ANNA NORRIS
French-language
Film Festival
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All movies are in French with English subtitles
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
(Michel Hazanavicius - 2010)
Wednesday, November 5 - 5:30 p.m. - Snyder C20
1 hours 39 minutes
Presented by Dr. Anne VIolin-Wigent
The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath -- code named OSS 117 -- has a new mission that takes him to the Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960's. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with an embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators
Not rated but contains moderate profanity, sex, and nudity
Un prophète
Un prophète
(Jacques Audiard - 2010)
Thursday, November 6 - 5:30 p.m. - Snyder C20
2 hours 35 minutes
Presented by Dr. Timothée Valentin
The film stars Tahar Rahim in the title role as an imprisoned petty criminal of Algerian origin who rises in the prison hierarchy. He becomes a mob associate and drug trafficker as he is absorbed into the Corsican mafia and then ingratiates himself into the Maghrebi crime syndicate.
Rated R for strong violence, sexual content, nudity, language and drug material
Kirikou et la sorcière
Kirikou et la sorcière
(Michel Ocelot - 1998)
Friday, November 7 - 5:30 p.m. - Snyder C20
1 hour 14 minutes
Presented by Caroline Nwafor
The tiny Kirikou is born into an African village upon which a sorceress called Karaba has cast a terrible spell: the spring has dried up, the villagers are being blackmailed, the men of the village have either been kidnapped or have mysteriously disappeared. Kirikou wants to rid the village of the curse so he goes on a voyage to the Forbidden Mountain, where the Wise Man of the Mountain, who knows of Karaba and her secrets, awaits him.
Rated PG
Incendies
Incendies
(Denis Villeneuve - 2010)
Monday, November 10 - 5:30 p.m. - Snyder C20
2 hours 10 minutes
Presented by Dr. Salah Hassan
Incendies is a haunting and emotionally devastating 2010 drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapted from the acclaimed play by Wajdi Mouawad. Set between present-day Canada and a war-torn Middle Eastern country (a fictionalized Lebanon), the film is an intense meditation on identity, trauma, family, and the brutality of civil conflict. With a narrative that unfolds like a mystery, Incendies leaves a powerful and lasting impression on viewers.
Rated R for some strong violence and language
Caché
Caché
(Michael Haneke - 2005)
Tuesday, November 11 - 5:30 p.m. - Snyder C20
1 hours 57 minutes
Presented by Dr. Lynn Wolff
Caché (2005), directed by Michael Haneke, is a psychological thriller about a successful TV presenter, Georges, and his family who receive anonymous videotapes showing their home being spied on.
The tapes, accompanied by unsettling child-like drawings, force Georges to confront a buried guilt from his childhood, unearthing themes of national amnesia, the tensions between affluent France and its large North African population, and the universal question of whether to face one's past.
Rated R for brief strong violence
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