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Tuesday, January 9 at 12:30, 4 & 7pm 

Le Pornographe  (The Pornographer)

Bertrand Bonello, 2001
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jérémie Renier
Color. 108 min. In French with English subtitles. Rated R: No one under 17 will be admitted unless accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.

An ex-pornographer trying to make a comeback discovers that the once arty milieu of the counter culture has changed into a mainstream industry.

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Tuesday, January 16 at 12:30, 4 & 7pm

Paris s’éveille  (Paris Awakens)

Olivier Assayas, 1991
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Judith Godrèche
Color. 95 min. In French with English subtitles

A troubled teenage girl lives with an older man who tries to help her. She becomes lovers with his son, on the run from the police. Winner of Prix Jean Vigo.

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Tuesday, January 23 at 12:30, 4 & 7pm

L’Île au Trésor  (Treasure Island)

Raoul Ruiz, 1991
With Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau
Color. 115 min. In French with English subtitles

Ruiz’s contemporary interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island. Léaud is the narrator and plays the role of Midas.

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Tuesday, January 30 at 12:30, 4 & 7pm

La Naissance de l’amour  (The Birth Of Love)

Philippe Garrel, 1993
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Lou Castel
B&W. 94 min. In French with English subtitles

Léaud plays a writer struggling to find inspiration after his girlfriend leaves him.

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Tuesday, February 6 at 12:30, 4 & 7pm

La Vie de bohème  (Bohemian Life)

Aki Kaurismäki, 1992
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Matti Pellonpaa
B&W. 100 min. In French with English subtitles.

A comedy about the loves, lives and survival of three penniless artists and close friends in modern-day Paris.

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Tuesday, February 13 at 12:30 & 6:30pm

Les Quatre cents coups  (The 400 Blows)

François Truffaut, 1959
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy
B&W. 99 min. In French with English subtitles.

Léaud’s brilliant debut performance as a troubled yet resourceful boy growing up in Paris. Inspired by Truffaut’s own youth.

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Tuesday, February 13 at 4 & 9pm

Les Deux anglaises et le continent  (Two English Girls)

François Truffaut, 1971
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham
Color. 108 min. In French with English subtitles.

An Englishwoman goes to Paris and befriends a Frenchman. She invites him to England, where he meets and falls in love with her sister.

Film critic and historian Elliot Stein will introduce the 9pm screening. He is currently a writer for The Village Voice and has been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone and other notable publications. His closest friend is cinematographer Néstor Almendros, who shot many films by Truffaut, including Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent. Stein will share behind-the-scenes stories on the making of that film.

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Tuesday, February 20 at 12:30, 4 & 7pm

What Time Is It Over There?

Ming-liang Tsai, 2001
With Kang-Sheng Lee, Shiang-Chiang Lu
Color. 116 min. In French with English subtitles.

Léaud makes a cameo as himself in this touching film about a watch vendor in Tapei who meets the woman of his dreams, about to leave for Paris. To maintain a connection with her, he tries to set every watch he sees to Paris time.

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Tuesday, February 27 at 12:30, 4 & 7pm

Masculin féminin

Jean-Luc Godard, 1966.
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya
B&W. 103 min. In French with English subtitles.

A series of verité-style interviews about love, love making and politics. Léaud stars as a romantic idealist who chases a budding a pop star.

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Program and dates are subject to change.

Curated by Marie Losier.

Film programs of the French Institute Alliance Française are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.

Special thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
American Airlines is the official airline of the French Institute Alliance Française.