Events

The Vicky David Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of the Belgian artist Arne Quinze.

The gallery will present pieces from the series "My Home, My House, My Stilthouse" which plays on the dichotomy between chaos and equilibrium. From the appearant fragility of his material emerges overflowing energy and pure beauty.  Arne Quinze dreams of an ideal society in which all individuals communicate and interact with each other. Eclectically he uses paintings, drawings, sculptures and monumental installations to develop his work in the urban movement, by focusing on the themes: Order, Disorder, Structure and Habitation.

Beginning in the early 2000’s, Arne Quinze’s œuvre is the subject of many public and private installations around the world such as ("Uchronia", Nevada, USA; "Timegate", Miami, USA; "Rebirth", Paris, FRANCE; "Red Beacon", Shanghai, CHINA; "Camille", Rouen, FRANCE; "The Sequence", Brussels, BELGIUM; "The Traveller", Munich, GERMANY ; "The Visitor", Beirut, LEBANON).

Arne Q

Edith Piaf Alive and Living in New York

Introducing Floanne

Written by Floanne Ankah & Alice Jankell

Directed by Alice Jankell

Piano: Audrey Saint-Gil, Accordion: Kate Dunphy

Guitar: Marcel Van Dam, Percussion: Alby Roblejo

Saturday, Jan 21/Feb 18/Mar 17 at 9:30

Thursday, April 19/May 17/Jun 21 at 9:30

The Metropolitan Room

34 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010 Tickets $20.00, 2 drinks minimum (212) 206-0440, www.metropolitanroom.com

www.floanne.com

French actress and singer Floanne Ankah recounts the Piaf story. This authentic ‘chanteuse’ and farm girl opens the door to her culture, by taking a closer look at the legendary ‘Little Sparrow’ —with that husky, mournful voice so popular in the 1940’ and 50’s. The performance is a culturally rich and moving presenta- tion that will make you smile, with tunes transporting you to other times and places.

Yes, both Floanne and Edith Piaf will be attending the rendez-vous in a medley of vintage tunes from their native France... with a modern twist. She w

This February, Fashion at FIAF extends into the Gallery with a witty collection of colorful fashion drawings and paintings by Jean-Phillipe Delhomme, one of the most delightful satirists in fashion today.

Delhomme is a painter, writer, cultural blogger, and fashion illustrator, whose illustrations have been featured in renowned magazines such as Vogue, W, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker. In this exhibition, he explores how fashion, contemporary art, and design interact with each other and influence today’s popular culture.

Free and open
to the public

Gallery Hours
Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm
Sat: 11am–5pm

Six-week interactive French language classes for theater lovers

20% discount for NY in French members with code: NYinFrench

Our fast-paced classes are designed to help you learn to speak French with confidence and make friends with a wonderful group of like-minded foreign language lovers. The class culminates in a big cultural party where you'll get to practice the language with native speakers, eat delicious food from the region and, if you choose, present the  theater scenes you work on during the semester in a relaxed, friendly environment (no one is forced to perform). There will be actors in this class but no acting experience is necessary. All you need to bring to this class is a passion for international culture and a spirit of adventure!

*Act French for beginners: 
Tuesdays (March 6-April 17)
Time: 8:15-10pm

OR 

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*Act French for intermediates
Tuesdays ( March 6 - April 17)
Time: 6:15-8
Last class party is 8-10pm

Visit http://actfrench.com to register

Daniel Horowitz is an award-winning illustrator and art director. Working primarily as a digital artist over the last decade, one day Daniel Horowitz considered what might happen if he were to pull out a blank page and begin to draw. Not on commission and with no particular purpose in mind. The self imposed minimum, one drawing a day, was to serve as an exercise to pull himself away from the computer and to begin to explore analog creativity. Daniel was concerned that the quality of these artworks would be too different from, or inferior to, his better known commercial illustrations, so he had little intention of sharing this experiment. However, as days turned into weeks he began to realize that within the spontaneity of this process, something curious and new began to emerge.

Horowitz formed a blog and began to post his daily explorations. The overwhelming response helped to see the project through to its end at 365 drawings.  Although the requirement was to post a sketch or line draw

A sculptural installation overwhelming the ground floor of the Invisible Dog Art Center inspired by R. Justin Stewart’s research into the Jewish concept of the messiah and curated by Risa Shoup

After two years of research, R. Justin Stewart, a professed agnostic, will install Distorting (a messiah project, 13C), an intricate environment constructed of fleece, rope and plastic that will serve as a 3-D representation of the concept of the messiah in the 13th Century. Distorting is a visual delight that will overwhelm the viewer with color and shape as it invades the Invisible Dog. Those viewers wanting to understand the connection between the sculptural elements and the information that inspired them will need only to scan QR codes, discreetly embedded throughout the sculpture, with their phone or other mobile devices to download the information they seek.

In the coming years, Stewart will unveil additional installations under the umbrella of “a messiah project.” Just as Distorting only fo

Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (comic star Francois Damiens, Heartbreaker).

At first stunned by Nathalie’s unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else’s judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.

Screening Schedule
Tue, Mar 6: I Think About Alain Tanner; Loving Father, 12:30 & 4pm
Tue, Mar 6: Jacob Berger presents I Think About Alain Tanner & Loving Father, 7pm
Tue, Mar 13: Play; Animal Heart, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, Mar 20: Jonas; Our Dreams, Your Nightmares; and The Invitation, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, Mar 27: The Man without a Shadow; Accomplices, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm (Tinker Auditorium)

Swiss cinema reflects the country’s rich cultural diversity with films in German, French, and Italian. In honor of the Mois de la Francophonie, FIAF, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and Swiss Films, presents a month-long exploration of Swiss films in French.

