Réception à la Maison Française
Reception at the French House

4-5:30pm, French House, 1404 JPA (map)

Stupeur et tremblement (2003)
Fear and Trembling

Adaptation du roman d'Amélie Nothomb - Descente aux enfers d'une jeune belge confrontée aux codes et protocoles d'une grande compagnie au Japon.
Adaptation of a novel by Amélie Nothomb. A young woman returns to Japan from Belgium and finds her life descend into a living hell as she is confronted with the strict social protocols within a large Japanese company.

6:00pm, Wilson Auditorium (map)
Dir: Alain Corneau, 102 min.

Introduction before and discussion after the film with Mr. Roland Simon, Professor in the French Department.

Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (2003)
It's easier for a camel...

Federica est si riche que ce privilège l'empêche de faire sa vie d'adulte. Accablée par un héritage prochain, par ces rapports emmêlés avec son entourage et par le poids d'une culpabilité lancinante, Federica cherche le réconfort dans l'imaginaire.
Federica, the daughter of a wealthy Italian industrialist, feels incredibly guilty because she is rich. Overwhelmed by her approaching inheritance and unable to sort out her tangled relationships with men and her family, Federica seeks comfort in her wild imagination.

1:30pm, Maury Hall Auditorium (map)
Dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, 110 min.

Introduction before and discussion after the film with Mrs. Janet Horne, Professor in the French Department.

Le grand voyage (2004)
Grand Voyage

Un jeune "beur" décide d'accompagner son père dans son pèlerinage à la Mecque. Au cours du long voyage qui les conduira vers la ville sainte, le fils et le père vont apprendre à se (re)connaître malgré leurs différences de langue, de culture et de religion.
A young man living in France accompanies his father on his pilgrimage to Mecca. The long journey to the holy city brings father and son closer, forcing mutual recognition and reconciliation, despite their differences of language, culture, and religion.

4:30pm, Maury Hall Auditorium (map)
Dir: Ismaël Ferroukhi, 108 min.

Introduction before and discussion after the film with Aline Charles, graduate student in the French Department.

Moolade (2004)

L'excision des jeunes filles en Afrique noire. Dans un village, des petites filles se réfugient chez une femme pour échapper à l'excision ; la lutte s'engage entre les tenants de la tradition et ceux qui ne veulent plus s'y soumettre.
Takes on the issue of female circumcision practiced on young girls in Sub-Saharan Africa. In one village, four young girls flee to the house of a strong-willed woman to escape circumcision, setting off a struggle between the defenders of tradition and those who are no longer willing to subject themselves to it.

2:30pm, Newcomb Theater (map)
Dir: Ousmane Sembene, 134 min.

Introduction before and discussion after the film with Mrs. Copeland, Ph.D. UVA 2006.

L'esquive (2003)*
Games of Love and Chance

Ce film plusieurs fois primé met en scène de jeunes collégiens de banlieue parisienne décident de monter la piàce de Marivaux "Les jeux de l'amour et du hasard". Entre langage de la cité, français du 18e et apprentissage des relations avec l'autre, ces adolescents donnent aux banlieues un autre visage que celui de ghettos à problèmes.
This award-winning film follows a group of teenagers from the gritty Parisian suburbs who decide to put on a play by Marivaux, "Games of Love and Chance". The juxtaposition of the teenagers' multi-ethnic slang and the polished rhetoric of the 18th century helps give another face to their lives than that of troubled teens in a ghetto.

7:00pm and 9:30pm, Newcomb Theater (map)
Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche, 117 min.

Introduction before and discussion after the 7:00 showing with Mrs. Sicard-Cowan, Visiting Lecturer in the French Department.

*with OFFScreen - showings are $3