Ciné Soirée

Movie night with wine and cheese

Once a month we hold this event which brings you closer to the French language and culture through films. This is a great cultural event, complementing your educational experience at Alliance Française. It is also a great occasion to meet other members and students and practice your French outside of the classroom. Of course, you do not have to be a student of Alliance Française to attend Cinè Soirée, (but we hope you are a member !) Feel free to invite friends, francophiles and film lovers...

Allons au Cinèma! Let's go to the movies!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Movie Night with wine and Cheese reception

Friday, August 27th

Friday, September 24th

Friday, October 22nd

Friday, November 19th

Friday, December 10th

$10 members, $15 non-members RSVP 404-875-1211

all films in French with English subtitles

email admin@afatl.com or communication@afatl.com for the full calendar of

films through December.

Please Note*****:

We are pleased to announce the return of our popular Ciné Soirées here at the Alliance. It has been a while and we've gotten lots of feedback from our friends, members and students that you've missed the movie nights, and we have missed you as well.

We ran into some difficulties regarding screening rights a while back, as a small non-profit, it was cost prohibitive to obtain the rights for each film which prevented us from showing films as we would have liked.

Thanks to the generous assistance of member Marc Girardot, we were able to procure a screening license, unfortunately due to the stipulations of the contract, we are unable to publicize the title of the film to the general public.

A separate email will follow to current AF members with that info.

We hope you will give usa call for more info, ask a member friend or current student or come by and join us at the movies !

PAST EVENTS

Francophonie Film Festival

Movies shown at the High Museum of Art:

Welcome (France)

Friday March 19th, 7 p.m.

Welcome is a 2009 movie directed by Phillippe Lioret.

This movie is centred on the friendship between a swimming instructor and a 17-year-old Iraqi Kurd bent on swimming the channel to be reunited with his girlfriend in London.

Ce film a pour thème l'amitié entre un maître nageur et un jeune garçon iraqien kurde de 17 ans. Le garçon a décidé de traverser la manche a la nage afin de retrouver sa petite-amie a Londres.

J'ai tué ma mère (Québec)

Friday March 19th, 9 p.m.

I Killed My Mother is a French Canadian film, released in 2009.

Written and directed by Xavier Dolan, it is an exposé on the complexity of the mother- and-son bond.

Ce film, écrit et réalisé par Xavier Dolan, décrit la complexité du rapport mère-fils.

Movies shown at At the Midtown Arts cinema:

La Prophétie des Grenouilles (France)

Saturday March 20th, Afternoon

La Prophétie des grenouilles is a 2003 French cartoon by Jacques-Rémy Girerd.

It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.

C'est une catastrophe! Notre planète est touchée par une innondation et seul un groupe d'invidus atypiques semble avoir survécu. Mené par Ferdinand, un Noé contemporain, ce petit groupe va devoir defier des élèments naturels déchainés. Etres humains, aussi bien qu'animaux vont être entrainés dans cette décoiffante et folle aventure.

Formidable (Belgique)

Sunday March 21st, 7 p.m.

Formidable is a 2007 movie by the Belgian director Dominique Standaert.

This movie tells the sinking of two sweet derelicts slightly pathetic whose meeting will help to resurface.

Ce film raconte le naufrage de deux tendres paumés un peu pathétiques, que leur rencontre va aider à faire surface.

Le goût des jeunes filles (Haiti/Quebec-Canada)

Monday March 22nd

Le goût des jeunes filles is a 2004 movie directed by John L'Ecuyer.

Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, 15-year-old Fanfan just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat sheltered life with his protective mother, Fanfan experiences a bizarrely terrifying incident involving a Tonton-Macoute. As a result, he decides to hide out at his beautiful neighbor's house for the weekend. There, he is trapped between his fear of being caught and the fulfilling of his deepest fantasy. Based on the Book Le Gout des Jeunes Filles by famous Haitian novelist Dany Laferrière.

