by MerciSF | 25-04-2021 | Agenda, Movie, News, See All DocLands Documentary FestivalDocumentaryFrench movies with subtitlesSmith Rafael Film Center
9 days in Raqqa, directed by Xavier de Lauzanne, is a very compelling documentary that highlights a Kurdish Syrian young woman’s unexpected story. At just 30 years old, Leila Mustapha, a Kurdish Syrian civil engineer by trade, has become the mayor of Raqqa,...
by MerciSF | 24-09-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All DocumentarySmith Rafael Film Center
Myth of a colorblind France – For more than a century, Black artists, authors, musicians, and others have traveled to Paris to liberate themselves from the racism of the United States. What made these artistic innovators choose France? Why were the French...
by MerciSF | 2-09-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All ConvictionFrench MovieSan Francisco Bay AreaSmith Rafael Film Center
As a juror at Jacques Viguier’s trial, Nora is convinced that he did not kill his wife. This intuition quickly becomes an obsession. She persuades the most famous lawyer in the country to defend him. Together they start a compulsive fight to prove his innocence...
by MerciSF | 28-08-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All DocumentaryRoxie TheaterSmith Rafael Film CenterStreaming
House of Cardin is as bubbly and vibrant as its subject at hand. The filmmaking duo P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes (Mansfield 66/67) shift their cameras toward self-made fashion genius Pierre Cardin. Including interviews with Naomi Campbell, Sharon Stone, Dionne...
by MerciSF | 14-05-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All Cedric KlapischFrench movies with subtitlesSmith Rafael Film Center
Someone Somewhere (Deux Moi) is a film by Cédric Klapisch with Ana Girardot and François Civil. Two lonely neighbors would be perfect for each other if only they could overcome their individual blockages and stop replacing computer screens with real connections....
by MerciSF | 8-05-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All Chiara MastroianniFrench movies with subtitlesSmith Rafael Film Center
In this playful new film from writer-director Christophe Honoré, we meet Maria, a woman dissatisfied with her marriage who, after a heated argument with her husband of 20 years, spends the night in room 212 of the hotel across the street from their home. There, she...
by MerciSF | 1-05-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All French movies with subtitlesJean DujardinRoxie TheaterSmith Rafael Film Center
Deerskin with Jean Dujardin – In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, Academy Award winner Dujardin (The Artist) is a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. Set...
by MerciSF | 27-12-2019 | Agenda, Movie, See All CinémaEdit PiafFrench artistRaquel BittonSan RafaelSmith Rafael Film Center
Part documentary, part stage performance, this entertaining look at French chanteuse Edith Piaf tells her story through a terrific theatrical presentation by internationally praised French jazz singer Raquel Bitton, who literally becomes Piaf while singing, but steps...
