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Issued by: Laura L. Hunt
Phone: 414-229-6447
llhunt@uwm.edu
Jan. 27, 2005
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Issued by: Laura L. Hunt
Phone: 414-229-6447
llhunt@uwm.edu
Jan. 27, 2005
MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee’s annual festival of French cinema presents another exciting and diverse selection of contemporary and classic films from the Francophone countries of the world. Ten films are presented between Friday, Feb. 11, and Sunday, Feb. 20, at the Union Theatre, second floor, UWM Union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. All films are in French with English subtitles.
UWM’s French Film Festival 2005 is made possible with support from Dr. Richard Stone, in memory of his father, Dr. Sheldon Stone.
For more information, call 414-229-4070 or go online to: www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/theatre/calendar.html
The most widely accepted explanation for Napoleon Bonaparte’s death is that he was poisoned. But the case is still open, and the enigma surrounding his last years in exile is at the heart of Monsieur N., a compelling story about the battle of wills between the deposed emperor and his island jailor at St. Helena.
It is 1940, and the recently widowed Odile is fleeing Paris with her two children. The family meets up with Yvan, a 17-year-old illiterate delinquent whose survival skills and charm soon prove indispensable.
A series of stories set in Cayeux, a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme, reveal a community perched between transition and stasis. Winner, Camera D’Or, 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Nickel and Dime (À la petite semaine)With equal doses of charm, humor, and romance, Sam Karmann’s engaging crime drama follows a group of criminals in the working-class neighborhood of Saint-Ouen in Paris. Based on the true story of a petty criminal who decided at age 40 to begin acting after several stays in jail.
Robert Bresson’s study of a young man’s drift into petty thievery – and his achievement of grace.
After a chance encounter with a person who
appeared in Bresson’s classic film, filmmaker/cinematographer Babette
Mangolte searches out the other lead “models” (Bresson’s term
for the nonprofessionals in his films).
Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande
séduction)A ragtag fishing community on a tiny impoverished island must persuade a young Montreal-based doctor to live in their town in order to get a much-needed new factory.
A peek into the double life of Goucem, club-hopping siren by night and career-girl mistress of a married doctor by day, becomes a drama of the intertwined lives of three women in mood-drenched Algiers.
Feb. 19, 7 p.m.
Feb. 20, 5 p.m.
At
a special school for athletes, where intense physical training is the
curriculum, 15-year-old Sabine is determined to become the fastest runner in the
world. But first she must beat the boy who is the school star as she tries to
cope with the frustrations of being a female athlete in a male’s world.
LumumbaThis film is the true story of Patrice Lumumba, the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo. Writer/director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account. The film profiles Lumumba’s flair for oratory and uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords.
Also part of Black History Month at UWM. Sponsored by UWM Union Sociocultural
Programming and the UWM Department of Africology, 414-229-6997.
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