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MARCH 2013 |
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The agenda for all things French happening in the Southeast |
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Atlanta, GA | March 16-26, 2013
This multicultural event is geared at Atlanta’s diverse community of Francophones and anyone wishing to discover the numerous cultures around the world where French is spoken. READ MORE |
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| VISUAL ART |
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SCAD Museum of Art | Savannah, GA | Now through May 5, 2013
Prominent contemporary French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel’s exhibition “OTHONIEL” offers a presentation of iconic large-scale steel and glass sculptures, featuring Othoniel's new work "Precious Stonewall". READ MORE |
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| EXHIBITIONS |
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Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston | Charleston, SC | March 4-27, 2013
This travelling exhibition is based on the journal written by Hélène Berr, a young Jewish French woman, whose promising future was brutally cut short by Vichy Government's laws and the extermination plan READ MORE |
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University of Mississippi Museum | Oxford, MS | Opens March 7
This exhibition by French photographer Alain Desvergnes offers 116 black and white photos taken while Desvergnes was a lecturer at Ol’Miss from 1963-1965. READ MORE |
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| FILM |
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Mobile, AL | Montgomery, AL
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple’s bond of love is severely tested. READ MORE |
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Montgomery, AL | Atlanta, GA
France’s favorite kosher kitty leaps from the comic pages to the big screen in this gorgeously animated adaptation of the bestselling Joann Sfar adult graphic novel about a talking cat and his philosophical musings on religion. READ MORE |
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Alliance Française d'Atlanta-Midtown | Atlanta, GA | March 22
In the framework of the Atlanta Francophonie Festival, films in French will be presented to the public, free of charge, at the Alliance Française, so come join us! READ MORE |
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Atlanta, GA | March 19
When notary Lebel sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan to read them their mother Nawal’s will, the twins are stunned to receive a pair of envelopes – one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn’t know existed. READ MORE |
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Roswell, GA | Charlotte, NC
A bourgeois couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid through whom the the husband is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building’s sixth floor, the servants’ quarters. READ MORE |
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Atlanta, GA | Charlotte, NC
Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol’s exhilarating hand- drawn animated film tells the story of a cat with not nine but two lives. READ MORE |
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Charlotte, NC | March 13-25, 2013
The Tournées Festival offers a wide variety of films that represent the best of contemporary French cinema. READ MORE |
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Charlotte, NC | March 16
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. READ MORE |
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Charlotte, NC | March 20
Exploration of the life of Coco Chanel during the Belle Epoque, a few years before the Chanel empire is launched. READ MORE |
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Charlotte, NC | March 25
The mundane lives of an elderly couple are shaken up as they help a young illegal immigrant from Gabon. READ MORE |
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Tuscaloosa, AL | March 5
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man… He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part – but where are the cameras? READ MORE |
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| THEATRE |
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Columbia Museum of Art | Columbia, SC | March 8 & 10
Presented by the theatre club of the Alliance Française de Columbia, come enjoy four comedic creations inspired by the Dixon Collection. READ MORE |
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| INTERVIEW |
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Interview [in French] with photographer Pierre Gonnord on his latest exhibition,"Portraying the South" which was birthed out of his 2012 residency in the U.S. Southeast. READ MORE |
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