 FIAF
and Unifrance are pleased to present, in collaboration with
the 15th Rendez-vous
with French Cinema, acclaimed actor and director Yvan
Attal who will introduce screenings of I Got a
Woman and New York, I Love You, and
participate in a Q&A session with the audience.
I Got a Woman
Yvan Attal, 1997. Color. 7 min.
With Yvan Attal, Lionel Abelanski, Olivier Bouana
In French with English subtitles
Made in 1997, Yvan Attal’s first short humorously depicts
the trials and tribulations of sharing the life of an actress.
The piece became the starting point for his first feature, My
Wife is an Actress (Ma femme est une actrice),
in which he starred alongside his real-life wife Charlotte
Gainsbourg (shown recently during FIAF’s CinémaTuesdays series Charlotte
Forever).
New York, I Love You
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Two segments directed by Yvan Attal, 2009. Color. 103
min.
With Maggie Q, Ethan Hawke, Chris Cooper, Robin Wright Penn
In English, No subtitles
The passions of the city that never sleeps come to life
in New York, I Love You (a follow-up to 2006’s Paris,
je t'aime)—a collaboration of storytelling from some
of today's most imaginative filmmakers, featuring an all-star
cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of spontaneous,
surprising, and electrifying human connections that unfold
beneath the New York skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park
to Brooklyn, the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as
the very fabric of New York itself. The other filmmakers
involved include Fatih Akin, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes,
Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira
Nair, Natalie Portman, and Brett Ratner.
Moderator: Ronni Scheib
For the past eight years Ronnie Scheib has been the New York
film reviewer for Variety. She received a PhD in French
Literature from Yale and taught for several years. While
on a Fulbright to Paris, she discovered the Cinématheque
where her fascination with film became a full-blown addiction.
Subsequently, she wrote film criticism for various journals,
including Film Comment, American Film, Framework,
and Metro, and for film anthologies like American
Directors, The American Animated Cartoon, and Ida
Lupino, Queen of the B’s. Ms. Scheib has also written
dialogue for Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, co-produced an
Ida Lupino video series for Kino International and appeared
in a recent documentary on the roots of animation. |
A very special thanks
to Unifrance and
Yvan Attal. |
Cinéma at FIAF is made possible
with public funds from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a State Agency |
FIAF's
Winter 2010 Season Sponsors: American Airlines, the official
airline of FIAF; the Cultural Services of the French Embassy;
Culturesfrance; and the Florence Gould Foundation |
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