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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

Marine Le Pen was defeated in the French election that brought Emmanuel Macron to power, but her far right-wing party, with its nationalist, anti-immigrant platform, lives on to feed the fear and resentment that begot Donald Trump’s election. THIS IS OUR LAND is a fictionalized story of an attractive working-class single mother in the North of France who naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the Patriotic Bloc. Lucas Belvaux, who previously directed RAPT, a terrific thriller about a French politician’s kidnapping, deals with another type of kidnapping here: With the help of a charming André Dussollier as the town’s esteemed physician, the Populists’ rhetoric seizes control of the minds of the electorate. With Catherine Jacob as the blonde-bobbed leader who never met an angry crowd she couldn’t make angrier.

FRANCE / BELGIUM • 2017 • 117 MINS.  • IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30

Wednesday, April 18 - Tuesday, May 1

Tue, May 1: No 7:00 show

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The pageants or fêtes de Carthage held in 1906 and 1907 were many things: a celebration of recent archaeological finds in the protectorate of Tunisia, including the Roman theatre in which they were held; an assertion of France’s place in a lineage of imperial conquest extending back over two millennia; and a demonstration of the cultural prowess of the members of the settler community who conceived and organized them. Not least, they were multimedia extravaganzas, including recitations of poems composed for the occasion, excerpts from operas, and in 1907 two specially written plays; there was even a special competition for the pageant poster. The talk will examine the Carthage pageants as self-conscious representations in which the medium – or rather media, several layers of text and commentary enfolded first in the events themselves and then within official accounts – offered a vision of a mutually productive relationship between archaeology and empire.                               

Inspired by the award-winning movie La Vie en rose, PIAF! THE SHOW is a musical celebration of the life and music of the legendary French chanteuse.

Conceived and directed by the Nice-based theatrical maverick Gil Marsalla, this special concert stars the internationally acclaimed Anne Carrere, a young French performer hailed as "Edith Piaf's legitimate musical heiress."

In two 45-minute acts, the show narrates the rags-to-riches story of the Parisian singer's career through her unforgettable songs, complemented by a visual tapestry of previously unreleased photographs and images of famous locations of the Edith Piaf era.

PIAF! THE SHOW premiered in 2015 as a tribute to "The sparrow of Montmartre" on the centennial of her birthday. With over half a million tickets sold in more than 30 countries—including a sold-out one-night-only performance at Carnegie Hall in January, 2017—and rave reviews worldwide, this is your chance to see the show in the New York!

In French
115 minutes, with interm