French Film Festival
2019 French Film Festival
Presented by Holyoke Community College
All films are in French with English subtitles. All films are at 7:00 p.m. in the Leslie Philips Theater in the Fine & Performing Arts Building.
Admission is free for all.
Tuesday, March 26
Deux Jours, Une Nuit/ Two Days, One Night (2014), J.P. and L. Dardenne (1h35) In a Belgian industrial town, Sandra (Academy-award winner Marion Cotillard) has a weekend to convince her colleagues to renounce a $1,000 bonus so that she can get her job back. Many awards and nominations.
Wednesday, March 27
Examen d'État/National Diploma (2014), Dieudo Hamadi (1h32) This documentary follows a group of Congolese high school students taking matters into their own hands after their teachers demand fees to help them study for the high stakes national diploma.
Tuesday, April 2
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange/ The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936), Jean Renoir (1h23) In this classic Renoir masterpiece, with screenplay by Jacques Prévert, the story of a murder turns into a timely manifesto on the abuse of power and its consequences.
Wednesday, April 3
Visages, Villages/ Faces, Places (2017), Agnès Varda (1h53) This Acacemy-Award nominated documentary is a portrait of modern-day France as well as the evolving relationship between open-hearted, 89-year-old Agnès Varda and theworld-famous young street artist JR.
The festival is presented in collaboration with the HCC Foreign Languages department. Tournées Film Festival is made possible with the generous support of French American Cultural Fund (FACE), Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image Animée (CNC), Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment.
For more information, please contact Sabine Charton Long at schartonlong@hcc.edu or Margaret Sweeney at msweeney@hcc.edu.
