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Guilty

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:44:05 +0000

A breathtaking, fact-based journey into a Kafka-esque judicial nightmare: a provincial court bailiff (the extraordinary Philippe Torreton) is accused of horrifying crimes against children. Imprisoned, he maintains his innocence, even as his reputation and family life are destroyed.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

The Well-Digger’s Daughter

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:12:08 +0000

Star Jean-Pierre Darroussin in person! Daniel Auteuil, veteran of Marcel Pagnol adaptations JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON DES SOURCES, returns to Pagnol for his first work as a director, telling moving story of a hardscrabble well digger, his eldest daughter and her passion for the son of a local shopkeeper. The cast also includes Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sabine Azema, and Kad Merad. A Kino Lorber release.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

The Last Screening

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:05:08 +0000

CINEMA PARADISO meets PSYCHO in a provocative genre film about the dutiful manager/projectionist (Pascal Cervo) of a repertory cinema in the French provinces…and the many secrets he holds.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

Smugglers’ Songs

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:16:42 +0000

Director in person! The 18th century folk hero and bandit Louis Mandrin is the inspiration for this strikingly relevant period tale, tracing the efforts of Mandrin’s followers to distribute his songs and stories in the build-up to the French Revolution.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

Unforgivable

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:11:05 +0000

Star Carole Bouquet in person! In the latest from acclaimed director Téchiné, a blocked mystery novelist (André Dussolier) on vacation in Venice falls for an expat real estate agent (Carole Bouquet). Then jealousy rears its head and the writer puts a detective on the trail of this possibly unfaithful femme. A Strand Releasing Film.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

Paris By Night

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:05:28 +0000

Roschdy Zem gives a tour-de-force performance as a police commander supervising Paris’s demi-monde of bars, discos and strip clubs in this searing voyage into the City of Light’s darkest corners.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

Headwinds

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:32:38 +0000

Benoît Magimel (THE PIANO TEACHER) gives perhaps his greatest performance as a struggling writer who tries to start a new life in the coastal Brittany of his youth after his wife (Audrey Tatou) mysteriously vanishes. He is joined by an all-star cast, including Isabelle Carré, Bouli Lanners and Aurore Clement. Based on Oliver Adam’s best-selling novel.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:24:10 +0000

Star Jean-Pierre Daroussin in person! When a newly retired union rep (Jean-Pierre Daroussin) is robbed, thwarting a dream vacation to Kenya, he finds himself reflecting on the many compromises and lost ideals of his career. An engaging, affecting drama from one of the cinema’s great observers of the politics of everyday life.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

Low Life

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:16:04 +0000

Carmen, a young French student, enters into an intense affair with Hussain, an Afghan poet living illegally in the country, in this bracingly radical movie about the revolt of the human spirit against a heartless, unjust world.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

The Screen Illusion

cwells — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:13:02 +0000

Director Mathieu Amalric in person! Commissioned by La Comédie-Française, actor-director Mathieu Amalric’s wildly inventive update of Corneille’s popular 17th century tragicomedy follows a hotel concierge on the trail of a missing young man who seems to have left many a young female heart aflutter.

Part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012