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ciné-club du samedi
GASCONY BRITTANY
PROVENCE
BEAUJOLAIS
ciné-club du samedi
Tour de France, a Series with Randy Williams
Admission $7 with a regional alcoholic beverage served after the screening.
In French with English subtitles. Please enter by 54 W. Chicago Avenue.
A French vacation surely includes Paris, but the France outside of Paris is well worth experiencing.
We continue our “Tour de France” with a series of films that showcase the beauty and diversity of
France beyond the capital. The après-film will feature wine pairings from the respective regions.
Randy Williams is a past President of the Alliance Française and film aficionado. He is a Chevalier
in both the Order of Arts and Letters and the National Order of Merit.
Dialogue avec mon jardinier • by Jean Becker (2007, 108 min.)
Saturday, November 10, 2012 / 1:30 p.m.
Two men find themselves sharing a lifetime of
experiences and observations over the course of a
summer in this low-key comedy-drama. Adapted
from the memoirs of artist Henri Cueco, it is the
story of a Parisian artist who inherits his family’s
vacation house in the countryside after the death
of his mother. He hires a local gardener to fix up
the overgrown garden of the house. To his great
surprise, the gardener turns out to be an old friend
from his school days. Over the next several months,
the gardener and the painter talk about their life’s
stories and what they learned along the way.
Jean de Florette • by Claude Berri (1986, 120 min.)
Saturday, February 9, 2013 / 1:30 p.m.
This French historical drama, based on a novel by
Marcel Pagnol, concerns a bizarre battle royale
over a valuable natural spring in a remote French
farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret
assumes ownership of the spring when the original
owner is accidentally killed by covetous farmer
Cesar Soubeyran. Soubeyran and his equally
disreputable nephew Ugolin pull every dirty trick
in the book to force Cadoret off his land, but the
novice farmer stands firm.
L’équipier • by Philippe Lioret (2004, 105 min.)
Saturday, April 13, 2013 / 1:30 p.m.
After the death of her parents, Camille arrives on
the island of Ouessant, hoping to sell her family’s
vacation house where she grew up. On her final
night in the house, Camille stumbles upon a journal
of a man who knew her father in the 1960s. Injured
after the Algerian War, this man arrived on the
island to help Camille’s father, who was, at the
time, the lighthouse keeper.
Camille discovers a dark secret behind this man’s
two-month stay on the island.
Le bonheur est dans le pré • by Étienne Chatiliez (1995, 106 min.)
Saturday, May 4, 2013 / 1:30 p.m.
Lots of people wish they could be someone else,
but a French businessman decides to do something
about it in this satirical comedy. Francis leads a
miserable life running a toilet seat factory in a
small town whose employees are on strike. To
make matters worse, he has a selfish wife who
plunders his bank account. One night, an ad for a
missing person on television captures his attention.
Dolores, a woman living on a beautiful farm in the
South of France, has a husband who disappeared.
After Francis discovers that he and this man look
exactly alike, he decides to pose as Dolores’ husband.
For Francis, will it be more problems to come, or the start of a brand new life?
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