65th Street Construction Movies on Sale Now Soviet Action Films IN: Norman Mailer Film Comment Selects Gr. Scr.: Water... Rendez-Vous Ongoing Programs Film Comment Selects MET Live 2010/2011 Past Programs Furman Gallery Theater Rental Theater Information Press Office Sign up for FSLC ReelNews Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2011 March 3-13 Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance. North America’s leading showcase for the best in contemporary French film returns! Works by several of France’s best-known filmmakers—Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Lelouch, Catherine Breillat, Benoît Jacquot—are included alongside outstanding debuts by Katell Quillévéré, Valérie Donzelli, and Angelo Cianci, and two programs of experimental media works. Finally, we are delighted to welcome back Catherine Deneuve, who will be with us to present the delightful Potiche. All films are New York premieres! Support for Rendezvous is provided by the Grand Marnier Foundation and the French Cultural Services. " link under the film titles. + To purchase tickets online, click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets. Calendar >> Admission* $14 General Public $11 Seniors $10 Members & Students *Except where otherwise noted. Tickets are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office. VISITOR INFO >> All screenings at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65 St, except where otherwise noted.   OPENING NIGHT Potiche François Ozon, France, 2010; 103m AT THE PARIS THEATRE (4 West 58 Street) In person: Catherine Deneuve, Judith Godrèche and François Ozon! Catherine Deneuve delivers a glorious, career-crowning performance at the center of this frothy 1970s labor-relations farce from director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women). Deneuve plays a submissive, housebound ‘trophy housewife’ (or "potiche") who steps in to manage her wealthy and tyrannical husband’s umbrella factory after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. Gérard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne's ex-beau who still holds a flame for her. A bona fide critical and box office hit in France, Potiche has been nominated for four Césars. A Music Box Films release.   Buy Tickets Thu Mar 3: 7* *Admission for Opening Night at The Paris Theatre: $30 General Public, Seniors & Students $25 Members The Big Picture / L’Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie Eric Lartigau, 2010, France; 115m In person: Eric Lartigau! Bringing new meaning to the term “identity crisis,” Romain Duris (one of France’s hottest young stars) plays a creatively frustrated lawyer and family man who makes the most out of one moment of violence. Adapted from Douglas Kennedy’s acclaimed novel, the film also stars Niels Arestrup and Catherine Deneuve. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 4: 1* *Intro/Q&A Sun Mar 6: 6:15* *Intro/Q&A La Campagne de Cicéron Jacques Davila, 1990, France; 111m Restored print! Fresh from last year’s Cannes Classics, a restored print of Avila’s quirky, Rohmerian story about a playwright staying with his friend in the provinces. Buy Tickets Tue Mar 8: 6 Deep in the Woods / Au fond des bois Benoît Jacquot, 2010, France/Germany; 102m In person: Benoît Jacquot! Jacquot’s jaw-dropping, feverish tale concerns a young villager (Isild Le Besco) who literally falls under the spell of a fierce, svengali-like vagabond (Nahuel Perez Biscayart). Buy Tickets Sat Mar 5: 6:15 * *Intro/Q&A Mon Mar 7: 3:45* *Intro/Q&A Free Hands / Les Mains libres Brigitte Sy, 2010, France; 100m A filmmaker (Ronit Elkabetz) working on a prison project falls hard for an inmate (Carlo Brandt). Their love for one another will lead them to break the law. Brigitte Sy's feature directorial debut is a moving and boundary-crossing love story. Buy Tickets Wed Mar 9: 3:45 Wed Mar 9: 8:45 From One Film to Another / D’un film à l’autre Claude Lelouch, France, 2011; 104m In person: Claude Lelouch! On the occasion of his 50th year in cinema, Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch turns his famously swooping, pirouetting camera on himself for this uncommonly revealing auto-portrait. followed by A Conversation with Claude Lelouch Where From One Film to Another leaves off, Lelouch will continue in person in this career-spanning dialogue with the Film Society’s Scott Foundas, featuring clips and a Q&A. Buy Tickets Sat Mar 5: 3:30* *Intro + Conversation Hands Up / Les Mains en l’air Romain Goupil, 2009, France; 90m A tender, engaging and bracingly militant drama from director Romain Goupil: a story of youth, solidarity and contemporary France, with Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and a terrific cast of children. A Chechen woman named Milana, recalls the story of her near-deportation from France at the age of ten and the plan her young classmates hatched to save her. