Monday, November 26, 2012 (8)

Nov 26, 2012
October 25, 2012
Thursday
  • THE OTHER SON

  • Oct 25, 2012 to Nov 30, 2012
  • Location: The Sunshine Cinema + Clearview Cinemas
  • Description:

    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 (

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
October 29, 2012
Monday
  • Love is French

  • Oct 29, 2012 at 3:00pm to Nov 26, 2012 at 2:00pm
  • Location: The Metropolitan Room
  • Description:
    A new «little sparrow» has landed.  Ankah infuses her daringly dramatic evocation of Piaf’s art with a contemporary energy and rhythm.—Broadway World
    Floanne is the French Madonna—Timeout NY 
    Undeniably effective renditions—Cabaret Scenes
    Her training is evident.  Her voice has marvelous range.—Times Square Chronicles
    Trip to France: $2,000. Hotel with a view of the Eiffel tower: $600 a night. Bottle of champagne: $100.  Night in Paris in the city of New York being mesmerized and serenaded by Floanne: priceless. Treat yourself to a night in Paris without even leaving home. The French Chanteuse envelopes you with style and originality that eases you into a relaxed mood and leaves at the end of the night full of romance and forgetting where you are and where you came from… like in a Woody Allen movie.
    In her new show «Love is French», Floanne explores, rather academically… love. In a jazz cabaret show of French chanson with a a comedic flavor, a lot of personality and romantic overtones , Flo
  • Created by: Flo Ankah
November 6, 2012
Tuesday
  • Here and Elsewhere: The Films of Jean Rouch Part I & II

  • Nov 6, 2012 to Nov 27, 2012
  • Location: FIAF & Anthology Film Archives
  • Description:
    Anthropologist Jean Rouch’s filmography includes over a hundred titles-from ethnographic studies of divine possession to a collective improvisation about itinerant chicken vendors-and although its central place in cinema history is recognized, the majority of it remains more talked about than seen.

    This retrospective is supported by L’Institut Francais, Comité du Film Ethnographique, Archives françaises du film du CNC and by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
November 15, 2012
Thursday
  • Garden of Delights by Arrabal at the Theater for the New City

  • Nov 15, 2012 at 3:00pm to Dec 2, 2012 at 10:00am
  • Location: Theater for the New City - Joyce and Seward Johnson Theater
  • Description:

    The New Stage Theatre Company updates Arrabal's tale of Lais' dazzling and bizarre journey in this mesmeric production directed by Ildiko Nemeth, with video projection designers Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger. Through a carefully crafted imaginary, the play depict some of the ways that today's culture - celebrity-obsessed to an unprecedented degree - and the preponderance of certain primal behaviors within that culture, may inform the audience's interpretation of Arrabal's premise.

    Garden of Delights showcases the vivid and surrealist imagination of controversial Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, whose work explores complicated themes of sexuality, violence, good, and evil. Lais, a celebrated but troubled actress, fields calls from a live studio audience while ensconced in her palatial home. The lines between reality, dream and memory are blurred as Lais interacts with figures from her past and with Zenon, an ape-like beast that she keeps in a cage but cannot quite control.

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  • Created by: Isabelle Duverger
November 22, 2012
Thursday
  • Special 40th Anniversary Screening: "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" by Luis Bunuel

  • Nov 22, 2012 to Nov 29, 2012
  • Location: WALTER READE THEATER, FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER
  • Description:

    THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
    LUIS BUÑUEL, 1972
    FRANCE/ITALY/SPAIN | 102 MINUTES

    Special 40th Anniversary Screening!

    Rafael Acosta, Ambassador of the South American Republic of Miranda, arrives with M. and Mme. Thevenot and the latter's younger sister Florence to dine at the home of M. and Mme Sénéchal (the three men enjoy a profitable association, smuggling heroin in the diplomatic pouch). Learning from Mme. Sénéchal that her husband is out and that they have arrived a day early, the party repair to a nearby restaurant, but are deterred from eating the meal they have ordered by the corpse of the proprietor, laid out in the next room.  Accepting a subsequent  invitation from the Sénéchals (who have now acquired a worker-bishop as gardener), they deduce from the absence of their hosts (who have actually just slipped out to make love on the grounds) that a police raid is imminent and speedily depart.

    Their further attempts to eat together are equally abortive. The tearoom where t

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
 
  • African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF)

  • Nov 22, 2012 to Dec 11, 2012
  • Location: Various. More info here: http://nyadiff.org/adiff-2012-venues/
  • Description:

    FRENCH PRODUCTIONS IN ADIFF 2012

     

    WHAT: 20th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival

     

    WHEN: November 23 to December 11

     

    WHERE: Manhattan and Queens

     

    TICKETS: From $10 to $20

     

    LA PIROGUE

    US Premiere

    GALA SCREENING

    Tue, Nov. 27 @ 7:00PM - Cowin - Teachers C.

    Also on Fri, Nov. 30 @ 6PM - NYIT Auditorium on Broadway

    In Moussa Touré’s powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men and a woman sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea -- and the possibility of never reaching their destination -- in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe.

    Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2012. Directed by Moussa Touré, 2012, 87 min, France/Senegal, Drama, English/Wolof/French with English subtitles. Q&A after the screenings.

    http://nyadiff.org/the-pirogue-la-pirogue/

     

    TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE

    NY Premiere

    CENTERPIECE

    Sat, Dec. 1 @ 5PM - Cowin - Teachers C.

    Also Sun, Dec. 2 @ 4:30PM - Black Spectrum

    Toussaint L’Ouverture is the long-awaited, two-part action-packed epic film, depicting the life of the H

  • Created by: Diarah N'Daw-Spech
November 26, 2012
Monday
  • Love is French - Floanne's New Show

  • Nov 26, 2012 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: The Metropolitan Room
  • Description:

    Trip to France: $2,000. Hotel with a view of the Eiffel tower: $600 a night. Bottle of champagne: $100. Night in Paris in the city of New York being mesmerized and serenaded by none other than Floanne, Timeout NY’s «French Madonna»: priceless. Treat yourself to a night in Paris without even leaving home. Floanne envelopes you with style and originality that eases you into a relaxed mood and leaves at the end of the night full of romance and forgetting where you are and where you came from… like in a Woody Allen movie.

    In her new show «Love is French», Floanne explores, rather academically… love. Come together and smile, blush, enjoy the most romantic love songs… alone, in couple, or on a blind date. This jazz cabaret concert with a comedic flavor, a lot of personality and romantic overtones will leave you with much to explore and talk about, even if you disagree.

    In a jazz cabaret show of French chanson with a modern twist, Floanne takes you on a journey of love through time in the Frenc

  • Created by: Flo Ankah
 
  • MILITANT OF MEMORY: A Conversation with SERGE KLARSFELD

  • Nov 26, 2012 from 2:30pm to 3:45pm
  • Location: NYU School of Law, Greenberg Lounge, 1st Floor
  • Description:

    Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture and the NYU School of Law

    Militant of Memory:

    A Conversation with SERGE KLARSFELD

    Historian, lawyer, activist, Nazi hunter; author, French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial; Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de France

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU