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UNIFRANCE<\/a> AND FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER<\/a> PRESENT
\n29TH\u00a0RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA, FEBRUARY 29\u2013MARCH 10\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Opening Night\u2014New York Premiere of Thomas Cailley’s\u00a0The Animal Kingdom
\n<\/i>\u00a0starring Romain Duris, with Cailley in person
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

Featuring films starring\u00a0Marion Cotillard (in person), Melvil Poupaud, Virginie Efira, No\u00e9e Abita, Laetitia Casta, Anders Danielsen Lie, L\u00e9a Drucker, Romain Duris, Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos, Vincent Lacoste, Fran\u00e7oise Lebrun, Pierre Niney, Nahuel P\u00e9rez Biscayart, and Sofiane Zermani<\/b><\/p>\n

Little Girl Blue (Charades Films); All to Play For (Curiosa Films); The Animal Kingdom (Magnolia Pictures); Les Ind\u00e9sirables (Goodfellas); First Case (Be for Films)<\/i><\/p>\n

New York, NY (January 25, 2024)<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center announce the lineup for the 29th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. Taking place from February 29 through March 10, this popular annual festival showcases the verve, creativity, and depth of contemporary French cinema in a variety of genres.<\/p>\n

The 2024 Opening Night selection is Thomas Cailley\u2019s French box office hit\u00a0The Animal Kingdom<\/i>, the director\u2019s long-awaited follow-up to\u00a0Love at First Fight<\/i>\u00a0(a highlight of Rendez-Vous 2015) and most recently nominated for 12 C\u00e9sar Awards, including Best Director and Best Film. Cailley, who most recently won Best Director at the 29th Lumi\u00e8re Awards, envisions a mysterious infection that selectively mutates the bodies of ordinary people into animal hybrids at unpredictable speeds in a darkly imaginative exploration of a human ecosystem undergoing inexplicable\u2014but potentially liberating\u2014transformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great honor to open this year\u2019s edition with the French critical and box-office hit\u00a0The Animal Kingdom<\/i>, with director Thomas Cailley in attendance,\u201d said Daniela Elstner, executive director of Unifrance. \u201cThis remarkable film, along with this year\u2019s selection, is a great example of the vitality and diversity of French cinema today. The attendance of a mix of new and established filmmakers together with the stellar presence of actress Marion Cotillard indeed make for a rich 29th edition of this year\u2019s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. This year\u2019s lineup along with the recognition of\u00a0Anatomy of a Fall<\/i>\u00a0at the Oscars, highlights what French cinema represents for American audiences today: an alternative voice and a vision of human relationships and world issues. Of the 21 feature films, more than half are directed by women and eight were made by first-time filmmakers. We are pleased to welcome them to New York during these 10 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema is an enthralling showcase of the very best in contemporary French cinema,\u201d said Florence Almozini, VP of Programming for Film at Lincoln Center. \u201cThe impressive lineup features a host of French talent, introduces promising new directors, making their mark with their first or second feature, and welcomes back seasoned filmmakers eager to present their latest gem to New York audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Highlights of the 21-film lineup include: the North American premiere of Pascal Bonitzer\u2019s\u00a0Auction<\/i>, which follows a modern art appraiser (Alex Lutz) whose routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele; Robin Campillo\u2019s\u00a0Red Island<\/i>, which draws on the director\u2019s personal history to evoke a sumptuously visualized 1970s childhood spent on one of the last remaining French colonial bases on Madagascar; Marie Amachoukeli\u2019s 2024 Sundance Spotlight selection\u00a0\u00c0ma Gloria<\/i>, the sensitive portrait of a young girl just beginning her life and a caretaker re-entering hers; Michel Gondry\u2019s\u00a0The Book of Solutions<\/i>, a madcap portrait of a delirious filmmaker struggling to find his way; Vanessa Filho\u2019s C\u00e9sar-nominated\u00a0Consent<\/i>, a powerful and unflinching examination of sexual predation hiding in plain sight; Ladj Ly\u2019s\u00a0Les Ind\u00e9sirables<\/i>, an incisive look at racial and social tensions in contemporary France;\u00a0Marguerite\u2019s Theorem<\/i>, Anna Novion\u2019s affecting story of a young woman who reinvents herself to find a new perspective on her vocation and on life itself; Erwan Le Duc\u2019s C\u00e9sar-nominated sophomore feature\u00a0No Love Lost<\/i>, a stylistically bold and warmly eccentric examination of the ties that bind us; H\u00e9l\u00e9na Klotz\u2019s\u00a0Spirit of Ecstacy<\/i>, a journey of a young person\u2019s personal and professional emancipation; Rabah Ameur-Za\u00efmeche\u2019s\u00a0The Temple Woods Gang<\/i>, a richly imagined, arrestingly original perspective on the heist genre named one of the 10 best films of 2023 by\u00a0Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma<\/i>; Nathan Ambrosioni\u2019s\u00a0Toni<\/i>, an affecting study of a formerly successful pop star and her five children adapting to a moment of collective transformation; and writer-director Thomas Lilti\u2019s\u00a0A Real Job,<\/i>\u00a0which trains an observant and empathetic eye on the travails of Benjamin (Vincent Lacoste), a freshly accredited substitute teacher.<\/p>\n

Two features starring the ever-vibrant and brilliant actor Virginie Efira are writer-director Delphine Deloget\u2019s feature debut\u00a0All to Play For<\/i>, a carefully observed perspective on the struggles of a loving parent contending with a bureaucratic system;\u00a0<\/i>and writer-director Val\u00e9rie Donzelli\u2019s C\u00e9sar-nominated, tensely effective erotic thriller\u00a0Just the Two of Us<\/i>, featuring a virtuosic Efira in a double role as twin sisters.<\/p>\n

Notable documentaries in this edition of Rendez-Vous are two C\u00e9sar-nominated features: Nicolas Philibert\u2019s Berlinale Golden Bear winner\u00a0On the Adamant<\/i>, about a day care facility for neurodivergent adults on a floating barge in Paris; and Mona Achache\u2019s\u00a0Little Girl Blue<\/i>, starring Marion Cotillard, blurs the line between truth and fiction to produce a work as fittingly unsettling and unforgettable as her subject\u2014her own mother.<\/p>\n

Finally, four highly anticipated debut features round out this year\u2019s features: Senegalese-French writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy\u2019s\u00a0Banel & Adama<\/i>, a young couple\u2019s relationship is tested by pressures from their village;<\/i>\u00a0writer-director Victoria Musiedlak\u2019s\u00a0First Case<\/i>, a tense and thoughtful film buoyed by a captivating and textured performance from No\u00e9e Abita;<\/i>\u00a0Iris Kaltenb\u00e4ck\u2019s stylish, C\u00e9sar-nominated feature\u00a0The Rapture<\/i>, a portrait of a young midwife who sublimates her emotional life into the pregnancy of her best friend; and Nora El Hourch\u2019s\u00a0Sisterhood<\/i>, which casts an unflinching eye on the everyday sexual harassment faced by young women, anchored by vivid, fiery, and entirely unexpected turns.<\/p>\n

Confirmed to appear in person at the festival are: Mona Achache, Marie Amachoukeli, Nathan Ambrosioni, Pascal Bonitzer, Thomas Cailley, Robin Campillo, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Daroussin, Delphine Deloget, Val\u00e9rie Donzelli, Nora El Hourch, Vanessa Filho, Iris Kaltenb\u00e4ck, H\u00e9l\u00e9na Klotz, Erwan Le Duc, Thomas Lilti, Ladj Ly, Victoria Musiedlak, Anna Novion, Nicolas Philibert, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, and Maud Wyler.<\/p>\n

Free talks, spotlighting directors and filmmakers in intimate and engaging conversations, will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n

Voting for the fifth annual Rendez-Vous Audience Award will be open to all moviegoers attending the festival. A jury of six students pursuing film and French studies degrees from New York City colleges will choose their favorite first or second feature for the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award, which calls attention to the unique views of emerging filmmakers and their interpretations of France\u2019s new and diverse identities. The two awards will be announced shortly at the close of the festival.<\/p>\n

Students from New York City\u2013area schools will be invited to attend free screenings of\u00a0Toni<\/i>,\u00a0A Real Job<\/i>, and Nicolas Philibert\u2019s 2002 documentary\u00a0To Be and to Have<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Organized by Florence Almozini and Madeline Whittle, in collaboration with Unifrance.<\/p>\n

Rendez-Vous with French CInema is sponsored by Villa Albertine, TV5 Monde, Maison Occitanie, FIAF, The Plaza, New York.<\/p>\n

Tickets go on sale Thursday, February 1 at noon, with pre-sale for\u00a0Film at Lincoln Center Members<\/span><\/a>\u00a0beginning on Tuesday, January 30 at noon. Tickets are $17; $14 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $12 for FLC Members. Opening Night tickets for Thomas Cailley\u2019s\u00a0The Animal Kingdom\u00a0<\/i>are $25 for the general public and $20 for all FLC Members.<\/p>\n

FILMS & DESCRIPTIONS<\/b><\/span>
\nAll films screen in the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.) unless otherwise noted<\/i><\/p>\n

Opening Night<\/b><\/p>\n

The Animal Kingdom \/\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Le R\u00e8gne animal
\nThomas Cailley, 2023, France\/Belgium, 128m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>In the striking opening scene of\u00a0The Animal Kingdom<\/i>, an argument between father Fran\u00e7ois (Romain Duris) and son \u00c9mile (Paul Kircher) takes an unexpected turn when a man with the wings of a gigantic bird of prey makes a violent escape from a nearby ambulance. With his long-awaited follow-up to\u00a0Love at First Fight<\/i>\u00a0(a highlight of Rendez-Vous 2015), Thomas Cailley, who most recently won Best Director at the 29th Lumi\u00e8re Awards in France, envisions a mysterious infection that selectively mutates the bodies of ordinary people into animal hybrids at unpredictable speeds. Nominated for 12 C\u00e9sar Awards including Best Director and Best Film, this chilling scenario, conjured with vivid specificity and immediacy via dazzling, impeccably deployed special effects, serves as a relentlessly compelling backdrop to the central performances of Duris (The Three Musketeers<\/i>), Kircher (the breakout star of Christophe Honor\u00e9\u2019s\u00a0Winter Boy<\/i>), and Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos (also in Rendez-Vous 2024 selection\u00a0A Real Job<\/i>). Together, the trio of actors breathe life into this darkly imaginative exploration of a human ecosystem undergoing inexplicable\u2014but potentially liberating\u2014transformation. A Magnolia Pictures release.
\nThursday, February 29 at 6:00pm (Introduction with Thomas Cailley)
\nThursday, February 29 at 9:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

All to Play For \/ Rien \u00e0 perdre
\nDelphine Deloget, 2023, France\/Belgium, 112m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>Once again confirming her status as one of contemporary French cinema\u2019s most magnetic and sensitive performers, Virginie Efira (Other People\u2019s Children<\/i>, Rendez-Vous 2023) stars in\u00a0All to Play For\u00a0<\/i>as single mom Sylvie. A bartender, Sylvie gamely works late shifts to support her two beloved sons, adolescent Sofiane (Alexis Tonetti) and teen Jean-Jacques (F\u00e9lix Lefebvre,\u00a0Summer of \u201985<\/i>, Rendez-Vous 2021). But after Sofiane has an accident while she\u2019s at work, Sylvie must contend with a stubbornly dispassionate child welfare service system to regain custody of her youngest. Making her feature debut, writer-director Delphine Deloget operates in the finest traditions of French realism, offering a compassionate, carefully observed perspective on the travails of a loving parent contending with the mechanisms of an inflexible bureaucratic system. At the center of this multifaceted portrait is Efira, delivering a richly layered performance as an overwhelmed but fiercely dedicated mother.
\nFriday, March 1 at 1:30pm
\nFriday, March 8 at 9:00pm (Q&A with\u00a0Delphine Deloget)<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00c0ma Gloria
\nMarie Amachoukeli, 2023, France, 84m
\nFrench and Cape Verdean Creole with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>Six-year-old Cl\u00e9o (Louise Mauroy-Panzani) has been raised primarily by her nanny, Gloria (Il\u00e7a Moreno Zego). When Gloria must return home to her native Cape Verde to take care of family, Cl\u00e9o is devastated. To soften the blow, Gloria proposes to Cl\u00e9o\u2019s father Arnaud (Arnaud Rebotini) that the child come with her for the summer. This sensitive portrait of a young girl struggling to adjust to dramatic change hinges upon the star-making performance of Mauroy-Panzani. In the tradition of Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut\u2019s child protagonists, Cl\u00e9o is equal parts innocent and casually selfish, delightful and devastating\u2014and as she integrates herself in the lives of Gloria\u2019s own children, the ripple effect of her presence brings underexplored emotions and familial tensions to the surface. Beautifully animated interludes add an unexpected touch of stylization to a film about the complicated, slowly dissolving bond between a young girl just beginning her life and a caretaker re-entering hers.
\nSaturday, March 2 at 3:45pm (Q&A with\u00a0Marie Amachoukeli)
\nThursday, March 7 at 1:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Auction \/ Le tableau vol\u00e9
\nPascal Bonitzer, 2023, France, 91m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\n<\/b>First known as a regular screenwriter for Jacques Rivette and a contributing critic at\u00a0Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma<\/i>, Pascal Bonitzer emerged in subsequent decades as an esteemed director in his own right (Spellbound<\/i>, Rendez-Vous 2020). This closely observed drama, for which he also penned the script, follows Andr\u00e9 Masson (Alex Lutz), a modern art appraiser who works for an auction house. As boldly assured in his professional expertise as he is unflaggingly cool and collected with his colleagues\u2014including his ex-partner Bettina (L\u00e9a Drucker,\u00a0Last Summer<\/i>), with whom he maintains a careful friendship\u2014Andr\u00e9\u2019s routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele, a masterwork that had gone missing decades earlier following its confiscation by Nazi officials. Initially skeptical that any such undiscovered painting could still be recovered, Andr\u00e9 grows convinced of its authenticity\u2014but the ramifications for his career, as well as his contentious relationship with his intern Aurore (Louise Chevillotte), are unexpected and transformative.
\nFriday, March 1 at 9:00pm (Q&A with\u00a0Pascal Bonitzer)
\nSunday, March 10 at 6:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Banel & Adama \/ Banel e Adama
\nRamata-Toulaye Sy, 2023, France\/Senegal\/Mali\/Qatar, 87m
\nPular with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>In a rural village in Senegal, Banel (Khady Mane) is happily married to Adama (Mamadou Diallo), the younger brother of her deceased first husband. Though their love is passionate, the relationship is tested by pressures from the community, which expects Banel to assume traditionally feminine domestic responsibilities, while her husband is meant to inherit the role of village chief from his late brother. Both young adults resist the mandate to fill these assigned duties, incurring disapproval from those around them\u2014and possibly triggering supernatural repercussions. In her feature debut, Senegalese-French writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy conjures lyrical imagery reminiscent of Terrence Malick\u2019s\u00a0Days of Heaven<\/i>, placing two memorable young lovers against a landscape as beautiful as it is inscrutable. A Kino Lorber release.
\nSunday, March 3 at 1:00pm (Q&A with\u00a0Ramata-Toulaye Sy)
\nWednesday, March 6 at 3:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n

