Alright Jacques! The IFI's French Film Festival
Saturday November 21 2009
It's that time of the year again, and this year's French Film Festival at the Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, boasts a strong range of contemporary movies as well as a retrospective on the life and works of the great comic filmmaker Jacques Tati (right).
The festival kicked off on Thursday with Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new film MicMacs, and films today include Zabou Breitman's Je l'Aimais (at 4.30pm), an emotional love story starring Daniel Auteuil; and André Techine's compelling psychological drama La Fille du RER, at 8.45pm.
Tomorrow, the stand-out film is Bellamy, a detective story that marks the first ever collaboration between Claude Chabrol and Gérard Depardieu. It screens at 6.30pm.
Highlights during the week include a fine documentary on Henri-George Clouzot's lost masterpiece Inferno (Tuesday at 6.30pm); Cédric Kahn's diary of a disastrous love affair, Les Regrets (Tuesday at 8.30pm); Michel Gondry's eccentric documentary on the home life of his aunt, L'Epine dans le Coeur (Wednesday 6.15pm); Jacques Audiard's highly regarded prison drama Un Prophete (Wednesday at 8.15pm); the Parisian vampire film La Horde (Thursday at 10pm); and (Friday at 6.15pm) Julie Lopes-Corval's family saga Meres et Filles, starring Marina Hinds.
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