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French Cinema Now—a new five-day annual festival at Landmark’s Clay Theatre—brings the most significant new work from one of the world’s most renowned filmmaking countries to discerning Bay Area audiences. The latest expansion in the Film Society’s year-round programming, French Cinema Now covers a broad spectrum of subject matter and genres and builds a comprehensive picture of the current moment in French cinema.
October 8
A Christmas Tale
Desplechin's A Christmas Story-with Catherine Deneuve as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family and Mathieu Amalric as her estranged son-is a sprawling, wickedly funny family drama.
October 9
Welcome to the Sticks
This little charmer—a warm and uproarious send-up of regional prejudices and an embrace of inclusiveness—came out of nowhere this year to become the most successful French film of all time.
Actresses
A tour de force for director/cowriter/star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Actresses is a pointed and poignant portrait of a middle-aged woman who is artistically successful but generally unhappy.
October 10
Life of the Dead
In his first film, little-seen in the U.S., Arnaud Desplechin begins his revelatory investigation into the web of relationships that comprise the modern family.
Alibi
Special Preview Presentation
In this crisply paced and witty Agatha Christie adaptation, a poolside murder reveals an intricate web of sexual intrigue and tangled romantic jilting.
Lads and Jockeys
Benjamin Marquet’s feature-length documentary takes us into the world where young teens adopt a grueling training regimen in hopes of landing an elusive career: riding at professional horse races.
October 11
My Sex Life . . . or How I Got into an Argument
Arnaud Desplechin perfectly captures the heady milieu of graduate school in this keenly funny and exceedingly intelligent film about people on the edge of adulthood but scared to death of the potential abysses lying below.
Lads and Jockeys
Benjamin Marquet’s feature-length documentary takes us into the world where young teens adopt a grueling training regimen in hopes of landing an elusive career: riding at professional horse races.
Six in Paris
In the delightful Six in Paris, a sextet of French New Wave directors write and direct stories structured around a particular Parisian neighborhood’s topography.
Alibi
Special Preview Presentation
In this crisply paced and witty Agatha Christie adaptation, a poolside murder reveals an intricate web of sexual intrigue and tangled romantic jilting.
Eden Log
Refreshingly complex, vividly unsettling, and artfully shot, Franck Vestiel’s sci-fi feature offers ample chills and much food for thought.
October 12
Welcome to the Sticks
This little charmer—a warm and uproarious send-up of regional prejudices and an embrace of inclusiveness—came out of nowhere this year to become the most successful French film of all time.
Actresses
A tour de force for director/cowriter/star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Actresses is a pointed and poignant portrait of a middle-aged woman who is artistically successful but generally unhappy.
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
The Class
Unanimously voted the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Laurent Cantet’s The Class plunges viewers into a lively classroom set in the tough, multiethnic Paris neighborhood.
Six in Paris
In the delightful Six in Paris, a sextet of French New Wave directors write and direct stories structured around a particular Parisian neighborhood’s topography.
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