The Book of Solutions \/ Le livre des solutions
\nMichel Gondry, 2023, France, 103m
\nFrench and English with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>When his backers threaten to wrest control of his new film away from him, director Marc Becker (Pierre Niney) steals the hard drives that store the existing footage and heads to the countryside. There, he holes up at the house of his aunt Denise (the legendary Fran\u00e7oise Lebrun) and strives to complete the feature with the help of his most loyal crew members, most notably his harried but devoted longtime editor (Blanche Gardin)\u2014but finds his grip on the project slipping as he cycles from one manic idea to the next. Loosely drawing on his own experience making\u00a0Mood Indigo\u00a0<\/i>(Rendez-Vous 2013), the ingenious director Michel Gondry\u2019s first feature in eight years is characteristically imaginative and surprisingly heartfelt. Shooting in a house belonging to his own late aunt Suzanne (profiled in the 2009 documentary\u00a0The Thorn in the Heart<\/i>), Gondry delivers a memorably madcap portrait of a creative filmmaker struggling to find his way.
\nThursday, March 7 at 6:00pm
\nSunday, March 10 at 4:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Consent
\nVanessa Filho, 2023, France\/Belgium, 119m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\n<\/b>After precocious 13-year-old Vanessa Springora (Kim Higelin) meets famed middle-aged writer Gabriel Matzneff (Jean-Paul Rouve) at a mid-1980s soir\u00e9e where her mother (Laetitia Casta) is a guest, the preteen falls quickly into a romantic relationship with the decades-older man. As Matzneff\u2014whose books detailing his own relationships with adolescents gained him a prominent status within the French literary establishment\u2014exercises increasingly insidious forms of control over Vanessa, his monstrous intentions gradually reveal themselves in tandem with the young woman\u2019s dawning consciousness of her own exploitation. This disturbing real-life story became a sensation in France when Springora published her memoir in 2020, with the subsequent scandal leading to the passage of long-overdue age-of-consent legislation. Springora worked alongside director Vanessa Filho to adapt her book for the screen, resulting in a powerful and unflinching examination of sexual predation hiding in plain sight.
\nTuesday, March 5 at 6:15pm (Q&A with Vanessa Filho)
\nSaturday, March 9 at 9:15pm<\/b><\/p>\n

