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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance
March 11-21

In-person appearances by many of the directors and actors including Yvan Attal, Stéphane Brizé, Julie Gayet, Christophe Honoré, Cédric Kahn, Virginie Ledoyen, Chiara Mastroianni, and François Ozon. Special events include in-depth conversations with Vincent Lindon and Michel Gondry as well as a program of Lumière Brothers experiments with color and 3-D presented by Cannes Film Festival Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux.

Additional screenings take place at IFC Center, BAM and Alliance Française. Visit rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com for more information.

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$15 General Public
$11 Senior
$9 Member/Student

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Scene Photo OPENING NIGHT
Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell)
Christian Carion, 2009; 113m
Director Christian Carion and actor-director Guillaume Canet in person!

Actor-directors Emir Kusturica and Guillaume Canet co-star in an absorbing true story about a KGB colonel who gives top-secret documents to an ordinary French businessman working in Russia, helping to hasten the end of the Cold War. Read more...


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Thu Mar 11: 7:00
Opening Night
Alice Tully Hall
Reserved Seating
$25 General Public
$20 Member
Scene Photo Army of Crime (L’Armée du crime)
Robert Guédiguian, 2009; 139m
Actress Virginie Ledoyen in person!

A taut, revealing thriller about the French Resistance, whose leaders and foot soldiers were often foreigners—Poles, Jews, Armenians, Spaniards, Italians—who had to fear French collaborators as well as the Germans. Read more...


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Wed Mar 17: 6:00
Fri Mar 19: 1:00
Scene Photo The French Kissers (Les Beaux gosses)
Riad Sattouf, 2009; 90m
Director Riad Sattouf in person!

The French answer to American Pie and Superbad, this hilarious and touching coming-of-age comedy follows two geeky Brittany teens on an odyssey of heavy petting, premature ejaculation, and first love. Read more...


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Fri Mar 12: 9:25
Tue Mar 16: 3:45
Scene Photo The Hedgehog (Le Hérisson)
Mona Achache, 2009; 100m
Director Mona Achache in person!

A timely fable about Paloma, a young girl bent on ending it all before she becomes an adult, who learns about life from her building’s coarse concierge (the wonderful Josiane Balasko). Based on Muriel Barbery’s well-loved novel. Read more...


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Fri Mar 12: 3:50
Sun Mar 14: 8:45
Scene Photo 8 Times Up (Huit fois debout)
Xabi Molia, 2009; 103m
Director Xabi Molia and actress Julie Gayet in person!

When a woman struggling to make ends meet gets evicted, she and her unemployed neighbor set up a makeshift camp in the forest in this seriocomic investigation of the pressures of modern society. Read more...


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Tue Mar 16: 6:15
Wed Mar 17: 3:30
Scene Photo I’m Glad That My Mother Is Alive (Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante)
Claude Miller & Nathan Miller, 2009; 90m
Director Nathan Miller in person!

Given up for adoption as a toddler, Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother—but if he finds her, then what? Beautifully acted by a cast of unknowns, and based on a true story. Read more...


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Fri Mar 19: 4:00
Sat Mar 20: 8:45
Scene Photo In the Beginning (À l’origine)
Xavier Giannoli, 2009; 120m
Francois Cluzet gives a tour-de-force performance as a small-time conman who convinces an economically depressed town that he has come to resurrect a long-dormant highway construction project. Read more...


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Wed Mar 17: 9:00
Thu Mar 18: 3:45
Scene Photo The King of Escape (Le Roi de l’évasion)
Alain Guiraudie, 2009; 97m
With director Alain Guiraudie in person!

After coming to the rescue of a 16-year-old damsel in distress, a gay, middle-aged tractor salesman decides to give heterosexuality a try in this delightfully offbeat, midlife-crisis comedy. Read more...


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Sat Mar 13: 9:00
Mon Mar 15: 3:45
Scene Photo The Law (La Loi/La legge)
Jules Dassin, 1959; 126m
Pitched between a romantic melodrama and a Fifties art film, this hugely entertaining look at a seaside Italian village wracked by tensions and jealousies features an extraordinary international all-star cast: Yves Montand, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Pierre Brasseur. Read more...


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Thu Mar 18: 1:00
Sun Mar 21: 4:00
Scene Photo Mademoiselle Chambon
Stéphane Brizé, 2009; 101m
Director Stéphane Brizé in person!

A delicate, moving tale that follows Jean (Vincent Lindon), a home contractor, as he finds himself increasingly attracted by the elegant charm of his son’s homeroom teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain). Read more...

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Fri Mar 19: 6:15*
Sun Mar 21: 1:30*
*screening of Mademoiselle Chambon

Scene Photo A Conversation with Vincent Lindon

Acclaimed actor Vincent Lindon returns to Rendez-Vous with two wonderful performances in two wonderful films, Welcome and Mademoiselle Chambon. In conversation with Film Society Program Director Richard Peña, he will discuss his career as well as his thoughts on the art of the cinema and the art of the actor.


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Sun Mar 14: 6:15**
**A Conversation with Vincent Lindon
Scene Photo Making Plans for Lena (Non ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser)
Christophe Honoré, 2009; 105m
Director Christophe Honoré and actress Chiara Mastroianni in person!

