Events

Music Box Films is proud to announce the US release of BACK TO BURGUNDY by French writer-director Cédric Klapisch (L'Auberge Espagnole, Russian Dolls, Chinese Puzzle,) the tale of three thirty-something siblings reunited in the family vineyard where they grew up. Starring three of France’s most popular young actors, BACK TO BURGUNDY is scheduled to open in New York (Village East) and San Francisco (Vogue Theater) on Friday, March 23 followed by a national roll out.

Jean (Pio Marmai,) left his native Burgundy and the family wine business a decade ago to travel around the world. The black sheep of the family, he unexpectedly returns home to reconnect with his ailing father. When Jean’s father dies, his sister Juliette (Ana Girardot,) takes over the reins of the “domaine” together with their younger brother, Jérémie (François Civil), who has recently married into one of the region’s more prestigious wine families. As the business is transferred to the children, a prohibitive inheritance ta

(1947) Saucy go-getter Suzy Delair’s Jenny Lamour (“a voluptuous slut” – Pauline Kael) warms up an entertainment-starved Paris music hall audience with a swing of her ineffably euphemistic “tra-la-la,” part of the arsenal of charms she uses in her breakthrough to the big time. It also means suggestive publicity photos taken by sympathetic lesbian photographer Simone Renant, and a nocturnal meeting with a sleazy movie financier. But then congenitally jealous accompanist husband Bernard Blier issues an all-too-public death threat against the dirty old fogey. So when the financier winds up très mort, Blier becomes the prime suspect at Quai des Orfèvres, France’s Scotland Yard equivalent. Enter Inspector Louis Jouvet (“the greatest theater man of his generation and one of the half-dozen great screen actors” – David Shipman), who begins to take apart Blier’s meticulous alibi... Brilliantly transforming a classic whodunnit plot, Clouzot, “the French Hitchcock,” takes us from the wings and dr

Dear all,

We are looking forward to seeing you at our FOURTH ANNUAL CONCOURS D'ELOQUENCE.

April 16, 2018, 6pm.

French Embassy, 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10075

Students from Fordham, New York and Columbia University face off in an eloquent battle of words and ideas.

Come support them, cheer for your school’s representatives and celebrate the French language with us.

Jury members : Marc Levy, Sabrina Quagliozzi, Adeline Monzier, Lily Dionne-Jermanovich, Alexis Buisson, Eric Draghi, Hervé Ferrage and Fabrice Jaumont

Free and open to the public.

Antoine Idier's  2017 book The Lives of Guy Hocquenhem: Politics, Sexuality, Culture resurrects an important and complex twentieth-century thinker. Idier argues that Hocquenghem had several entwined identities—militant, journalist, philosopher, and novelist.  A dynamic presence on the French political and intellectual scene, he was an early, maverick theorist of what would later be known as Queer Theory, the author of the influential 1972 theoretical work Homosexual Desire, a member of the Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action (FHAR), and a wide-ranging polemical writer. In addition to offering the first full-scale biography of Hocqhenghem, Idier’s book rethinks the history and legacy of May '68 in France and the implications of Hocquenhem’s radical ideas for contemporary discussions of politics, sexuality, race, and the family. Drawing on original source materials and numerous interviews, The Lives of Guy Hocquenhem explores a fascinating figure and his diverse body of works throug