First Case \/ Premi\u00e8re affaire
\nVictoria Musiedlak, 2023, France, 98m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>When she\u2019s abruptly called into work after a night at the club, inexperienced 26-year-old lawyer Nora (No\u00e9e Abita) must travel in the wee hours to the northern city of Arras, where she\u2019s tasked with monitoring the interrogation of Jordan (Alexis Neises), the teenage suspect in a murder case. Drawing on prior professional experience mostly limited to financial disputes, Nora finds herself challenged by both the complications of the investigation and her uneasy attraction to the officer in charge, cocky and dominant Servan (Anders Danielsen Lie,\u00a0The Worst Person in the World<\/i>). With her tense feature filmmaking debut, writer-director Victoria Musiedlak constructs a thoughtful thriller around a captivating and textured performance from Abita, a rapidly rising star of French cinema last seen at Rendez-Vous 2021 in\u00a0Slalom<\/i>.
\nSunday, March 3 at 9:00pm (Q&A with Victoria Musiedlak)
\nFriday, March 8 at 1:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Les Ind\u00e9sirables \/ B\u00e2timent 5
\nLadj Ly, 2023, France\/Belgium, 104m
\nFrench, Bambara, Syrian, and English with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>In a Parisian suburb, two different visions for the community clash. On one side there\u2019s pediatrician Pierre (Alexis Manenti), drafted by the leftist ruling political party to serve as interim mayor after the abrupt death of his predecessor. With old public housing towers demolished and plans for new construction under review, Pierre comes into conflict with community activist Haby (Anta Diaw), who is outraged that the proposed replacement facilities won\u2019t be configured to accommodate large families\u2014part of a larger push to displace migrants and other so-called \u201cundesired\u201d members of the community. Following his Cannes Jury Prize\u2013winning feature debut\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/i>, Ladj Ly returns with another incisive look at racial and social tensions in contemporary France, depicted with an artistry that is every bit as dynamic and urgent as the story is complex and politically nuanced.
\nSaturday, March 2 at 9:15pm (Q&A with\u00a0Ladj Ly)
\nThursday, March 7 at 8:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Just the Two of Us \/ L\u2019amour et les for\u00eats
\nVal\u00e9rie Donzelli, 2023, France, 105m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>The sixth feature from writer-director Val\u00e9rie Donzelli (also an accomplished actress in her own right), co-written with the filmmaker Audrey Diwan (Happening<\/i>), features a virtuosic Virginie Efira (star of this year\u2019s Rendez-Vous selection\u00a0All to Play For<\/i>) in a double role as twin sisters Rose and Blanche. After Blanche falls for Gr\u00e9goire (Melvil Poupaud) at a party, the two quickly marry and relocate far away from her beloved sibling. But, as an opening scene of Rose telling her story in a lawyer\u2019s office suggests, a sinister dimension to Gr\u00e9goire quickly emerges, and a marriage that seemed to offer a bright new beginning soon takes on the appearance of something more like a trap. Donzelli\u2019s C\u00e9sar-nominated film is a tensely effective erotic thriller that doubles as an acute psychological study of a profoundly disturbing relationship.
\nSunday, March 3 at 6:15pm (Q&A with Val\u00e9rie Donzelli)
\nTuesday, March 5 at 9:15pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Little Girl Blue
\nMona Achache, 2023, France\/Belgium, 99m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\nThe lives and legacies of three generations of extraordinary women artists are unpacked in Mona Achache\u2019s C\u00e9sar-nominated hybrid documentary. Achache, herself an accomplished writer and filmmaker, turns her gaze on her mother, Carole\u2014a writer, photographer, and actress, and the daughter of novelist and screenwriter Monique Lange (goddaughter of William Faulkner). Carole\u2019s myriad professional achievements notwithstanding, her private life was indelibly marked by predatory behavior she experienced at the hands of those close to her, including family friend Jean Genet. Marion Cotillard brilliantly embodies Carole across a series of hauntingly resonant reconstructions that, alongside a generous archive of video, photography, and personal writing, create a rounded portrait of a troubled but outstandingly creative mind. Achache blurs the line between truth and fiction, producing a work as fittingly unsettling and unforgettable as her mother\u2019s own story.
\nFriday, March 1 at 6:15pm (Q&A with Mona Achache and Marion Cotillard)
\nWednesday, March 6 at 8:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Marguerite\u2019s Theorem \/ Le th\u00e9or\u00e8me de Marguerite
\nAnna Novion, 2023, France\/Switzerland, 112m
\nFrench and English with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>\u201cElite female mathematicians are rare,\u201d professor Werner (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) tells Marguerite (Ella Rumpf), a PhD student he\u2019s supervising as she labors on the final stages of developing an ambitious proof. When a flaw is discovered during the presentation of her research, three years of work are invalidated in one fell swoop, and Marguerite finds herself rethinking the parameters of the life she\u2019s made for herself. Abandoning both her dissertation and her academic environment, Marguerite finds new friends and an unexpected use for her math skills in the world of gambling\u2014where she soon embarks on an even more unexpected romance. Winding a fluent, accessible tour through the arcane world of high-level math, Anna Novion\u2019s feature always remains grounded in the affecting story of a young woman who must reinvent herself in order to find a fresh new perspective on her vocation and on life itself. A DistribFilms release.
\nSaturday, March 2 at 6:15pm (Q&A with\u00a0Anna Novion and Jean-Pierre Darroussin)
\nMonday, March 4 at 3:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

