driven but dis- and depression. As they stumble conflict, resolving that his job tries to stay focused and stoic, illusioned by a world that seems through psychotherapy, dating is simply to help those in pain. suppressing any weaknesses to have turned its back on him apps, fainting spells, and family But once he starts receiving her condescending captain (Matt and his family. Slam poet Grand visits, the seemingly star-crossed death threats and horrors begin Dillon) might notice, and trying to Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir’s duo orbit around each other but to encroach on his own life, soothe her daughter’s loneliness second collaboration after Step remain just out of reach. Klapisch his moral position is shaken. from afar. Alice Winocour’s poi- by Step (2016) is a rousing look spins a delicate “what-if” story, The inhumanity of the violence gnant film is set to an atmospheric at the importance of encouraging exploring our increasingly her- pushes him to question whether score from Ryuichi Sakamoto. A untapped potential despite insti- metic modern urban life. A Distrib or not more drastic action might Vertical Entertainment release. tutional odds. A Netflix release. Films release. be called for.

Saturday, March 7 6:15pm Sunday, March 8 1:00pm Monday, March 9 9:00pm Wednesday, March 11 4:00pm Q&A with Alice Winocour Q&A with Mehdi Idir Q&A with Cédric Klapisch Sunday, March 15 4:00pm Tuesday, March 10 9:15pm Tuesday, March 10 4:00pm Saturday, March 14 6:30pm #rendezvous Tickets: filmlinc.org The Specials Spellbound Spread Your Wings Who You Think I Am U.S. Premiere North American Premiere U.S. Premiere U.S. Premiere Olivier Nakache and Éric Pascal Bonitzer, France, 2019, Nicolas Vanier, France/Norway, Safy Nebbou, France/Belgium, Toledano, France, 2019, 114m 90m 2019, 113m 2019, 101m This heartfelt comic drama from An uncanny triangle emerges Sulky teenager Thomas (Louis Juliette Binoche balances the directing duo behind The in this update of Henry James’s Vazquez) dreads spending impulsiveness, determination, Intouchables targets structural short story “The Way It Came.” summer with his father (Jean- and vulnerability as only she can neglect in the French medical Book critic Coline (Sara Paul Rouve), an environmentalist as philosophy professor Claire system. Bruno (Vincent Cassel) Giraudeau) is assigned a profile in a rural, wifi-less hamlet. Much (Binoche), who, heartbroken runs a shelter for autistic young of a reclusive, brooding painter to his surprise, he grows attached after a breakup, begins using a people turned away by hospitals, (Let the Sunshine In’s Nicolas to his father’s new project: an Facebook profile for a 24-year- while his friend Malik (Reda Duvauchelle), who claims to ambitious plan to train a flock of old alter ego named Clara so she Kateb) mentors underprivileged have seen his mother’s spirit endangered geese to follow a new can browse her ex-boyfriend’s youths seeking employment. just before her death. Curiously, migratory path, avoidant of pol- account. When her ex’s good Both men, based on real-life Coline’s close friend (Anabel lution and human-made threats. friend Alex messages her, Claire’s people, are constantly frustrated Lopez), also an artist, says she Nicolas Vanier (Loup) channels plans veer into uncharted terri- by the lack of consistent funding witnessed an apparition of her his passion for nature into this tale tory. In this adaptation of Camille and institutional support—which father on the brink of his sudden of our responsibility to protect it, Laurens’ best-seller, Safy Nebbou eventually leads them to confront passing, as well. An ethereal brew a freewheeling adventure of both turns a romantic comedy premise the government head-on. With of lust, grief, and jealousy propels suspense and civic action. into a dizzying and dangerous help from a spirited ensemble, this transfixing story of invisible game of mirrors. A Cohen Media The Specials crackles with fiery frequencies and mortal hungers. Sunday, March 15 1:30pm release. commitment. Sunday, March 8 4:00pm Friday, March 6 6:00pm Saturday, March 14 4:00pm Q&A with Pascal Bonitzer Q&A with Safy Nebbou and Juliette Binoche Sunday, March 15 8:45pm Friday, March 13 9:15pm Monday, March 9 2:00pm

#rendezvous Tickets: filmlinc.org Free Talks L’Amie américaine. A legendary Presented by figure for film buffs on both TWO WAYS TO sides of the Atlantic, Helen Scott WIN A TRIP TO Free Talks take place in the is perhaps best known for her Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center passionate work and friendship PARIS! Amphitheater. Registration opens with François Truffaut, but she March 5 at noon: filmlinc.org/free led a fascinating and mysterious Cast Your Vote for the life all her own. A book signing Inaugural Air France Exploring Space on Film with Toubiana will follow the talk. Audience Award At a moment when we are Presented in collaboration with Air France, the company that Special Event increasingly looking to the stars Albertine Books. connects France, the country A Conversation with for a vision of a future and a path of cinema, to cities around the The Truth Stars Juliette forward, filmmakers around the Sunday, March 8 3:00pm world, is partnering this year with Binoche and Ethan Hawke world have responded by trans- Rendez-Vous with French Cinema From Book to Film Over the past thirty years, Juliette posing timeless themes of love, to create the Air France Audience Binoche and Ethan Hawke loss, family ties, and spiritual Cinema and literature are deeply Award. The awarded film will be have been icons of French and transcendence from the earth to interconnected art forms that selected by audience members. American film acting, respec- the realm of outer space. In this keep inspiring each other. What At the end of the festival, whoever tively. They have collaborated talk, Alice Winocour, director of are the challenges and implica- voted will get a chance to win a for the first time on The Truth, the astronaut drama Proxima, will tions of adapting a book to the round-trip ticket from New York to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s follow-up explore the variety of approaches screen, and how does literature Paris for two! Don’t forget to cast to his Palme d’Or-winning that artists have taken to crafting nurture cinema? How do films your ballot after each screening. Shoplifters and the Opening Night such stories, and how those per- allow creators and audiences not selection of this year’s Rendez- spectives differ across countries, only to revisit but also reimagine Enter Rendez-Vous with French Cinema’s Review Vous with French Cinema. In this genres, genders, and production familiar narratives? What are the Contest intimate, in-depth conversation contexts. concrete steps one must take to between professional peers, adapt a book? And how can the Are you an aspiring or emerging Binoche and Hawke will discuss Saturday, March 7 5:00pm power of literature and words critic under 30? UniFrance and the experience of working with influence screenwriting and invite all Kore-eda on his first French- Serge Toubiana on filmmaking? A selection of French attendees under 30 years of age language film, and the process of Helen Scott and American filmmakers and to submit a review of a Rendez- Vous film of their choice. The probing the dynamics of married Celebrated author Serge writers will join to discuss these best critique will win a round-trip life and intergenerational family Toubiana, president of UniFrance topics. Presented in partnership ticket to Paris and a free one-year drama in the context of hypercon- and former director of the with French in Motion and IFP. subscription to TV5MONDE. For nected 21st-century life. Cinémathèque française, will contest guidelines and to learn discuss the life and work of Helen Monday, March 9 5:00pm more: fimlinc.org/RDVcontest Thursday, March 5 5:00pm Scott, subject of his latest book, Page FS.pdf 1 07/02/2020 14:48

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