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 11: 2 Sun Mar 13: 6:45 Happy Few Antony Cordier, 2010, France; 103m Electrically attracted, two Parisian couples agree to swap partners in Cordier’s psychologically sharp and slyly sexy take on changing the rules... With Marina Foïs, Élodie Bouchez. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 11: 6:15 Sun Mar 13: 2 Leila / Toi, moi, les autres Audrey Estrougo, France, 2010; 90m With clever, color-saturated numbers, this catchy musical love story about a pampered slacker and an ambitious Arab law student is a West Side Story for the 21st century set to the songs of the 60s and 70s in France and against the backdrop of the “sans papiers” protests that end with the occupation of Saint Bernard Church in Paris. Buy Tickets Wed Mar 9: 1:30 Thu Mar 10: 6:15 Living on Love Alone / D’Amour et d’eau fraiche Isabella Czajka, 2010, France; 90m One of French cinema's vital new voices delivers an outlaw romance and social critique starring terrific newcomer, Anaïs Demoustier as a smart, bored twentysomething who finds an alternative to lackey work and high rents—running off with a guy and a gun. Buy Tickets Thu Mar 10: 4 Sat Mar 12: 6:15 The Long Falling / Où va la nuit Martin Provost, France, 2011; 105m In person: Martin Provost on Saturday, March 5! Martin Provost re-teams with Séraphine star Yolande Moreau for this heartfelt drama, based on Keith Ridgway’s novel. The film follows the story of a long-suffering wife who takes revenge and bonds with her gay son in this suspenseful one-of-a-kind story of sin and salvation. Buy Tickets Sat Mar 5: 1* *Intro/Q&A Mon Mar 7: 9:15 Love Crime / Crime d’amour Alain Corneau, 2010, France; 106m In person: Ludivine Sagnier! The late, great Corneau’s final film: corporate overlord Kristin Scott Thomas and underling Ludivine Sagnier cross swords in a cutthroat battle (to the death?). It is a delicious thriller of rivalry, seduction and humiliation set against office politics. A Sundance Selects release. Buy Tickets Sun Mar 6: 9* *Intro/Q&A Love Like Poison / Un poison violent Katell Quillévéré, 2010, France; 92m Fourteen-year-old Anna (fresh face Clara Augarde) comes home from Catholic boarding school to family turmoil and a gawky crush. She becomes caught between her own religious belief and sexual stirrings, awakened by a precocious choirboy friend. This award-winning debut from young French director, Katell Quillévéré, is a true discovery with a title taken from a Gainsbourg song. Winner of the Jean Vigo Award. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 11: 9 Sat Mar 12: 2 Mozart’s Sister / Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart René Féret, France, 2010; 120m In person: René Féret on Friday, March 4! A dynamic biopic centering on the other musical prodigy in the Mozart family. Fourteen-year-old Nannerl is a second-banana prodigy, living in the shadow of her famous younger brother as they travel throughout Europe performing for royalty. However, with the encouragement of the handsome French Dauphin, she finds her own ways of challenging the established sexual and social order. A Music Box Films release. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 4: 3:30* *Intro/Q&A Mon Mar 7: 6:15 The Princess of Montpensier / La Princesse de Montpensier Bertrand Tavernier, France/Germany, 2010; 139m In person: Bertrand Tavernier and Gaspard Ulliel on March 4! Master director Bertrand Tavernier makes a grand return to large-scale period filmmaking with this powerful saga of unrequited love and diabolical intrigue in the French religious wars of the 16th century. Based on a short story by Madame de La Fayette. A Sundance Selects release. