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Bryant University will host a
French film festival from Feb. 27 through March 5 on the Bryant campus, 1150 DouglasPike. All films will be shown in Janikies
Theatre. Admission is free and open to the public.
This event is part of
Tournées, a program of the French American Cultural Exchange. It is
designed to help bring contemporary French cinema to colleges and universities.
The festival is made possible with the support of the cultural services of the
French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture, and is sponsored by the
university’s Faculty Development Center, Women’s Center, SCOLA Educational TV, Diversity Council of Champions and the Department of
Literary and Cultural Studies. For more information, contact Enoch Park at epark@bryant.edu
or (401) 232-6740.
The films have English
subtitles. For complete information on each film, including ratings, please
click on the poster provided next to each film title.
SCHEDULE OF FILMS
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Indigene
(Days of Glory)
Wednesday,
Feb. 27, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m
Days of Glory
relates the story of “indigènes," the North African and African soldiers
who were recruited by the French to liberate France from the Nazis in World War
II. With a reputation for endurance and great courage, they were sent to the
front lines. While fighting for freedom, however, these soldiers faced
tremendous racism in the military and in French society, forcing them to
struggle for equality at every turn.
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La Moustache
(The Moustache)
Thursday
Feb. 28, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
When Marc, a successful architect, impulsively shaves off the
moustache he’s worn his entire adult life, no one notices the difference, not
even his wife, Agnès. Friends and spouse insist Marc hasn't worn a moustache
for years, if ever. Marc thinks he is being tricked by an elaborate group plot,
and later believes his wife has lost her mind. When other elements of Marc's
life begin to slip away, Agnès and his friends suspect he has gone crazy and
conspire to have him committed to a psychiatric facility.
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Fauteuil d’Orchestre
(Avenue Montaigne)
Saturday
March 1, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m
Jessica is a beautiful and naive girl from southeastern France. Her
grandmother continuously repeats the same story: When she was young she managed
to move up in the world while working as a cleaning lady in a popular luxury
hotel in Paris.
One day, Jessica decides to take a page from her grandmother's story. She sets
out for Paris and finds a job at a cafe
frequented by "tout Paris."
Her customers include an array of artistic figures, but a social and financial
gap separates Jessica from them.
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Vers le Sud
(Heading South)
Saturday
March 1, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m
Ellen, a 55-year-old professor of French literature, takes her
annual vacation at an out-of-the-way Haitian resort, where she is the queen bee
among unattached middle-aged women from Europe and North
America. Weighing the value of erotic pleasure and the emotional
risks, the women address questions of sex, love, aging, loneliness and desire
in blunt personal monologues. The film explores the intersections of cultural
imperialism, sexual tourism and women's liberation in a repressive
dictatorship.
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L’Ivresse du Pouvoir
(Comedy of Power)
Wednesday
March 5, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m
Jeanne, working as a magistrate, realizes that the more she delves
into secrets of the cases she investigates, the more her means of power
increase. High-level associates of the company are summoned into her office and
all are scandalized by her accusations and her lack of respect for their social
positions. As she unravels the truth, Jeanne’s private life is jeopardized,
both physically and psychologically.
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