JUNE 2012
All screenings are on Tuesday nights
except for "Les Plages d'Agnes" on Saturday, June 30th.
Le 5 Juin - Cliente by Josiane Balasko
Cliente with Nathalie Baye, Josiane Balasko, Isabelle carré.
(2008) dir Josiane Balasko | 104 min
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair
In French with English subtitles.
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Le 12 juin - Le goût des autres by Agnès Jaoui
Le goût des autres with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat , Agnès Jaoui , Gérard Lanvin.
(2000) dir. Agnès Jaoui| 112 min
Three men, three women, opposites, possibilities, and tastes. Castella owns a industrial steel barrel plant in Rouen; Bruno is his flute-playing driver, Franck is his temporary bodyguard while he negotiates a contract with Iranians, his wife Angélique does frou-frou interior decorating and loves her dog. The conventional Castella hires a forty-year-old actress, Clara, to tutor him in English, and he finds her and her Bohemian lifestyle fascinating. Is this love? What would she say if he declared himself? Through Bruno, Franck meets Manie, a barmaid who deals hash. They begin an affair. Are they in love? They joke about marriage. As the women hold back, the men must make decisions.
In French with English subtitles.
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Le 19 Juin - 3 Hommes et un couffin by Coline Serreau
3 Hommes et un couffin with André Dussolier, Michel Boujenah , Roland Gireau.
(1985) dir. Coline Serreau| 106 min
Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties (During the movie, we even learn that they have signed a contract never to allow a girl to spend more than one night at their place). Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package (which turned out to be heroin) to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed. This movie follows the bachelors as they deal with angry gangsters, suspicious cops, and the overwhelming responsibility of fatherhood.
In French with English subtitles.
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Le 26 Juin - Inch'Allah dimanche by Yamina Benguigui
Inch'Allah Dimanche with Fejria Deliba, Mathilde seignier , Zinedine Soualem ,Rabia Mokkedem.
(2001) dir. Yamina Benguigui| 98 min
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
In French with English subtitles.
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Le Samedi 30 Juin - Les plages d'Agnès by Agnès Varda
Les plages d'Agnès with Agnès Varda, Mathieu Demy, Christophe Vilar , Blaise Fournier.
(2008) dir. Agnès Varda| 110 min
At nearly 80, Agnès Varda explores her memory - growing up in Belgium, living in Sète, Paris, and Noirmoutier, discovering photography, making a film, being part of the New Wave, raising children with Jacques Demy, losing him, and growing old. She explores her memory using photographs, film clips, home movies, contemporary interviews, and set pieces she designs to capture a feeling, a time, or a frame. Shining through each scene are her impish charm, inventiveness, and natural empathy. How do people grow old, how does loss stay with them, can they remain creative, and what do they remember? Memory, she says, is like a swarm of confused flies. She envisions hers for us.
In French with English subtitles.
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(2008) dir. Agnès Varda| 110 min
At nearly 80, Agnès Varda explores her memory - growing up in Belgium, living in Sète, Paris, and Noirmoutier, discovering photography, making a film, being part of the New Wave, raising children with Jacques Demy, losing him, and growing old. She explores her memory using photographs, film clips, home movies, contemporary interviews, and set pieces she designs to capture a feeling, a time, or a frame. Shining through each scene are her impish charm, inventiveness, and natural empathy. How do people grow old, how does loss stay with them, can they remain creative, and what do they remember? Memory, she says, is like a swarm of confused flies. She envisions hers for us.
In French with English subtitles.
Click on the picture to watch the trailer!