This June and July, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York’s premiere French cultural center, presents a new CinéSalon series featuring some of the most subversive and surreal films of the past 50 years. In Writing the Impossible, works by leading directors—including Buñuel, Malle, and Godard—are united by one common thread: the imaginative French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière.
Celebrating Carrière’s recent Honorary Oscar and extraordinary career, this retrospective highlights the screenwriter’s singular talent for bringing the impossible to life onscreen. Cinematic enigmas, surreal films, and novels that seem to defy adaptation are subject to Carrière’s strange and playful vision, resulting in some of the most groundbreaking and transgressive films of the past decades.
Films include:
· The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, dir. Luis Buñuel & Heureux Anniversaire, dir. Pierre Etaix and Jean-Claude Carrière, Tuesday, June 2 at 4 & 7:30pm.7:30pm screening introduced by film critic Florence Colombani
· La Piscine, dir. Jacques Deray, Tuesday, June 9 at 4 & 7:30pm.7:30pm screening introduced by French designer Maud Heline
· Every Man for Himself, dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Tuesday, June 16 at 4& 7:30pm.
· Valmont, dir. Miloš Forman, Tuesday, June 23 at 4 & 7:30pm.
· Swann in Love, dir. Volker Schlöndorff, Tuesday, June 30 at 4& 7:30pm.
· Max mon amour, dir. Nagisa Ôshima, Tuesday, July 7 at 4 & 7:30pm.
· Danton, dir. Adrzej Wajda, Tuesday, July 14 at 4 & 7:30pm.Special for Bastille Day!
· May Fools (Milou en mai), dir.Louis Malle, Tuesday, July 21 at 4 & 7:30pm.
· Birth, dir. Jonathan Glazer, Tuesday, July 29 at 4 & 7:30pm.
CinéSalon • June/July 2015
Jean-Claude Carrière: Writing the Impossible
Tuesday, June 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 and July 7, 14, 21 & 28
Free for FIAF Members!
This summer, catch some of the most subversive and surreal films of the past 50 years. In this series, works by leading directors—including Buñuel, Malle, and Godard—are united by one common thread: the imaginative French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière.
From unfilmable literary adaptations to outlandish ideas, Carrière has a singular talent for bringing the impossible to life onscreen. Celebrate his recent Governer’s Award and extraordinary career with a retrospective of his wonderfully weird contributions to cinema.
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