The French Film Festival continues in Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts through July 24th - don't miss the last few days!
View the best of contemporary French film at the 16th Annual Boston French Film Festival featuring favorite French stars like Mathieu Amalric, Isabelle Carré, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Fabrice Luchini, Yolande Moreau, Benoît Poelvoorde, Léa Seydoux, and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Tomorrow's showing:
July 21, 2011 8:15 pm - 9:55 pm Remis Auditorium, 161
Admission $9 MFA members, seniors, and students, $11 Nonmembers
The Names of Love (Le nom des gens) by Michel Leclerc (2010, 102 min.). Baya Benmahmoud (Sarah Forestier), a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan “Make love, not war” and converts right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results—until she meets Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin), a Jewish, middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist.
Improbably, the duo falls in love. Amid the amour, humor, and moments of sheer madness, filmmaker Michel Leclerc injects satirical riffs on such hot-button sociopolitical issues as Arab-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, immigration, and racial and cultural identity.
Forestier won the Best Actress Award and Leclerc and Baya Kasmi won Best Original Screenplay at this year’s Césars (French Oscars).
Unless otherwise noted, all films are presented in 35mm, were produced in France, and are in French with English subtitles.
Get more information and show times here: http://www.mfa.org/programs/film
View the best of contemporary French film at the 16th Annual Boston French Film Festival featuring favorite French stars like Mathieu Amalric, Isabelle Carré, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Fabrice Luchini, Yolande Moreau, Benoît Poelvoorde, Léa Seydoux, and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Tomorrow's showing:
July 21, 2011 8:15 pm - 9:55 pm Remis Auditorium, 161
Admission $9 MFA members, seniors, and students, $11 Nonmembers
The Names of Love (Le nom des gens) by Michel Leclerc (2010, 102 min.). Baya Benmahmoud (Sarah Forestier), a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan “Make love, not war” and converts right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results—until she meets Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin), a Jewish, middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist.
Improbably, the duo falls in love. Amid the amour, humor, and moments of sheer madness, filmmaker Michel Leclerc injects satirical riffs on such hot-button sociopolitical issues as Arab-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, immigration, and racial and cultural identity.
Forestier won the Best Actress Award and Leclerc and Baya Kasmi won Best Original Screenplay at this year’s Césars (French Oscars).
Unless otherwise noted, all films are presented in 35mm, were produced in France, and are in French with English subtitles.
Get more information and show times here: http://www.mfa.org/programs/film
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