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			OPENING NIGHT Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell) Christian Carion, 2009; 113m Director Christian Carion and actor-director Guillaume Canet in person! Actor-directors Emir Kusturica and Guillaume Canet co-star in an absorbing true story about a KGB colonel who gives top-secret documents to an ordinary French businessman working in Russia, helping to hasten the end of the Cold War. Read more...		Buy Tickets Thu Mar 11: 7:00 Opening Night Alice Tully Hall Reserved Seating $25 General Public $20 Member
			Army of Crime (L’Armée du crime) Robert Guédiguian, 2009; 139m Actress Virginie Ledoyen in person! A taut, revealing thriller about the French Resistance, whose leaders and foot soldiers were often foreigners—Poles, Jews, Armenians, Spaniards, Italians—who had to fear French collaborators as well as the Germans. Read more...		Buy Tickets Wed Mar 17: 6:00 Fri Mar 19: 1:00
			The French Kissers (Les Beaux gosses) Riad Sattouf, 2009; 90m Director Riad Sattouf in person! The French answer to American Pie and Superbad, this hilarious and touching coming-of-age comedy follows two geeky Brittany teens on an odyssey of heavy petting, premature ejaculation, and first love. Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Mar 12: 9:25 Tue Mar 16: 3:45
			The Hedgehog (Le Hérisson) Mona Achache, 2009; 100m Director Mona Achache in person! A timely fable about Paloma, a young girl bent on ending it all before she becomes an adult, who learns about life from her building’s coarse concierge (the wonderful Josiane Balasko). Based on Muriel Barbery’s well-loved novel. Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Mar 12: 3:50 Sun Mar 14: 8:45
			8 Times Up (Huit fois debout) Xabi Molia, 2009; 103m Director Xabi Molia and actress Julie Gayet in person! When a woman struggling to make ends meet gets evicted, she and her unemployed neighbor set up a makeshift camp in the forest in this seriocomic investigation of the pressures of modern society. Read more...		Buy Tickets Tue Mar 16: 6:15 Wed Mar 17: 3:30
			I’m Glad That My Mother Is Alive (Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante) Claude Miller & Nathan Miller, 2009; 90m Director Nathan Miller in person! Given up for adoption as a toddler, Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother—but if he finds her, then what? Beautifully acted by a cast of unknowns, and based on a true story. Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Mar 19: 4:00 Sat Mar 20: 8:45
			In the Beginning (À l’origine) Xavier Giannoli, 2009; 120m Francois Cluzet gives a tour-de-force performance as a small-time conman who convinces an economically depressed town that he has come to resurrect a long-dormant highway construction project. Read more...		Buy Tickets Wed Mar 17: 9:00 Thu Mar 18: 3:45
			The King of Escape (Le Roi de l’évasion) Alain Guiraudie, 2009; 97m With director Alain Guiraudie in person! After coming to the rescue of a 16-year-old damsel in distress, a gay, middle-aged tractor salesman decides to give heterosexuality a try in this delightfully offbeat, midlife-crisis comedy. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Mar 13: 9:00 Mon Mar 15: 3:45
			The Law (La Loi/La legge) Jules Dassin, 1959; 126m Pitched between a romantic melodrama and a Fifties art film, this hugely entertaining look at a seaside Italian village wracked by tensions and jealousies features an extraordinary international all-star cast: Yves Montand, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Pierre Brasseur. Read more...		Buy Tickets Thu Mar 18: 1:00 Sun Mar 21: 4:00
			Mademoiselle Chambon Stéphane Brizé, 2009; 101m Director Stéphane Brizé in person! A delicate, moving tale that follows Jean (Vincent Lindon), a home contractor, as he finds himself increasingly attracted by the elegant charm of his son’s homeroom teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain). Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Mar 19: 6:15* Sun Mar 21: 1:30* *screening of Mademoiselle Chambon
			A Conversation with Vincent Lindon Acclaimed actor Vincent Lindon returns to Rendez-Vous with two wonderful performances in two wonderful films, Welcome and Mademoiselle Chambon. In conversation with Film Society Program Director Richard Peña, he will discuss his career as well as his thoughts on the art of the cinema and the art of the actor.		Buy Tickets Sun Mar 14: 6:15** **A Conversation with Vincent Lindon
			Making Plans for Lena (Non ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser) Christophe Honoré, 2009; 105m Director Christophe Honoré and actress Chiara Mastroianni in person! Recently liberated from her job and husband, Lena (Chiara Mastroianni, terrific) heads home to Brittany for the holidays—only to find herself deluged with nonstop advice about how to be happy. Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Mar 19: 8:45 Sat Mar 20: 1:30
