Facets Multimedia Center, in collaboration with the French embassy of Chicago, presents a program of contemporary French films, running Friday through Thursday, December 5 through 11, at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Tickets for all programs are $7; filmmaker Jean-Francois Richet will attend the festival Friday through Sunday. For more information call 773-281-4114.
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A feature by Diane Bertrand (1996) interweaving two stories–one about an unhappy wife, the other about a man obsessed with a murder in his family’s past. (3:30)
State of Things
The rap title in French is even more baroque: Ma 6-t va crack-er. Directed by Jean-Francois Richet, and a focus of much dispute in France, this is a hard-hitting look at gangs in the French suburbs. Richet will attend the screening. (8:45)
Helena Bonham Carter and Jean-Philippe Ecoffey play a couple with Romane Bohringer and Sergio Castellito in a feature by Martine Dugowson (Mina Tannenbaum) about fashionable Parisians in their 30s; the original title is Portraits chinois. (3:15)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8
