La section française du German and Romance Languages and Literatures Department, en collaboration avec CAMS, GRO, et le Program in Film and Media Studies, son heureux de vous inviter au festival de cinéma français pour l'année scolaire 2016-2017. Composé de quatre films de genres différents, le festival traite le sujet de l'adolescence sur plusieurs fronts.
The French section of the German and Romance Languages and Literatures Department, in collaboration with CAMS, GRO, and the Program in Film and Media Studies, invites you to this year's French Film Festival. Four films from differing genres speak on the subject of adolescence on several fronts.
Entrance is Free and Open to the Public.
All films will be screened in French with English Subtitles
Venez nombreux !
Film Festival: 2017
Sunday, March 12: "Persepolis"
"'Persepolis' is frequently somber, but it is also whimsical and daring, a perfect expression of the imagination’s resistance to the literal-minded and the power-mad, who insist that the world can be seen only in black and white." -A.O. Scotte, New York Times Film Review
Screening: 7:00 PM - Gilman 50, Homewood Campus
Presented by: Bernadette Wegenstein
Discussion to follow
Monday, March 13: "Tomboy"
"[...]you’re watching Ms. Sciamma explore the divide between sex and gender, and whether people are hard-wired or socially conditioned. With her very fine cinematographer, Crystel Fournier (who wrings beauty from a prosumer digital camera), Ms. Sciamma edges around her characters attractively, catching their glances, gestures, light and heavy words as if on the fly and then gently harnessing them to her low-key realism." -Manohla Dargis, New York Times Film Review
Screening: 7:00PM, Gilman 50
Presented by: Suzanne Roos
Discussion to follow
Wednesday, March 15: "Girlhood"
"But while “Girlhood” is sad and wrenching, it doesn’t feel like a misery-mongering expression of high-minded (and therefore condescending) concern. This is because Karidja Touré, evolving from the shy Marieme into the assertive Vic, carries herself with the kind of dignity that disarms all pity, and also because Ms. Sciamma, whose previous explorations of female adolescence include “Tomboy” and “Water Lilies,” is less interested in what Marieme might represent than in what she experiences."
-A.O. Scott, The New York Times Film Review
Screening: 7:00PM, Gilman 50
Presented by: Linda DeLibero
Discussion to follow
Thursday, March16: "The Spanish Apartment"
"'L'Auberge Espagnole' presents an appealing and persuasive picture of European integration, in which national differences, which once sparked military and political conflict, are preserved because they make life sexier and more interesting." -A.O. Scott, The New York Times Movie Review
Screening: 7:00PM, Gilman 50
Presented by: Derek Schilling
Followed by reception