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*** TAFFF Cinema *** WATCH IT AT HOME! *** FOCUS ON FRENCH BLACK COMEDY MASTER #QuentinDupieux *** In US theaters since March 31, 2023. Now on digital (AppleTV, Amazon Prime, VUDU): "SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING", a dark comedy written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, starring Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste, Anaïs Demoustier, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Grégoire Ludig, Houda Benyamina. World Premiere Cannes IFF 2022, Official selection AFI IFF 2022, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema New York 2023. A Magnolia Pictures film.
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* Official U.S. Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxc6TyTdW50
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* Watch the film: theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/smoking-causes-coughing/
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(After a fierce fight against a demonic turtle, five vigilantes called the "TOBACCO FORCE" are ordered to retreat to strengthen the cohesion of their group which is deteriorating. The retreat goes well until Lezardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to destroy the planet Earth...)
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Other recent films by Quentin Dupieux available online in the US:
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* "DEERSKIN" (2023). Info and link to the film: theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/deerskin/
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* "KEEP AN EYE OUT" (2021). Info and link to the film:
theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/keep-an-eye-out/
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* "INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE" (2022). Info and link to the film:
theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/incredible-but-true/
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* "MANDIBLES" (2022). Info and link to the film:
theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/mandibles/
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Here is your library with a selection of more than 200 films to watch at home in the US: theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/virtual-cinema/
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More about upcoming French Films in the US: like this page and subscribe to our free newsletter on tafff.org.
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The American French Film Festival will celebrate its 27th anniversary at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood in Fall 2023 (October 18-22). More details on tafff.org. TAFFF is presented by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of DGA, MPA, SACEM and WGA West, with the support of ELMA, Air Tahiti nui, TV5 Monde, Variety, Titra Film, Unifrance and ARP
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*** Did you miss its US Premiere at THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2022 ? *** Coming soon (June 2023) to select U.S. theaters before a digital release: "NOBODY'S HERO", a comedy, drama co-written and directed by Alain Guiraudie, starring Jean-Charles Clichet, Noémie Lvovsky, Iliès Kadri , Michel Masiero, Doria Tillier, Renaud Rutten, Farida Rahouadj . Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 (Opening Film Panorama Section); US Premiere at THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2022. A STRAND RELEASING film. Coming to US theaters in June 2023 (including Los Angeles on June 23).
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* Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFc0LCp_ChQ
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(Director Alain Guiraudie takes on questions of race, class, sex and Islamophobia in this dark social satire about a schlubby unemployed computer geek named Médéric who falls hard for a married middle-aged sex worker named Isadora. However, Médéric doesn’t believe in prostitution and refuses to pay for sex. (Which doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of it in this film!) As if that weren’t enough to keep him occupied, he’s soon confronted by Selim, a homeless North African young man who’s looking for a place to crash. Despite the fact that Selim resembles a terrorist-at-large, Médéric takes him in. Simultaneously paranoid, compliant, wracked with white guilt and in love, Médéric has a lot going on. As does Guiraudie, who straddles his usual genres of absurdist dramedy and social commentary, depicting what life can be like in modern-day France, where terrorist attacks can be devastating, yet somehow feel like everyday occurrences.)
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More info about the film: archive.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/2022/nobodys-hero/index.html
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Do you want to watch new French films and series at home: Here is your library with a selection of more than 200 movies to watch: theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/virtual-cinema/
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The American French Film Festival will celebrate its 27th anniversary at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood in Fall 2023 (October 18-22). More details on tafff.org. TAFFF is presented by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of DGA, MPA, SACEM and WGA West, with the support of ELMA, Air Tahiti nui, TV5 Monde, Variety, Unifrance and ARP
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*** TAFFF CINEMA *** COMING SOON to select US theaters (June 9) before a digital release (July 26): "SCARLET", a drama, romance co-written and directed by Pietro Marcello, starring Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel. Official Selection Cannes Directors Fortnight 2022. A KINO LORBER film. Opening in select US theaters on June 9 (including Los Angeles on June 23).
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* Watch the Official trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WGgFXZSC10
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(Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable based on a beloved 1923 novella by Russian writer Alexander Grin. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël (Raphaël Thiery) returns home from the frontlines to find himself a widower, with his infant daughter placed in his arms to raise. Living alone with her father in rural Normandy, Juliette (Juliette Jouan) grows into a lonely young woman who is passionate about singing and music. She seeks refuge in the nearby woods, where she meets a witch who promises scarlet sails will one day take her away from her village. Reckoning with her future and swept away by a rakish young pilot (Louis Garrel) who literally falls from the sky, Juliette never stops believing in the witch’s prophecy. Tracing Juliette’s journey throughout the 20 years of great invention between the world wars, Scarlet weaves together music and fantasy, history and folklore, to craft a magical realist fable of identity and emancipation. In his first film made in France, Marcello proves again he is as comfortable in the realm of folklore as he is in creative nonfiction, delicately interweaving realist drama, ethereal romance, and musical flights of fancy.)
