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The College of Charleston Bookstore will have available for purchase at the Sottile Theater, during the festival, Philippe Grimbert's prize-winning novel, Un secret / A Secret, as well as Anna Gavalda's best seller, Ensemble c'est tout / Hunting and Gathering. Both novels will be available in French and in their English translation. There will be also available a bilingual edition of two plays by Molière.
Claude Miller, Director, France, 2007, 103min.
Thursday, August 28, 7:30pm, Sottile Theater
Speaker: Dr. Frank Cossa, Art History Department
Un secret is a fine drama that stands as Gallic vet Claude Miller's best in at least a decade. Oft-traveled narrative terrain of a Jewish family torn asunder during France's WWII occupation is rendered fresh by a complex flashback structure that spans half a century and maintains suspense over key developments until the final reels. (Variety.com)
Reviews:
Reviews for the novel by Phillippe Grimbert
Un Secret Official Site
Trailer
Laurent Tirard, Director, France, 2007, 120 min.
Friday, August 29, 7:30pm, Sottile Theater
Speaker: Dr. Anna Andes, Theatre Department
In a story reminiscent of Shakespeare in Love, Molière is a fictional tale about the life of France's famous playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière. [...] In this lushly filmed and gorgeously set and costumed production, Romain Duris plays Moliére. The story concerns an incident in Molière's life, which he later uses in a farcical play to entertain the king [...] Told with almost vaudevillian slapstick, the movie is an easy one to enjoy, and, other than requiring the reading of subtitles, asks little of its viewers. They don't need to think a lot but just lean back and laugh. (Steve Rhodes)
Reviews
Official Web Site
Photos for Molière
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Director, Chad, 2002, 85 min.
Saturday, August 30, 5:00pm, Sottile Theater
Speaker: Dr. Simon Lewis, English Department
This is a beautifully gentle and lucid film from the Chadian writer-director Mahamet Saleh Haroun; Rich in understated humanity, Abouna is a film about love and loss, imbued with the most profound tenderness towards children and childhood. (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)
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Claude Berri, Director, France, 2007, 97min.
Saturday, August 30, 7:30pm, Sottile Theater
Speaker: Dr. John Bruns, English Department
Acclaimed director Claude Berri (Jean de Florette) helms the whimsical romantic comedy Ensemble, c'est tout. A box office blockbuster in France, the picture follows the romantic couplings that form in the lives of several lonely Parisian singles. (NYT).
Reviews:
Reviews for the novel by Anna Gavalda
Wikipedia: Anna Gavalda
Eric Guirado, Director, France, 2007, 97 min.
Sunday, August 31, 7:30pm, Sottile Theater
Speaker: Dr. Anna Ballinger, Department of French and Francophone Studies
"Like taking a vacation in the French countryside and meeting people there of whom you grow extraordinarily fond, The Grocer's Son is an unalloyed pleasure, start to finish." (Green Cine Daily) - A "small gem of a film." (Stephen Holden, New York Times)
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