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 4: 6* *Intro/Q&A Mon Mar 7: 1 The Cinema Inside Me: Bertrand Tavernier In an onstage conversation, Mr. Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country, The Princess of Montpensier) will offer a personal guided tour of key moments in his own history of cinema. Buy Tickets Sun Mar 6: 1* *Conversation The Queen of Hearts / La Reine des pommes Valérie Donzelli, 2009, France; 84m In her delightful directorial debut, actress Valérie Donzelli plays a freshly dumped hopeless romantic juggling three suitors (all played by Jérémie Elkaïm!). With Béatrice de Staël. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 11: 4:15 Sun Mar 13: 4:30 Série noire Alain Corneau, 1979, France; 111m In person: Ludivine Sagnier! A skeezy salesman (extraordinary, wild-eyed Patrick Dewaere) in Paris’s outer limits commits murder to escape a debt. A witty adaption of the Jim Thompson novel by the late, great Alain Corneau. Buy Tickets Tue Mar 8: 8:30* *Intro Service Entrance / Les Femmes du 6ème étage Philippe Le Guay, France, 2011; 104m A stockbroker (marvelous Fabrice Luchini) lives a peaceful, boring existence in 1960s Paris with his socialite wife (Sandrine Kiberlain)—until some exuberant Spanish maids move in upstairs. With Carmen Maura and Lola Dueñas. Buy Tickets Tue Mar 8: 3:45 Wed Mar 9: 6 The Sleeping Beauty / La Belle endormie Catherine Breillat, 2010, France; 82m In person: Catherine Breillat! In Breillat’s continually surprising take on the fairy tale, the cursed young Anastasia comes of age in her dreams, then awakens to the challenges of adolescent reality. A Strand Releasing release. Buy Tickets Fri Mar 4: 9:15* *Intro/Q&A Tue Mar 8: 1:30* *Intro/Q&A Think Global, Act Rural / Solutions locales pour un désordre global Coline Serreau, 2010, France; 113m In person: Coline Serreau! Serreau’s “radical and exhilarating” documentary manifesto digs into the problem of industrialized agriculture, quizzing farmers and philosophers across the globe. Co-presented by Green Screens. Buy Tickets Sun Mar 6: 3:15 *Intro/Q&A Top Floor, Left Wing / Dernier étage gauche gauche Angelo Cianci, France/Luxembourg, 2010; 110m A state persecutor (Hippolyte Girardot) gets sucked into a hostage crisis involving a Berber neighbor in this deft balance of the comedy of mistaken identity and the politics of terror. Buy Tickets Thu Mar 10: 1:30 Sat Mar 12: 8:45 What Love May Bring / Ces amours-là Claude Lelouch, France, 2010; 120m In person: Claude Lelouch! A woman reflects on her turbulent youth and all the men she has ever loved in her life in this inimitable romantic epic, which Lelouch calls “a remake of my 41 films,” spanning decades in the love life of a cinema usherette. With “cameos” from Belmondo et al. Buy Tickets Sat Mar 5: 9* *Intro/Q&A New French Shorts / Court-métrages Various directors; 98m Our annual selection of prize-winning shorts gives a sneak peek at tomorrow’s talents today. As the Rain Was Falling / En attendant que la pluie cesse Charlotte Joulia, 2008, France; 9m Cul de bouteille Jean-Claude Rozec, 2010, France; 7m Vasco Sébastien Laudenbach, 2010, France; 11m Les Grands-Mères Frédéric Malègue, 2010, France; 13m Cheveu Julien Hallard, 2010, France; 18m Hurlement d’un poisson Sébastien Carfora, 2010, France; 20m Aglaée Rudi Rosenberg, 2010, France; 20m Buy Tickets Thu Mar 10: 8:30 French Experimental Cinema 2010-2011 Program One: Redeploying Classical Images Curated by Nicole Brenez Total: 81m An “Oum Kalthoum”/Kama Sutra mash-up, Lech Kowalski on Robert Flaherty’s glorious Louisiana Story, Eisenstein reflecting on the beating of cineaste Joachim Gatti, and more. The End of the World Begins With One Lie Lech Kowalski, France, 2010; 62m Al Attlal (Ruines) Zoulikha Bouabdellah, France, 2009; 4m À la barbe d'Ivan Pierre Léon, France, 2010; 10m Satyagraha Jacques Perconte, France, 2010; 5m Buy Tickets Sat Mar 12: 4:15 French Experimental Cinema 2010-2011 Program Two: The Enchanted Fiction Nuit bleue Ange Leccia, France, 2010; 86m In person: Ange Leccia! A lovelorn young woman returns to her island home after losing a relative at sea, in Corsican artist Ange Leccia’s spectacular song-driven saga without words. Buy Tickets Sun Mar 13: 8:45* *Intro/Q&A Back to Top