University of Louisville French Film Festival

FILM PROGRAM

Thursday, April 3 at 12:30 pm ET | Louisville, KY | Speed Cinema | In Person | In French with English subtitles
[*] Introduction and discussion with Tom Carson, film critic (The Village Voice, GQ)

GODARD, MON AMOUR (Le Redoutable)
Michel Hazanavicius / 2017 / 107 min 
In 1968 France, actress Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin) finds herself juggling political protests and artistic challenges in her married life with renowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel). As her country undergoes enormous cultural change, so too does Anne’s relationship with her husband. Godard, Mon Amour is a story of both real and reel love.

Friday, February 4 at 6pm ET / Saturday, February 5 at 2 & 4pm ET / Sunday, February 6 at 1 & 3pm ET | Louisville, KY | Speed Cinema | In Person | In French with English subtitles

THE VELVET QUEEN (La panthère des neiges)
Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier / 2021 / 92 min 
High up on the Tibetan plateau, amongst the unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Renowned wildlife photographer Vincent Munier takes adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson on a quest to document the exceptionally elusive snow leopard.

Thursday, February 10 at 5pm & 7:30pm ET | Louisville, KY | Floyd Theater | In Person | In French with English subtitles

FRANCE
Bruno Dumont / 2021 / 133 min
In this satire of contemporary news media, director Bruno Dumont casts actress Léa Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, home life, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris street. This accident triggers a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake.

Thursday, February 17 at 5pm & 7:30pm ET | Louisville, KY | Floyd Theater | In Person | In French with English subtitles

ONLY THE ANIMALS (Seules les bêtes)
Dominik Moll / 2019 / 116 min 
Set in France and the Côte d’Ivoire, Only the Animals exposes a world of greed, lust, betrayal, desperation, and murder. The disappearance of glamourous housewife Evelyne Ducat (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in the French mountains highlights the connections between a lonely farmer, an unfaithful husband and wife, a lovelorn waitress, and an African con artist, as the local police investigate the case.

Thursday, February 24 at 5pm & 7:30pm ET | Louisville, KY | Floyd Theater | In Person | In French with English Subtitles

2 AUTUMNS, 3 WINTERS (2 automnes, 3 hivers)
Sébastien Betbeder / 2013 / 93 min 
33 year-old Arman bumps into Amélie—literally—during a run in the park. Just as fate brings them together again a few weeks later, Arman’s best friend Benjamin suffers a stroke. Over the course of the next two years, Arman, Amélie, and Benjamin share the incidental moments, unexpected accidents, unconventional love stories, and unforgettable memories that will define who they are.

Thursday, March 3 @ 5pm & 7:30pm ET  | Louisville, KY | Floyd Theater | In Person | In French with English subtitles

TITANE
Julia Ducournau / 2021 / 108 min
A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d’Or winner, Titane is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of acclaimed filmmaker Julia Ducournau. With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family, identity, and love.

The University of Louisville French Film Festival is made possible by the Student Activities Board, the Department of Classical & Modern Languages, the French program, and Ms. Nancy Brown and in partneship with the Speed Museum of Art.