Can't see images? Click here to view this message in a browser  
   
JUNE 2014
 
French Films in LA, June 12-June 19, 2014
 
 
HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK

On June 13 at 8:30pm there will be a special screening of Sherlock Jr. at the Los Angeles Film Festival. This event is part of the year-long 50th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles-Bordeaux Sister Cities program.

READ MORE
 
FESTIVALS

From June 11-19, the Los Angeles Film Festival will take place at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. This year, there will be two French films at the Festival: The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq and Violette.

READ MORE

The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Film is the largest film festival for short films in the United States. The festival shows more than 350 short films every year, and hosts a Short Film Market with over 3,000 new short films annually. 22 French films will be screening from June 18-24.

READ MORE

J'adore! Focus On French-Language Cinema brings new and classic films from France, Quebec, Canada, Switzerland, and Belgium to the Denver Sie FilmCenter for four days of screenings and special events, June 19-22.

READ MORE
 
NEW RELEASES
Gabrielle is a 22-year-old woman with Williams syndrome. She sings in a Montréal choir with other disabled adults, where she meets and falls in love with the dashingly handsome Martin. READ MORE
 
SPECIAL SCREENINGS-EVENTS

LACMA9 presents a collection of all ages-friendly shorts, from beloved children's classics to auteur films celebrating people and places. The collection will include the French short film: Red Balloon.

READ MORE

On Tuesday, June 17 at 7:00pm at the Alliance Française de Los Angeles, there will be a special screening of the film La Fille du 14 Juillet. A discussion will follow and refreshments will be served.

READ MORE

On June 21 there will be a special screening of West Beirut at LACMA. With input from nearly 500 prominent film critics, writers, novelists, academics and other arts professionals, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) compiled a tally of the 100 greatest Arab films of all time in 2013. The Academy is honored to be screening three selections from DIFF's top 10.

READ MORE

From June 27-29, there will be special screenings of the films of Jacques Demy at the Aero Theatre featuring Jaques Demy's rarely screened MODEL SHOP. The French director's sole Hollywood feature sells the dream of Southern California life with the kind of pictorial pizzazz that would make Don Draper green with envy. Series also include LOLA, BAY OF ANGELS and DONKEY SKIN

READ MORE
 
IN THEATRES

A 40-year-old father of two, still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

READ MORE

Taking place in New York City circa 1921, Ewa, a Polish immigrant falls under the spell of Bruno. Desperate to get her sister out of quarantine at Ellis Island, she becomes a dancer and a prostitute. When her life seems to be at rock bottom, Emil, a professional magician and Bruno’s cousin, enters the picture.

READ MORE
On the death of her mother, Anne makes an unsettling discovery: an old photo will cast doubt on her very origins, as she uncovers a mysterious uncle her parents welcomed into their lives after World War II. In revealing a family secret, Anne unravels the story that connects her destiny and her past. READ MORE

Filmed in Jodorowsky's Chilean home town of Tocopilla, it charts the upbringing of young Ale, clad in flowing Goldilocks mane, at once smothered by an operatic mother and tormented by an ex-circus performer father, who wishes his little one would become a "real man."

READ MORE
 
COMING SOON
Star chef Alexandre Lagarde (Jean Reno) is struggling to keep his multi-starred restaurant, Cargo Lagarde, afloat and is in serious conflict with its new CEO/owner Stanislas Matter (Julien Boisselier) who wants to replace him with a young trendy chef who specializes in the latest craze of molecular gastronomy. READ MORE
Director Thomas complains that no actress he’s seen has what it takes to play the lead female character: a woman who enters into an agreement with her male counterpart to dominate him as her slave. READ MORE
Martin Provost's second biopic of a French female artist stars Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain as Violette Leduc and her mentor/object of desire Simone de Beauvoir. READ MORE
Directed by Jalil Lespert with a screenplay by Lespert and Marie-Pierre Huster,YVES SAINT LAURENT is at once a captivating story about the making of an icon and a testament to the power of enduring love. READ MORE
 
DVD & DIGITAL RELEASES
The much-anticipated follow up to Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnes (Les Plages d’Agnès), From Here to There is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the peerless and indefatigable director's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers, for an expansive view of the contemporary art scene. READ MORE
An ode to the simple pleasures of life, Cousin Jules is a beautiful, immersive portrait of a blacksmith living with his wife on a small farm in Burgundy. READ MORE
Aicha lives in a remote Tunisian mountain top village and dreams of a better life. After promising her the world, her boyfriend disappears and leaves her in a state of confusion and despair. A meeting with a young Tunisian immigrant to France may change everything. READ MORE

Vincent is about to become a father. At a meeting with childhood friends he announces the name for his future son. The scandalous name ignites a discussion which surfaces unpleasant matters from the past of the group.

READ MORE
From legendary Academy Award-winning writer/director Costa-Gavras (Missing, Z) comes Capital, a fast-paced, darkly comic, suspenseful drama set in the high stakes world of global finance. READ MORE
A dreamlike exploration of an inexplicable, overwhelming passion, JUST A SIGH is set in motion when a broke actress (Emmanuelle Devos) who’s between stage performances in Calais takes a quick jaunt to Paris for an audition. READ MORE
The Missing Picture recounts director Rithy Panh's firsthand experience of his family and friends' suffering at the hands of Pol Pot's communist regime. It tells how citizens were rounded up and taken to labor camps and how personal effects were destroyed. READ MORE
Marc and Emma had no idea that in the 1970s, their basement was a gay nightclub which had been destroyed by fire. Now, the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay and mischievous clubbers. READ MORE
Paris, city of lights, city of nights. The brutal world of Parisian organized crime, where aging mob boss Claude Corti rules over his pack of power-hungry thugs with an iron fist. In this empire of fast cars, upscale drugs and expensive women, money is god and Corti’s people are always rewarded for their devotion. But when they disobey, he makes them wish for death. Power and money, however, cannot buy trust. A stylish, brutally realistic and intensely violent glimpse inside the ruthless, Parisian underworld. READ MORE
Using the nickname Fonzy, Diego (José Garcia) regularly donated his sperm 20 years ago. Now aged 42, Diego delivers fish and lives like a fun-loving teenager. READ MORE
 
French Culture
IN THIS ISSUE
HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK
 
FESTIVALS
 
NEW RELEASES
 
SPECIAL SCREENINGS-EVENTS
 
IN THEATRES
 
COMING SOON
 
DVD & DIGITAL RELEASES
 
 
 

Join the community

;-)
f t
 

YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU HAVE SUBSCRIBED AT WWW.FRENCHCULTURE.ORG

UNSUBSCRIBE NOW