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CINÉMATUESDAYS: PARIS TODAY

Adam Goldberg and Adam Julie Delpy play lovers having a rough two days in Paris

2 DAYS IN PARIS (Julie Delpy, 2007)
French Institute Alliance Française
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th St. between Madison & Park Aves.
Tuesday, April 5, $10, 12:30 & 4:00
Series continues through April 26
212-355-6160
www.fiaf.org
www.2daysinparisthefilm.com

Julie Delpy’s delightful debut, 2 Days in Paris, is a true DIY indie, with Delpy serving as writer, director, editor, star, composer, soundtrack performer, and one of the producers. Delpy plays Marion, a flitty Frenchwoman who decides to bring her boyfriend of two years, Jack (a heavily tattooed Adam Goldberg), to spend two days with in her hometown in Paris as a stopover on their way from Venice to their apartment in New York City. But spending forty-eight hours with Marion’s family (Delpy’s real-life parents, Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, and sister, Alexia Landeau) and bumping into a seemingly endless stream of Marion’s former boyfriends while not understanding a word anyone is saying might be a bit much for Jack, an interior designer whose own insides are rife with stomach problems and migraines. 2 Days in Paris is Delpy’s Annie Hall, an engaging film filled with slapstick humor, inventive characters, and underlying truths about love and life. It is screening April 5 at 12:30 and 7:00 at Florence Gould Hall as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s CinémaTuesdays: Paris Today series, with Tonie Marshall’s five-minute 1994 short, Before . . But After (Avant . . . Mais Après), starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Quentin Ogier.

The series, consisting of contemporary films made in Paris, also includes La Danse, le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris (Frederick Wiseman, 2009) on April 5 at 7:30, Des câlins dans les cuisines (Sébastien Laudenbach, 2004) and Change of Address (Changement d’adresse) (Emmanuel Mouret, 2006) on April 12 at 12:30 and 7:00, Des câlins dans les cuisines and Au fin Moka (Boris Joseph, 2005) on April 12 at 4:00, The Sailboats of the Luxembourg (Les voiliers du Luxembourg) (Nicolas Engel, 2005) and Andalucia (Alain Gomis, 2007) on April 19, and It’s Sunday! (C’est Dimanche!) (Samir Guesmi, 2008) and Clara and Me (Arnaud Viard, 2004) on April 26.

CAROLINE BOTTARO AND KEVIN KLINE PRESENT QUEEN TO PLAY

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.

CAROLE BOUQUET: LETTRES À GÉNICA

Carole Bouquet will be reading Antonin Artaud’s letters to Génica Athanasiou in special FIAF presentation (photo © Fuerte)

French Institute Alliance Française
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th St. between Madison & Park Aves.
Thursday, February 24, $50, 8:00
212-355-6160
www.fiaf.org

French actress and model Carole Bouquet, who has starred in such films as That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977), Blank Generation (Uli Lommel, 1980), For Your Eyes Only (John Glen, 1981), and Lucie Aubrac (Claude Berri, 1997), will be making a rare stage appearance in New York City on February 24 for a one-night-only presentation of Lettres à Génica at the French Institute Alliance Française. Bouquet will be reading love letters sent from innovative poet, actor, mystic, and Theatre of Cruelty provocateur Antonin Artaud to his girlfriend, Romanian actress Génica Athanasiou. Artaud, who suffered most of his life from psychological problems, and Athanasiou teamed up on such projects as 1928’s La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman), which was written by Artaud and starred Athanasiou; directed by Gemaine Dulac, it is considered to be the first surrealist film. Bouquet will read the letters in French, with English supertitles. Tickets are $50, but FIAF is offering a special two-event package for $85, pairing Lettres à Génica with the March 3 New York premiere of Francis Huster’s La Peste, in which the French actor presents his one-man performance of Albert Camus’s 1947 novel, The Plague.