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Exclusive: Focus on French Cinema 9th Annual Festival Poster
Our new look for the 2013 festival!

Straight off the design table, our new concept is finished! You will recognize our marquee red and crooked F, while the blue brings the elegance of the night and is no stranger to the colors of our venue, the Pepsico Theater. The halo of light brings the focus onto our title and mission. Also, the film reels recall what is most important to us and you: the movies, of course. We hope you like it!
Take a closer look
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Holy Motors Just Released in the United States
A cinematic experience to behold
"Electrifying" (The New York Times), "Exhilarating" (New York Magazine), "A thing of beauty" (Rolling Stone), "A grand spectacle" (The Wall Street Journal). Every year or so, a movie leaves a strong impression on viewers and critics alike.
This year, that film seems to be Holy Motors, by Léos Carax and featuring Denis Lavant, both at the top of their art form. You will certainly hear about it and should put it on your schedule to see in the City or at the Avon Theatre in Stamford, where it will be played. The story invites you to join from dawn to dusk Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who goes from one life to the next (he is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man...) on a rollicking, soulful journey by limousine through the streets of Paris for a series of mysterious "appointments". Read More
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We watched it just before its French release last Wednesday
A work taking 9 years, Rengaine tackles a millennial story. In today's Paris, Dorcy, a young black christian, wants to marry the beautiful Sabrina, of Muslim descent. The perfect love story! Problem: Sabrina's forty (40!) brothers oppose that union. Indeed, it breaks a taboo well anchored in these two communities, as they both discover: no marriage between blacks and Arabs.
These two characters (played by Stephane Soo Mongo and Sabrina Hamida) and their story are fascinating. However, it is also in the elder brother's (the absorbing Slimane Dazi) journey, the many points of view, scenes and secondary characters where the richness of the movie resides, not forgetting its humor! We were lucky to discover Read More
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Did you Know?
The FFC 2013 sponsor kit is released? If you are interested in being a partner of the festival, Click here.
Farewell, My Queen is being screened at the MoMA in its Contenders 2012 series?
For those who did not see it last Thursday at the French Cinematheque at the Avon (in partnership with the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich).
A Film Exhibition on Arab Cinema is being held at the MoMA? November 1 - 25.
The Festival In French With English Subtitles is taking place November 30 - December 2? At the Florence Gould Hall in Manhattan.
A Jean-Louis Trintignant retrospective will take place at the Film Forum in New York? December 7 - 20.
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Quick Links
Focus on French Cinema
Avon Theatre
Trintignant Retrospective
In French With English Subtitles
Farewell, My Queen at MoMA Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to now at MoMA
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