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A French Palme d'or!
La Vie d'Adèle (Blue is the Warmest Color)
 Abdellatif Kechiche's La Vie d'Adèle (Blue is the Warmest Color) was awarded the top prize by a jury headed by Steven Spielberg. The Franco-Tunisian director Abdellatif Khechiche, who had already won two Cesar awards for previous movies in his thirteen-year career (L'Esquive & La Graine et le mulet), gets this new recognition on one of the highest stages, and deservedly so according to many. His two stars, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, play out this story of a teenager whose life is turned upside down when she meets another young girl, instigating a romance. The almost-three-hour version presented in Cannes will probably be shortened before commercial release.
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Bérénice Bejo won Best Actress award
From The Artist to The Past, a talent confirmed
 Bérénice Bejo, who played the rising star in The Artist, got a big nod for her work in Le Passé (The Past), by Asghar Farhadi, the first French film of the Iranian director of Une separation (A Separation). Bejo declared in an interview with French magazine Studio Cine Live that working with Farhadi has been a tremendous experience. After long repetitions inspired by on-stage methods with partner Tahar Rahim, and a serenity brought also by the constant presence of a translator - calming the usual back-and-forth between actors and directors - the actress was able to bring up a tremendous depth of emotions even when exhausted or doubting herself , showing that complete trust (both ways!) can work wonders! A Palme d'or and a Best Actress award, this has been a good year for French cinema in Cannes! Both these French movies will make their way across the Atlantic soon, so watch out!
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From the Directors Fortnight
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! by and with Guillaume Gallienne who received a standing ovation
L'Inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake) by Alain Guiraudie, who got the Directing Prize
Les Salauds by Claire Denis , with Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroiani
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Anne Kern, professor of Cinema Study at Purchase College, longtime Focus on French Cinema committee member, and our Festival movie-introducer-in-chief wrote an op-ed article for Le Monde (05/23/13) on the Influence of French Cinema in the U.S. Read the op-ed article written in French here and English here
Après Mai (Something in the Air)
the last movie by Olivier Assayas, will be playing at the Avon Theatre in Stamford, on June 20, as part of the French Cinematheque series, co-presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich.
 "Le Pingouin" is the name of the French Bistro which is opening next week in Greenwich, CT, at the same address than the longtime festival friend Restaurant Jean-Louis : 61 Lewis Street in Greenwich. Its new owner, Antoine Bleck, not only loves the cinema as much as the previous one, but is also a music lover! Find his website here
Films on the Green, are starting this weekend in NYC: June 7-Aug 2 .This program organized by the Cultural services of the French Embassy presents 10 films screened in the NYC parks: it's free, in French with English subtitles, screenings start at 8:30 pm. Click here for more information.
7 juin à Central Park Cedar Hill : La Sirène du Mississippi de François Truffaut (1969)
14 Juin à Washington Sq. Park : L'Art d'aimer d'Emmanuel Mouret (2011)
21 juin à Washington Sq. Park : French Cancan de Jean Renoir (1955)
28 juin à Tompkins Sq. Park : Angèle et Tony d'Alix Delaporte (2010)
5 juillet à Tompkins Sq. Park : L'Arnacoeur de Pascal Chaumeil (2010)
12 juillet à Riverside Park Pier I : Marius et Jeannette de Robert Guédiguian (1997)
19 juillet à Riverside Park Pier I : Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble de Maurice Pialat (1972)
26 juillet à Transmitter Park, BK : U de Grégoire Solotareff & Serge Elissalde (2006)
2 août à Transmitter Park, BK : Conte d'été d'Eric Rohmer (1996)
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