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OPENING NIGHT M | 2008 | 120 B L I C U.S ZIP CODE: 10475 CODE: ZIP MAILED FROM FROM MAILED PERMIT 8898 8898 PERMIT PAID PAID U.S. POSTAGE POSTAGE U.S. NON-PROFIT ORG. ORG. NON-PROFIT r r ente C 10023 y N ork ln o nc Li F y o y et i C o s y New t., s 65th West 165 lm Fi he T Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2009 Cinema French with Rendez-Vous Presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance The 14th edition of america’s leading contemporary French film showcase premieres intimate new works and impressive debuts from the crème de la crème of French directors. screening at The Film society of Lincoln Center and iFC Center. Filmmakers and special guests on stage! U.S. Premiere Paris 36 / Faubourg 36 OPENING NIGHT Ch r i s t o p h e Ba r r a t i e r Fr a n C e /Ge r m a n y /Cz e C h re p u B l i C | 2008 | 120m Encouraged by the electoral victories of The Popular Front, Pigoil (comedian gérard Jugnot) leads a movement to turn his threadbare ’30s music hall into a cooperative in which everyone, from the actors to the stagehands, has a stake. His success hinges on a new act, the velvet-voiced chanteuse Douce (Nora arnezeder). Filled with stunning camera movements and magnificent sets, Paris 36 is a loving, knowing homage to the pre-war cinema of Jean renoir, Jacques becker, and Marcel Pagnol. New- comer arnezeder is surely the French revelation of the year. a sony Pictures Classics release. $15 MEMBER PUBLIC Thursday, March 5, 8:00 pm at Alice Tully Hall $20 U.S. Premiere north American Premiere new York Premiere U.S. Premiere north American Premiere north American Premiere 35 sHoTs oF ruM / 35 rHuMs bELLaMy THE girL FroM MoNaCo / MEsriNE ParT 1 / Stella ViLLa aMaLia Cl a i r e De n i s | Fr a n C e /Ge r m a n y | 2008 | 100m Cl a u D e Ch a B r o l | Fr a n C e | 2009 | 110m La FiLLE DE MoNaCo MEsriNE, L’iNsTinct DE MorT sy l V i e Ve r h e y D e | Fr a n C e | 2008 | 103m Be n o î t Ja C q u o t | Fr a n C e | 2009 | 94m Claire Denis’s delicate and graceful new film Two of the indisputable giants of French cine- an n e Fo n t a i n e | Fr a n C e | 2008 | 95m Je a n -Fr a n ç o i s ri C h e t With her first film a brother, sylvie Verheyde ann (isabelle Huppert) leaves Paris after begins in the territory of renoir’s La bête ma—Claude Chabrol and gérard Depardieu— High-priced Parisian lawyer bertrand (Fabrice Fr a n C e /Ca n a D a /it a l y | 2008 | 113m estab lished herself as one of the most distinctive seeing her long-time partner in the arms of humaine and develops into an unlikely and team up for the first time in this wry, engaging Luchini) travels to Monaco to defend a wealthy Jean-François richet, aided by a sensational filmmakers of her generation. With stella, shown another woman. she winds up on ischia, off the enchanted evocation of ozu’s Late spring. thriller about police commissioner Paul bellamy’s woman accused of murder. He discovers that performance by Vincent Cassel, spotlights the to great acclaim at this year’s Venice Film Festi- coast of Naples, at an old house known as the Denis regular alex Descas is Lionel, a Parisian attempts to draw the line between professional his bodyguard, the scowling Christophe life and adventures of post-war France’s most val, she returns to the subject of modern family Villa amalia, where she is quite literally rescued train driver who lives in peace and contentment instinct and his duty to perennially troubled (roschdy Zem), can be useful in a variety of notorious criminal, Jacques Mesrine. Part one life: an 11-year-old girl (Léora barbara) comes by giulia (Maya sansa). Rendez-Vous veteran with his “marriageable” daughter Joséphine younger brother Jacques (Clovis Cornillac). ways, but the danger posed by the case is begins in the ’60s, when Mesrine falls in with into her own while coping with her working-class benoît Jacquot perfectly captures the sparse, (Mati Diop), until she notices the stirrings of Chabrol acknowledged his long-time desire nothing to that posed by stunning TV weather girl petty mobsters led by guido (gérard Depardieu). family’s meltdown. Verheyde avoids easy clichés hard-edged feel of Pascal Quignard’s prize- love from the boy across the