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ROSCHDY ZEM, BELLA KIM
KOYA KAMURA: WINTER IN SOKCHO/HIVER À SOKCHO (2024)
This French-Korean collaborative frilm is the pensive, minimalist debut...
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ROSCHDY ZEM, BELLA KIM
KOYA KAMURA: WINTER IN SOKCHO/HIVER À SOKCHO (2024)
This French-Korean collaborative frilm is the pensive, minimalist debut...
DJ MEHDI: MADE IN FRANCE episode 1 Thibaud de Longueville 2024
Preview of an Arte-sponsored miniseries about a prodigious French hip-hop composer and producer whose Quiny Jones-like...
THIS LIFE OF MINE/MA VIE MA GUEULE (Sophie Fillières 2024)
The surreal last film of the late Sopiie Fillières is also a showcase of the highy appropriate acting talents of Agnès Jaoui. The...
VISITING HOURS/LA PRISONNIERRE DE BORDEAUX (Patricia Mazuy, 2024)
A review from the coming 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. About the odd bond across class lines that develops between two...
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THIBAUD DE LONGEVILE: DJ MEHDI, MADE IN FRANCE (mini-series)
TRAILER
Carrière ouverte aux talents (career open to talents)
In the late...
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ÉDOUARD SULPICE, ANGELINE WORETH
SOPHIE FILLIÈRES: THIS LIFE OF MINE/MA VIE MA GUEULE (2024)
Portrait of a woman at the end of her tether
Sophie...
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OLIVIER ASSAYAS: SUSPENDED TIME/HOURS DU TEMPS (2024)
Covid lockdown in the provinces
“Never have I felt like less of a filmmaker,” frets Paul...
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INDIA HAIR, CAMILLE COTTIN
EMMANUEL MOURET: THREE FRIENDS/TROIS AMIES (2024)
Mid-life marital unrest
After the death of her husband Victor...
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VINCENT LINDON
DELPHINE COULIN, MURIEL COULIN: THE QUIET SON/JOUER AVEC LE FEU (2024)
Pierre (Vincent Lindon), a widower who has dedicated his...
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LOUIS GARREL
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QUENTIN DUPIEUX: THE SEOND ACT/LE DEUXIÈME acte (2024)
Jokey Cannes opener
A movie-within-a-movie (or is it?), the latest quirkily...
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ABOU SANGARÉ
BORIS LOJKINE: SOULEYMANE'S STORY/L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE (2024)
TRAILER
An African immigrant's struggle
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GILLES LELOUCHE
LUDOVIC BOUKHERMA, ZORAN BOUKHERMA: AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM/LEURS ENFANTS APRÈS EUX (2024)
Taking place against the...
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FRANҪOIS OZON: WHEN FALL IS COMING/QUAND VIENT L'AUTONNE (2024)
Retiree Michelle (Hélène Vincent) lives in the countryside, peacefully enjoying...
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JONATHAN MILLET: GHOST TRAIL/ LES FANTÔMES (2024)
TRAILER (FRENCH)
Two years after being released from Syrian jail, Hamid (Adam Bessa) is making...
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MATT DILLON, ANAMARIA VARTOLOMEI
JESSICA PALUD: BEING MARIA/MAIRA (2024)
"Actors don’t choose roles,” actor Daniel Gélin (Yvan Attal) tells his...
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LOUISE COURVOISIER: HOLY COW/VINGT DIEUX (2024)
Following the sudden death of his farmer father, hard-partying 18-year-old Totone (Clément Faveau)...
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HAFSIA HERZI, ISABELLE HUPPERT
PATRICIA MAZUY: VISITING HOURS/LA PRISONNIÈRE DE BORDEAUX (2024)
This somewhat oddball film should probably be...
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RITHY PANH: MEETING WITH POL POT/RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT (2024)
VARIETY:A chilling historical drama rendered with impeccable sleight of hand,...
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AGATHE RIEINGER: WILD DIAMOND/DIAMANT BRUT (2024)
Reality dreams
[blurb]
Nineteen-year-old Liane (Malou Khebizi) lives with her mother and sister...
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Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center present
30TH RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA
FILMLEAF GENERAL FILM FORUM THREAD
LINKS TO REVIEWS
AND...
2025 RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA AT LINCOLN CENTER:
FILMS & DESCRIPTIONS
All films screen in the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)
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From a Film at Lincoln Center press release:
UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center Present
30th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
March 6–16, 2025...
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FRANÇOISE FABIAN IN ROSE
AURÉLIE SAADA: ROSE (2024)
The late-blooming widow
A French widow of Moroccan Jewish bckground gets a new lease on life...
I'M STILL HERE (Walter Salles 2024)
Now has three Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best International Feature, and Best Actress.
Metacrirtic rating now 86%.
MISREPRESENTATIONS OF MEXICO: EMILIA PEREZ AND QUEER
A Le Monde English article (excerpt) reports that Mexicans are calling out the film EMILIA PEREZ for its multiple misrepresentations of...