Le Ciné-Club & the Tournées Film Festival
Intimacy, Diversity: The Reinvention of Love and Parenthood
in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema

Programme of our Tournées Film Festival, directed by Francis Mathieu Tuesday, January 30: La Femme de Gilles Tuesday, February 6: Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants Tuesday, February 13: L'enfant Tuesday, February 20: La Petite Jerusalem Tuesday, February 27: Les Temps qui changent Join the classes of French 4-5-6, French 26, French 178C, and all upper division French courses, in Buchanan 1940 at 7:00pm Click for the UCSB Map: Buchanan is on D-4 All movies are in French with English subtitles All movies are rated R This is a free event!		Tuesday, January 30, La Femme de Gilles. Director: Frédéric Fonteyne. Location: Buchanan 1940. 7:00pm. Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed? Summary written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}
		Tuesday, February 6, Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants. Director: Yvan Attal. Location: Buchanan 1940. 7:00pm. Is the love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men ... Writer, director, and actor Yvan Attal takes another look at the ups and downs of love and monogamy in this biting romantic comedy. Vincent (Yvan Attal), Fred (Alain Cohen), and Georges (Alain Chabat) are three Parisian men in their early forties who are coming to the unfortunate realization that their love lives are not what they dreamed of in their youth... Back to top
		Tuesday, February 13. Director: L'Enfant. Director: Jean-Luc & Pierre Dardenne. Location: Buchanan 1940. 7:00pm. Bruno and Sonia are boyfriend and girlfriend, playful, immature. She's still in her teens; they chase each other, share cigarettes, spray sodas and wrestle. The thing is, they also have a new baby. Just out of hospital, Sonia seeks out Bruno to bring him his son. Bruno's indifferent. In the grimy Belgian city of Seraing, he's a petty thief with no interest in work, no plan, spending money as fast as he can fence cameras and jewelry. He sells the baby. Sonia's reaction and Bruno's surprise at her response inform his subsequent actions. The camera follows and observes him: has he a nascent conscience or any chance at redemption? Can he help himself? Summary written by {jhailey@hotmail.com} Back to top
		Tuesday, February 20: La Petite Jerusalem. Director: Karin Albou. Location: Buchanan 1940. 7:00pm. In the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, "La Petite Jerusalem" is the nickname of a low-income, concrete housing neighborhood with a substantial number of Jewish -- and Jewish immigrant -- residents. Among the thousands of men, women and children living there, one small household shelters a Tunisian-Jewish family of eight: Laura, a French born, 18-year-old philosophy student, her older sister Mathilde, ther Tunisian mother, Mathilde's husband Ariel and the couple's four young kids. Struggling to find her own voice inside a crowded house, Laura refuses Ariel's orthodox ethical codes and renounces her mother's superstitious background. Back to top
		Tuesday, February 27: Les Temps qui changent. Director: André Téchiné. Location: Buchanan 1940.7:00pm. Connections and personality: France and Morocco, sisters, mothers and sons, husbands and lovers. Antoine arranges a job in Tangiers so he can reconnect to Cécile, his first love, unseen for 30 years. Sami, her son, comes from Paris with his friend Nadia and her son to see his mother and his Moroccan boyfriend. Nadia wants to see Aïcha, her twin, a devout Muslim unwilling to see her pill-popping sister. Antoine harbors romantic fantasies; Cécile lives in the real world of an empty marriage to Natan, a Jewish doctor who's broke, drinks too much, and wants to move back to Casablanca. Cécile is a follower. Dogs and mud present dangers, as does complaisance. Will the earth move? Summary written by {jhailey@hotmail.com} Back to top
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The Tournées Festival, a Program of FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) is made possible with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Le Centre National de la Cinématographie, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, highbrow untertainment and the Franco-American Cultural Fund (SACEM, the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association). For more information, please visit www.facecouncil.org