Included in this series are Jonas and Nos rêves, vos cauchemars, two shorts, to be screened on March 20, La journée de la Francophonie, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s birth.

On March 6, FIAF kicks off the series with director Jacob Berger, an important voice in Swiss

Light around the world project's about spirituality, love, peace, harmony, knowledge and wisdom.

http://http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091701951/light-around-the-world

Founded in 1997 by legendary exhibitor and programmer Bruce Goldstein (joined one year later by partner Adrienne Halpern), Rialto Pictures quickly established itself as a new gold standard in the distribution of classic world cinema—from reissues of landmark works like The Third Man and Grand Illusion to the rediscovery of little-known masterpieces never before released in the U.S., including Alberto Lattuada’s Mafioso, Claude Sautet’s Classe Tous Risques and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows. On the occasion of Rialto’s 15th anniversary, we are pleased to present an exclusive weekday matinee series of 15 treasures from their remarkable library. Series programmed by Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern.

French movies:

- Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville
- Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard
- Diary of a Chambermaid by Luis Buñuel
- Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Léon Morin, Priest by Jean-Pierre Melville
- Riffifi by Jules Dassin
- The Two of Us by Claude Berri
- Touchez

French Institute Alliance Française

Art de Vivre

Fashion Talks 2012

Reed Krakoff, Wed, March 21 at 7pm

Stefano Pilati, Tue, March 27 at 7pm

Dries Van Noten, Thu, March 29 at 7pm

FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
Presented as part of Fashion at FIAF

FIAF’s annual Fashion Talks returns offering a behind-the-scenes look at the fascinating world of fashion. Join Pamela Golbin, Chief Curator of the Musée de la Mode et du Textile at the Louvre, for conversations with three leading designers—Reed Krakoff on March 21, Stefano Pilati on March 27, and Dries Van Noten on March 29—as they discuss their collections, inspirations, and experiences.

Reed Krakoff
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
Designer Reed Krakoff made his name in fashion as the President and Executive Creative Director of Coach, a title he still holds. In 2010, he made headlines with the launch of his critically acclaimed collection, Reed Krakoff, a luxurious American sportswear and accessories line. Krakoff takes you behind the scenes of his exciting new

Focus on French Cinema 2012 opens the weekend of

March 23- 25, 2012 with a selection of 12 newly  released French language films. Presented by the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich in partnership with Purchase College,NY, Focus on French Cinema will feature a weekend of great films,

French Food and wine, workshops and a Table Ronde with our guests that have come from France. Visit www.focusonfrenchcinem.org for more information and tickets

Jo's Boy / Le fils à Jo

Genre: Dramatic comedy, Family film
Director: Philippe Guillard
Screenplay:Philippe Guillard
Running time: 1h 35 min
Starring: Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Marchal, Vincent Moscato
Distributor: Gaumont
France, January 2011

SYNOPSIS
Jo Canavaro, grandson of a rugby legend, son of a legend, and himself a rugby legend, is raising his son Tom in a small village in southwestern France as a single parent. Much to Jo’s regret, his son’s math skills far exceed his skills on the field. Not wanting the Canavaro legend to end, he risks the disapproval of the entire village and his own son by starting a rugby team for Tom…..

Shoah

Part of BAMcinématek

Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1pm
Screens with two 15-minute breaks
Book signing with Lanzmann at 6pm one-hour break

Directed by Claude Lanzmann 

(1985) 564min, 35mm

“The greatest documentary about contemporary history ever made.”—Marcel Ophüls

Twelve years in the making, Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust features interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators without a snippet of archival footage. Growing out of Lanzmann’s concern that the genocide was already retreating into the mists of time, and that the atrocity was becoming sanitized as History, his massive achievement—at once epic and intimate, immediate and definitive—is a triumph of form and content that reveals hidden truths while rewriting the rules of documentary filmmaking.

BAM Rose Cinemas

General Admission: $15
BAM Cinema Club Members: $10

Claude Lanzmann will be signing copies of his book The Patagonian Hare, published in France in 2009 and recently translated into English. The memoir recounts

Headwinds / Des vents contraires

Genre: Drama
Director: Jalil Lespert
Screenplay: JalilLespert / Olivier Adam / Marion Laine
Running time: 1h 31 min
Starring: Benoît Magimel, Isabelle Carré, Antoine Duléry, Audrey Tautou
Distributor: SND Groupe M6
France, December 2011

SYNOPSIS
Paul’s life is turned upside down the day his wife suddenly disappears. After a year of fruitless searching, Paul is a broken man, haunted by doubt and guilt. Perhaps his only chance left is to return to his roots: he moves back to his childhood town with his two children. But here, unexpected events give their own twist to this new beginning.

Unforgiveable / Impardonnables

Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: André Téchiné 
Screenplay: André Téchiné / Mehdi Ben Attia
Running time: 1h 51 min
Starring: André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry
Distributor: Strand Releasing
France, August 2011

SYNOPSIS
Francis arrives in Venice to write his next novel. While trying to find a space in which to work, he meets a real estate agent named Judith. She shows him an isolated house on the Ile of Saint Erasmo where they begin a life together. But Francis cannot write when he is in love.
The following summer, Francis’s daughter Alice comes to visit during her vacation. Suddenly, she disappears. Francis’s life is now in danger…