FILMS
- A la Vie, Ã la Mort!
At first Robert Guédiguian’s film seems like your basic delightful, particularly French social melodrama. It’s a vignette-studded narrative driven by an ensemble cast, delicately hovering between more...
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- Robert Guédiguian
- France
- 1995
- Lady Jane
Lady Jane is a character-rich film noir suffused with the knife-sharp light of wintry Marseille. A teenage boy’s kidnapping leads his desperate mother, Muriel (Ariane Ascaride), a boutique ow more...
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- Robert Guédiguian
- France
- 2007
- The Last Mitterrand
A must-see for anyone interested in European politics, history or Europe in general, The Last Mitterrand fictionalizes the last months of the ex-president of France, François Mitterrand, to cr more...
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- Robert Guédiguian
- France
- 2004
- Marius and Jeannette
Robert Guédiguian’s unashamedly sentimental film about love lost and love found is a Jean Renoiresque story about an unlikely couple who find warmth and hope in an otherwise harsh world. The film†more...
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- Robert Guédiguian
- France
- 1997
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Fifty-year-old Michel is a man of principle. When his union holds a lottery to see which men will be laid off, he includes his name, and finds himself faced with early retirement. It’s an adjustment more...
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- Robert Guédiguian
- France
- 2011
- The Town Is Quiet
A restless, energized tour through a Marseille boiling over with racial strife, political unrest and a looming worker’s strike, The Town Is Quiet encompasses a group of disparate characters j more...
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- Robert Guédiguian
- France
- 2000
FACTOID #343
Director Sally Potter was the first person to be honored with the Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award. In 1993 she was interviewed onstage and her new film Orlando was screened. In 2005, she turned the tables by interviewing Peter J. Owens Award recipient Joan Allen.
