The 4th Annual Tournees French Film Festival is about to hit Flagstaff. A series of French films, all brand new to the big screen here in Flag, will be shown February 20th and 21st at the Cline Library Assembly Hall on NAU Campus. Admission is free to the public, and anyone interested in attending is encouraged to come. Additional information about the festival can be found at http://www.cal.nau.edu/cvc/festival.asp
List of films being shown
Feb. 20, “I y a longtemps que je t’aime” (I’ve loved you so long), Cline Library Assembly Hall, 1 p.m.
In his debut, director-screenwriter Philippe Claudel, a novelist and professor of literature, crafts a solid woman’s picture that, as a wonderful star vehicle for Kristin Scott Thomas, suggests a kinship with Warner Bros. weepies from the 1940s.
Feb. 20, “La graine et la mulet” (The secret of the grain), Cline Library Assembly Hall, 3 p.m.
This stunning film takes place in the Southern French city of Sète where Slimane, the patriarch of a large and vivacious North African family, is an elderly dockworker.
Feb. 20, “Entre les murs” (The Class), Cline Library Assembly Hall, 7 p.m.
The winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes was Laurent Cantet’s unsparing, unsentimental film about a teacher and his students at a diverse Parisian junior high school.
Feb. 21, “Comme un juif en France” (Being Jewish in France), Cline Library Assembly Hall, 12 p.m.
Yves Jeuland’s sweeping documentary explores the rich and complex history of Jews in France – the first country to grant Jews citizenship.
Feb. 21, “Les temoins” (The Witnesses),
Cline Library Assembly Hall, 4 p.m.
The Witnesses brilliantly combines the personal and the political, and is one of the rare films about the early years of the AIDS crisis.
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