The French Film Festival
FESTIVAL DU CINEMA FRANCAIS
The French Film Festival of New Orleans presented by The New Orleans Film Society with the support of The Consulate General of France, took place at the Prytania Theater from July 10 to Jully 12, 2009.
It showed four recent French movies and one classic, directed by famous directors and featuring famous actors.
This was the first time these films were shown in Louisiana!
The films were in French with English subtitles.
L’heure d’été / Summer Hours
by Olivier Assayas / 2008 / 100 min.
with Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.
Un conte de Noël / A Christmas Tale
by Arnaud Desplechin / 2008 / 150 min.
with Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny
The Vuillard’s shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn’t lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. But can a Christmas time reunion and a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, finally bring peace their clan?
La fille coupée en deux / A Girl Cut in Two
by par Claude Chabrol / 2007 / 115 min.
with Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand, Benoît Magimel
A French TV weather girl is torn between an older man - a famous married author whom she loves but who won’t leave his wife and the semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her. She marries the younger man, but he starts to become obsessed with her love for his rival.
L’année derniere à Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad
by Alain Resnais / 1961 / 94 min.
with Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had last year at Marienbad.
Séraphine / Seraphine
by Martin Provost / 2008 / 125 min.
With Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
In 1914, Wilhelm Uhde, a famous German art collecto, rents an apartment in the town of Senlis, forty kilometers away from Paris, in order to write and take a rest from the hectic life he has been living in the capital. The cleaning lady is a rather rough-and-ready forty-year-old woman who is the laughing stock of others. One day, Wilhelm who has been invited by his landlady, notices a small painting lying about in her living room. He is stunned to learn that the artist is no other than Séraphine
Yolande Moreau was awarded with the Cesar for the best actress 2008
