Events

Apres une sortie a New York le 15 aout au Elinor Bunin Munroe Center dans l'Upper West Side, le dernier film de Philippe Garrel avec Louis Garrel et Anna Mouglalis sort sur Itunes le 19 aout.

Lien vers le film:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/jealousy/id894129844

Synopsis (en anglais):

Louis Garrel (THE DREAMERS) stars in this enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal, directed by none other than his father, major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel. After separating from his wife,  Louis moves into a garret apartment with his fellow actor girlfriend Claudia (Anna Mougladis) as they struggle with fidelity and the temptation to give up their art for an easier life.

Dear parents,

 Our French immersion program in Williamsburg / Greenpoint  which will begin in September 2014 has spots open  for children  2.5 yrs to 4 yrs old.
Led by experienced and dynamic French speakers this program will follow a curriculum and  offer our children an opportunity to learn about our world through creative and dramatic play, arts, stories, singing, playing, learning alphabet, numbers sharing meals all immersed in the French language.
Our drop-off classes will meet in a child-friendly rented room at Play, 33 Nassau avenue ( by the MC Carren park) in Brooklyn from 9:00am to 1:00pm Mondays- Fridays ( 2, 3 and 5 days options) starting September 8, 2014 to the end of June 2015.
For more info contact me at frenchforlittleones at gmail dot com

The original work of three French artists Joëlle Kem Lika, Thomas Raoult and Val d’Off will be on display at Agora Gallery, NYC.

About Joëlle Kem Lika

French artist Joëlle Kem Lika takes her inspiration from nature, especially flowers and seascapes, though she turns such imagery into virtually Abstract Expressionist compositions bursting with gestural swaths of bold colors and brilliant plays of light. She cites the importance of the Buddhist concept of the "Pulse of Life" in her practice and, indeed, her works positively pulse with energy, whether in fiery and explosive canvases dominated by reds and yellows, or the evocative blues and greens of her water scenes and skyscapes.

Working quickly and vigorously, Kem Lika applies her saturated acrylic paints in layers, so that subtle shadings and contrasting tones emerge beneath the bold, dominant hues. The thick brushstrokes give momentum and direction to the most abstract pieces, while also lending a textured, practically sculptural element

This French-German co-production was already a huge success in France, and it is set in Paris on a fateful night during World War II. It tells the story of two men in a diplomatic cat and mouse game that may determine whether a Nazi plot will destroy the City of Light.

The film shows Paris in all its extraordinary beauty and evokes a powerful sense of what might have been lost. It's a must-see film for Francophiles and French-Americans.

Rialto Pictures is proud to announce the restoration and re-release of the late Alain Resnais’ seminal debut film HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, which will be released theatrically in the U.S. for the first time in decades on Friday, October 17 in New York and Los Angeles following its premiere at the 2014 New York Film Festival. A pillar of the French New Wave, long unavailable for exhibition in the United States due to rights issues, it will be released nationally in a spectacular new 4K restoration.  

Employing a radical use of voice-over narration and quickly-flashbacked scenes, Hiroshima Mon Amour tells the story of a brief relationship in post-war Japan between a French actress, played by Oscar nominee Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), and a Japanese architect, played by Eiji Okada (Woman in the Dunes).

The Oscar-nominated screenplay was written by Marguerite Duras, who in novels like The Lover, often dealt with European/Asian relationships. 2014 marks Duras’ centennial and she will be honored w

Directed and starring Manu Payet, French comedy's Relationship Status:It's complicated (Situation Amoureuse, C'est Complicated) is coming to New York at the Quad Cinema and on Itunes, GooglePlay and Vudu on October 17th. Ben (Manu Payet) is about to get married to Juliette (Anais Demoustier) until the most popular girl from high-school, Vanessa (Emmanuelle Chriqui of Entourage fame in her first French language film) is coming back to the picture... His relationship  status will then become complicated.

OPENING RECEPTION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 5-7 P.M.

THE BOOK

Exhibition of sculptures by French artist Elisabeth Raphaël, East Gallery, Buell Hall

Following the opening reception, the exhibition will be on view October 23-November 21, 12-5 p.m., and during evening events

Elisabeth Raphaël’s fourteen sculptures exhibited at the Columbia Maison Française draw their inspiration from a reading of the Tanakh - the Hebrew Bible - but other books can be imagined too in these works. Each sculpture contains an ancient Hebrew text stamped on fragile leaves made of bone china. Some leaves are hidden between minimalist clay blocks. Other leaves are caressed by hands of wrapped textile.

Elisabeth Raphaël lives and works in Paris. Her works have been exhibited in France, Belgium, Israel, the United Kingdom and China. She won the Grand Prix of the International Biennale of Vallauris in 2012. Her sculptures and installations are represented in the Magnelli Museum of Vallauris, the Museum of Châteauroux and t

Andrew Counter

The famous ellipses that punctuate Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le noir tend to intervene when the story comes too close to two topics: sex and politics. Andrew Counter argues that Stendahl's use of ellipses to designate forbidden sexual or political topics was a basic convention of early 19th-century public discourse. The parallel rhetorical treatment of sex and politics, meanwhile, intensified the pre-existing association between the two, producing doubly subversive textual ‘hotspots’ that reveal much about the cultural fault-lines of the era. Counter explores these hotspots in fiction writers of the Bourbon Restoration (1815-1830), including Stendhal, to show how silence becomes politically and erotically productive in an era of censorship.

Andrew Counter teaches French at King’s College London. His book Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture: Wealth, Knowledge and the Family appeared in 2010, and he is currently finishing his second, The Amorous Restoration: Love

In his Theologico-political Treatise Spinoza asks the question: what does it mean for a text to be the word of “God”? Focusing more particularly on the case of the Muslim sacred book, the Quran, Souleymane Bachir Diagne examines the question of the translation of the infinite Word into a human finite language and explores the implications (religious, philosophical, political) of that primordial “vertical” translation for the translations for the original chosen (therefore sacred) language into other human tongues.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Professor of French, Columbia University; author of African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude; Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal; Comment Philosopher en Islam