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MPI Pictures is proud to announce the release of THE BIG PICTURE, Eric Lartigau’s French thriller adapted from Douglas Kennedy’s American novel, starring Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Heartbreaker,) Marina Foïs, Neils Arestrup and Catherine Deneuve.  THE BIG PICTURE is scheduled to open in New York at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and IFC Center on Friday, October 12.

Paul Exben (Romain Duris in an intense perfomance) is a handsome and successful thirty-something Parisian corporate lawyer with a beautiful wife, two children, and a glimmering future as a partner in the firm he co-owns with his mentor, Anne (Catherine Deneuve.) But behind this deceptively perfect bourgeois façade lies a desire for creative fulfillment, a restless spirit who despises his conformist life and envies the freedom of his neighbor Greg (Eric Ruf,) an uncompromising photojournalist.

Greg’s unexpected death throws Paul’s life into chaos, and he makes a startling decision that pushes him into unknown territor

Writer-director Lorraine Lévy’s THE OTHER SON, is a moving and provocative tale – filmed in Israel and the West Bank - of two young men – one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families.

Joseph (Jules Sitruk), an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in a comfortable suburb of Tel Aviv with his parents, France-born physician Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) and Israel-born army commander Alon Silbers (Pascal Elbé). A blood test for Joseph’s military service reveals that he is not their biological son; during the Gulf War Joseph was evacuated from a clinic along with another baby; both were given back to the wrong families. While the Palestinian Joseph went to Tel Aviv with the Silbers, their actual Jewish son, Yacine (Medhi Dehbi) was brought to the West Bank by the Arab couple, Said (Khalifa Natour) and Leila (

L ONG "Arab American Association of New-York" organise une collecte de vetements, nourriture et autres objets pour les victimes de l ouragan Sandy. L organisation est basee a Bayridge Brooklyn (7111 5th Ave), si vous avez quelques pieces a deposer pour les victimes n hesitez pas a passez !

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Event open only to CUID holders and members of the Societe des Amis de la Maison Francaise

Directed by Rose Bosch, 2010, 124 min.

French, German and Yiddish with English subtitles

Special Screening with an introduction and Q & A by Professor Robert O. Paxton, before the U.S. theatrical release in November 2012

La Rafle is a dramatized film about the infamous Vel'd'Hiv Roundup that took place seventy years ago on July 16, 1942. On that day, French police carried out an extensive raid on foreign Jews in greater Paris, resulting in the arrest of more than 13,000 people — including 4,000 children. After spending several miserable days in the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium with little food or water, families were deported to internment camps elsewhere in France and then, finally, to Auschwitz. By writer/director Rose Bosch, the film's script relies on extensive research and first-hand accounts, and raises important questions about the challenges of rendering such dark historical events through drama

Woodkid, aka Yoann Lemoine, is a French music video director, graphic designer, and musician. His most notable works include his music video direction for Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" , Taylor Swift's "Back to December," Lana Del Ray's "Born to Die" and Mystery Jets' "Dreaming of Another World."

Lemoine is also an alternative musician, mixing chamber pop, folk, and indie music. Don't miss his haunting show at Irving Plaza on November 1.