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Cinéma "Films Historiques” Films are in French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted Review your classics or discover the contemporary French and French speaking cinematography in thematic series "Films Historiques".
	INDIGENES France, 2007, Not rated, 128 min Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. Samy Nacéri, Roschdy Zem, Bernard Blancan, Sami Bouajila and Jamel Debbouze. R Friday, March 2 @ Alliance française Miami - 6:45 pm Alliance française members free - Non member $5 Algeria, 1943, through Italy and France, to Alsace in early 1945, with a coda years later. Arabs volunteer to fight Nazis to liberate France, their motherland. We follow Saïd, dirt poor, an orderly for a grizzled sergeant, Martinez, a pied noir with some willingness to speak up for his Arab troops; Messaoud, a crack shot, who in Province falls in love with a French woman who loves him back; and Abdelkader, a corporal, a budding intellectual with a keen sense of injustice. The men fight with courage against a backdrop of small and large indignities: French soldiers get better food, time for leave, and promotions. Is the promise of liberty, equality, and fraternity hollow? 12 nominations, 6 won. Nominated for the best Foreign Film in the Oscar 2007 and the cast rightly shared the best actor award at Cannes. “Many movies create a mood for action and change. Very few have an immediate effect. One of these is Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing, which in 1988 led within weeks to the suspension and then abolition of capital punishment in Poland. Another is Days of Glory, which concludes with an account of how pensions to African soldiers were frozen when their countries attained independence from France. After President Chirac attended the premiere, he set about changing the law, though not yet to the extent of making retrospective payments.” Philip French, the Guardian “It is a chronicle of courage and sacrifice, of danger and solidarity, of heroism and futility, told with power, grace and feeling and brought alive by first-rate acting. A damn good war movie.” A Scott, New York Times Special thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Miami Dade College and Institut français Complete serie program “Films Historiques” Third Friday of the month - 6:45 pm @ MDC Tower Theater, Miami First Friday of the month - 6:45 pm @ Alliance française Miami Le destin more Les caprices d'un fleuve more Vénus noire more La France more Au revoir les enfants more