Improve your French through Cinema
First sessions in May....Second sessions in June
at the Miami Beach Cinematheque
MBC 512 Espanola Way, Miami Beach
Saturdays from 10am to 12pm.
Registration is by phone to the Alliance Française at 305 859 8760
(before April 28 for first sessions, or throughout May for June sessions)
$60 per session (or discounted price of $230 for any four sessions)
Includes French petit dejeneur of croissants et café au lait
Improve your French through cinema at a four week session (or individually available sessions) for intermediate and advanced students, Saturdays (and one Sunday) from 10am to noon. The interactive weekly class is instructed by Hervé Cohen, a French award winning filmmaker who will lead students to discover of the various aspects of a film and to explore its language, analyze its sequences, discover a filmmaker's or an actor's career. The students will improve their understanding of filmmaking as well as their French oral skills.
Saturdays May 1 and 8 - 10.00 am to noon
Inner cities and young filmmakers: La Haine by Mathieu Kassowitz.
A Jew, an Arab and an African, respectively -- who are grappling with the aftermath of unexpected tragedy. When their friend Abdel lies comatose after a police beating, Vinz vows to dispense rough justice, sealing the destiny of all three.
Saturdays May 15 and 29 - 10.00 am to noon
The great dialogues of the French Cinema: Les tontons flingueurs by Louis Malle.
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican.
Saturdays June 5 and 12 - 10.00 am to noon
France during ww II - a personal story of a great filmmaker: Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle.
As World War II rages on, two students at a boarding school - the French-Catholic Julien Quintin and the Jewish Jean Bonnet - form an unlikely friendship in director's powerfully moving drama based on events from his own life. Although the boys begin as adversaries, they soon find common ground, especially when it becomes clear that Jean is merely trying to survive the tyranny of the Nazis.
Saturday June 19 and Sunday 27 - 10.00 am to noon
Great success of French cinema : Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou.
When impish gamine Amélie, who lives alone, finds a long-hidden trove of toys behind a baseboard in her apartment, she's inspired to repatriate the items, an impulse of generosity that sparks more benevolent acts. A celebration of life and love, French director's Oscar-nominated charmer stresses the importance of small wonders that surround us, if only we paused to look.
Hervé Cohen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and videographer with over 20 years in documentary filmmaking. His work has taken him around the world from the Casamance, Senegal to the countryside of Sichuan, China and has been aired on TV networks such as PBS, Canal Plus, and Arte, and featured at various prestigious festivals such as the Margaret Meade Festival and Cinema du Reel.
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