CinémaTuesdays in February: Carte Blanche to Agnès b.
FIAF is thrilled to invite French fashion designer Agnès b. to curate a month-long series of films that have most influenced her life and career as a designer, photographer, and, more recently, as a fashion film producer and director.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
12:30 and 4pm
Jean Renoir, 1936. B&W. 80 min.
With René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque
In French with English subtitles
After a rogue publisher leaves town with his company’s profits, a writer bands together with his similarly swindled coworkers to seek revenge—first by starting a new publishing house and then by more devious means. A delightful film with an inspired, Capra-esque mix of whimsy and justice.
Playing at: 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Meet the Designer
Agnès b. presents
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
7:30pm
Agnès b., the French fashion designer and guest curator of the February CinémaTuesdays series, Carte Blanche to Agnès b., comes to FIAF to introduce the 7:30pm screening of Jean Renoir’s The Crime of Monsieur Lange. She will also participate in a Q&A following the screening.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Roger Vadim, 1956. Color. 95 min.
With Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens,
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Marken
In French with English subtitles
Vadim’s showpiece for his then-wife remains a durable, frothy comedy fifty years after its release. The film’s gorgeous St. Tropez scenery is the perfect backdrop for the tale of a town frenzied by a young orphan.
My Life to Live
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
12:30 & 4pm
Jean-Luc Godard, 1962. B&W. 85 min.
With Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe
In French with English subtitles
Godard’s fourth film is also perhaps his most moving film. Godard continues his passionate wrestling with (and deconstruction of) cinema and capitalism. Brilliantly shot by longtime collaborator Raoul Coutard, the film chronicles the life of a young streetwalker in Paris whose daydreams contrast with the squalor of her reality.
Pierrot le Fou
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
at 7:30pm
Jean-Luc Godard, 1965. Color. 110 min.
With Jean- Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
In French with English subtitles
Ferdinand, a bored bourgeois husband, takes up with the babysitter in a burst of rebellion, tearing down his identity. Pierrot le fou captures Godard at a crossroads—it’s a boundary-pushing marriage of the history of cinema and a struggle to explore new forms of storytelling.
Golden Marie
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Jacques Becker, 1952. B&W. 96 min.
With Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani,
Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières
In French with English subtitles
A sumptuous, profound parable of romance shattered by forces greater than love. The life of a reformed crook is upended by a woman mired in the very world he now struggles to escape. The connection the two forge as lovers sets off a series of violent acts that promises hurt and regret.
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