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Little Girl Blue by Mona Achache on October 29, 6:40 p.m. at Chinese 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the 2016 suicide of her mother, filmmaker Mona Achache decided to tell her mother\u2019s story, as well as the story of the complicated mother-daughter relationships across three generations in her family. The story of Carole Achache (portrayed by Marion Cotillard) is harrowing and unforgettable: the daughter of a literary doyenne who counted many of mid-20th-century France\u2019s leading intellectual lights among her clients and coterie, the teenage Achache became swept up in the revolutionary fervor of May 1968, and then spent a lost, hedonistic decade in Paris and New York marked by heavy drug use and occasional prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information and to get tickets, click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Midwives (Sages-Femmes<\/em>) by L\u00e9a Fenher on October 29, 5:30 p.m. at Chinese 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Five years after studying to be professional midwives, Sofia and Louise begin their residency at a hospital, eager to perform \u201cthe most beautiful job in the world.\u201d The work soon proves to be unlike anything they studied, with a maternity ward crowded with patients and only a few midwives available to provide the necessary care. This whirlwind of difficult births, untimely deaths and scant resources puts unimaginable strain on Sofia and Louise\u2019s resolve and lifelong friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Orlando, My Political Biography (Orlando, ma biographie politique<\/em>) by Paul B. Preciado on October 27, 6:45 p.m. at Chinese 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Philosophically probing and brimming with delight, writer\/intellectual Paul Preciado\u2019s directorial debut composes a letter to Virginia Woolf, concerning her nearly 100-year-old novel \u201cOrlando: A Biography.\u201d In it, an aristocrat changes gender while sleeping and awakes as a woman who then traverses centuries. Preciado convenes 26 trans and non-binary people, between the ages of eight and 70, to join him in reciting, reenacting, transposing and challenging the celebrated text. The differences and complexities contained in each Orlando shape a manifold and beautiful image of transness, one that is both broadening and unifying, devastating and joyful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information and to get tickets, click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Taste of Things (La Passion de Dodin Bouffant<\/em>) by Tr\u1ea7n Anh H\u00f9ng on October 28, 5:30 p.m at Chinese 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tr\u1ea7n Anh H\u00f9ng won the Best Director award in Cannes for this rapturous ode to French gastronomy, and the love between two people pursuing a shared passion. A stately ch\u00e2teau in France\u2019s Loire Valley, 1885: chef Eug\u00e9nie (Juliette Binoche) and her assistants begin to prepare their latest multicourse masterpiece, from a menu conceived by her employer, Dodin Bouffant (Beno\u00eet Magimel), a learned gourmand who in partnership with Eug\u00e9nie has pursued culinary excellence over the past 20 years, becoming a famed restaurateur and gastronomic authority. When Eug\u00e9nie falls ill, Dodin does something he has never done before: prepare a meal especially for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information and to get tickets, click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Book of Solutions (Le Livre Des Solutions<\/em>) by Michel Gondry on October 27, 6:45 p.m. at Chinese 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When production executives threaten to bring in a new editor to slim down his four-hour opus, 30-something filmmaker Marc (Pierre Niney) steals the master tapes and holes up at his aunt\u2019s house in rural France to finish the edit. There, he lets his imagination run wild, writing a manual for combatting creative inertia that allows him to do anything but complete the film. Gondry crafts a behind-the-scenes comedy for the ages, while also unpacking and skewering the creative process, poking fun at his own foibles and whimsical style, and ultimately paying tribute to the long-suffering collaborators of self-absorbed creative geniuses everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information and to get tickets, click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Last Summer (L’\u00e9t\u00e9 Dernier<\/em>) by Catherine Breillat on October 29, 5:45 p.m. at Chinese 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anne, a successful lawyer, lives in a villa on the outskirts of Paris with her husband Pierre and their two adopted daughters. A relatively uneventful, though contented, suburban existence is disrupted when Th\u00e9o, Pierre\u2019s troubled 17-year-old son from a previous marriage comes to live with the couple. Finding herself the object of the tousled-haired, frequently shirtless teen\u2019s attentions, an impossible-to-resist sexual attraction threatens Anne\u2019s career and her marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information and to get tickets, click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/little-girl-blue.jpg\")
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