Events

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 (4)

Nov 9, 2016
September 17, 2016
Saturday

  • NYC in a Citroen 2CV

  • Sep 17, 2016 at 2:00am to Nov 30, 2016 at 6:45pm
  • Location: around NYC
  • Description:

    Balade à New York en 2CV

    See New York City from a French perspective. Disrcete, personal and friendly with a bilingual host 

    Airport, office, hotel, promotion, restaurant, video production, VIP's, and all occasions

    Voir New York City avec une perspective française. Discret, personnel et amical avec un hôte bilingue
    Aéro, bureau, hotel, promo, pub, resto, video, VIP et pour toutes les occasions
  • Created by: Henri L
October 6, 2016
Thursday

  • BEING 17

  • Oct 6, 2016 to Nov 18, 2016
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinema and IFC Center
  • Description:

    Strand Releasing is pleased to announce the US release of BEING 17, acclaimed French director André Téchiné (Wild Reeds, Thieves)’s moving exploration of adolescent sexual awakening, with a script co-written by director Céline Sciamma (Girlhood), starring the great Sandrine Kiberlain (Mademoiselle Chambon,) Kacey Mottet Klein (Sister, Gainsbourg), Corentin Fila, and Alexis Loret. BEING 17 is scheduled to open on Friday, October 7 in New York at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and IFC Center followed by a national release.

    Unfolding over four seasons in the arresting, mountainous setting of the French Pyrénées, BEING 17 is the story of Damien (Mr. Mottet Klein) and Thomas (Mr. Fila,) two French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but are constantly fighting. When family circumstances bring Damien’s mother, Marianne (Ms. Kiberlain) to invite Thomas to live with them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging and complicated desires.

    One

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
November 6, 2016
Sunday

  • Come see a New Play by French-American Playwright Ella Boureau!

  • Nov 6, 2016 at 11:00am to Nov 20, 2016 at 4:00pm
  • Location: Cloud City
  • Description:

    Helps To Hate You a Little: a Lovestory 

    is a tragic farce that unfolds in and underneath New York City. It's Persephone but with more kink. It's Wuthering Heights without the death scene, and with a better soundtrack. It’s Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, if Bill and Ted were two dykes in love and Ted had an unsuspecting boyfriend. Helps to Hate You a Little incorporates BDSM, shapeshifting, the absurd, and mixtapes in order to interrogate questions of belonging and foreignness. Bring your friends, bring your lovers, bring your sidepiece on a different night.
    Message me for a discount code.
    PERFORMANCES: Nov 6 - 20
    TIME: Wednesday - Saturday at 7:00pm, Sunday at 4:00pm, plus Saturday matinees the 12th and 19th at 2pm
    PRICE: $18.00
    At Cloud City: 85 N 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
    75 minutes, no intermission
    By Ella Boureau
    Directed by Jaki Bradley
    Choreography by Jess Goldschmidt.
    With Laura Ramadei, Taylor Shurte, Mykal Monroe, Emily Anderson, and Cristina Pitter  
    Co-produced by Eric Borlaug &
  • Created by: Ella Boureau
November 9, 2016
Wednesday

  • Can Historical Memory Prevent Against a Return to Mass Violence?

  • Nov 9, 2016 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm
  • Location: Maison Française
  • Description:
    In his newest book, Henry Rousso, one of the first historians to
    have worked on the memory of collective historical traumas,
    examines recent developments in the uses and politics of memory
    in France, and shows how these phenomena must also be
    considered within a broader European and global context. The
    stakes are high: the considerable efforts made by modern societies to preserve the memory of historical traumas has not inoculated them against a tragic return to mass violence.
    Henry Rousso is Director of Research at the CNRS (Institut d'histoire du temps présent) and teaches in France and the United States. His books include The Vichy Syndrome; The Haunting  Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France; and The Latest Catastrophe: History, the Present, the Contemporary.
    Event co-sponsored by the Alliance Program and the Department of History and the University
    Seminar on Cultural Memory
  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise