Culture
Review: Zarafa
Welcome to this marvelous and candid story where dreaming like a child is allowed. The story is told through a storyteller in an African village who entertains little kids.
Review: Snows of Kilimanjaro
If you are an aficionado of the African continent, and you expect to visit Kilimanjaro through this film, you are going to be disappointed. The story is set in Marseille, in the south of France, and that’s as far as you’ll travel in this film.
Review: A Gang Story
The most valuable aspect of our lives is to have a family, a home, and friends you can count on. I feel lucky to have this and even more, but now I am afraid to lose everything.
Review: 17 Girls
17 Girls is based on a true story that occurred in 2008 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The directors, sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, decided to start from this headline-grabbing incident and transpose it to give it a French twist.
Review: Farewell My Queen
Versailles, July 14, 1789. In France, this day is an important event that brought about incredible change: the end of one of Europe’s mightiest monarchies.
Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Rendezvous with French Cinema is celebrating its seventeenth year by screening twenty-seven movies and seven short films at three different venues
Classic Fun With Vilac Toys
The French are celebrated for their classic style of production. In everything from fashion to food, the French are experts in designing objects of both beauty and quality without “overdoing it.”
Angéle et Tony
Fledgling film director Alix Delaporte’s Angèle et Tony is the story of Angèle, a beautiful woman who resettles in the coastal Norman village of Port-en-Bessin.
Dual-Language Molière
Among the many dual-language books at the Midtown Manhattan Public Library are a collection of six of Molière’s best-known plays published by French & European Publications, Inc (FEP Bilingual Series).
Review: Low Life
The director, Nicolas Klotz, came to introduce his movie, and he didn’t know how to describe it. So instead of misleading us, he promised it would be clearer after we watched the movie.