Recently liberated from her job and husband, Lena (Chiara Mastroianni, terrific) heads home to Brittany for the holidays—only to find herself deluged with nonstop advice about how to be happy. Read more...


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Fri Mar 19: 8:45
Sat Mar 20: 1:30
Scene Photo “New Films by…The Lumière Brothers!”

Cannes Film Festival Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux returns to the Walter Reade Theater with an amazing selection of newly restored films by the inventors of cinema, Auguste and Louis Lumière, including their pioneering experiments with color and even 3D. Read more...


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Sat Mar 13: 3:30
Scene Photo OSS 117 – Lost in Rio (OSS 177 – Rio ne répond plus)
Michel Hazanavicius, 2009; 100m
Director Michel Hazanavicius and actor Jean Dujardin in person!

A delightful, madcap comedy that follows suave Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (Jean Dujardin)—better known as OSS 117—as he travels across Brazil with a charming Mossad agent on the trail of a hidden high-ranking Nazi. Read more...


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Mon Mar 15: 1:00
Tue Mar 16: 8:45
Scene Photo Rapt
Lucas Belvaux, 2009; 125m
Director Lucas Belvaux and actor Yvan Attal in person!

A millionaire playboy businessman is kidnapped and held for ransom in this fact-based, edge-of-your-seat nail-biter. But is his abduction a crime, or a case of just deserts? Read more...


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Fri Mar 12: 6:30
Sat Mar 13: 12:30
Scene Photo Le Refuge
François Ozon, 2009; 88m
With director François Ozon in person!

An incisive character drama about a hardened ex-junkie who is visited by the brother of her late boyfriend while recovering at a beachside retreat. Read more...


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Sat Mar 20: 6:15
Sun Mar 21: 8:45
Scene Photo Regrets
Cédric Kahn, 2009; 105m
Director Cédric Kahn and actor Yvan Attal in person!

A married Paris architect returns to his rural hometown to visit his dying mother, whereupon he rekindles his relationship with his former high-school girlfriend. A fascinating drama of romantic obsession. Read more...


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Sat Mar 13: 6:15
Sun Mar 14: 1:00
Scene Photo Restless (Le Bel âge)
Laurent Perreau, 2009; 97m
With director Laurent Perreau in person!

Claire, a tomboyish teenager feeling the stirrings of first love, and her grandfather, Maurice, a former Resistance fighter, share a house but soon discover much else as well. A touching, fresh approach to the coming-of-age tale, with a superb performance by Michel Piccoli. Read more...


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Wed Mar 17: 1:00
Thu Mar 18: 8:45
Scene Photo The Thorn in the Heart (L’Épine dans le coeur)
Michel Gondry, 2009; 86m
With director Michel Gondry in person!

A filmmaker better know for his brilliant rendering of fantasy, Michel Gondry ventures into family history in this quietly affecting portrait of his aunt, schoolteacher Suzette Gondry, and her eccentric, problematic son, Jean-Yves. Read more...

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Mon Mar 15: 6:15*
*screening of The Thorn in the Heart

Scene Photo A Conversation with Michel Gondry

Join the Film Society’s Associate Program Director, Scott Foundas, for this illustrated conversation with one of the most innovative talents to have emerged in the past decade. Michel Gondry will discuss the trajectory of his work, ranging from his pathbreaking music videos for Björk to such international hits as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to his upcoming release, A Thorn in the Heart.


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Mon Mar 15: 8:00**
**A Conversation with Michel Gondry
Scene Photo Welcome
Philippe Lioret, 2009; 110m
Actor Vincent Lindon in person on March 14!

Hoping to join his girlfriend in England, a 17-year old Iraqi Kurd stuck in Calais decides to swim across the English Channel—and enlists the aid of swimming coach (Vincent Lindon) to help train for the event of his life. Read more...

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Fri Mar 12: 1:15*
Sun Mar 14: 3:30*
*screening of Welcome

Scene Photo A Conversation with Vincent Lindon

Acclaimed actor Vincent Lindon returns to Rendez-Vous with two wonderful performances in two wonderful films, Welcome and Mademoiselle Chambon. In conversation with Film Society Program Director Richard Peña, he will discuss his career as well as his thoughts on the art of the cinema and the art of the actor.


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Sun Mar 14: 6:15**
**A Conversation with Vincent Lindon
Scene Photo The Wolberg Family (La Famille Wolberg)
Axelle Ropert, 2009; 80m
With director Axelle Ropert in person!

Meet Simon Wolberg—energetic, enthusiastic, articulate, the mayor of a provincial French town. But does his dedication to his work blind him to everything going on at home? Read more...


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Sat Mar 20: 4:00
Sun Mar 21: 6:30
Scene Photo New French Shorts
TRT: Approx. 106m
Actress Julie Gayet in person!

Wonderful things can sometimes come in very small packages, as this prizewinning selection of provocative short films from France amply demonstrates. See tomorrow’s auteurs today: Gabriel Le Bomin, Pierre Ferriere, Frédéric Guelaff, Mohammed Latrèche, Géraldine Maillet, Anna Mouglalis,and Camille Moulin-Dupré. Read more...





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Tue Mar 16: 1:30
Thu Mar 18: 6:30

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