December 15th, 2012
Give the Gift of Film this Holiday Season

Special Offer: Buy 1 VIP Pass and get 2 free movie tickets to use as Christmas Presents   

Tickets and passes to the 9th Annual Focus on French Cinema Film Festival make perfect gifts. With this offer, you will be able to enjoy your full VIP access to the Focus on French Cinema Film Festival three day weekend including entry to all movies, the Opening Night Gala with great French food and champagne, Q&A with directors and actors, Rue des Restaurants & Boutiques, and you will also be able to give friends access to a movie (*except the opening night film)! Be a Cinema Santa this Christmas. Details Here 

Price: $150
Offer valid until December 31, 2012
To Redeem this Offer call the Alliance Française of Greenwich
(203) 629-2301    

 

* Tickets valid for all the films during the weekend except the opening night film. 

Holiday Season Releases in France 
Let's look across the Atlantic!    
Populaire: Released on November 28th, this comedy is already a movie event for December, topping the box-office More
Télé
Gaucho: Leftist TV would be how to translate the title... More
 L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs): Les Misérables will not be the only cinematic adaptation of a Victor Hugo novel for this year-end! More
Main dans la main (Hand in Hand): It's inexplicable, a strange and strong force brings together Hélène and Joachim More
De l'autre côté du périph':Two cops from opposite sides, More
Mes héros
: A son (Clovis Cornillac), surrounded by life troubles, gets his mother (Josianne Balasko) out of jail More  
Focus on: The Big Picture, at The Avon Theatre
One of the many Festival kick-off screenings to come!
This year, not only are we going to have our now traditional kick-off screening with our long-time partner, The Avon Theatre in Stamford, on February 21, 2013, but there will be several screenings of various movies in different locations before the festival weekend! While we are still working on these events and will soon give you all the details, we couldn't resist teasing you a little with this movie. Read More
Did you Know? 

That the first movie adaption of The Man Who Laughs was an American 1928 silent film directed by the
German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leny?
 
That another adaption of The Man Who Laughs , Franco-Italian, was also made in 1966, by Sergio Corbucci?

That the novel by Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs, was also published under the title By Order of the King?


That this novel and the main character were an inspiration for Batman's nemesis, The Joker?

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