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POISON FRIENDS Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Emmanuel Bourdieu, Country: France, Release: 2006, Runtime: 107 On their first day at university, Eloi and Alexandre meet André, good-looking, impossibly brilliant and instantly singled out by students and faculty alike as a star. Soon André is dominating their every move, telling them how to think and what they should do with their lives. Then, one day André is gone, said to be off doing research on James Ellroy at an American university. For his second film, Emmanuel Bourdieu (co-screenwriter on Arnaud Desplechin’s NYFF ‘96 My Sex Life) offers a fascinating journey into a world in which the life of the mind is a perpetual emotional joust. With André, brilliantly played by newcomer Thibault Vinçon, Bourdieu has created a revealing portrait of an academic vampire who sucks the life out of everyone in his way. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway. preceded by CHRONICLE OF A JUMP Zohar Lavi, Israel/USA, 2005, 10 min. Sometimes a jump into a lake is just that, but sometimes it’s something more. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

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