by Anne Marie | Sep 12, 2019 | Agenda, Going Out, Movie French cinemaIn French with English subtitlesJane BirkinSerge Gainsbourg
The petite waitress Johnny (Jane Birkin) works and lives in a truck-stop, where she’s lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he’s gay. Maybe because of her boyish...
by Anne Marie | May 22, 2019 | Going Out, Movie Alliance Française de San FranciscoFrançois BerleandFrench cinemaGérard JugnotJacques Perrin
Pierre (Jean-Baptiste Maunier) is an aimless child at an austere boarding school in France. The students and faculty are constantly at odds with one another, until a music teacher, Clément Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot), arrives and starts a choir. Clément — who has...
by Sabrina | May 19, 2019 | Agenda, Going Out, Movie Christian CarionFrench cinemaFrench MoviesGuillaume CanetLandmark ShattuckMélanie LaurentMy sonOpera PlazaSan Francisco
In the middle of the night, a 7-year-old boy has gone missing. The crisis has drawn the child’s father Julien (Guillaume Canet) back to a small, snowy town in eastern France in an effort to help. Julien travels abroad for work and has been essentially absent from his...
by Sabrina | May 4, 2019 | Agenda Agnes VardaFrench cinemaMovieNew WaveNouvelle VagueRoxie Theater
A reflection on art, life and the movies, LES PLAGES D’AGNÈS is a magnificent illustration of the self-described “cinécriture” created by our dearly departed, playful visionary Agnès Varda, a pioneering member of the Left Bank and director of such seminal works as THE...
