This year?s festival kicks off on Thursday, November 21 at 7:00 PM with Beloved in which director Christophe Honor? revisits the musical. Beloved is an intricate weaving of multiple romantic triangles and world-changing milestones. Era-spanning (the film opens in 1963 and closes in 2007) and globe-hopping (scenes take place in Paris, Prague, London, and Montreal), the ambitious Beloved touches on several historical events during those forty-plus years, including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the AIDS pandemic, and September 11.
Friday, November 22 opens with Americano, the feature-length directorial debut of actor Mathieu Demy?the son of eminent filmmakers Jacques Demy and Agn?s Varda. Demy plays Martin, a Parisian real estate agent in his late 30s. After he receives news of his mother?s death, he flies to Los Angeles, her home for the past several decades, to settle her affairs. The Southern California landscape and its promises should be familiar to all of us. The historical fiction, Farewell my Queen, is Beno?t Jacquot?s nimble, lush adaptation of Chantal Thomas?s 2003 novel about the chaos at Versailles on the eve of the 1789 revolution, told not through the vantage point of the monarchs but through the eyes of Sidonie, the besotted reader to Marie Antoinette. Americano screens at 6:00 PM Farewell my Queen at 8:00 PM
The festival concludes Saturday, November 23 with 3 films. Elza, Mariette Monpierre?s debut full-length film, a searing melodrama uncovering the racial prejudices that still exist among formerly colonized peoples, and an inspiring tale of one young woman?s quest to understand her past in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Something in the Air, set in the early 1970s, is a bracing semi-autobiographical film from Olivier Assayas that resists easy nostalgia, focusing instead on the turbulence of one?s late teens and early twenties. While delving deeply into Gilles?s private dramas as he tries to define himself as an artist, Assayas never lets us forget that this richly drawn adolescent protagonist is also a player in a much broader historical moment: the era when revolutionary hopes began to splinter and fade. Sister is Ursula Meier?s accomplished second film. A keenly observed examination of class differences and tenuous family ties, it focuses on 12-year-old Simon and his desperate attempts to survive in a bleak housing project in the valley of a posh Swiss ski resort. Elza screens at 4:00 PM; Something in the Air at 5:30 PM and Sister at 8:00 PM.
Starring in these films are a wide range of internationally renowned actors including Gillian Anderson, Carlos Bardem Geraldine Chaplin, Catherine Deneuve, Louis Garrel, Selman Hayak, Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Saignier and Lea Seydoux.
All films have English subtitles.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
San Diego State University
Little Theatre 161
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-7704
Dates and times:
Thursday, November 21 - 7:00 PM
Friday, November 22 - 6:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 23 - 4:00 PM, 5:30 PM & 8:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sdsu.edu
Friday, November 22 opens with Americano, the feature-length directorial debut of actor Mathieu Demy?the son of eminent filmmakers Jacques Demy and Agn?s Varda. Demy plays Martin, a Parisian real estate agent in his late 30s. After he receives news of his mother?s death, he flies to Los Angeles, her home for the past several decades, to settle her affairs. The Southern California landscape and its promises should be familiar to all of us. The historical fiction, Farewell my Queen, is Beno?t Jacquot?s nimble, lush adaptation of Chantal Thomas?s 2003 novel about the chaos at Versailles on the eve of the 1789 revolution, told not through the vantage point of the monarchs but through the eyes of Sidonie, the besotted reader to Marie Antoinette. Americano screens at 6:00 PM Farewell my Queen at 8:00 PM
The festival concludes Saturday, November 23 with 3 films. Elza, Mariette Monpierre?s debut full-length film, a searing melodrama uncovering the racial prejudices that still exist among formerly colonized peoples, and an inspiring tale of one young woman?s quest to understand her past in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Something in the Air, set in the early 1970s, is a bracing semi-autobiographical film from Olivier Assayas that resists easy nostalgia, focusing instead on the turbulence of one?s late teens and early twenties. While delving deeply into Gilles?s private dramas as he tries to define himself as an artist, Assayas never lets us forget that this richly drawn adolescent protagonist is also a player in a much broader historical moment: the era when revolutionary hopes began to splinter and fade. Sister is Ursula Meier?s accomplished second film. A keenly observed examination of class differences and tenuous family ties, it focuses on 12-year-old Simon and his desperate attempts to survive in a bleak housing project in the valley of a posh Swiss ski resort. Elza screens at 4:00 PM; Something in the Air at 5:30 PM and Sister at 8:00 PM.
Starring in these films are a wide range of internationally renowned actors including Gillian Anderson, Carlos Bardem Geraldine Chaplin, Catherine Deneuve, Louis Garrel, Selman Hayak, Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Saignier and Lea Seydoux.
All films have English subtitles.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
San Diego State University
Little Theatre 161
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-7704
Dates and times:
Thursday, November 21 - 7:00 PM
Friday, November 22 - 6:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 23 - 4:00 PM, 5:30 PM & 8:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sdsu.edu