No Love Lost \/ La fille de son p\u00e8re
\nErwan Le Duc, 2023, France, 91m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>When young \u00c9tienne (Nahuel P\u00e9rez Biscayart) meets the vibrant, beautiful protester Val\u00e9rie (Mercedes Dassy), he immediately falls for her\u2014only to be abruptly devastated when she leaves him after the birth of their child. Sixteen years later, \u00c9tienne has made a good life for himself with new girlfriend H\u00e9l\u00e8ne (Maud Wyler) and Rosa, his now-grown daughter (C\u00e9leste Brunnquell). As Rosa prepares to depart for art school, simultaneously navigating her own apprehensions and her comfortable, loving relationship with Youssef (Mohammed Louridi), the makeshift family unit\u2019s tentative stability has already begun to erode when an unexpected echo from the past sets father and daughter alike on a new path of self-discovery. From the nearly wordless romantic montage that opens his C\u00e9sar-nominated sophomore film, Erwan Le Duc delivers a stylistically bold, warmly eccentric examination of the ties that bind us\u2014for better or for worse.
\nMonday, March 4 at 1:15pm
\nSaturday, March 9 at 1:00pm (Q&A with\u00a0Erwan Le Duc and Maud Wyler)<\/b><\/p>\n

On the Adamant \/ Sur l\u2019Adamant
\nNicolas Philibert, 2023, France\/Japan, 109m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>The\u00a0Adamant\u00a0<\/i>is the name of a barge in central Paris that\u2019s also a day care facility for neurodivergent adults\u2014and the setting for veteran documentarian Nicolas Philibert\u2019s latest feature, which was awarded the prestigious Golden Bear at last year\u2019s Berlinale and this year nominated for a C\u00e9sar. In this characteristically humane examination of an institution and its deeply invested employees, Philibert trains his empathetic gaze on the facility, its dedicated caretakers, and their regular patients, who include musicians and other creative souls. Their day-to-day challenges and triumphs, mediated through artistic workshops that facilitate bracingly personal moments of vivid self-expression, are at the core of a film that finds profound beauty and inspiration in a vital, all-too-rare haven of community and caretaking. A Kino Lorber release.
\nMonday, March 4 at 6:00pm (Q&A with\u00a0Nicolas Philibert)
\nFriday, March 8 at 3:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n

The Rapture \/ Le ravissement
\nIris Kaltenb\u00e4ck, 2023, France, 97m
\nFrench and Serbian with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>In the wake of an unexpected breakup with her boyfriend, midwife Lydia (Hafsia Herzi) throws herself into her work, riding the bus late into the night following long shifts at her job. Observed during these nocturnal rounds by her regular bus driver Milos (Alexis Manenti), Lydia is a restless soul who gradually sublimates her emotional life into the pregnancy of her best friend, Salom\u00e9 (Nina Meurisse). Anchored by a riveting central performance from Herzi, Iris Kaltenb\u00e4ck\u2019s dreamily stylish C\u00e9sar-nominated feature debut is a deceptively slow-burning portrait of a woman whose actions grow ever more desperate, even as she stubbornly persists in holding herself at a distance, remaining inscrutable both to herself and to the increasingly confounded loved ones caught up in her turmoil.
\nSunday, March 3 at 3:30pm (Q&A with\u00a0Iris Kaltenb\u00e4ck)
\nTuesday, March 5 at 1:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

