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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
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“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.”…
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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