tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630792907850311732011-04-21T15:43:36.811-05:00Welcome to the temporary site of the Tournées Festival at the University of Minnesota.<br> For more information please go to http://frit.umn.edu, email ffccc.umn @ gmail.com, or call 612.624.4308.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07648658935517465227noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763079290785031173.post-45461139708961246112008-10-07T09:12:00.006-05:002008-10-07T10:19:17.019-05:00Hosted by the Francophone Film Collaborative and Ciné Club, Department of French & Italian at the University of Minnesota<br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-nzXhbf0wDw/SOtxRHK2POI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ON13GxJT280/s1600-h/Num%C3%A9riser0001.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-nzXhbf0wDw/SOtxRHK2POI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ON13GxJT280/s320/Num%C3%A9riser0001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254417929054076130" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The latest movies from France. <br />FREE. <br />English subtitles</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Wednesday, November 5 <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Ne Le Dis A Personne</span></span><br />Dir. Guillaume Canet (France, 2006)<br />Bell Museum Auditorium : 6 PM <br />Eight years after the murder of his wife, Alexandre Beck still grieves. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect himself!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday, November 7<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Plafond de Verre</span></span><br />Yamina Benguigui (France, 2004)<br />275 Nicholson Hall : 6 PM<br />This documentary offers revealing accounts of discrimination faced by full-fledged French citizens who are children of immigrant parents.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Tuesday, November 11<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">10e Chambre - Instants d'audience</span> </span><br />Dir. Raymond Depardon (France, 2004)<br />UMN Law School : 6 PM<br />Cameras are allowed in a French courtroom for the first time … with amazing revelations. How does this system of justice differ from ours? Come see for yourself!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday, November 14<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Inch Allah Dimanche</span></span><br />Yamina Benguigui (France, 2001)<br />Alliance Française : 7 PM<br />113 N. 1st St Mpls, MN 55401<br />A deeply moving memoir of the isolation and vulnerability that immigrant families experienced upon arrival in France at a time when racial integration was virtually non-existent. Poignant, even funny at times … with a hopeful look to the future.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Wednesday, November 19<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Molière</span></span><br />Dir. Laurent Tirard (France, 2007)<br />Bell Museum Auditorium : 6 PM<br />French comedic playwright, Molière, mysteriously disappears for several weeks. He had been put in jail after skipping out on some debts, but once freed . . . the fun begins!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday, November 21<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Rêves de Poussière</span></span><br />Dir. Laurent Salgues (FR/ CA/ B.F., 2006)<br />275 Nicholson Hall : 6 PM<br />Mocktar goes to Burkina Faso to work in a dusty gold mine, where he hopes to forget his past. He finds the gold rush has ended and the citizens exist simply from force of habit. His future?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Tuesday, November 25<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">L’Avocat de la Terreur</span></span><br />Dir. Barbet Schroeder (France, 2007)<br />UMN Law School : 6 PM <br />‘Communist’, ‘anti-colonialist’, ‘right-wing extremist’? This film takes us down history’s darkest paths to illuminate the mystery behind attorney Jacques Verges – and leads us to some shocking revelations.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.facecouncil.org/gif/hp/FACE5405U.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 50px;" src="http://www.facecouncil.org/gif/hp/FACE5405U.gif" border="0" alt="" /><font size="1"></a>The Tournées Festival, a program of <span style="font-weight:bold;">FACE</span><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> (French American Cultural Exchange), is made possible with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, Unifrance, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, highbrow entertainment, agnès b. and the Fonds culturel franco-américain (the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, SACEM and the Writers Guild of America). For more information on <span style="font-weight:bold;">FACE</span> programs, please visit www.facecouncil.org.<br><br />(Images, from top: <span style="font-style:italic;">Flandres</span> © International Film Circuit, <span style="font-style:italic;">Le Scaphandre et le papillion</span> © Swank Motion Pictures, <span style="font-style:italic;">L'Homme de sa vie</span> © Strand Releasing, <span style="font-style:italic;">Persepolis</span> © New Yorker Films, <span style="font-style:italic;">Chacun sa nuit</span> © Strand Releasing.) <blockquote></blockquote></font size="1"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/763079290785031173-4546113970896124611?l=ffccc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07648658935517465227noreply@blogger.com0