Star Kevin Kline will join director Caroline Bottaro at FIAF on Saturday night for a sneak preview of their new film, QUEEN TO PLAY
SNEAK PREVIEW! MEET THE DIRECTOR & ACTOR
French Institute Alliance Française
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th St. between Madison & Park Aves.
Saturday, March 19, $10, 7:00
212-355-6160
www.fiaf.org
www.zeitgeistfilms.com
After screening at film festivals around the world since 2009, Caroline Bottaro’s Queen to Play (Joueuse), about an American expatriate and a French chambermaid who connect over the game of of chess and their dual midlife crises, will finally get its theatrical release on April 1 at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza. But the French Institute Alliance Française is offering a sneak peak at this drama, which is based on Bertina Henrichs’s novel The Chess Player and pairs Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) in his first French-speaking role with the great Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond), with a special showing Saturday night in Florence Gould Hall. The screening, which costs only ten bucks, a bargain for a movie these days, will be followed by a Q&A with star Kline and first-time director Bottaro.