A Real Job \/ Un m\u00e9tier s\u00e9rieux
\nThomas Lilti, 2023, France, 101m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\n<\/b>Having previously drawn upon his background as a doctor for the films\u00a0Hippocrates<\/i>\u00a0(Rendez-Vous 2015) and\u00a0The Freshmen<\/i>\u00a0(Rendez-Vous 2019), in his latest dramatically inflected comedy writer-director Thomas Lilti trains his characteristically observant and empathetic eye on a new milieu: high school. Actor Vincent Lacoste, a regular leading man for Lilti, is freshly accredited substitute teacher Benjamin, whom we meet as he\u2019s setting out to launch his career at the suburban Victor Hugo School. Joining a diverse group of colleagues including older Pierre (The Intouchables<\/i>\u00a0star Fran\u00e7ois Cluzet) and divorced mother Meriem (Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos), Benjamin quickly encounters the challenges of balancing an involving home life with the varied demands of students, parents, and administrators who rely on the group of harried but compassionate and deeply dedicated educators for guidance, wisdom, and a path forward.
\nFriday, March 1 at 4:00pm
\nSunday, March 10 at 1:00pm (Q&A with\u00a0Thomas Lilti)<\/b><\/p>\n

Red Island \/ L\u2019\u00eele rouge
\nRobin Campillo, 2023, France\/Belgium\/Madagascar, 116m
\nFrench and Malagasy with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>Rendez-Vous and NYFF veteran Robin Campillo, whose 2017 period drama\u00a0BPM: Beats Per Minute<\/i>\u00a0reconstructed and celebrated ACT UP\u2019s legacy of AIDS activism in France during the 1990s, once again draws on personal history with his latest film, reaching back further to evoke a sumptuously visualized 1970s childhood spent with his military family on Madagascar. Growing up on one of the last remaining French colonial bases on the island, young Thomas (Charlie Vauselle) keeps a curious and observant eye on the adults around him, not least his parents (Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Quim Guterriez). Bonding with young Suzanne (Cathy Pham) over the\u00a0Fant\u00f4mette<\/i>\u00a0comic books, Thomas\u2019s imagination and observational powers grow even as the world around him is about to die. Making striking use of a child\u2019s perspective, Campillo\u2019s carefully observed drama of a lost world is lyrical and clear-eyed in equal measure.
\nTuesday, March 5 at 3:45pm
\nSaturday, March 9 at 6:15pm (Q&A with\u00a0Robin Campillo)<\/b><\/p>\n

Sisterhood \/ HLM Pussy
\nNora El Hourch, 2023, France, 100m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>Our introduction to longtime best friends Amina (L\u00e9ah Aubert), Djeneba (M\u00e9dina Diarra), and Zineb (Salma Takaline) finds them fielding the taunts of a group of teen boys at a fast-food restaurant, and their mutual affection and loyalty is immediately apparent: The girls move through high school as an inseparable unit, in the habit of pushing back collectively against anyone who comes at them. But when Zineb is harassed at a party by the drug-dealing cousin of a fellow student (Oscar Al Hafiane), the subsequent decisions made by each member of the tightly knit trio have repercussions that begin to tear the group apart. Casting an unflinching eye on the everyday sexual harassment faced by young women in a social-media-drenched environment, and its unpredictable consequences, this remarkably assured debut feature from writer-director Nora El Hourch is anchored by vivid, fiery, and entirely unexpected turns from the trio of exciting newcomers at its center.
\nWednesday, March 6 at 1:30pm
\nSaturday, March 9 at 3:30pm (Q&A with\u00a0Nora El Hourch)<\/b><\/p>\n

Spirit of Ecstasy \/ La V\u00e9nus d’argent
\nH\u00e9l\u00e9na Klotz, 2023, France, 95m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/b>This up-to-the-minute, stylishly directed look at the world of high finance is built around a nuanced character study of nonbinary Jeanne (Claire Pommet, also known as indie pop musician Pomme). For Jeanne, high finance isn\u2019t just something they\u2019re good at but a chance to get out of their family\u2019s dead-end lifestyle on a military base. While working as an intern at a finance company, they latch onto an unexpected chance to rocket to the top of the professional ladder after ruthless trader Far\u00e8s (Sofiane Zermani) takes Jeanne under his wing. The sophomore feature from director H\u00e9l\u00e9na Klotz (whose debut,\u00a0The Atomic Age<\/i>, played at Rendez-Vous 2013) is a brilliantly staged depiction of a young person\u2019s personal and professional emancipation, following its protagonist\u2019s initiatory journey with great complexity and sensitivity.
\nMonday, March 4 at 9:00pm
\nFriday, March 8 at 6:15pm (Q&A with\u00a0H\u00e9l\u00e9na Klotz)<\/b><\/p>\n

