New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema

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  My Friend Victoria

  Review preview for My Friend Victoria

  Only in France can a film of such delicate sensibility be made

  The story of two young Parisiennes and their different destinies
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  SK1

  Review preview for SK1

  SK1 at its best, is an examination of doubt.

  Drama about the multi-year hunt, arrest, and trial of serial killer Guy Georges — nicknamed The Beast of Bastille.
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  French Riviera

  Review preview for French Riviera

  Production designer Olivier Radot and costume designer Pascaline Chavanne revel in the colors and textures of Seventies casino ambiance.

  Nice, 1976, Following the failure of her marriage, Agnès Le Roux returns from Africa to her mother Renée, owner of the Casino Le Palais de la Méditerranée and falls in love with Renée's confidant, Maurice Agnelet.
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  Next Time I'll Aim For The Heart

  Review preview for Next Time I'll Aim For The Heart

  Canet is fantastic in opening up more and more of the secret chambers in this frightening man's heart.

  A notorious serial killer is also a cop tasked with his own apprehension.
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  40-Love

  Review preview for 40-Love

  Gourmet is phenomenal as the shopping centre aficionado who makes us understand a little more why the world is in the state it is in today.

  When a man loses his job he is forced to become more involved with his tennis prodigy son.
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  Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey

  Review preview for Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey

  We see events from Alice's perspective, meaning that, unusually, she is positioned more as the desiring subject than the desired object within the narrative.

  Alice replaces a recently deceased mechanic onboard Fidelio, an old freighter, and sets off on a voyage of self-discovery.
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  Love At First Fight

  Review preview for Love At First Fight

  Cinematographer David Cailley, the director's brother, offers stark beauty and wicked humor.

  Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud’s summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque.
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  Portrait Of The Artist

  Review preview for Portrait Of The Artist

  [A] thorny, intangible and episodic cinematic dream.

  A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the film of his next movie.
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  Wild Life

  Review preview for Wild Life

  If you think you can come to an easy judgement, the film seems to say, think again.

  A father tries to raise his two sons away from civilisation.
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  Hippocrates

  Review preview for Hippocrates

  Hippocrates is an engaging coming-of-age drama centring on the problems within public medicine in France as budget cuts bite.

  A young doctor encounters challenges he didn't expect in his first post, working for his father.

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Features

• Making a killing
  Frédéric Tellier talks about watching the detectives and making SK1.
• The moving image
  Anne-Dominique Toussaint presents the Galerie Cinéma exhibition in New York.
• Picturing the gods, part 2
  Christophe Honoré on Métamorphoses, working with animals, and the power of myth.
• Fighting talk
  Thomas Cailley on Love At First Fight and its unexpected César success.
• Playing games
  Stéphane Demoustier on sport and family breakdown in 40-Love.
• Picturing the gods, part 1
  Christophe Honoré talks about Europe, narcissism and their incarnations in Métamorphoses.
• Parallel lines
  Cédric Anger on In The Name Of My Daughter and his ongoing partnership with André Téchiné.
• Baye and the Beast
  Nathalie Baye on the mysteries of a murderer and SK1.
• Inside a killer
  Cédric Anger on monsters, alienation and Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart.
• The wild ones, part 2
  More from Cédric Kahn: on Wild Life, Miss And The Doctors and monkeying around.
• The wild ones, part 1
  Cédric Kahn on haircuts, fantasy, childhood and Wild Life.
• NY Rendez-Vous with French Cinema highlights
  A look ahead at the best of the fest.

News

• Benoît Jacquot: Leading Ladies screenings held in New York
  Marie Antoinette remembered in Farewell, My Queen.
• Galerie Cinéma photo exhibition set for New York
  Show marks 20th anniversary of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York.