{"id":60115,"date":"2023-04-07T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/st-louis-robert-classic-french-film-festival-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:45:08","slug":"st-louis-robert-classic-french-film-festival-2023","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/st-louis-robert-classic-french-film-festival-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Robert Classic French Film Festival 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a>FILMS<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Films in other languages will feature English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, APRIL 14 AT 7:30PM\u00a0CT<br \/><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/pierrot-le-fou\" hreflang=\"en\">Pierrot le Fou<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a01965\u00a0\/\u00a0110 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Jean-Luc Godard<\/p>\n<p>Cinema St. Louis honors the late Jean-Luc Godard with a screening of one his most celebrated films. Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), unhappily married and recently fired from his job, abandons his family and runs off to the Riviera with the enigmatic Marianne (Anna Karina). Ferdinand, whom Marianne calls \u201cPierrot,\u201d tries to find artistic fulfillment between bouts of criminal adventure, but keeps getting entangled in Marianne\u2019s violent life.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SATURDAY, APRIL 15 AT 7:30PM<br \/><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/chocolat\" hreflang=\"en\">Chocolat<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a01988\u00a0\/\u00a0105 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Claire Denis<\/p>\n<p>Claire Denis draws on her own childhood experiences growing up in colonial French Africa for her multilayered, languorously absorbing feature debut, which explores many of the themes that would recur throughout her work. Returning to the town where she grew up in Cameroon after many years living in France, a white woman (Mireille Perrier) reflects on her relationship with Prot\u00e9e (Isaach De Bankol\u00e9), a Black servant with whom she formed a friendship while not fully grasping the racial divides that governed their worlds. This new restoration arrives in time for the film\u2019s 35th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SUNDAY, APRIL 16 AT 7:30PM<br \/><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/martin-roumagnac\" hreflang=\"en\">Martin Roumagnac<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a01946\u00a0\/\u00a0108 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Georges Lacombe<\/p>\n<p>This tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Gabin is the titular character, an\u00a0unpretentious and proudly working class building contractor, who falls in love with Dietrich\u2019s ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. Among her current lovers (the American title was The Room Upstairs) is a local politician who plans on marrying Blanche once his terminally ill wife dies, but Gabin\u2019s sensible lug doesn\u2019t care, though it\u2019s clear that the ever-opportunistic Blanche will choose wealth over love. Until she doesn\u2019t. Both Lacombe\u2019s film and Dietrich\u2019s performance have a sphinx-like attitude toward this femme fatale, and that still-gestating film noir stereotype is subtly deepened. Blanche is not judged or made to seem amoral. The men that buzz around her are not villainized, either \u2013 they\u2019re just following their toxic hearts, in a culture where women like Blanche have so few options. Meanwhile, as the melodrama heats up, Gabin and Dietrich radiate pure matinee charisma, in the only movie these two icons ever made together.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, APRIL 21 AT 7:30PM<br \/><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/8-women\" hreflang=\"en\">8 Women<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a02002\u00a0\/\u00a0103 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Ozon<\/p>\n<p>In an isolated snowed-in country house, a matriarch and her neurotic family try to discover who murdered her husband. Fran\u00e7ois Ozon directs a veritable powerhouse ensemble featuring some of France\u2019s most well-known and well-regarded performers, including Catharine Denevue, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart, Ludivine Sagnier, and Fanny Ardant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SATURDAY, APRIL 22 AT 6:30PM<br \/><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles\" hreflang=\"en\">Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a01976\u00a0\/\u00a0202 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Chantal Akerman<\/p>\n<p>A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman\u2019s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow\u2014whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman\u2019s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema\u2019s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The film was recently ranked atop the BFI Sight &amp; Sound\u2019s Greatest Films of All Time list, representing a cataclysmic shift in the film\u2019s perception and legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SUNDAY, APRIL 23 AT 7:30PM<br \/><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/wing-or-thigh\" hreflang=\"en\">The Wing or the Thigh?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a01976\u00a0\/\u00a0104 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Claude Zidi<\/p>\n<p>Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and the publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast-food entrepreneur Tricatel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his sense of taste.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring a whimsical score by the incomparable Vladimir Cosma, this is a rare opportunity to see this delightful French comedy on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, APRIL 28 AT 7:30PM<br \/><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/le-magnifique\" hreflang=\"en\">Le Magnifique<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFrance, Mexico, Italy\u00a0\/\u00a01973\u00a0\/\u00a095 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Philippe de Broca<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Merlin&#8217;s (Jean-Paul Belmondo) real life as a pulp novelist coincides with his rich fantasy life where he imagines himself as his main character Bob Saint-Clar, international superspy. His pompous publisher Pierre Charron (Vittorio Caprioli) doubles as the villain Karpof and his lovely neighbor Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) as his imagined lover Tatiana. Our second film to feature Belmondo is also part of our year-long Golden Anniversaries programming, which features films celebrating their 50th anniversaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SATURDAY, APRIL 29 AT 7:30PM<br \/><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/fat-girl\" hreflang=\"en\">Fat Girl<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a02001\u00a0\/\u00a086 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Catherine Breillat<\/p>\n<p>Twelve-year-old Ana\u00efs is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Ana\u00efs tags along as Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her with promises of love, and the ever watchful Ana\u00efs bears witness to the corruption of her sister\u2019s innocence. Fat Girl is not only a portrayal of female adolescent sexuality and the complicated bond between siblings but also a shocking assertion by the always controversial Catherine Breillat that violent oppression exists at the core of male-female relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SUNDAY, APRIL 30 AT 7:30PM<br \/><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemastlouis.org\/shoot-piano-player\" hreflang=\"en\">Shoot the Piano Player<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFrance\u00a0\/\u00a01960\u00a0\/\u00a085 minutes<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":60113,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[219],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[237],"class_list":["post-60115","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-cinema","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>St. Louis Robert Classic French Film Festival 2023 - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/st-louis-robert-classic-french-film-festival-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"St. Louis Robert Classic French Film Festival 2023 - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FILMS Films in other languages will feature English subtitles. 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