CLU festival offersfive free Frenchfilms




California Lutheran University will hold its sixth annual Francophone Film Festival with free screenings of five movies, all starting at 7:15 p.m. at the Preus-Brandt Forum, south of Olsen Road between Mountclef Boulevard and Campus Drive, Thousand Oaks.

All films are subtitled in English.

“Les Femmes du sixième étage” (“The Women on the Sixth Floor,” 2011): Fri., Sept. 14. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini) lives a bourgeois existence in Paris with his neurotic socialite wife, Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain) until he meets a sassy group of refugees from the Franco regime.

“Le Havre” (2011): Fri., Sept. 21. Fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of bohemian Marcel Marx (André Wilms), who stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.

“Potiche” (“Trophy Wife,” 2010): Fri., Sept. 28. When factory workers go on strike and take the tyrannical manager (Fabrice Luchini) hostage, his submissive wife, Suzanne Pujol (Catherine Deneuve) proves a woman of action.

“Les Émotifs anonymes” (“Romantics Anonymous,” 2010): Fri., Oct. 26. Angélique (Isabelle Carré) is a gifted chocolate-maker whose shyness prevents her from acknowledging her talents until she is hired as a sales associate.

“Monsieur Lazhar” (2011): Fri., Nov. 2. After the death of a teacher shakes a class, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, volunteers as a substitute. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

For more information, email Karen Renick of the French Department at renick@callutheran.edu.



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