A Week of French Films Starting April 20
April 7, 2015
You’re invited to a week of
French
films starting on Monday, April 20, 2015. These special screenings will focus on three young French women directors plus a special evening with Oscar winner for Best Director and Best Film (
The Artist
) Michel Hazanavicius.
Monday, April 20:
Grand Central
, directed by Rebeccas Zlotowski
7 p.m., Digital Media Arts Center
ABOUT THE FILM:
Set in and around a nuclear-power plant, Grand Central tracks Gary (Tahar Rahim), an unskilled laborer who arrives at the facility hoping for some decent money. Assigned a maintenance job, Gary puts himself at tremendous risk every day. He may be putting himself at even more risk, however, when he and Karole (Léa Seydoux), the fiancée of one of his workmates, fall madly in love.
Wednesday: April 22:
The Artist
, directed by Michel Hazanavicius (special screening and Q&A with the Oscar winning director)
7 p.m., Folino Theater
ABOUT THE FILM:
A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
Thursday April 23:
La Cour de Babel
(The School of Babel), directed by Julie Bertuccelli
7 p.m., Digital Media Arts Center
ABOUT THE FILM:
A documentary on teenagers new emigrants in the classroom. Julie Bertuccelli’s profoundly moving documentary observes a group of immigrant students, ranging in age from 11 to 15, in a class at a secondary school in Paris designed to help them with their grasp of French. The pupils and their families have arrived at the French capital from all over the world: China, Ireland, Senegal, Morocco, Venezuela, Ukraine, to name just a few countries. Limiting her filming almost exclusively to the classroom, Bertuccelli captures an extraordinary range of interactions—not just among the students and their unflappable teacher but also among the pupils and their parents during in-school conferences.
Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Miss and the Doctors), directed by Axelle Ropert
9 p.m., Digital Media Arts Center
ABOUT THE FILM:
Set in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement, the home of the capital city’s rarely filmed Chinatown, Miss and the Doctors concerns two pediatrician brothers, Boris (Cédric Kahn) and Dimitri (Laurent Stoker). So close that they live in the same apartment complex and write prescriptions at desks positioned side by side, the siblings find their bonds tested when they both fall in love with the same woman, Judith, the single mother of one of their charges, a diabetic preteen girl.
These events are free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Dr. Veronique Olivier at
Olivier@chapman.edu
.
This event is made possible by the support of the Chancellor’s Office, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Unifrance Films and Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
