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Translating a novel to film is a language in itself – a dialect in discovery. Join Learn French Brooklyn in an exploration of five 19th Century Novels brought to life in full cinematic glory.

Each session includes informed, expert instruction and discourse centering on pivotal aspects of each novel and the corresponding film. The successes, the discrepancies, interpretations, and surprises – we tackle and interpret them all!

Classes may be taken as a series or one workshop at a time. Pre-registration required. This workshop is in English, films subtitled.

Workshop Schedule

• March 3rd: Les Misérables (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• April 7th: Madame Bovary (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• May 5th: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• June 2nd: Hiroshima, mon Amour (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• July 7th: La Pirogue (2:00 – 4:00 PM)

Workshop Instructor: Souad Bouhayat

Location: The Yard (33 Nassau Ave. 11222)

Fee: Single Class: $40 | 5-Class Series: $175  

Thinking Space in Cinema and Literature
Penser l’espace dans le cinéma et la littérature

During this international colloquium, participants will be exploring the question of the relations between cinema and literature through the prism of space on the basis of three approaches:
- The Geography of literary and cinematic creation examines the spatial context in which works are produced from a historical, social and cultural point of view;
- Geocriticism explores spatial narratives as the result of perception and the substance of an imaginary. would study the relations between space, forms and genres, both literary and cinematic;
- Geopoetics studies the relations between space, forms and genres, both literary and cinematic. The semiotic perspective of texts takes on spatial modalities: typography and the materiality of the book considered as object, spectatorship and modalities of the apparatus.

Co-organized by Ludovic Cortade (NYU, Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture) and Gui

Unpublished text read by the author (in French)

Exclusive presentation in the U.S. 
 

Des lotissements. Des parkings. Une centrale nucléaire. Pas tout à fait aujourd’hui. Pas tout à fait d’un autre temps. Des images d' une « utopie pavillonnaire », à la fois rythmée et aléatoire. Et l’écrivaine Marie Darrieussecq se tient à la jointure de ces images choisies par elle et le cinéaste Laurent Perreau. Un récit familial, intime, d’enfance et de jeunesse. Un père. Une vie dans l’angle de l’Europe. Une vie française, en trente minutes. Un texte inédit et voué à le rester, qui n’est écrit que pour vous être lu. 

Ce spectacle créé à Arles en écho à l’exposition 'Levitt France', dans le cadre des Rencontres de la photographie (2017), a tourné depuis dans divers festivals et théâtres en France. 

Essayiste, romancière, dramaturge, autrice d’albums jeunesse et psychanalyste, Marie Darrieussecq est née au Pays basque en 1969. Normalienne, agrégée de lettres, elle soutient en 1997 sa thèse de doctorat s

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