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This year, we focus on France, a country whose emerging filmmakers have been an integral part of the ND/NF program since its inception, including such future masters of world cinema as André Téchiné, François Ozon, and Laurent Cantet. The following five (re)discoveries from the past two decades—none of them currently available on DVD in the U.S.—are no exception. Special Matinee Prices for ND/NF Classics! See any of these gems at special single screening ticket prices: $10 General Public ($6 Film Society Members & MoMA Members / $7 Seniors & Students). Click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets to purchase single screening tickets online. Single Screening Tickets $10 General Public $7 Seniors/Students $6 Film Society/MoMA Members Tickets and Passes are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office and at CenterCharge, 212 721 6500. Please note: Passes and individual screening tickets subject to availability. Certain restrictions apply. VISITOR INFO >>   Hometown Blues (Le Bleu des villes) Stéphane Brizé, 1999, France; 105m How many versions of a life can one live? Are we stuck with our first choice? In his sweet but sturdy first feature, director Stéphane Brizé (Mademoiselle Chambon, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010) asks these questions and many more. Florence Vignon, who co-wrote the script, plays Solange, a put-upon meter maid married to Patrick, who slaves away at the local morgue. Ready to make the move into a new house, life seems okay for these two until Solange’s childhood friend, now a celebrated TV weather-girl, gives her a glimpse of other possibilities. With visions of a new life in her head, Solange returns to her first love—karaoke singing—and suddenly those house plans fall by the wayside. Moments of deadpan humor buoy this bittersweet tale of upsetting the status quo. (ND/NF 2000)   Buy Tickets Mon Mar 29: 3:15 Blame It on Voltaire (La Faute à Voltaire) Abdel Kechiche, 2000, France; 130m The new “face” of Europe, belonging to African and Arab immigrants, has rarely been as powerfully captured as in this remarkable debut film by writer-director Abdel Kechiche (L’Esquive, The Secret of the Grain). Young Moroccan Jallel (beautifully played by Sami Bouajila) comes looking for the lights of Paris but instead finds black-market jobs and crowded hostels. Yet he also discovers a bracing solidarity between newcomers like him and other outcasts from French society—especially Lucie (Élodie Bouchez, from The Dreamlife of Angels), a disturbed young Frenchwoman who gives Jallel a very distinctive experience of his new country. Avoiding sensationalism, Kechiche renders one man’s dreams, fears and desires, as well as the concrete concerns of his daily life. (ND/NF 2001) Buy Tickets Tue Mar 30: 3:15pm Victor (Victor…pendant qu’il est trop tard) Sandrine Veysset, 1998, France; 88m On a cold winter’s night, a young boy runs away from his parents and their kinky sexual fantasies, and winds up spinning on the merry-go-round of a carnival that’s come to town. After fainting in the arms of Mick, one of the workers at the fairgrounds, he is taken to the home of Trish, a young prostitute who doesn’t really know what to do with this young thing—she’s got problems of her own. But Victor seems to be the impetus for Trish to take control of her life, and likewise, Victor comes to life in her (maternal) arms. Director Sandrine Veysset (Will It Snow for Christmas?) finds the poetry in reality in this down-to-earth fairy tale, and turns the concept of family on its head. (ND/NF 1999) Buy Tickets Wed Mar 31: 3:15pm When the Cat’s Away (Chacun cherche son chat) Cédric Klapisch, 1996, France; 91m In this delightful opening-night film of the 1997 New Directors/New Films, young and hip makeup artist Chloé (Garance Clavel) can’t find anyone to watch her cat while she goes on vacataion, so she leaves her precious Gris-Gris in the care of an eccentric old woman. When she returns, she finds the cat has disappeared. Aided by a cadre of senior citizens, who search for the missing feline with an enthusiasm not seen since D-Day, Chloé encounters myriad locals that she would never have otherwise met. Likewise, writer-director Cédric Klapisch (L’Auberge Espagnole, Paris) lets his camera wander in unexpected directions as we discover how the disparate characters of a neighborhood come together to form a community. (ND/NF 1997) Buy Tickets Thu Apr 1: 3:15pm Sound and Fury (De bruit et de fureur) Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1988, France; 95m The real-life experiences of French cinema’s enfant terrible Jean-Claude Brisseau (Secret Things, Exterminating Angels) inspired this powerful and provocative opening-night film from the 1989 edition of New Directors/New Films. Set in the Paris suburbs, Brisseau’s film explores with sensitivity and signature urgency the loneliness and disaffection of two teenagers, Bruno (Vincent Gasperitsch) and Jean-Roger (François Négret)—innocents in the jungle of high-rises and savage school gangs. Tenderness gives way to violence and back again as these “lost” youths must rely on their street smarts to survive. Winner of the Prix Spécial de la Jeunesse at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. (ND/NF 1989) Buy Tickets Fri Apr 2: 3:15pm Back to Top