Cornell's French Studies program is co-sponsoring a French film festival at an area movie theater designed to introduce local high school students to subtitled films and French cinema.
The festival is bringing four films, two this semester and two in spring 2003. The films are at Fall Creek Pictures in special screenings that are free and open to the public. They are followed by audience discussions geared toward high schoolers and led by Cornell French Studies and Ithaca College faculty members. The first film in the festival, "Brotherhood of the Wolf," was screened Oct. 22 and was followed by a discussion led by Cornell French studies senior lecturer Colette Waldron.
The next free screening and discussion in the festival, "Happenstance," will be Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 3 p.m. The comedy by Laurent Firode is about the intricacies of chance, cause and effect on a group of intriguing, emotionally vulnerable characters. Audrey Tautou, the gamine who charmed the world in the title role of "Amelie," stars here as a young store clerk whose horoscope is the same as that of a young man on the same train. The fun of the film is that only the audience knows chance eventually will intervene in their favor and they'll meet and find true love.
The tentative French film festival schedule for spring 2003 is "City of Lost Children," Feb. 11, and "SIA," April 22.
In addition to Cornell French Studies, Film festival supporters include Ithaca College, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Culture and the 7th Art Corp.
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