抖M女仆 Presents a French Film Festival
the Tournees Festival includes six films, running from Wednesday, Feb. 3 through Monday, Feb. 29.
抖M女仆 presents the Tournees French Film Festival from Wednesday, Feb. 3 through Monday, Feb. 29. All movies will be shown in the Performing Arts Building, Room 101, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus, unless otherwise noted.
Films are in French with English subtitles and will be introduced, with discussion to follow by 抖M女仆 faculty.聽 The shows include 鈥淢ood Indigo,鈥 鈥淕irlhood,鈥 鈥淭he Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq,鈥 鈥淗iroshima Mon Amour,鈥 鈥淧鈥檛it Quinquin,鈥 and 鈥淟a French.鈥
- 鈥淢ood Indigo,鈥 Wednesday, Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m. (this film only will be shown in the Arts and Letters Building, room 189). The central narrative of the film concerns the ultimately tragic love story of Colin (Romain Duris), an exceptionally wealthy man who inhabits a spectacular rooftop apartment/playhouse, and Chlo茅 (Audrey Tautou), a physically frail woman he meets a party. Yet theirs is no ordinary courtship: Colin and Chlo茅 travel across Paris in a cloud-shaped vessel, sip beverages from a cocktail-mixing piano, and dine on elaborate concoctions prepared by Nicolas (Omar Sy), Colin鈥檚 in-house chef and lawyer.
- 鈥淕irlhood,鈥 Monday, Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m. Set in the impoverished banlieues that ring Paris and are home to many of its French-African denizens, 鈥淕irlhood鈥 focuses on Marieme (Karidja Tour茅), a 16 year old who assumes responsibility for her two younger sisters while their mother works the night shift; the teenager must also frequently absorb the wrath of her tyrannical slightly older brother.
- 鈥淭he Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq,鈥 Wednesday, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m. Michel Houellebecq, perhaps France鈥檚 most popular, and controversial, contemporary author, plays a version of himself in Guillaume Nicloux鈥檚 absorbing comic docu-fiction. The film was inspired by a real-life incident: After Houellebecq failed to show up for several scheduled appearances on a 2011 book tour, some media outlets began to wonder whether he鈥檇 been abducted, perhaps even by Al Qaeda. This hysterical speculation was soon put to rest, however, when the writer eventually resurfaced.
- 鈥淗iroshima Mon Amour,鈥 Monday, Feb. 15, 6:30 p.m. One of the most influential movies ever made, Alain Resnais鈥檚 masterwork from 1959 would not only shape the Nouvelle Vague benchmarks made in its wake but also liberate filmmakers from linear storytelling. Hiroshima Mon Amour, which was scripted by Marguerite Duras, consists of multiple flashbacks, a device that destabilizes chronology.
- 鈥淧鈥檛it Quinquin,鈥 Tuesday, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. Bruno Dumont, an auteur often considered a spiritual heir to Robert Bresson, reveals his considerable talents for dark, slapstick comedy in this film, which originally aired as a four-part TV miniseries in France. Set in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, the film centers around a series of grisly murders: The body parts of the victims are found stuffed inside cows and other farm animals. As two bumbling cops, Captain Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) and Lieutenant Carpentier (Philippe Jore), try to stop the killer before he 鈥 or she 鈥 strikes again, a few local kids, with little to occupy them now that school鈥檚 out for the summer, do some investigating on their own.
- 鈥淟a French,鈥 Monday, Feb. 29, 6:30 p.m. C茅dric Jimenez鈥檚 high-energy true-crime tale tracks the six-year crusade of a law officer to bring down a seemingly untouchable drug kingpin. Police magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) has recently been transferred to Marseille, a city all but controlled by the ruthless gangster Ga毛tan Zampa (Gilles Lelouche), who oversees an enormous heroin syndicate. Pierre is determined to destroy the drug lord鈥檚 operations and put him behind bars for good, a task that proves even more insurmountable once the policeman realizes how many of his colleagues are on Zampa鈥檚 payroll.
The Tournees Festival is presented by 抖M女仆鈥檚 Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. For more information, contact Roderick Cooke at 561-297-0307 or cooker@fau.edu.
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