DOC FILMS
1) UNDER THE SAND/SOUS LE SABLE by François Ozon
Charlotte Rampling brings cold and fractured mystique to this study of loss, as a university professor who goes to the beach with her husband only to find him gone without a trace moments later. Life goes on for her–but, growing as romantically delusional as she once was happily married, she continues to conjure him up in her day-to-day present. A fine example of love’s sea-changes under grief’s duress, Under the Sand shows auteur François Ozon at the height of his powers. Print Courtesy of the Yale Film Study Center.
Monday, February 25 at 9:30 PM – 11:10 PM
runtime: 96min.
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2) WHITE MATERIAL by Claire Denis
This fierce drama by the great Claire Denis grapples with the lasting reverberations of European colonialism in the present day. Huppert plays the ferocious white owner of a coffee plantation in Africa, who refuses to give up her family estate even as a civil war threatens to consume it. Herself raised as a child in the African colonies, Denis is (admiringly) described by Barry Jenkins as someone who “truly just doesn’t give a shit…who has not one question about what her rights are as a storyteller.”
Wednesday, February 27 at 7:00pm and 9:30pm
Runtime:106 min.
1212 East 59th Street
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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE
1) DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST by Julie Dash
Film Retrospective 2018–19: Nouvelle Vague, Revisited
With Allyson Nadia Field, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago—In English.
A stunning debut by director Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust was the first feature film by an African American female filmmaker to receive a general theatrical release, an achievement sullied only by the icy reception that Hollywood gave Ms. Dash, one of the UCLA Film School graduates and filmmakers born out of a time known as the L.A. Rebellion.
An associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago Allyson Nadia Field’s primary research interest is African American film.
Wednesday, February 27 at 06:30 p.m.
$7 Members / $10 Non-Members / Includes a glass of French
54 W. Chicago Avenue
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2) FRANCOPHONIE KICK OFF / SOIRÉE COMMUNE
Get your passport to enjoy a world of regional delights and libations from Belgium, Canada, France, Haiti, Quebec, Romania, Switzerland and Benin & Togo! A special spotlight this year on Louisiane, named observer by the Organisation Internationale de la francophonie, with a rousing musical performance by The Cajun Vagabonds!
Better safe than sorry! Please register early for this popular event.
Friday, March 1 at 06:30 p.m.
$25 Admission / $15 Students 25 and under with student ID / Free for children 5 and under
54 W Chicago Ave
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3) SALON DU LIVRE
En Français
Commencez la journée avec un croissant; prenez un café en bouquinant nos livres, neufs ou usagés; venez rencontrer nos auteurs, et prenez part à une discussion sur le sujet de l’heure avec nos invités : l’appropriation culturelle et la liberté d’expression !
12:00 Slame ton samedi! Atelier d’écriture avec le rappeur SénéQueb Webster ·
1:00 Conversation avec l’artiste pluridisciplinaire Joël Degbo
2:00 Conversation avec l’auteur Azouz Begag
En conversation avec Isabelle David, auteure du blogue Sur un livre perché
3:00 Table ronde : Appropriation culturelle et liberté de parole
Table ronde modérée par John Ireland.
S’inscrire à l’avance!
Saturday, March 9 at 10:00 a.m.
Free Admission
54 W Chicago Ave
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GENE SISKEL CENTER
CHICAGO EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL
Many very recent movies in French from Belgium, France and Luxembourg will be shown during the festival!
March 8-April 4
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State Street
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