The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston premieres French director Phillipe Garrel's infidelity drama of a Parisian documentary filmmaker embroiled in a romantic triangle. A close look at infidelity—not merely the fact of it, but the particular, divergent ways in which it’s experienced and understood by men and women.

In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to talk about cinema. Based on the original recordings of the meeting, this documentary is a remarkable filmmaking master class. Hitchcock/Truffaut, presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston enhances the initial dialogue with observations about Hitchcock by leading contemporary filmmakers such as Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, and Martin Scorsese.

The Alliance Française of Austin presents Gadjo Dilo where Stéphane, a young French man, travels to Romania in search of a mysterious singer. But on his way, he ends up in a Gypsy village where he is going to find much more… Raw and bursting with life, music and craziness, this French/Gypsy comedy-drama by Tony Gatlif and with Romain Duris portrays with passion and poetry the life and culture of a Romani community.

Hooka Hey, a recent addition to Austin, Texas by way of Paris, France, plays blues-based tribal beats with smoky, sludgy riffs drenched and charged like the air just before a rainstorm. Organic and raw, Hooka Hey’s “Transylvanian Voodoo” sound encompasses a wide variety of grooves and tones evoking artists like Queens of The Stone Age or Jack White.

Kartell evolves in a musical universe made of House tones, colored by Nu-Disco and R’n’B accents that became his signature. A native from the city of Tours but exiled in Paris for 2 years, the young artist keeps amazing us with his pronounced musical maturity and permanent creative renewal.

Light & sound collide at Day For Night Festival, Free Press Houston's new wintertime two-day festival aimed to mingle music and "experiential" art. Get ready for some immersive lighting, projection, video art and live musical performances including several French artists: Madeon, Julien Bayle, Masomenos & Nonotak.

Hugo Pierre Leclercq, known by his stage name Madeon, is a house/electro house/nu-disco/pop producer from France. He gained popularity by means of his video “Pop Culture”, which was published to YouTube and subsequently received millions of hits in its first few days of broadcast on the Internet.

Working at the crossroads of visuals and sound, French artist Julien Bayle seeks to merge visual art, music composition, physical approach of sound art and data visualization by creating advanced programmed installations and audio/visual live performances.

The so funky French duo Masomenos is a productive partnership between Joan Costes, graphic designer and DJ, and Adrien de Maublanc, music producer. They started working together, expressing themselves through different medias such as image, videos, and sound, finding in Masomenos a great playground for their creativity.

NONOTAK studio is the collaboration between French illustrator Noemi Schipfer and French architect musician Takami Nakamoto. NONOTAK work on light and sound installations, creating an ethereal, immersive and dreamlike environment meant to envelope the viewer, capitalizing on Takami Nakamoto’s approach of space & sound, and Noemi Schipfer’s experience in kinetic visual.

Houston Grand Opera presents The Little Prince, an opera in two acts based on the book by French author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. After being forced to land his plane in the Sahara desert a pilot is awakened by the gentle but determined voice of a Little Prince with a strange history. The two become unlikely friends, and while experiencing lessons from the desert's many creatures, together they discover what is essential in life. A story that brings hope, love, and a childlike imagination to life.

This publication reveals how the Dallas Museum of Art became one of the most important repositories in the world of Coco Chanel’s memorabilia. In addition, it explores the history of key works of art from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, including magnificent impressionist and post-impressionist paintings and sculpture.

DMA's Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Senior Curator of European American Art, and Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art and co-author Olivier Meslay will lead a gallery talk on December 9 at 12:15PM.

Following the black line - up, down - and then diving into the blue, jumping in the yellow, admiring the red, bypassing the white - A "coup de coeur" for Bernard Bonnet, French book buyer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, who suggests us to fully unfold the colorful architecture, freely inspired by the universe of Mondrian. Published by Editions Palette (Paris), this unique book reveals, in an original way, the work of an exceptional artist.

For more information, please contact Bernard Bonnet here.

Come and wonder at the annual Christmas Fair jointly organized by two French speaking non-profit organizations Houston Accueil and Education Française Greater Houston (EFGH) at Memorial Drive Lutheran Church for some sweets, Christmas ornaments, handmade crafts, gift baskets, raffle and more! All proceeds to be donated to EFGH.