Emmanuelle Devos will be at FIAF for a Q&A following the 7:30 screening of Read My Lips on June 6
French Institute Alliance Française, Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th St. between Madison & Park Aves.
Tuesday, June 6 – July 25, $14, 4:00 & 7:30
Series continues Tuesday nights through March 21
212-355-6100
fiaf.org
FIAF got quite a curator for its eight-week, eight-film CinéSalon series “Enigmatic Emmanuelle Devos”: beloved award-winning French actress Emmanuelle Devos herself. And to kick off the festival, which runs Tuesday nights from June 6 through July 25, Devos will be in Florence Gould Hall to present Jacques Audiard’s 2001 thriller, Sur mes lèvres (“Read My Lips”), for which Devos won the first of her two Césars as Best Actress. The film, which also stars Vincent Cassel, will be shown at 4:00 and 7:30 on June 6, with the later screening followed by a Q&A with Devos, who turned fifty-three earlier this month. The series continues with seven other films selected by Devos: Sophie Fillières’s Gentille, Arnaud Desplechin’s Kings and Queen and My Sex Life . . . or How I Got into an Argument, Jérôme Bonnell’s Just a Sigh, Lorraine Lévy’s The Other Son, Anne Le Ny’s Those Who Remain, and Martin Provost’s Violette. Devos, who has appeared in more than forty films during her twenty-six-year career, also received César nominations for Kings and Queen, The Adversary, and My Sex Life . . . as well as winning a second César for In the Beginning.