University of Houston – Clear Lake
New French Films On Campus
October 23 – November 21
NE LE DIS A PERSONNE/Tell No One
Friday, October 23, 2009, 8:00 pm
Bayou Theater
Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The message contains a video image of Alex’s thought-to-be dead wife in real time.
ROMAN DE GARE
Sunday, October 25, 2009, 3:00 pm
Lecture Hall
True to its title, ROMAN DE GARE (CROSSED TRACKS) finds famed French director Claude Lelouch jumping between time and loyalties in this suspenseful mystery about fate and fatal secrets.
UN SECRET/A Secret
Sunday, November 8, 2009, 3:00 pm
Lecture Hall
On his fifteenth birthday a family friend tells Francois (Quentin Dubuis) a shattering truth – tying his family’s past to the Holocaust – that may enable him to develop his own sense of self. Until then, the secret had lain silent, known only to a few, including his mother Tania (Cecile De France), his father Maxime (Patrick Bruel) and lifelong family friend Louise (Julie Depradieu).
LE FILS DE L’ÉPICIER/The Grocer’s Son
Saturday, November 14, 2009,7:00 pm
Lecture Hall
When Antoine offers to lend money to Claire, his best and only friend, he is far from imagining where his promise will lead him. Because Antoine doesn’t in fact have any money. At 30 years of age, he drifts from one dead-end job and disaster to the next. In order to keep his promise, he has no other choice than to agree to cover for his father, a travelling grocer, who is in a convalescent home recovering after a heart attack.
ENTRE LES MURS/The Class
Saturday, November 21, 2009,7:00 pm
Lecture Hall
French director Laurent Cantet’s THE CLASS is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. François Begaudeau–an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based–is utterly convincing as François, an openminded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Ticket Cost: $3.75 general public.
Only the first event is free to UHCL students with ID
All films are in French with English subtitles.
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