Haiti, 1971. Surprotégé par sa mère, Fanfan, un jeune garçon de quinze and, aimerait bien pouvoir profiter un peu de la vie. À l'insu de celle-ci, il décide de sortir de chez lui pour aller se promener en ville avec son ami Gégé, un petit délinquant. À la suite d'un incident impliquant un Tonton-Macoute, Fanfan se réfugie chez sa belle voisine, Miki, une prostituée. Pendant tout un week-end, Fanfan est déchiré entre la peur de se faire arrêter, le désir de traverser la rue pour aller réconforter sa mère et le bonheur d'enfin découvrir l'univers de Miki et de ses belles amies. Avec comme toile de fond la pauvreté et la peur infligées par un régime de dictature impitoyable, Fanfan nous raconte son histoire.

Retour à Gorée (Switzerland)

Tuesday March 23rd

Retour à Gorée is a 2008 swiss movie directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud.

This movie tells us the journey of the African singer Youssou N’Dour following the steps of the black slaves and the music they invented: The jazz.

Ce film raconte le périple du chanteur africain Youssou N'Dour sur les traces des esclaves noirs et de la musique qu'ils ont inventée : le jazz.

Mon frère se marie (Switzerland)

Wednesday March 24th

Mon frère se marie is a 2006 swiss movie directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron.

Vinh ,who was adopted twenty years before by a swiss family, is going to get married. His biological mother, who lives in Vietnam, decides to come and meet the family who raised her son.

Vinh, adopté 20 ans plus tôt par une famille suisse, va se marier. Sa mère naturelle, restée au Vietnam, decide de faire le voyage et rencontrer la famille qui a élevé son fils.

Archives:

Cinéma/ Musique

Saturday, December 5th 2009 at the Rich Theatre, High Museum at 8pm

Ciné Follies Jazz Ladies

Jazz Ladies is a program of great vintage jazz shorts from the collection of Jo Milgram, (1916 – 2005), a French jazz enthusiast who became friends with many American musicians who passed through Paris during the 1930s and thereafter. He began collecting jazz films in 1970 and amassed one of the finest collections in the world. This program, which is being circulated by the Alliance Française in collaboration with the Cinematheque of Dance in Paris, features performances by Valaida Snow, Dorothy Dandridge, Sarah Vaughan, Tessie Maize, Ethel Waters, Ella Fitzgerald, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, and many other equally stellar talents. (Running time 90 minutes.) This program is co-sponsored by the Alliance Francaise in Atlanta.

Ticket prices are $7 general admission, $6 for students, seniors, and Museum and AF members (show AF membership card @ High box office)

Our featured film for July...

Friday July 31st
Opening Night/AF Night
Q&A with the Director/Producer Chai Vasarhelyi

Regal Tara Theater
2345 Cheshire Bridge Rd 30324-3758

RSVP:404-634-6288

(Films provided by the French Cultural Service in Atlanta and the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, with the exception of Life outside of Pearl.)

Our featured film for July......

Friday, July 17th, 7pm

Life Outside of Pearl

Jazz Combo at 7, film to start at 8 pm

In partnership with The Haitian Alliance, Inc.

The feature film "Life Outside of Pearl" is about a lower-middle class Haitian-American family assimilating into a new culture, while maintaining their ethnic identity.

The family patriarch presents a proud exterior earning a living as a taxi cab driver trying to keep his adulterous affair, a secret.

His wife is aware of his indiscretions but chooses to deny her own needs to keep her home and family intact. Jean, the couple’s teenage son is smart, but naively decides to postpone college to pursue dreams of opening a computer shop in the neighborhood.

Jean uses illegal means to raise capital for the shop, conflict occurs, and he gets involved over his head with less than savory friends. Sister finds love with her new boyfriend only to have her romantic fairy tale life shattered by catching her father with another woman.

Marco, the handsome family cousin is a local police officer trying to balance his life on the street with family involvement.

Each family member’s personal issues intersect and climax when they learn that Jean has been shot by his cousin while breaking the law. Secrets are exposed, changes must be made and the family unit is ultimately strengthened by facing its weaknesses.

