Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2013
Friday, March 1 - Thursday, March 7, 2013
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns to IFC Center, celebrating its 8th 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.
Please note: The producers of LA MAISON DE LA RADIO have decided to pull the film from inclusion in this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. The screening of LA MAISON scheduled for Sunday March 3 at 1:00pm has been canceled. If you purchased tickets to this film, please contact ifccinfo@ifccenter.com or stop by our box office to inquire about a refund.
The Atomic Age
Wednesday, March 6, 2013Arriving from the Paris outskirts for a round of weekend clubbing, good-looking Victor (Eliott Paquet) and his Central European friend Rainer (Dominik Wojcik) are full of self-confidence and a youthfully... more...
Bad Girl (Mauvaise Fille)
Tuesday, March 5, 2013Winner, Cesar Award for Best Female Newcomer: Izia Higelin Director Patrick Mille in person! 25-year-old Louise is suddenly hit with a double dose of life-altering... more...
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Saturday, March 2, 2013New digital restoration! Boudu (the irrepressible and unforgettable Michel Simon), a Parisian tramp, tries to end it all with a plunge into the river, only to be saved by a well-meaning... more...
The Girl From Nowhere
Saturday, March 2, 2013Lost in a maze of his philosophizing while trying to write a book, a retired math teacher is forced to deal with the real world when he must rescue a young woman from the clutches of a thug outside his... more...
Granny’s Funeral
Friday, March 1, 2013Although he made no effort to see his grandmother in her waning years, pharmacist Armand (director Podalydès’ brother and co-writer Denis) must now deal with her funeral arrangements. This is awkward... more...
In the House
Sunday, March 3, 2013Director François Ozon in person! Swept up in the increasingly dazzling and inventive fiction writing of a precocious student, a high school literature teacher and frustrated author (Fabrice... more...
Journal de France
Sunday, March 3 - Monday, March 4, 2013Raymond Depardon’s brilliant self-portrait (co-directed by his longtime collaborator and sound engineer Claudine Nougaret) takes a surprising point of view on the great documentarian’s life—not only... more...
A Lady in Paris
Saturday, March 2, 2013Director Ilmar Raag in person! Offered a job in Paris to look after a fellow Estonian-born woman, Anne leaves her homeland and finds herself in an emotional hornet’s nest. Frida, the... more...
La Maison de la Radio
Sunday, March 3, 2013SCREENING CANCELED -- The producers have decided to pull the film from inclusion in this year's Rendez-Vous with French... more...
My Blue-Eyed Girl
Monday, March 4, 2013Preuss’ uncommonly sensitive and nuanced debut follows the eldest daughter of a family on holiday as she navigates her growing desires for a prison inmate with her heartfelt but fraying familial love.... more...
Rich Is the Wolf
Monday, March 4, 2013Perplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he’s recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues. Odoul’s most daring feature, whose... more...
The Suicide Shop
Thursday, March 7, 2013Master filmmaker Leconte makes a startling and unforgettable departure from his previous work with this whimsical animated 3D musical about a family business offering certain special “end-of-life”... more...
Therese Desqueyroux
Sunday, March 3, 2013Star Audrey Tautou and Annie Miller (producing partner and widow of director Claude Miller) in person! The late Miller’s final film elegantly adapts François Mauriac’s modern classic... more...
Three Worlds
Tuesday, March 5, 2013Director Catherine Corsini and star Raphaël Personnaz in person! A hit-and-run accident involving a hotshot car salesman and an émigré worker from Moldavia triggers a chain of dramatic... more...
You, Me & Us
Sunday, March 3, 2013Director Jacques Doillon in person! The tentative nature of relationships is explored in dazzling, three-dimensional fashion in this cleverly written and directed roundelay between current... more...
