Sunday, March 25, 2012 (23)

Mar 25, 2012
March 25, 2012
Sunday
 
  • New Directors/New Films | Omar Killed Me (Omar M’a Tuer) by Roschdy Zem

  • Mar 25, 2012 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm
  • Location: MoMA
  • Description:

    Omar Killed Me (Omar M’a Tuer)

    Roschdy Zem

    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
  • Location: Pepsico Theatre, The Performing Arts Center
  • Description:

    Angèle and Tony / Angèle et Tony


    Genre: Drama, Romance
    DirectorAlix Delaporte
    Screenplay: Alix Delaporte
    Running time: 1h 27 min
    StarringClotilde HesmeGrégory GadeboisEvelyne Didi
    Distributor: Pyramide Distribution
    France, released in January 2011


    SYNOPSIS
    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