CinémaTuesdays Romy Schneider: Empress of the Screen
Tuesday, May 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2012
French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), Florence Gould Hall / Tinker Auditorium
Screening Schedule
Tue, May 1: Le combat dans l’île, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, May 8: The Things of Life, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, May 15: Christine, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, May 22: The Grilling, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, May 29: Clouzot’s Inferno, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, June 5: The Swimming Pool, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, June 12: Womanlight, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, June 19: A Woman at Her Window, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, June 26: The Train, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
FIAF is honored to present a tribute to Romy Schneider, the grand actress, icon, and lover of renowned French actor Alain Delon.
Born in Austria, Schneider nevertheless became a darling of French cinema, first with her career-making performances in the Sissi films and later through her work with directors like Claude Chabrol, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Costa-Gavras. The two-month long series, Empress of the Screen, commemorates the 30th anniversary of this mesmerizing actress’s tragic death.
CinémaTuesdays: Romy Schneider: Christine
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1958 Color. 100 min.
With Alain Delon, Jean-Claude Brialy, Romy Schneider
In French with English subtitles
The story of Christine was already familiar to Schneider—her mother, Magda, played the titular character in the original 1932 film. Inheriting and wholly inhabiting the same role, Schneider shines in this costume drama about an opera singer smitten with a lieutenant (Delon), whose past casts a tragic shadow over their courtship.
