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QUI M’AIME ME SUIVE (2006) Follow me if you love me. This typical French expression was first used by King Philippe VI de Valois to enhance the braveness of his coward barons and have them involved in a bloody battle. Thus, we’re running through a disaster in this movie. “Qui m aime me suive” tells the story of 35-year-old Maxime, a brilliant doctor, who leads an orderly life surrounded by his lawyer wife but admired by his friends and his happy family. But, one day he meets Chine, a singer, and receives the shock everyone close to him has always dreaded. Max decides to chuck in his career and starts up a rock group, fulfilling at last a youth dream. He drags everyone else into his madcap escapade; his decisions affect all their lives. |
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BOY MEETS GIRL (1984) Directed by Leo Carax. With Caroll Brooks, Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier  Tuesday , October, 11 @ Tower Theater Friday, October 21 @ Playhouse, WPBAlex and Mireille, two drifting souls, meet on a desperate night in Paris. A reflection on art and fiction in Carax’s first film. Leos Carax's (Pola X, Lovers on the Bridge) brilliant feature debut follows the relationship of an aspiring filmmaker (Denis Lavant), who has just been left by his lover and a suicidal young woman (Mireille Perrier), who is also reeling from a failed romance. |
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JE NE SUIS PAS LA POUR ETRE AIME (2005) Directed by Stéphane Brize. With Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, Georges Wilson Tuesday , October, 25 @ AF MiamiFriday, November 18 @ Playhouse, WPBFifty-year-old Jean-Claude Delsart, worn out by his police work, gave up on the idea of life offering any sweet surprises some time ago. But he hadn’t counted on just what would happen when he finally got up the nerve to learn the tango. Strangely titled "Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé" ("I'm Not Here to Be Loved") is a charming little French film about a budding romance between Jean-Claude, laconic 50-year-old process server and forty-year-old woman Françoise. As they meet each other in tango lesson class, a love story about grown-up people and their romance unfolds with intelligence and hidden passion. Meet Jean-Claude (Patrick Chesnais) and Françoise (Anne Consigny). Neither of them is happy with their lives, Jean-Claude with his jobs as law enforcement officer making a court-ordered seizure, and his weekly visits to ill-humored father (veteran Georges Wilson) and Françoise with her fiance preoccupied with his book, and her officious mother. Following advice from the doctor, Jean-Clause decides to take tango lesson (and the classroom is actually across the room where Jean-Claude is working every day). In this class he meets Françoise who happened to be daughter of his old acquaintance and as they dance together, they find themselves attracted to each other. The greatest asset of the film is the credible characters and the love romance that are subtly expressed and tenderly drawn with superb acting from the capable leads and supports. Though some part of the film's simple plot is predictable, the romantic story is told compassionately with the minimum amount of dialogues that still explore the complexities of our heart. The soundtrack music is rather sparse (about 12 songs used) but they are all effective with passionate tango numbers. |
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TOI ET MOI (2006) Directed by Julie Lopes-Curval. With Marion Cotillard, Julie Depardieu. Tuesday, November, 8 @ Tower Theater"Toi et Moi" makes the cruel distinction between the interpretation of life and brutal reality. Slowly, the two girls will learn to live their lives. Two sisters, Ariane and Lena, one blonde, the other brunette; one extroverted with flashy clothes, the other one discreet, unassuming. Their love lives are the reflection of their personalities. Ariane is with Farid, a man that she intensely loves and who rejects her; Lena chose François a man who adores her and whom she disdains. She is stuck in the stuffy normality and vertigo of a planned and comfortable life. The disturbing comparison between the two sisters brings them to their own weaknesses and doubts. At opposite extremes, they reunite in sharing a common pain. They both face a reality that does not satisfy them. So Ariane, editor of the photo-romance section of “You and Me” magazine, transposes the love lives of herself and her sister onto its glossy pages. She fantasizes living in a perfect and protecting world. |
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JE CROIS QUE JE T'AIME (2007) Directed by Pierre Jolivet. With Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Bonnaire Tuesday, November 29 @ AF MiamiWhen wealthy and divorced tech company president Lucas becomes hopelessly smitten by the beautiful artist he has hired to paint a fresco for his enormous office building, he hires a private detective to discover why such a lovely and talented woman is still single. While Roland is a seasoned private investigator who only uses the latest technology in observing his subjects, he must be especially cautious in this case since getting discovered wouldn't bode well for his powerful client. Forty-three-year-old Lucas, a rich, divorced industrialist, is irresistibly attracted to thirty-eight-year-old Elsa, a renowned ceramist whom he’s commissioned to create a fresco for his office foyer. However, still smarting from a recent disappointment in love, he asks Roland Christin, a private detective from his company, to discover the reasons why this lovely woman is still single. Without the slightest scruple, Roland puts the most modern of surveillance methods into operation. Lucas better beware if Elsa finds out. |
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LES AMANTS (1958) Directed by Louis Malle, with Jeanne Moreau, José de Villalonga, Alain Cuny Tuesday, December, 13 @ Tower TheaterThe Lovers (Les Amants) is a 1958 French film about adultery and rediscovering human love, directed by Louis Malle and starring Jeanne Moreau. It was Malle's second feature film, made when he was 25 years old. The film was a box office hit in France when released theatrically gaining 2,594,160 Admissions in France alone. The film was highly controversial for its depiction of allegedly obscene material when released in America. Jeanne relieves the boredom of her stale marriage to newspaper magnate Henri Tournier by frequent visits to Paris, where she divides her time between her best friend Maggie and her covert lover Raoul. One day, after one drink too many, Henri orders Jeanne to cancel her next trip to Paris and instead invite her friends to their home, a large country house near Dijon. Jeanne agrees to the dinner party, but insists on keeping her date with Maggie. On her way back to Dijon, Jeanne’s car breaks down and she has no option but to accept a lift from a stranger, a handsome young archaeologist named Bernard. Henri shows his gratitude by inviting Bernard to spend the night at his house. That evening, when Henri and his other guest have retired, Jeanne and Bernard meet in the grounds and realise that they are in love. After a night of passion, Jeanne knows that she must leave with Bernard and sacrifice everything she has for the sake of love... |
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LA FOLLE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR DE SIMON ESKENEZY (2009) Directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. With Antoine de Caunes, Mehdi Dehbi, Elsa Zylberstein Friday, December 16 @Playhouse, WPB A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life.... Virtuoso clarinettist Simon Eskenezy (Antoine de Caunes - Eurotrash) is trying to finish his record. He is also resisting his sick mother's pleas to move into his apartment, while coming to terms with the reappearance of ex-wife Rosalie and their ten-year-old son; then there are his musicians, his insistent agent, Arlette, and his current lover, Raphael. When Simon, an Ashkenazi Jew, meets Naim, a gay Muslim, he is forced to let go of all his preconceived ideas and fears. By night Naim is Rose, waitress at the 'Paradise' cabaret. Fragile yet violent, loving, funny, elusive and provocative, he is the artist of his own life; in a heartbeat, he can transform himself into a femme fatale. |
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