EVENT DETAILS

French Film Series

The French Program within the Department of European Langauges & Studies
is happy to present the Fall 2014

French Film Series

ALL SCREENINGS:
Location: Humanities Gateway 1070
McCormick Screening Room
FREE ADMISSION

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November 13th
Les intouchables (2011)
Comedy by directors Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano.
Start Time: 6:00PM

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker. The Intouchables found its inspiration in a true story, that of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Abdel
Sellou.

Presented by Odile Heberlé

November 20th
Les chansons d'amour (2007)
Musical drama by director Christophe Honoré.
Start Time: 6:00PM

The individual stories covered in the film tell ageworn
tales as old as time: the loss of love, the discovery of new love, the impossibility of mutual love.

Presented by Dina Moinzadeh

December 3rd
The French Minister (2014)
Political comedy by director Bertrand Tavernier.
Start Time: 6:45PM

Doors slam and papers fly in this off-the-wall, rapid-fire comedy about French politics set during the world crisis leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

Presented by Andreea Marculescu

December 11th
8 femmes (2001)
Musical comedy by director François Ozon.
Start Time: 6:00PM

At an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season... But there will be no celebration--their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house.

Presented by Maryse Mijalski