Calendar - Spring 2006
January 13
Ian Hobson
Classical pianist, Professor of Music
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Recital
7:30pm, University Auditorium
January 16 - February 27
FACE French Film Festival
- Jan. 16 – Le grand voyage, (The
Long Journey), Ismael Ferrukhi.
A few weeks before his high school final exam, Réda, a young man who lives in the south of France, is chosen to drive his aging father to Mecca for the traditional pilgrimage. From the start, the journey promises to be difficult, as Réda and his father have nothing in common. - Jan. 30 – Pas sur la bouche, (Not
on the Lips),
Alain Resnais.
Based on André Bardes' 1920s-era operetta, Not on the Lips is a tribute to the comical productions of that period. The art-deco sets and costumes, the singing, the clever dialogue and the happy ending make for a sophisticated and highly entertaining farce. - Feb. 13 – Viva Laldjerie, (Viva
Algeria), Nadir
Mokneche.
This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Screening times - 5:30 and 8:00pm. - Feb. 27 – Les
egarés, (Strayed) André Téchiné,
2003, (with Emmanuelle Beart, Gaspard Ulliel)
Set in 1940 at the beginning of France’s occupation by the Germans, the recently widowed Odile, a young beautiful mother, flees Paris with her two children, thirteen-year-old Philippe and seven-year-old Cathy. When Germans bomb the road packed with refugees, Odile’s car is destroyed, and the three flee into the woods. They encounter Yvan, an adolescent delinquent whose survival skills and charm soon prove invaluable. The four fugitives stumble into an abandoned house in the country. The vacant house becomes the setting for a makeshift family, a “desert island,” as director André Téchiné describes it. Yvan appears and disappears without warning; he lies and steals. Although Odile is outraged, she slowly becomes attracted to the mysterious stranger and finds herself caught up in complicated personal and sexual dynamics. Téchiné’s use of powerful black and white archive images makes war ever-present and accentuates the isolation of the characters. Screening times - 7:30 and 9:30pm. - Feb. 27 - Les Brodeuses, (Sequins), Eleonore Faucher.
When Claire learns that she is five months pregnant at the tender age of 17, she decides to give birth anonymously. She finds refuge with Madame Melidian, an embroiderer for haute couture designers. And, day by day, stitch by stitch, as Claire's belly grown rounder, the threads of embroidery create a filial bond between them. Screening time 5:30.
All films will be shown at the Hippodrome Theater, 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville.
This festival is sponsored by FACE: French American Cultural Exchange Arts Education Innovation, the France-Florida Research Institute, and the Alliance Française of Gainesville. The festival was also made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture, The Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
February 27
Marc Mimram - Architect, Paris
Lecture: Structures and Architecture: recent projects, 6:00pm,
Harn Museum of Art
March 10
Rencontre avec Alain Mabanckou
Lecture In French: Littérature francophone: une chance pour la
littérature française?
11:30am, 215 Dauer Hall
Alain Mabanckou is one of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers. Author of six volumes of poetry and five novels, he received the "Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire" in 1999 for his first novel, "Bleu-Blanc-Rouge" (1998). His latest novel, "Verre Cassé" (Editions du Seuil, 2005), was awarded "Le Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie." Alain Mabanckou is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Literatures at the University of Michigan.
March 20-22
Francophone African Film Festival (All films shown at the Reitz Cinemas)
Monday, March 20 - OPENING RECEPTION - 5pm-6:45pm
Films:
- 7:00-7:35pm - African Middleweights/ Africains Poids Moyens (35mins). In Lingala & French with English subtitles
- 7:40-10:10pm - Le Ballon D’or / The Golden Ball (90mins). In Malinké & French with English subtitles
Tuesday, March 21
Films:
- 3:00-3:35pm - African Middleweights/ Africains Poids Moyens (35mins), . In Lingala & French with English subtitles
- 3:35-3:51pm - Something Else / Nkan Mii (16mins). In English & Yoruba with English subtitles.
- 3:55-4:25pm - Be Kunko / Everybody's Problem (30min). In Creole, French & Malinke with English subtitles.
- 4:45-6:17pm - Dôlé (92 mins). In French with English subtitles
- 7:00-7:30pm - Safi, la petite mere (30mins). In Moore & French with English subtitles.
- 7:30-8:48pm - The Colonial Misunderstanding / Le Malentendu Colonial (78mins). In English, French & German with English subtitles
- 9:00-10:20pm - Niiwam (80mins). In Wolof & French with English subtitles.
Wednesday, March 22
Films:
- 3:00-3:30pm - Be Kunko / Everybody's Problem (30min). In Creole, French & Malinke with English subtitles.
- 3:30-5:00pm - Le Ballon D’or / The Golden Ball (90mins). In Malinké & French with English subtitles
- 5:15-5:31pm - Something Else / Nkan Mii (16mins). In English & Yoruba with English subtitles.
- 5:35-6:53pm - The Colonial Misunderstanding / Le Malentendu Colonial (78mins). *In English, French & German with English subtitles
- 7:00-7:30pm - Safi, la petite mere (30mins). In Moore & French with English subtitles.
- 7:40-9:00pm - Niiwam (80mins). In Wolof & French with English subtitles.
- 9:10-10:42pm - Dôlé (92 mins). In French with English subtitles.
March 22-24
March 23 - Lecture: “Parting with Mediality in the Early
Work of Walter Benjamin”
2:00-4:00pm. 219 Dauer Hall
Professor Weber is one of the foremost thinkers in the field of media, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. He is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities in the German Department at Northwestern University.
Sponsors: Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, FFRI
March 30 – April 1
Dr. Gayatri Spivak - Marxist Reading Group International Conference
Friday, March 31 - Keynote speech: “Marxism and the Literary”,
8:00pm, Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall
Saturday, April 1 - Roundable discussion featuring keynote
speakers, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Peter
Hitchcock, with UF faculty,
1:00 - 2:30pm, 219 Dauer Hall
April 6-9
International Conference on the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Speakers: Dr. Kristina
Tiedje, Université de
Lyon II
http://www.religionandnature.com/society/upcoming.htm
April 17-22
Philippe Entremont, classical pianist, President, Ecole Nomale de Musique, Alfred Cortot, Paris
April 18
Dr. Bernard Cerquiglini, director, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Louisiana State University
Lecture: La Grèce, ou Rome? La question de la diversité linguistique en France (XVIe - XXe siècle), 4:00-6:00pm, McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall