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More about upcoming French Films in the US: like this page and subscribe to our free newsletter on tafff.org.
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Meanwhile if you want to watch French films and series at home: Here is your library with a selection of more than 200 titles: theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/virtual-cinema/
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The American French Film Festival will celebrate its 27th anniversary at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood in Fall 2023 (October 18-22). More details on tafff.org. TAFFF is presented by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of DGA, MPA, SACEM and WGA West, with the support of ELMA, Air Tahiti nui, TV5 Monde, Variety, Titra Film, Unifrance and ARP
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55 CESAR AWARDS nominations for Films Premiered at THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL in Hollywood.
17 films selected at TAFFF 2022 and 2021 are nominated for the 2023 CESAR Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars.
Thirty-two videos including fifteen Movie & Documentary Presentations, eleven Interviews with Directors & Actors and As it happens videos of the Opening Night, the High School Screening night and the Focus on a Producer & a Music Score Composer.
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Emmanuel Mouret’s DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR wins THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL’S CRITICS CHOICE AWARD for BEST FILM. Eric Gavel’s FULL TIME Wins the AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD for BEST FILM
See the full list of the 2022 Awards
See the Press Release published after the ceremony
“If you were to speak of a difficult genius who reinvented an art form, created masterpieces that will endure forever, then sent it all crashing down, the better to reinvent it again, all the while with his back turned to the audience— Why that would be Miles Davis. Or Jean-Luc Godard.”…
Read the entire piece here
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Playing NOW @laemmletheatres the latest @ozonfrancois EVERYTHING WENT FINE. Based on the autobiographical novel by author Emmanuèle Bernheim (who had collaborated on Ozon’s screenplays for Under The Sand, Swimming Pool and Ricky), Everything Went Fine is a dramatic change of pace for the genre-hopping director François Ozon. After a debilitating stroke, 85-year-old art dealer André Bernheim (Alain Resnais regular André Dussolier) demands that his daughter Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau, beloved by French audiences since her teenage debut in the 1980 hit La Boum), help him end life on his own terms. Faced with a painful decision, Emmanuèle, with the grudging support of her younger sister Pascale (Ozon regular Géraldine Pailhas), begins sorting through the processes and bureaucratic hurdles necessary to fulfill her father’s final wish, as she is forced to reconcile her past with a complicated, stubborn, yet charismatic man.
Unsentimental, devastating, yet often humorous, Everything Went Fine finds writer-director François Ozon tackling a complex subject with intelligence and sensitivity. Featuring the legendary Charlotte Rampling (Ozon’s Under the Sand) as André’s estranged wife, along with cinema icon Hanna Schygulla (last seen in Ozon’s Peter von Kant) in a key cameo.
One of French cinema's most prolific filmmakers, François Ozon’s vast body of work includes Swimming Pool, 8 Women, By the Grace of God, Frantz, Double Lover, In the House, Potiche, Under the Sand, Peter von Kant and the upcoming The Crime is Mine.