With an all star cast- Jimmy Jean Louis, Rudolphe Moise, Carole Demesmin, Freddie Robinson, Natacha Noel and Anthony Stevenson- this drama/action/comedy film is a sure crowd pleaser!!

Goethe Institute
Colony Square, Plaza Level
1197 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta GA 30361

$10 members, $15 non-members (free parking with validated ticket)

RSVP: 404-875-1211

Our featured film for June....

Monday, June 22nd, 7 p.m. at Imperial Fez

2285 Peachtree Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30309

Feast and Film at Fez- Ciné Soirée Maghrebine

Délice Paloma—Nadir Mokneche

(In French with English subtitles)

Madame Aldjéria, with her team, fixes up other people’s problems in exchange for cash. She doesn’t hesitate to dirty her hands in order to survive in a country where no holds are barred. Paloma, her new recruit, catches everyone’s eye, beginning with Riyad, Aldjéria’s son. Madame Aldjéria is in on a deal close to her heart: buying the Caracalla Thermae. But this is one deal too much, too grandiose; because of it she loses her son and her freedom.

Film and Five Course Moroccan Dinner

Members $30, Non-Members $45

Sponsored by Imperial Fez, in partnership with American Moroccan Association

RSVP: 404-875-1211

The selection for the Month of May...

Friday, May 29th 7 p.m.

Toi et moi/Me and you

A film by Julie Lopes Curval

In French with English subtitles

Wine and Cheese Reception at 7:00 and movie starts at 7:30

Editor of the photo romance section of “You and Me” magazine, Ariane has a tendency to transpose the love lives of herself and her sister, Lena, onto the pages – albeit with some extra flourishes. However, their lives are not exactly romantic: Ariane clings on to Farid, who wants nothing to do with her, while Lena has grown bored with her companion, François. But what if Ariane let herself go and fell in love with Pablo, the handsome Spaniard who is working her building? And what if Lena let her heart beat for Mark, the remarkable violinist she has just met?

Director(s): Julie Lopes-Curval. Screenplay: Julie Lopes-Curval and Sophie Hiet. Cast: Marion Cotillard, Julie Depardieu, Jonathan Zaccaï, Eric Berger, Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Tomer Sisley. Distributor: Pyramide Distribution. Runtime: 94 min. Year: 2006.

Goethe Institute
Colony Square, Plaza Level
1197 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta GA 30361

$10 members $15 non-members (free parking with validated ticket)

RSVP: 404-875-1211

For the Month of April, we are pleased to announce the return of our popular monthly French film soirées

April's featured presentation is a romantic comedy by Pierre Jolivet

Je Crois que je l'aime/I think I love Him (romantic comedy)

Friday, April 17th, 7 pm

(Wine and Cheese Reception at 7:00 and movie starts at 7:30)

Goethe Institute
Colony Square (validated parking)
1197 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta GA 30361

In French with English subtitles. 90 minutes.

Riche industriel divorcé, Lucas 43 ans, est irrésistibliment attiré par Elsa, 38 ans, une céramiste reputée à qui il a commandé une fresque pour le hall de son enterprise. Mais échaudé par une récentce déconvenue amoureuse, il demande au detective privé de sa société, Roland Christin, de découvrir pour quelles raisons cette jolie femme est toujours célibataire. Le detective va, sans le moindre scrupule, mettre en oeuvre les méthodes d’espionnage les plus modernes. Mais gare à Lucas si Elsa l’apprenait…

Forty-three-year-old Lucas, a rich, divorced industrialist, is irresistibly attracted to thirtyeight-year-old Elsa, a renowned ceramist whom he's commissioned to create a fresco for his office foyer. But, still smarting from a recent disappointment in love, he asks Roland Christin, a private detective from his company, to discover the reasons why this lovely woman is still single.....

$10 members $15 nonmembers, RSVP: 404-875-1211

Many thanks to all our students, members and friends who attended the Francofilm Festival at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema March 21-26th