Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012
Friday, March 2 - Thursday, March 8, 2012
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns to IFC Center, celebrating its 7th year downtown with a showcase of the best in French filmmaking. Co-presented by Unifrance Films and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Additional screenings take place at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and BAM, visit rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com for more information.
38 Witnesses
Friday, March 2, 2012A woman is brutally murdered in front of an apartment building, but all of the residents claim to have seen and heard nothing in this taut, haunting thriller from RAPT director Lucas Belvaux. Inspired... more...
Louise Wimmer
Saturday, March 3, 2012A tall, middle-aged woman rushes through her chambermaid duties, confronts her manager about more hours, and then goes off to a diner for coffee and smokes. After that, it’s on to her cramped car, which... more...
A Gang Story
Saturday, March 3, 2012A solid return to the gangster genre—in the French style, of course. Momon (Gérard Lanvin) was head of one of the most notorious crime syndicates (known as Les Lyonnais), until the gang was pretty much... more...
Farewell, My Queen
Saturday, March 3, 2012SOLD OUT! Director in person! Direct from its World Premiere as Opening Night at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, the new film from director Benoît Jacquot (A Single Girl, Deep... more...
The Intouchables
Sunday, March 4, 2012SOLD OUT! Directors and star François Cluzet in person! A phenomenon in France, where it shattered box-office records to become the second most successful film of all time, The Intouchables... more...
Here Below
Sunday, March 4, 2012France at the end of 1943. Signs are appearing that the German military offensive is starting to crack, and the Resistance begins to step up its activities. While working as a hospital nurse, nun Sister... more...
The Screen Illusion
Monday, March 5, 2012Director Mathieu Amalric in person! Part of an ongoing project sponsored by La Comédie-Française—in which filmmakers are given 12 days to adapt a classic French play using actors from... more...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Tuesday, March 6, 2012Star Jean-Pierre Daroussin in person! One of contemporary cinema’s most assiduous chroniclers of the politics of daily life, Robert Guédiguian (Marius and Jeanette, The Town is... more...
Paris By Night
Tuesday, March 6, 2012With a tour-de-force lead performance by Roschdy Zem, PARIS BY NIGHT is a searing voyage into the depths of some of the City of Light’s darkest corners. Police commander Simon Weiss (Zem), head of... more...
Unforgivable
Friday, June 29 - Thursday, July 19, 2012In the latest from acclaimed director Téchiné (The Witnesses, Wild Reeds), a blocked mystery novelist (André Dussollier) newly arrived in Venice falls for an expat real estate agent... more...
Smugglers’ Songs
Wednesday, March 7, 2012Director in person! Louis Mandrin was a notorious, Robin Hood-like bandit in the years before the French Revolution; eventually, he was captured and executed, but his legend lived on in... more...
The Last Screening
Thursday, March 8, 2012Filmmakers in person! The Cinema Empire, a slightly run-down repertory house in a provincial town offers daily screenings of Jean Renoir’s French Can Can to a small but loyal... more...
The Well-Digger’s Daughter
Thursday, March 8, 2012Star Jean-Pierre Darroussin in person! Daniel Auteuil, who shot to international fame for his work in the Claude Berri adaptations of Marcel Pagnol’s Jean de Florette and Manon... more...
