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CinémaTuesdays
Charlotte Forever
January & February 2010
Florence Gould Hall |
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Screenings
January 12: The Science of Sleep
January 19: My Wife is an Actress
January 26: Happily Ever After
February 2: La Bûche
February 9: Lover
February 16: Charlotte for Ever
February 16: L’Effrontée
February 23: Kung-fu master!
Special Sneak Preview!
January 25: New York
Premiere - Persécution
Charlotte Gainsbourg is one of the more fascinating actresses
of her generation. Radiating timeless beauty and grace in
all of her endeavors, Charlotte is known to audiences around
the world as one of the stars of Michel Gondry’s international
hit The Science of Sleep, as well as the recipient
of the Best Actress award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival
for her fearless performance in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist.
FIAF is very pleased to present a small retrospective of
Gainsbourg’s impressive and diverse career in French cinema,
including the New
York Premiere of her upcoming film, Persécution,
directed by Patrice Chéreau. |
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Gael García Bernal
&
Charlotte Gainsbourg |
The
Science of Sleep
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
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Trailer
La science
des rêves
Michel Gondry, 2006. Color. 105 min.
With Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat
In French with English subtitles
Gorgeously inventive and achingly human, Gondry’s third
feature finds him exploring memory, imagination, and love
in his inimitable style. Stéphane (García Bernal) spends
his days in an office and his evenings tinkering with homemade
gadgets—and at all times, he pines for his neighbor, Stéphanie
(Gainsbourg).
Review
A film full of extraordinary reveries. Sweet, crazy,
and tinged with sadness…
a wondrous concoction.
—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
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Yvan Attal & Charlotte Gainsbourg |
My
Wife is an Actress
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
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Trailer
Ma femme
est une actrice
Yvan Attal, 2001. Color. 95 min.
With Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Terence Stamp, Noémie Lvovsky
In French with English subtitles
Gainsbourg and Attal, married in real life, are immensely
charming as an onscreen couple in this shrewd comedy aimed
at celebrity and romance. A journalist adores his actress
wife, but is sent into a neurotic panic when she is cast
as the love interest of a debonair international star.
Review
What gives 'My Wife is an Actress' its extra juice is
the natural energy exchange between the spirited real-life
couple, who conjure the sort of credibly warm interplay that
is hard to fake and probably harder to reproduce in front
of a camera.
—L.A. Times
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Charlotte Gainsbourg & Yvan Attal |
Happily
Ever After
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
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Trailer
Ils se
marièrent et eurent beaucoup d’enfants
Yvan Attal, 2004. Color. 100 min.
With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal,
Terence Stamp, Johnny Depp
In French with English subtitles
Gainsbourg’s second collaboration with Attal after the
success of My Wife is an Actress finds three friends
approaching middle age considering their past, present, and
possibly future experiences with love. With great comic insight
and graceful filmmaking, Attal examines fidelity, marriage,
and the paths to happiness we sometimes struggle to find.
Review
Carried off with grace, wit and refinement.
—The New York Times
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Charlotte Gainsbourg |
La
Bûche
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
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Trailer
La Bûche
Daniele Thompson, 1999. Color. 106 min.
With Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg
In French with English subtitles
At Christmas time, three daughters reunite to assist their
grieving mother after the funeral of their stepfather. Now
adults who lead very different lives, these women gather
to confront a shared past and redefine their family. Gainsbourg
won a Best Supporting Actress César for her performance as
Milla, the youngest daughter.
Review
Even if you hate everything about the holidays—and especially
if you hate the kind of movies that herald them—
you will find much to love in La Bûche.
—A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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Amoureuse |
Lover
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
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Trailer
Amoureuse
Jacques Doillon, 1992. Color. 99 min.
With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Thomas Langmann
In French with English subtitles
Doillon, whose keen understanding of youth is without peer,
offers with Lover the story of a girl who becomes
the object of infatuation of an older man. Already dating
another boy, Marie (Gainsbourg) struggles with the persistence
of Paul (Attal), whose interference in her life is a distraction—and,
possibly, a temptation.
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Charlotte & Serge Gainsbourg |
Charlotte
for Ever
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
12:30 & 7:30pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
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Trailer
Charlotte
for Ever
Serge Gainsbourg, 1986. Color. 94 min.
With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg,
Roland Bertin, Roland Dubillard
In French with English subtitles
Note: Adult content. Mature audiences only.
A rare screening of this notorious and misunderstood film.
Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and starred in this dark
and fascinating tale of a screenwriter grieving over his
wife’s unexpected death. Suicidal, he turns for affection
to the only remaining link to his wife—his daughter.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg |
L’Effrontée
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
4pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
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Trailer
L'Effrontée
Claude Miller, 1985. Color. 96 min.
With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clothilde Baudon,
Bernadette Laffont, Jean-Claude Brialy
In French. NO English subtitles
Winner of the Prix Louis-Delluc, L’Effrontée earned
Gainsbourg the “Most Promising Actress” César for this, her
first starring role. As a teenager in rural France, Charlotte
(Gainsbourg) is frustrated and bored with home life. But
a young pianist upends her world with talk of opportunity
elsewhere, far from her family.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg |
Kung-fu
master!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Florence Gould Hall
Part of CinémaTuesdays: Charlotte Forever
Kung-fu
master!
Agnès Varda, 1988. Color. 80 min.
With Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy,
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon
In French with English subtitles
Mary-Jane (Birkin), a divorced mother of two, grows close
to a teenage boy she met at her daughter’s party. Through
conversations, vacations, and video games, the pair’s relationship
evolves in a way that confuses their families and even themselves.
Review
Varda’s empathetic direction anchors this delicate, but
often powerful story. It is doubtless the most beautiful
role played by Jane on the big screen.
—J. Nacache, La Revue du Cinéma
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Venue & Ticket
Information
Venue
Florence Gould
Hall
55 East 59th Street
Ticket Prices
FIAF Members Free** ($2 advance
tickets)
Non-Members $10
Students with ID $7
**Free tickets for FIAF
Members are distributed on the day of the event. Please
present your Membership card at the box office. Members
may purchase tickets in advance for $2. |
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Curated
by Marie Losier
Special thanks to the Cultural Services
of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
MK2, and Nathalie Hubert
Cinéma at FIAF is made possible
with public funds from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a State agency
Winter 2010 Sponsors:
American
Airlines, the official airline of FIAF
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Culturesfrance
Florence Gould Foundation
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency
Photos courtesy of Photofest |
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