Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2020
As part of this year’s 25th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York, UniFrance, Film at Lincoln Center, and Air France launched the Air France Audience Award, offering moviegoers the chance to vote for their favorite film from the festival.
We are pleased to announce that the inaugural Air France Audience Award winner is Sarah Suco’s mesmerizing debut feature The Dazzled (Les éblouis), about a 12-year-old acrobat whose ultra-religious Catholic community pressures her to quit her training.
Please note: In an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), Film at Lincoln Center’s theaters were closed before the festival was completed. As a result, three films did not screen for the public and were not included in the voting: The Specials, Happy Birthday, and Spread Your Wings.
Congratulations again to Sarah Suco’s The Dazzled.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns in March with another edition that exemplifies the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking. The films on display, by emerging talents and established masters, raise ideas both topical and eternal, and take audiences to entirely unexpected places. Co-presented with UniFrance, the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous will demonstrate that the landscape of French cinema is as fertile, inspiring, and distinct as ever.
Organized by Florence Almozini with UniFrance.
We regret to inform all forthcoming Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2020 screenings have been canceled.
Opening Night: The Truth
Opening Night · New York Premiere · Introduction by Ethan Hawke at 6:30pm screening
In his follow-up to the Palme d’Or–winning Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda casts two titans of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, in a film structured around the rippling tensions underlying a family gathering.
Alice and the Mayor
New York Premiere
A philosophy graduate (Anaïs Demoustier) becomes advisor to a mayor (Fabrice Luchini) who is running out of ideas in this heartfelt and thought-provoking tale of political action over empty rhetoric.
The Best Years of a Life
New York Premiere
With a thoughtful, ruminative script by Claude Lelouch and Valérie Perrin, this sequel to Lelouch’s classic 1966 Palme d’Or–winner A Man and a Woman weaves a career-spanning tapestry for Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée, reprising their roles.
Burning Ghost
Cuties
New York Premiere
As 11-year-old Amy rehearses with a hip-hop dance troupe, her newfound talent conflicts with her family’s traditional expectations in Maïmouna Doucouré’s vibrant debut.
The Dazzled
Deerskin
An Easy Girl
North American Premiere · Q&A with Rebecca Zlotowski on March 7
Breezy yet sumptuous, Rebecca Zlotowski’s fourth feature taps into the universal hunger of adolescence, and imbues an empathetic coming-of-age story with a sharp class critique.
Happy Birthday
New York Premiere
Taking place over the course of one hectic day, this buoyant and bittersweet ensemble piece directed by Cédric Kahn and headlined by Catherine Deneuve tests the ties that bind a family.
Isadora’s Children
Joan of Arc
On a Magical Night
Papicha
Perfect Nanny
Proxima
New York Premiere
Alice Winocour’s (Disorder, Rendez-Vous ’16) third feature, which stars Eva Green and Matt Dillon, wrestles poignantly with the earthly loose ends and internal pressures of space travel.
School Life
North American Premiere
Slam poet Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir’s second collaboration after 2016’s Step by Step is both vivid institutional critique and lively ensemble piece—a rousing look at the importance of encouraging untapped potential despite institutional odds.
Someone, Somewhere
South Terminal
U.S. Premiere
The haunting, experiential latest from Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche (Story of Judas, Rendez-Vous 2016) centers on a doctor (Ramzy Bedia) in nineties Algeria who finds his moral positions shaken as his world rapidly becomes a war zone.
The Specials
U.S. Premiere
This heartfelt comic drama from the directing duo behind The Intouchables and starring Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb targets structural neglect in the French medical system.
Spellbound
Spread Your Wings
U.S. Premiere
A teenager helps his environmentalist father train endangered geese to follow a new migratory path, avoidant of pollution and human-made threats, in this freewheeling adventure of both suspense and enlightening civic action.
Who You Think I Am
U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Safy Nebbou on March 6
When Claire (Juliette Binoche) creates a Facebook profile for a 24-year-old alter ego, her plans veer into uncharted territory, leading to a dizzying game of mirrors between the real and the virtual in Safy Nebbou’s ingenious adaptation of Camille Laurens’s best-seller.Special Events
A Conversation with Ethan Hawke
Free Talk: From Book to Film
Free and open to the public! · Presented by HBO
Cinema and literature are deeply interconnected art forms that keep inspiring each other. What are the challenges and implications of adapting a book to the screen, and how does literature nurture cinema?Canceled Events
Free Talk: Exploring Space on Film
Free Talk: Serge Toubiana on Helen Scott
Out of an abundance of caution and at the direction of Lincoln Center Performing Arts (LCPA), Film at Lincoln Center will be closing the Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center effective 5:00 PM on March 12, 2020, in response to the ongoing health concerns related to COVID-19 (coronavirus).
We regret any inconvenience caused by these changes. Information regarding refunds and exchanges will follow, and ticket holders will be contacted directly via the email associated to your order about refunds within the next 24-48 hours. We appreciate your patience as we all work together to ensure the health and safety of the New York community.
Film at Lincoln Center is continuing to monitor the situation closely in consultation with our LCPA colleagues as well as government and health officials and will provide updates as needed.
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