The Temple Woods Gang \/ Le gang des Bois du Temple
\nRabah Ameur-Za\u00efmeche, 2023, France, 113m
\nFrench and English with English subtitles
\nNorth American Premiere
\n<\/b>Festival regular Rabah Ameur-Za\u00efmeche (South Terminal<\/i>, Rendez-Vous 2020;\u00a0Story of Judas<\/i>, Rendez-Vous 2016) returns with a richly imagined, arrestingly original perspective on the heist genre. B\u00e9b\u00e9 (Philippe Petit) and five friends from his housing project decide to rob a Saudi prince (Mohamed Aroussi); although the scheme is initially successful, its consequences set off a series of events that none of the participants could have anticipated. It\u2019s a familiar enough premise, but Ameur-Za\u00efmeche is as interested in the men, their background, and their precarious position in the French social structure as he is in the dramatic interplay of crime and punishment. Named one of the 10 best films of 2023 by\u00a0Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma<\/i>,\u00a0The Temple Woods Gang<\/i>\u00a0is the boldest accomplishment yet from a filmmaker rightly acclaimed within France, and deserving of similar recognition beyond its borders.
\nWednesday, March 6 at 6:00pm
\nThursday, March 7 at 3:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Toni \/ Toni, en famille
\nNathan Ambrosioni, 2023, France, 96m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/b>A former pop sensation whose once successful career has long since dwindled, middle-aged Toni (Camille Cottin) is now first and foremost a single mother of five. Though she loves her children fiercely, the sense of stagnation that accompanies her domestic obligations leads Toni to wonder if it\u2019s time to start a new chapter by enrolling at a university\u2014or if it\u2019s even still possible to alter her family\u2019s well-established rhythms and routines. In his sophomore feature, director Nathan Ambrosioni crafts an effortlessly affecting study of a woman and her lively brood adapting to a moment of collective transformation. At the group portrait\u2019s center is Cottin, best known to English-speaking audiences for her celebrated performance in the TV series\u00a0Call My Agent!<\/i>, delivering a lived-in, sneakily touching performance as a woman ready to make a change. A DistribFilms release.
\nSaturday, March 2 at 1:00pm (Q&A with\u00a0Nathan Ambrosioni)
\nSunday, March 10 at 8:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n

UNIFRANCE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>Founded in 1949 and strengthened thanks to its merger with TV France International in 2021, Unifrance is the organization responsible for promoting French cinema and TV content worldwide.<\/p>\n

Located in Paris, Unifrance employs around 50 staff members, as well as representatives based in the United States, in China, and in Japan. The organization currently brings together more than 1,000 French cinema and TV content professionals (producers, talents, agents, sales companies, and the like) working together to promote French films and TV programmes among foreign audiences, industry executives, and media.<\/p>\n

Unifrance is supported by the French government, the CNC, the PROCIREP, and many public and private partners.\u00a0Visit<\/b>\u00a0unifrance.org<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0for more information and follow @unifrance on\u00a0<\/b>Facebook<\/b><\/span><\/a>,<\/b>\u00a0X<\/b><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and<\/b>\u00a0Instagram<\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/b>Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a vibrant home for film culture to thrive. FLC presents premier film festivals, retrospectives, new releases, and restorations year-round in state-of-the-art theaters at New York\u2019s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. FLC offers audiences the opportunity to discover works from established and emerging directors from around the world with a passionate community of film lovers at marquee events including the New York Film Festival and New Directors\/New Films.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1969, FLC is committed to preserving the excitement of the theatrical experience for all audiences, advancing high-quality film journalism through the publication of\u00a0Film Comment<\/i>, cultivating the next generation of film industry professionals through our FLC Academies, and enriching the lives of all who engage with our programs.<\/p>\n

Film at Lincoln Center receives generous, year-round support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. For more information, visit\u00a0<\/b>filmlinc.org<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and follow @filmlinc on\u00a0<\/b>X<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b>Instagram<\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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