Focus on French Cinema 2012: "A Happy Event " (Un heureux événement) by Rémi Bezançon
- Mar 25, 2012 from 1:45pm to 3:45pm EDT
- Location: Pepsico Theatre, The Performing Arts Center
- Description:
A Happy Event / Un heureux événement
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Rémi Bezançon
Screenplay: Vanessa Portal / Rémi Bezançon
Running time: 1h 47 min
Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmai, Josiane Balasko
Distributor: Screenmedia
France, September 2011SYNOPSIS
“She has pushed me into a corner, driven me beyond my limits, forced me to confront the absolute: of love, of sacrifice, of tenderness, of relinquishment. She has dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn’t anyone tell me? Why doesn’t anyone talk about it?” A Happy Event is an intimate interpretation of motherhood, sincere and free of taboos. - Created by: Nathalie Charles
Sunday, March 25, 2012 (23)
New Directors/New Films | Omar Killed Me (Omar M’a Tuer) by Roschdy Zem
- Mar 25, 2012 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm EDT
- Location: MoMA
- Description:
Omar Killed Me (Omar M’a Tuer)
In the summer of 1991, a wealthy widow was beaten and stabbed to death at a beautiful villa in the south of France. Omar Raddad, the woman’s Moroccan gardener, became the prime suspect because of one bizarre clue: the words “Omar m’a tuer”—a grammatically incorrect phrase that roughly translates as “Omar has kill me” — written in the victim’s blood. Despite gaps in the investigation and no forensic evidence, Raddad was convicted and sent to prison for 18 years. Only Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard, a journalist, believed in his innocence and went to work to prove it. Director Roschdy Zem, who has turned from acting (with Bouajila in Days of Glory) to directing, tells this story of racism, politics, and injustice with the clarity of a documentary and the pacing of a thriller.
2011. France. 85 min.
Director: Roschdy Zem
Writers: Olivier Gorce, Roschdy Zem, based on Pourquois Moi? by Omar Raddad with the collaboration of Sylvie Lotiron
Producers: - Created by: Nathalie Charles
Focus on French Cinema 2012: "Angèle and Tony" by Alix Delaporte
- Mar 25, 2012 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm EDT
- Location: Pepsico Theatre, The Performing Arts Center
- Description:
Angèle and Tony / Angèle et Tony
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Alix Delaporte
Screenplay: Alix Delaporte
Running time: 1h 27 min
Starring: Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois, Evelyne Didi
Distributor: Pyramide Distribution
France, released in January 2011SYNOPSIS
Port-en Bessin. A fishing harbor in Normandy. Angèle has some very good reasons for wanting to start a new life when she appears in Tony’s life, a fisherman-sailor, emotionally adrift since his father disappeared at sea.
In spite of his desire for her, Tony remains aloof, Angèle is too beautiful, too mysterious, too disconcerting... he cannot trust her motives. - Created by: Nathalie Charles