Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2014
Friday, March 7 - Thursday, March 13, 2014
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns to IFC Center, celebrating its 9th 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.
2 Autumns, 3 Winters
Sunday, March 9, 2014Director Sébastien Betbeder in person! (2 automnes, 3 hivers) Director Sébastien Betbeder follows his acclaimed debut, Nights With Theodore, with... more...
Age of Panic
Sunday, March 9, 2014Director Justine Triet and actor Arthur Harari in person! (La bataille de Solférino) During a time of great political change, a frazzled young mother tries to keep it together... more...
Les Apaches
Wednesday, March 12, 2014Director Thierry de Peretti in person! "If Larry Clark went to Corsica, it might look an awful lot like… this sexy adolescent thriller." - Peter Debruge, Variety masksOn... more...
A Castle in Italy
Wednesday, March 12, 2014(Un château en Italie) Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s semi-autobiographical third feature — her first film since the acclaimed Actresses (2007) — is as restless as the character she... more...
Eastern Boys
Monday, March 10, 2014Director Robin Campillo in person! Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however... more...
The Gilded Cage
Tuesday, March 11, 2014North American premiere (La cage dorée) José (Joaquim de Alameida) and Maria (Rita Blanco), a middle-aged Portuguese couple, have been living in Paris for 30 years. He is... more...
Going Away
Friday, March 7, 2014US premiere! (Un beau dimanche) Veteran director-actress Nicole Garcia’s refreshingly understated seventh feature follows the formation of an improbable bond between Baptiste... more...
Grand Central
Saturday, March 8, 2014Director Rebecca Zlotowski in person! A nuclear power plant serves as the setting for a forbidden romance as volatile as the facility itself in the intense, brilliantly acted second... more...
If You Don’t, I Will
Wednesday, March 12, 2014North American premiere (Arrête ou je continue)Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos are Pierre and Pomme, a couple whose marriage is on the verge of collapsing. As Pierre... more...
Love Battles
Tuesday, March 11, 2014Director Jacques Doillon in person! North American premiere (Mes séances de lute) “All my strength, all the force of my love… if I heaped it on you, I’d demolish you”:... more...
Love Is the Perfect Crime
Sunday, March 9, 2014(L'amour est un crime parfait) It’s good to be Marc. Played by the reliably terrific Mathieu Amalric, he holds a prestigious teaching position at what must be the world’s most beautiful... more...
The Marchers
Saturday, March 8, 2014Director Nabil Ben Yadir in person! North American premiere (La marche) Nabil Ben Yadir’s rousing sophomore feature reconstructs a decisive event in the history of French... more...
Miss and the Doctors
Sunday, March 9, 2014Director Axelle Ropert in person! (Tirez la langue, mademoiselle) Sibling doctors Boris (filmmaker Cédric Kahn, in a revelatory performance) and Dimitri (Laurent Stocker)... more...
Mood Indigo
Monday, March 10, 2014Director Michel Gondry in person! (L'écume des jours) Eminently inventive Michel Gondry finds an ideal counterpart in Boris Vian, whose novel provides the foundation for... more...
Playing Dead
Sunday, March 9, 2014Director Jean-Paul Salomé in person! North American premiere (Je fais le mort) In Jean-Paul Salomé’s seventh feature, the hilarious François Damiens plays Jean, a down-and-out... more...
School of Babel
Saturday, March 8, 2014North American premiere (La cour de Babel) At a secondary school in Paris’s 10th arrondissement there is a “reception class,” where students between the ages of 11... more...
Under the Rainbow
Tuesday, March 11, 2014(Au bout du conte) Twenty-four-year-old Laura (Agathe Bonitzer) has faith that someday her Prince Charming will suddenly appear. But when such a man does turn up, so does another one — charming... more...
Young and Beautiful
Friday, April 25 - Thursday, May 29, 2014“No one’s serious at 17,” wrote Arthur Rimbaud. For Isabelle (Marine Vacth), the 17-year-old at the center of François Ozon’s YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL, this sentiment may justify the choices she... more...
