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The next couple of weeks are big ones for Francophiles here in New York City - the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual ten-day "
Rendezvous with French Cinema" series just opened last night with lovably bug-eyed auteur and actor Mathieu Almaric's latest directorial effort called
Barbara; films from Xavier Legrand & Bruno Dumont and many others follow - there are over twenty movies screening,
you can see the entire run right here.
And then starting this upcoming Tuesday at the The French Institute Alliance Française across town a series titled "
Louis Garrel: Love Songs & Heartbreak" celebrating our most favorite floppy-haired Frenchman of all is beginning -- every Tuesday night for five weeks they'll screen a feature-length film of Garrel's alongside a short film of his! This Tuesday, March 13th they're showing
Dans Paris, a movie about the relationship between Garrel's character and his brother, played by a bearded and dreamy Romain Duris...
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... that I've been meaning to see, and not seen, for ages; it's screening with a 2008 short film that Louis directed himself. Later on they're showing the films A Castle in Italy,Two Friends, Jealousy (directed by his father Philippe and co-starring his sister - and Call Me By Your Name's own Marzia! - Esther Garrel) and then of course Love Songs, which is a romantic musical that has Louis going boisterously gay for us. Cannot wait.
