FAU Presents a French Film Festival

by N. Jacobsen | Wednesday, Mar 21, 2018

Florida Atlantic University presents the Tournees French Film Festival from Wednesday, March 21 through Wednesday, April 11. All movies will be shown in the Performing Arts Building, Room 101, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus, and are free and open to the public. Films are in French with English subtitles and will be introduced, with discussion to follow, by FAU faculty. The movies include “Franz,” “Francophonia,” “Examen d’État / National Diploma,” “Avril et le monde truqué / April and the Extraordinary World,” “La Belle et la Bête / Beauty and the Beast,” and “Ni le ciel ni la terre / Neither Heaven nor Earth.” View 2018 poster...

  • Wednesday, March 21, 6:30 p.m. “Frantz,” introduced by Roderick Cooke, Ph.D. Shortly after World War I, in a provincial German town conspicuously devoid of its young men, Anna discovers a stranger at the grave of her late fiancé Frantz, one of the thousands of young Germans killed in the war. The stranger soon introduces himself to Anna and Frantz’s parents as Adrien, a French friend of the dead soldier. Growing fond of Adrien, Anna begins to come out of mourning for Frantz and once again embraces her future. Then Adrien makes a terrible confession and disappears, forcing Anna to go searching for him in Paris.
  • Friday, March 23, 6:30 p.m. “Francofonia,” introduced by Viviana Pezzullo. Francofonia is the great Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov’s heroically ambitious meditation on European culture and history as seen through the story of the Louvre museum in Paris, with a particular focus on its fortunes during World War II. Neither a straight documentary nor a standard work of fiction, the film achieves an essayistic density by moving between several narrative strands.
  • Monday, March 26, 7 p.m. “Examen d’État / National Diploma,” introduced by Roderick Cooke, Ph.D. In the Congo, passing the national baccalaureate exam can save a young person from a life of manual labor and open the doors to university and a career. To fail the exam is to be fated to struggle for survival through menial work. As Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi’s documentary National Diploma so powerfully shows, the path to success in the national exam is full of challenges.
  • Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 p.m. “Avril et le monde truqué / April and the Extraordinary World,” introduced by Denise Pinnaro. This one-of-a-kind animated adventure film ushers the viewer into an alternate reality in which the Bonapartes still rule France, electricity was never discovered, trees are a distant memory, and a steam-driven cable car connects Paris to Berlin. In this dystopic steampunk landscape, scientists have mysteriously disappeared for decades and April Franklin, the brilliant young descendant of a long line of chemists is in danger of being next. With the help of a shady drifter called Julius and her talking cat, Darwin, April sets off to find her missing parents, while trying to keep the “invincibility serum” she has developed out of the hands of the imperial police — and those of a nefarious group of intelligent Komodo dragons
  • Wednesday, April 4, 6:30 p.m. “La Belle et la Bête / Beauty and the Beast,” introduced by Marcella Munson, Ph.D. When the beautiful Belle volunteers to take her ruined father’s place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast who lives in a castle on the other side of the forest, an unexpected romance blossoms between the reclusive monster and the innocent maiden. Soon the question arises whether the real monster is the beast or Belle’s avaricious siblings … especially since the beast is actually a cursed prince (played by the uncannily handsome Jean Marais).
  • Wednesday, April 11, 6:30 p.m. “Ni le ciel ni la terre / Neither Heaven nor Earth,” introduced by Roderick Cooke, Ph.D. When French soldiers stationed at a remote outpost in Afghanistan begin vanishing without a trace, their commander, Capt. Antares Bonassieu (Jérémie Renier), assumes that enemy troops are responsible. Then he learns that the Taliban are also disappearing and realizes he may be facing the most invisible of enemies.

The Tournees Festival is presented by FAU’s Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. For more information, contact Roderick Cooke at 561-297-0307 or cooker@fau.edu.

 


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