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French Film Festival
November 6 - 10
South Kedzie S107 or S105
About the Anna Norris French Film Festival
The Anna Norris French-language film festival honors our colleague, mentor, and sister, Anna Norris. No matter how much time has passed, she is still with us today and continues to inspire us. Very often, we find ourselves thinking: What would Anna think? What would Anna say? What would Anna do? Anna had several loves in her life, first of all her family and we’re grateful to have her husband Ken with us tonight and we’re also thinking about her children Elliott and Camille.
Her other love was students and in particular taking them to Tours on the Study Abroad program. If you’d like to support such an incredible, life-changing adventure for students, please make a contribution to the Anna Norris Memorial Fund using this page. We welcome small contributions as even a couple of dollars adds up to help a student. Finally, we want to recognize Anna’s love for movies. For many years, she organized film festivals. We’re thrilled to continue her legacy.
Festival organizers
Anne Violin-Wigent and Valentina Denzel were the organizers of the Anna Norris French Film Festival (November 2023).
Dr. Anne Violin-Wigent
Dr. Anne Violin-Wigent
Associate Professor of French
Dr. Valentina Denzel
Dr. Valentina Denzel
Associate Professor of French
Description of films (Anna Norris French Festival)
Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)
Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)
(Guillaume Canet - 2006)
Monday, Nov 6 - 6:00pm - South Kedzie S107
2 hours 11 minutes
Tell No One is based on Harlan Coben’s international best selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck who still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to Tell No One.
2007 César for Best Actor and Best Director
Five Shorts against Homophobia
Five Shorts against Homophobia
(2009)
Tuesday, Nov 7 - 6:00pm - South Kedzie S107
Five Shorts Films against Homophobia, produced for Canal +, are directed by talented young French talents such as Céline Sciamma, Rodolphe Marconi and performed by Raphaël Personnaz, Félix Moati, Anaïs Demoustier and so on. The project has been supported by the French Ministery of Education and Sports and the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education.
An Eye for Beauty (Le règne de la beauté)
An Eye for Beauty (Le règne de la beauté)
(Denys Arcand - 2014)
Wednesday, Nov 8 - 6:30pm - South Kedzie S105
1 hour 42 minutes
A brilliant young architect puts his seemingly perfect life and marriage in jeopardy when he falls for a mysterious woman during a business trip.
Amour
Amour
(Michael Haneke - 2012)
Tuesday, Nov 9 - 6:00pm - South Kedzie S107
2 hours 7 minutes
Georges and Anne have known a lifetime of love within their intimate marriage. Though their bond has survived time’s test, it’s about to meet its greatest challenge. Acclaimed director Michael Haneke brings a performance tour-de-force to the screen in a film that exalts the beautiful, compassionate and courageous within us all.
2013 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, 2013 Golden Globes for Best Foreign Language Film, 2013 British Academy Film Awards for Best Leading Actress, 2013 British Academy Film Awards for Best Film not in the English Language, 2012 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Award
My Life in pink (Ma vie en rose)
My Life in pink (Ma vie en rose)
(Alain Berliner - 1997)
Friday, Nov 10 - 6:00pm - South Kedzie S107
1 hour 29 minutes
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl - and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilty - as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. As suburban prejudices close around them, family loves and loyalties are tested in the ever-escalating dramatic turns of Alain Berliner's critically acclaimed first feature. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a favorite at festivals around the world, this unique film experience delivers magic of the rarest sort through a story of difference, rejection, and childlike faith in miracles.
1998 Golden Globes for Best Foreign Language Film
Sponsors of the Anna Norris French Film Festival
This festival is sponsored by the Center for Gender in Global Context, the College of Arts and Letters, the Romance and Classical Studies Department, and the Graduate Student Association & TROPOS Journal (GSA-TROPOS).
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