			“New Films by…The Lumière Brothers!” Cannes Film Festival Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux returns to the Walter Reade Theater with an amazing selection of newly restored films by the inventors of cinema, Auguste and Louis Lumière, including their pioneering experiments with color and even 3D. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Mar 13: 3:30
			OSS 117 – Lost in Rio (OSS 177 – Rio ne répond plus) Michel Hazanavicius, 2009; 100m Director Michel Hazanavicius and actor Jean Dujardin in person! A delightful, madcap comedy that follows suave Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (Jean Dujardin)—better known as OSS 117—as he travels across Brazil with a charming Mossad agent on the trail of a hidden high-ranking Nazi. Read more...		Buy Tickets Mon Mar 15: 1:00 Tue Mar 16: 8:45
			Rapt Lucas Belvaux, 2009; 125m Director Lucas Belvaux and actor Yvan Attal in person! A millionaire playboy businessman is kidnapped and held for ransom in this fact-based, edge-of-your-seat nail-biter. But is his abduction a crime, or a case of just deserts? Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Mar 12: 6:30 Sat Mar 13: 12:30
			Le Refuge François Ozon, 2009; 88m With director François Ozon in person! An incisive character drama about a hardened ex-junkie who is visited by the brother of her late boyfriend while recovering at a beachside retreat. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Mar 20: 6:15 Sun Mar 21: 8:45
			Regrets Cédric Kahn, 2009; 105m Director Cédric Kahn and actor Yvan Attal in person! A married Paris architect returns to his rural hometown to visit his dying mother, whereupon he rekindles his relationship with his former high-school girlfriend. A fascinating drama of romantic obsession. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Mar 13: 6:15 Sun Mar 14: 1:00
			Restless (Le Bel âge) Laurent Perreau, 2009; 97m With director Laurent Perreau in person! Claire, a tomboyish teenager feeling the stirrings of first love, and her grandfather, Maurice, a former Resistance fighter, share a house but soon discover much else as well. A touching, fresh approach to the coming-of-age tale, with a superb performance by Michel Piccoli. Read more...		Buy Tickets Wed Mar 17: 1:00 Thu Mar 18: 8:45
			The Thorn in the Heart (L’Épine dans le coeur) Michel Gondry, 2009; 86m With director Michel Gondry in person! A filmmaker better know for his brilliant rendering of fantasy, Michel Gondry ventures into family history in this quietly affecting portrait of his aunt, schoolteacher Suzette Gondry, and her eccentric, problematic son, Jean-Yves. Read more...		Buy Tickets Mon Mar 15: 6:15* *screening of The Thorn in the Heart
			A Conversation with Michel Gondry Join the Film Society’s Associate Program Director, Scott Foundas, for this illustrated conversation with one of the most innovative talents to have emerged in the past decade. Michel Gondry will discuss the trajectory of his work, ranging from his pathbreaking music videos for Björk to such international hits as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to his upcoming release, A Thorn in the Heart.		Buy Tickets Mon Mar 15: 8:00** **A Conversation with Michel Gondry
			Welcome Philippe Lioret, 2009; 110m Actor Vincent Lindon in person on March 14! Hoping to join his girlfriend in England, a 17-year old Iraqi Kurd stuck in Calais decides to swim across the English Channel—and enlists the aid of swimming coach (Vincent Lindon) to help train for the event of his life. Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Mar 12: 1:15* Sun Mar 14: 3:30* *screening of Welcome
			A Conversation with Vincent Lindon Acclaimed actor Vincent Lindon returns to Rendez-Vous with two wonderful performances in two wonderful films, Welcome and Mademoiselle Chambon. In conversation with Film Society Program Director Richard Peña, he will discuss his career as well as his thoughts on the art of the cinema and the art of the actor.		Buy Tickets Sun Mar 14: 6:15** **A Conversation with Vincent Lindon
			The Wolberg Family (La Famille Wolberg) Axelle Ropert, 2009; 80m With director Axelle Ropert in person! Meet Simon Wolberg—energetic, enthusiastic, articulate, the mayor of a provincial French town. But does his dedication to his work blind him to everything going on at home? Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Mar 20: 4:00 Sun Mar 21: 6:30
			New French Shorts TRT: Approx. 106m Actress Julie Gayet in person! Wonderful things can sometimes come in very small packages, as this prizewinning selection of provocative short films from France amply demonstrates. See tomorrow’s auteurs today: Gabriel Le Bomin, Pierre Ferriere, Frédéric Guelaff, Mohammed Latrèche, Géraldine Maillet, Anna Mouglalis,and Camille Moulin-Dupré. Read more...		Buy Tickets Tue Mar 16: 1:30 Thu Mar 18: 6:30