“Its honesty and intelligence keep you glued.” David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter�
« “Everything” — anchored by strong performances from Marceau and Dussollier — is a refreshingly in-the-moment chronicle of what it means to love someone enough to grant them something so final » LA Times #frenchcinema #frenchfilm #frenchmovie #nowplaying
Now streaming in the US on @tubi @appletv @amazonprime FROM WHERE THEY STOOD by Christophe Cognet, a #TAFFF21 Official Selection
Director Christophe Cognet meticulously retraces the footsteps of some of the extraordinarily courageous men and women who risked their lives, while prisoners in WWII concentration camps, to secretly photograph the atrocities the Nazis were hiding from the world. In his quest to decipher the circumstances and stories behind each of those photographs, the director constructs a veritable archeology of the photographic image as an act of defiance. #frenchcinema #frenchfilm #frenchmovie #frenchdocumentary #documentary #theamericanfrenchfilmfest
Now streaming in the US, FULL TIME, a film by @egravel with @laurecalamy #TAFFF22 Official Selection Julie’s in a race against the clock in Éric Gravel‘s kinetic second opus, Full Time, which presents the daily routine of a work-a-day mom as a high-stakes intrigue. Nervous, pulsing music building on the soundtrack, its heroine constantly running, the film almost plays like a thriller. But Julie is simply the single mother of two young children, living in the suburbs, with a very long commute back and forth to her demanding job as head chambermaid at a ritzy Paris hotel. She has a lot of balls to keep in the air to make it all work — convincing her nanny not to quit, making sure her ex sends child support payments on time, planning birthday parties, etc. That’s on a normal day, and not including tending the kids and the pressure she’s under at work. Julie no sooner lands an interview for a plum marketing job more suited to her professional and educational experience… when a general transit strike is announced. Everything grinds to a halt, obstacles multiply, delays and complications snowball… until it’s almost a matter of life and death. As Julie, Laure Calamy’s breathless, pitch-perfect performance keeps us on the edge of our seats from start to finish #frenchcinema #frenchmovie #frenchfilm #theamericanfrenchfilmfest
Now streaming on @youtube @appletv @amazonprime @vudufans RODEO, a film by @odessaqui_faro et @antonia_buresi
A #TAFFF22 Official Selection
Real-life biker Julie Ledru comes blazing onto the big screen like a 21st century rebel without a cause in Lola Quivoron‘s high-octane first feature, Rodeo. Her character Julia is more spitfire than easy rider. Filled with rage at the world all around her, Julia spends her days repeating the same scam over and over, and has but one dream: to become part of a reckless gang of dirt bikers who perform wheelies and other breakneck stunts at illicit motocross rodeos. “I was born with a bike between my legs,” she exclaims. Julia seems to be after some sort of exhilarating spiritual liberation, but acceptance into such a brotherhood has a price, and the all-boys club wants nothing to do with her. Single-minded in her pursuit, Julia will do whatever it takes — steal bikes or pick up the head-honcho’s groceries — no matter the risk. But the feral non-professional actress, who was cast on Instagram, is even more imposing when she drops her Hell’s-Angels demeanor and reveals the glimmer of a heart and soul beneath that insolent veneer #frenchcinema #frenchfilm #frenchmovie #biker #bikerchick #bikerlife #tafff #theamericanfrenchfilmfest
Coming Soon April 17. @laemmletheatres EVERYTHING WENT FINE by Francois Ozon.
Based on the autobiographical novel by author Emmanuèle Bernheim (who had collaborated on Ozon’s screenplays for Under The Sand, Swimming Pool and Ricky), Everything Went Fine is a dramatic change of pace for the genre-hopping director François Ozon. After a debilitating stroke, 85-year-old art dealer André Bernheim (Alain Resnais regular André Dussolier) demands that his daughter Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau, beloved by French audiences since her teenage debut in the 1980 hit La Boum), help him end life on his own terms. Faced with a painful decision, Emmanuèle, with the grudging support of her younger sister Pascale (Ozon regular Géraldine Pailhas), begins sorting through the processes and bureaucratic hurdles necessary to fulfill her father’s final wish, as she is forced to reconcile her past with a complicated, stubborn, yet charismatic man.
Unsentimental, devastating, yet often humorous, Everything Went Fine finds writer-director François Ozon tackling a complex subject with intelligence and sensitivity. Featuring the legendary Charlotte Rampling (Ozon’s Under the Sand) as André’s estranged wife, along with cinema icon Hanna Schygulla (last seen in Ozon’s Peter von Kant) in a key cameo.
One of French cinema's most prolific filmmakers, François Ozon’s vast body of work includes Swimming Pool, 8 Women, By the Grace of God, Frantz, Double Lover, In the House, Potiche, Under the Sand, Peter von Kant and the upcoming The Crime is Mine.
“Its honesty and intelligence keep you glued.” David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter�
“Affecting, surprisingly witty..... elegantly written, persuasively performed… a terrific Sophie Marceau and André Dussollier as father and daughter… Ozon’s smart, measured but still deeply human take on a hot subject” — Guy Lodge, Variety
“...the performances from Dussollier and Marceau are quietly outstanding.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian #frenchcinema #frenchfilms #ozon
Save the date! The American French Film Festival aka #TAFFF will be back October 18-22 at @directorsguild We look forward to sharing the latest of French film and TV productions with you #frenchcinema #frenchfilms #frenchseries #frenchtv #francoamericanculturalfund
Our friends at the French Comedy Club are organizing 2 days of fab screenings of French comedies on April 15 and 16. Get your tickets at thefrenchcomedyclub.com #frenchcomedy #frenchcinema
Bravo to all, we look forward to seeing you at #TAFFF23! #frenchcinema #frenchfilms #frenchshows #frenchtv 📸doux.cedric
