Cinéfranco at the Revue
Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 17-18
It may be the traditional August vacation time in France, but at The Revue there’s no holiday. We’ve got exclusive screenings of three French features, presented with Cinéfranco, on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 17-18. Cinéfranco, created by Marcelle Lean, stages a week-long French film festival each spring, but Lean has decided to keep the Gallic cinematic spirit alive in Toronto throughout the year with quarterly screenings.
Critic Shlomo Schwarzberg will also conclude his five-lecture series on “The Genius of French Cinema” with a discussion of films that look at the nation’s minority communities on Tuesday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m.
“In the last decade or so, French cinema has really begun to portray minorities in all their complexity, fueled by funding policies specifically directed towards Jewish, black and Arab filmmakers,” Schwartzbrerg observes.
The Arab community is the setting for the Cinéfranco features screening following Schwartberg’s lecture on Tuesday. Un roman policier (A Police Romance), directed by Stephanie Duvivier and including superb Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree) in the cast, focuses on Jamil, a Muslim rookie cop who, in his first week on the job, must navigate the racial politics surrounding the police shooting of an Arab teenager.
The film is one of the three edgy, low-budget movies, selected by Cinefranco and Schwartzberg, for this mini-film festival. They feature protagonists from various facets of French society.
Also coming to the screen on Monday, Aug. 17: Sang froid (Cold Blood), about a disillusioned former military man and ex-con, who begins a tempestuous relationship with his mysterious neighbour; and Les petites vacances (Stolen Holidays). a disturbing psychological thriller, about a disturbed retired schoolteacher who takes off with her grandchildren instead of returning them home to their father.
Tickets for these features are
$8.00 for Members, kids & seniors
$10 for non-members (doesn't include membership)
$12.00 Lecture Double Bill Special. Get a ticket for the Lecture and for A Police Romance (no membership is required)
For more information about Cinéfranco please click here
