Events

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

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.

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

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Avec deux cabinets dédiés à l'histoire monétaire française, de la Révolution à l'arrivée de l'euro.

After learning of the death of an elementary school teacher, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, goes to the school to offer his services as a substitute teacher.  Quickly hired to replace the deceased, he finds himself thrown into an establishment in crisis, while going through his own personal tragedy. The film features exquisite performances by Fellag and the child actors playing Monsieur Lazhar’s young students coping with grief and learning to heal.

Award-winning writer-director Philippe Falardeau’s previous works - including Congorama and It’s Not Me I Swear! - have been screened at festivals around the world including Cannes, Toronto, New Directors/New Films, Berlin and Locarno. MONSIEUR LAZHAR, his fourth feature, is an adaptation of the play “Bashir Lazhar” by Montreal playwright Evelyne de la Cheneliere.

BAMcinématek presents the first complete retrospective in over a decade of the most uncompromising and visionary of directors.

This retrospective takes place from April 13 - May 6.

Dates and Tickets @ BAM

Paring the language of film down to its essential elements—minimally expressive performances by nonprofessional actors, highly detailed sound design, tableau-like compositions that sear themselves into the mind’s eye—Robert Bresson (1901—1999) searched for the soul in the modern world, revealing the divine in the unlikeliest places and exploring states of both spiritual rapture and lament. BAMcinématek presents the first complete retrospective in over a decade of the most uncompromising and visionary of directors. All films in 35mm and in French with English subtitles. 

"Bresson is to French cinema what Mozart is to German music and Dostoevsky is to Russian literature.” —Jean-Luc Godard 

“Every film is a must-see!” —Dave Kehr, The New York Tim

CONFERENCE

April 19 to 21

Autofiction
Literature in France Today

Organized by Tom Bishop and Camille Laurens


AUTOFICTION, combining two apparently contradictory concerns, autobiography and fiction, is the most important mode of writing in contemporary French literature. Serge Doubrovsky, who coined the term, has described autofiction as combining entirely real content and entirely fictional form. Using their real names, authors insert themselves into their own fictions in a search for self. Following its French beginnings, Autofiction has made headway in many other countries, notably in the U.S.

LOCATION:
Hemmerdinger Hall Ground floor, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East (enter on Waverly Place)

Presentations in English
Brief readings by authors in French and in English

Go to www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise for details

This conference is made possible by the generous major support of the Florence Gould Foundation with additional support from Open Skies, The Cultural Services of the French Emb

CONFERENCE

April 19 to 21

Autofiction
Literature in France Today

Organized by Tom Bishop and Camille Laurens


AUTOFICTION, combining two apparently contradictory concerns, autobiography and fiction, is the most important mode of writing in contemporary French literature. Serge Doubrovsky, who coined the term, has described autofiction as combining entirely real content and entirely fictional form. Using their real names, authors insert themselves into their own fictions in a search for self. Following its French beginnings, Autofiction has made headway in many other countries, notably in the U.S.

Thursday April 19, 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Welcome and presentation

CAMILLE LAURENS
Keynote: I, Me and You

FRANCISCO GOLDMAN
Memoir, shmemmoir


Friday, April 20, 2:00 to 5:30 pm

CATHERINE CUSSET
The Limits of Autofiction

MICHEL CONTAT
Autofiction and Existentialism

DANIEL MENDELSOHN
Autofiction Between Writer and Critic
TOM BISHOP
From the Nouveau Roman to Autofiction
CATHERINE MILLET
A simple

Autour d’Edouard Glissant

Dimanche 22 Avril, 11 h-17heures

                              Avec

                        Dr.Bernard Delpêche

Professeur Agrégé, Département de Littérature de l’Université Acadie

"Pour une antillanité vivante á travers le Quimboiseur de Glissant et le Hougan de Depestre"

                         Dr.Hugues St Fort

Linguiste, Professeur CUNY, Chroniqueur (Haitian Times)

                             " Créolisation et Métissage"

                     Rodney St Eloi

Écrivain, Critique littéraire, Directeur des editions Mémoire d’Encrier (Montréal)

  "Rencontres imaginaires avec Glissant par la poétique de la Relation"

                               Dr.Joel  des  Rosiers

                    Psychiatre, poete, essayiste et Theoricien

                               “ Notes sur la Poésie de Glissant"

                       Assely Etienne

         Philosophe et Théolog

Passionately in love from the moment they meet, idealistic chef Yann and single mother Nadia share big dreams for their future as a family. As Yann grows close to Nadia's young son Slimane, he impulsively buys a secluded restaurant in the French countryside, taking on risky loans to help finance the purchase and renovation. When progress on the project stalls and debt begins to accumulate, it strains Nadia and Yann's relationship. With the promise of a job in Montreal, Nadia leaves Paris for Canada, temporarily leaving Slimane in Yann's care while she gets settled. But things don't go as Yann or Nadia planned, and their choices forever bond them together. Fiercely gritty in its romanticism, A Better Life depicts the subtle complexities that exist between a mother and son, a man and woman, and an adult and child. As the ever-ambitious Yann, Guillaume Canet (Tell No One, Last Night) beams in his relentlessly stubborn pursuit of his ideals. This is a story of the lengths one will go for t

1st round of the French Presidential Elections

Panel discussion on the electoral campaign (with Laure Bereni, Paula Cossart, Claire Zalc, and others), and screening of
France 2's coverage of official results at 2:00 p.m.

In French.