Events

Music Box Films is proud to announce the US release of FRANTZ, acclaimed French writer/director Francois Ozon’s elegiac and haunting tale of love and remembrance, starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent) and rising star Paula Beer.  Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2017 César Awards, and a selection of the 2016 Venice, Telluride, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, FRANTZ is scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, March 15 at Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema, followed by a national roll out.

Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), FRANTZ recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war’s “lost generation”: Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, p

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of HEAL THE LIVING, rising French director Katell Quillévéré’s deeply affecting study of human interconnectedness. Written by Quillévéré and frequent André Téchiné collaborator Gilles Taurand (Thieves, Wild Reeds), HEAL THE LIVING’s César-nominated screenplay is based on Maylis de Kerangal’s internationally acclaimed novel The Heart, and is scheduled to open in New York on April 14 at the Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out.

Charting with unusual sensitivity and hope how disparate lives are touched by a tragedy, HEAL THE LIVING follows how a car accident settles into motion a chain of events that affects everyone from the parents of the 17 year-old brain-dead teenage boy, to the hospital staff to a mother of two (Anne Dorval) in need of a heart transplant.  Quillévéré weaves together the multi-strand narrative with consummate grace, abetted by a remarkable ensemble cast (including Emmanuelle Seigner as the boy’s mother and Tahar

Colloque "Création et Réalité d’expression française et francophone" & "Marguerite Yourcenar" (27 et 28 avril 2017, Graduate Center, New York City):

Ce colloque prolonge une longue tradition dans l’histoire de la Société des professeurs français et francophones d’Amérique. Cette fois, en plus des thèmes traditionnels du colloque, nous vous invitons à soumettre des propositions de communication sur l’écrivaine et membre de l’Académie française Marguerite Yourcenar à l’occasion du trentième anniversaire de sa mort.

Nous acceptons des propositions couvrant un large choix de sujets, soit de la part d’intervenants individuels, soit sous forme de sessions complètes. Les listes qui suivent ne sont pas exhaustives :

• Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar, première femme reçue à l’Académie française, a marqué son époque ; mais elle a toujours refusé de se laisser limiter par des classifications préétablies, ou de servir des causes qui ne lui correspondaient pas. Publiée de son vivant dans l