hall (grégoire to work with Depardieu by co-writing the audrey (Louise bourgoin). Where, exactly, does He quickly moves up the ranks, hooks up with or stark heroes and villains, creating the sense of winning novel. Locations change abruptly, Colin). shot by frequent Denis collaborator screenplay with odile barski for the actor, a bodyguard’s job end? The latest work from the ruthless and cold-blooded Jeanne schneider a warm, embracing atmosphere for stella even and characters often embark on unexpected agnès godard, with a score by Tindersticks. creating what Chabrol called “a kind of portrait Nathalie director anne Fontaine confirms her (Cécile de France), and masterminds ever more as she drifts away from her parents’ world. courses of action, creating a portrait of a world WRT Fri Mar 13: 1:30 and 6:15pm of gérard Depardieu, or at least a vision of role as an intrepid explorer of the seamier side risky jobs. based on Mesrine’s writings, the film WRT Thu Mar 12: 1:00 and 6:15pm in which nothing is certain and every moment Sun Mar 15: 8:00pm one of his many aspects.” of desire, where nothing is what we had first is a vibrant relay of this extraordinary whirlwind iFC Wed Mar 11: 9:30pm is ripe with possibility. iFC Thu Mar 12: 7:00pm WRT Thu Mar 12: 3:45pm imagined. a Magnolia Pictures release. of a life. a senator Entertainment release. WRT Fri Mar 13: 8:45pm Sat Mar 14: 9:10pm WRT Fri Mar 6: 1:00pm WRT Tue Mar 10: 6:15pm Sat Mar 14: 6:45pm Sun Mar 15: 1:00pm Sat Mar 7: 6:35pm Sat Mar 14: 1:30pm iFC Thu Mar 12: 9:30pm iFC Fri Mar 6: 9:30pm iFC Sun Mar 8: 1:30pm new York Premiere north American Premiere séraPHiNE THE aPPrENTiCE / L’aPPrENTi ma r t i n pr o V o s t | Fr a n C e /Be l G i u m | 2008 | 125m sa m u e l Co l l a r D e y | Fr a n C e | 2008 | 82m U.S. Premiere Quiet, small-town eccentric séraphine new York Premiere on the boundary of fiction and documentary, north American Premiere World Premiere MEsriNE ParT 2 / (yolande Moreau) pursues her secret passion WiTH a Little HELP FroM MysELF / samuel Collardey’s marvelous The apprentice, CHaNgE oF PLaNs / LE CoDE a CHaNgé THE girL oN THE TraiN / La FiLLE Du rEr MEsriNE, L’ENNEMi PubLiC N° 1 for painting by mixing soil, animal blood, and aiDE-Toi, LE CiEL T’aiDEra winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize Da n i è l e th o m p s o n | Fr a n C e | 2009 | 100m an D r é té C h i n é | Fr a n C e | 2009 | 110m Je a n -Fr a n ç o i s ri C h e t | Fr a n C e /Ca n a D a | 2008 | 132m oil into pigments for her lush, sensual canvases Fr a n ç o i s Du p e y r o n | Fr a n C e | 2008 | 94m for best first film, follows 15-year-old student a group of friends and acquaintances gather a young woman, Jeanne (émilie Dequenne), The second part of Jean-François richet’s epic of flowers. When a new arrival, german art sonia (Félicité Wouassi), an african immigrant Mathieu (Mathieu bulle) as he develops a warm, for dinner, and the atmosphere couldn’t be reports that skinheads attacked her, seemingly study of master criminal Jacques Mesrine critic and collector Wilhelm uhde (ulrich Tukur), struggling to get by in a Paris housing project, close relationship with farm owner and mentor friendlier, with great food, wine, and conversation. for being a Jew. The incident becomes a media is a completely separate film and can be arranges an exhibition, séraphine is ushered conspires with her elderly white neighbor Paul (Paul barbier) that provides a partial refuge slowly the masks of civility drop and suspicions, sensation, and attorney samuel bleistein readily understood and enjoyed without having into a new and unsettling world. Martin Provost robert (Claude rich) to hide the body of from the emotional chaos of his parents’ failed jealousies, and fears emerge. Darker in tone than (Michel blanc), an old friend of Jeanne’s mother seen its predecessor. The story begins where has created a touching portrait of fascinating sonia’s husband and keep receiving the dead marriage. The apprentice offers a rich portrait Danièle Thompson’s earlier work, Change of Louise (Catherine Deneuve), takes the case. part one ends: with Mesrine’s escape from a outsider artist séraphine de senlis, as well man’s pension.
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