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New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema

28 February – 10 February 2013

Populaire will open the New York Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Populaire will open the New York Rendez-vous with French Cinema

The 18th edition of New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films’ celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film screened at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek from February 28 to March 10.

The festival will open with Populaire. Guests this year will include Audrey Tautou, who will present a screening of Therese Desqueyroux.

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  • The Day Of The Crows
    Review preview for The Day Of The Crows

    Complex and immersive, funny but with a sense of danger lurking in its darker moments, this is the sort of film that children and adults will watch to the end and then want to watch again.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Animated story of a boy who leads a wild existence deep in the forest until the day he discovers civilised life in a neighbouring village and meets a girl who lives there.
  • The Nun
    Review preview for The Nun

    Pauline Etienne sweeps all before her as Suzanne Simonin, a nun who wants none of it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A portrait of suffering focused on a young woman forced to become a nun because her parents cannot afford a dowry for her.
  • Thérèse Desqueyroux
    Review preview for Thérèse Desqueyroux

    Miller's stance may remain resolutely ambiguous but it's intriguing nonetheless.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A young aristocrat in a loveless marriage begins to strain against the bounds of her existence.
  • Renoir
    Review preview for Renoir

    It might not be a Renoir, in either of the two historic senses, but it is an elegant and enjoyable drama filled with beauty, passion and a near sublime gentleness of spirit.

    Sophie Monks Kaufman · 3.5 out of 5
    The old age of the artist, exploring his relationship with a model and his son.
  • A Lady In Paris
    Review preview for A Lady In Paris

    It's a slender film. A bit pale, like the light at the Baltic Sea, or a piece of ham that's been left on the plate too long.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    A woman leaves Estonia to look after an elderly Estonian woman... but finds her services are less than welcome.
  • Jappeloup
    Review preview for Jappeloup

    Even viewers who have never cared much about show jumping, should be drawn in by how the movie deals with decision making, risk taking, self doubt, and family obligations

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    The story of a man's faith in a horse that could jump.
  • Augustine
    Review preview for Augustine

    Augustine belongs to a family of movies that scrutinise the social construct of illness, not with a lecture but with a wayward glance.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A professor studying 'hysteria' in the 1890s finds himself attracted to one of his patients.
  • In The House
    Review preview for In The House

    Ozon loves to let his audience's perceptions clash.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Fiction and reality become blurred between a teacher and student.
  • Populaire
    Review preview for Populaire

    Populaire benefits from a savvy script with multi-layered humour and from superb work by its stars.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An insurance agent grooms a wayward secretary for a speed typing contest, and falls in love in the process.
  • The Suicide Shop
    Review preview for The Suicide Shop

    This is a film of two halves, with the half involving sweetness and light muddled and limp in comparison to its tougher, more sinister flipside, while the ending is almost unforgivably trite.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    In a town of depressives, one family has found a suicidal niche.

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