Francophone
Events around
Connecticut and
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American
Association of Teachers of French - Connecticut Chapter
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Plages d'Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2009)Winner of the 2009 César for Best Documentary Celebrated as the French New Wave’s only
woman director, Agnès Varda is
simply one of France’s best filmmakers of any genre or gender. Now 81,
she takes a look back at her life with the same sense of humor, wonder
and curiosity that makes her movies (including Vagabond, One Sings, The
Other Doesn’t, Cleo from 5 to 7) so completely engaging. Much
like the
collectors of found objects in her documentary The Gleaners and I,
Varda collects images and memories from the people and places of her
life, from fellow filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and her late husband
Jacques Demy, to the many beaches around the globe that she has called
home. “For filmgoers determined to see cinema not just as mass
entertainment but as an art form, The
Beaches of Agnès arrives like an
exhilarating call to arms.” - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post.
 Coco avant Chanel View Trailer Cinéstudio, Dec. 9-12 Audrey Tatou stars in Anne Fontaine's film of Chanel's rise to fame from an obscure singer to an icon in the fashion world. Also starring Benoît Poelvoorde, Allessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain and Emmanuelle Devos. Le Silence de Lorna / Lorna's Silence  (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2008) View Trailer In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio. Fabio has orchestrated a sham marriage between her and Claudy. The marriage allows her to obtain Belgian citizenship and then marry a Russian Mafioso willing to pay a lot of money to acquire the same quickly. However, for this second marriage to be possible, Fabio has planned to kill Claudy. Will Lorna keep silent?
November 3..........La sirène du Mississippi: 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 10........L'enfant sauvage: 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 17........Les deux Anglaises et le Continentb 24........L'Argent de poche: 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 December 1..........L'Histoire d'Adèle H: 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 8..........L'Homme qi aimait les femmes: 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 15........Une belle fille comme moi: 12:30, 4:00 15................ meet the actress, Bernadette Lafont: 7:30 22........Le dernier métro: 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 Venue: Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street Tickets: FIAF Members Freel non-members $10; students $7 Buy Tix online: Ticketmaster.com Call: 212.307.4100
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The exhibition will explore the place of music and theater in the work of the great early 18th-century French painter and draftsman Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), comparing an imagery of power, associated with the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, with a more o  ptimistic
and mildly subversive imagery of pleasure, developed in
contemporary opera-ballet and theater. It will show that the painter’s
utopian vision was directly influenced
by these sister arts and will
shed light on the subjects of a number of Watteau’s images. In addition
to material drawn from various departments of the Museum, including
musical instruments, porcelains, and prints, there will be a number of
major loans of paintings and drawings by Watteau and his contemporaries
from other collections in the United States and Europe.
CELEBRATE CAJUN MUSIC with one of the
hottest
 young bands around. Once
idolized at at early age for their precocious musicianship and
sent all
over the world as youthful emblems of the cultural resurgence of
Arcadiana,
the members of Feufollet have, in the meantime, grown into the music as
young adults. $5 per
student; RSVP to Liz Neger by Nov. 10.
Click for lyrics; click for
more info about the group! |
Calendars are color-coded to
events, and may represent more than one activity
Descriptions of events are found below. November
December
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New York in French is a free, apolitical, non- commercial, community-oriented initiative open to anyone interested in French in New York City and its extended surroundings. This Ning platform offers many innovative, interactive, spam-free, collaborative and news-sharing tools which let you exchange, inform, contribute and debate about questions and interests related to enjoying, promoting and discovering the French language and those who speak it. Sign up here for access to topics ranging from recipes and tourism to opera and cinema (with articles and trailers!) There is also a teachers' section and, of course, many stimulating videos to appeal to Francofiles of all ages -- whether you live in New York, Connecticut, or France! |
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