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Our Winter program has begun! 8 events are scheduled. Details below! Click on the thumbnails...

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Friday Jan 6th - 8 pm

DE BATTRE MON COEUR S'EST ARRETE

Plot: 28 year old Tom Seyr is the son of a small time gangster and seems set to follow in his father’s footsteps. He earns his crust through crooked real estate deals with his two thuggish associates Fabrice and Sami. It is a violent and vicious life, and Tom’s only release is music, be it techno or classical, a connection perhaps with his dead mother, who was once a great concert pianist. A chance encounter with his mother’s former manager, Mr Fox, reawakens Tom's interest in piano playing and he sees an alternative future for himself. He engages a Vietnamese music student to help him perfect an audition piece. However, the grim reality of his present life looks set to thwart his ambitions.

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Friday Jan 20th - 8pm

UN PROPHETE

Overview
Un prophète is a French thriller film first released in 2009, directed by Jacques Audiard. The film stars Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi and Reda Kateb.
Won Best Film Film Cesar Award at Cannes! Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards and 30 other Awars...

PLOT: Malik El Djebena is a 19-year-old troublemaker who suddenly finds himself in a concrete Hell that will change his life forever. As he begins his six-year long prison sentence, Malik falls in with a group of Corsican gangsters led by the Mafia boss César. To earn their protection, the youngster must kill a rival gangster. This done, Malik becomes César’s faithful acolyte, performing errands for him during his day releases. These experiences soon begin to alter Malik, and he becomes as tough and uncompromising as the gangsters he works for. By the time he leaves prison, Malik is well on the way to creating a criminal empire of his own...

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Friday Feb 3rd - 8 pm

RAPT!

Overview
Rapt is a French thriller film first released in 2009, directed by Lucas Belvaux. The film stars Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian and Alex Descas.

PLOT: Successful businessman Stanislas Graff discovers the true meaning of horror when a band of thugs kidnap him and subject him to the most degrading and brutal period of captivity. Graff refuses to crack and instead chooses to endure this barbarity with courage and dignity. When he is finally released he faces an even greater ordeal. Everyone seems to have found out every sordid detail of his private life... Based on a true story of the kidnapping of the Baron Empain in the late 70's

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Saturday Feb 4th - 2 pm

THE RABBI'S CAT

Overview
"Pure Magic"San Francisco Chronicle. Written and directed by Johan Sfar, one of France's most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbi's Cat tells the story of a rabbi, his daugther, and their talking cat - a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness....Awarded the prestigious Jury Prize at Angouleme.

PLOT: In Algeria in the 1930's, a cat belonging to awidowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn't eat the parrot). The rabbi wows to educate him in the way of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbi's rabbi, who maintains that a cat can't be Jewish-but the cat, as always, knows better...Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris and soon they all go to France to meet their cosmopolitan in-laws...

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Friday Feb 17th - 8 pm

NE LE DIS A PERSONNE

Overview
French thriller film first released in 2006, directed by Guillaume Canet.
The film is based on a novel by Harlan Coben and stars François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas and François Berléand.

PLOT: Over the past eight years, there has not been a single day when Alex has not thought about Margot, the childhood sweetheart that became his wife. Eight years ago, she was taken from him, savagely murdered by a serial killer. For eight years he has lived alone, bitterly lamenting the loss of a love that could not have been more perfect. Then, one day, he receives an anonymous e-mail with a video clip. Alex can hardly believe what he sees. A woman standing in the middle of a crowd, speaking to him, as if to apologise. The woman is Margot...

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Friday March 2nd - 8 pm

LINO

Overview:
By Jean-Louis Milesi - script: Jean-Louis Milesi - 2008 / 01h23 min
Stars: Lino, Jean-Louis Milesi, Jean-Jérôme Esposito, Ged Marlon, Serge Riaboukine, Aurélie Vérillon, Yvan Garouel

PLOT: Lino is the story of a little boy of 2 years who will give birth to his father. "In Lino there is a lot of Charlie Chaplin's Kid... And as for the Kid, you come out shaken, torn between laughter and tears ...
"Lino won the Special Jury Prize in Tokyo. - Genuine and touching, this film will surprise you in many surrounding areas. Lino can be proud of his daddy!

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Friday March 16th - 8 pm

CHARGE!

Overview:
Directed by: Robert Guédiguian - Script: Jean-Louis Milesi, Robert Guédiguian - France 1999 - Release in France: 12/04/2000 - Songwriter: Jean-Louis Milesi
The funnier and open of Guédiguian's films. Where two screenwriters invent a story right in front of us. The objective is to share with the viewers the creative process

PLOT: The funniest and most free movies Guédiguian. Where two writers tell us how to invent a story before our eyes. The challenge is to share with the viewer the wanderings of creation, the doubts, questions, arguments of those who write such stories, but above all this, despite or because of that, getting us to live fully, with humor and emotion. Successful bet.

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Friday March 30th - 7 pm

ROBERT STALLMAN
and Special Guest
ISABELLE CHAPUIS
in a Recital of
FLUTE MUSIC of THE BACH FAMILY
with
Veronika Dafoe, Harpsichord ~ Lucinda Breed Lenicheck, Cello

Note: Some program dates may change. Please come back before buying a ticket. Thank you.

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American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco

Mission Statement

American Conservatory Theater nurtures the art of live theater through dynamic productions, intensive actor training in its conservatory, and an ongoing engagement with its community. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Carey Perloff and Executive Director Ellen Richard, A.C.T. embraces its responsibility to conserve, renew, and reinvent the rich theatrical traditions that are our collective legacy, while exploring new artistic forms and new communities. A commitment to the highest standards informs every aspect of A.C.T.'s creative work. More details on the ACT website: here

A partnership allows the members of the FFCPA, to book group tickets.
We have no plays programmed at this time.

If you see plays in the Bay Area, in French or in English, please share it with us so we can promote it to our members. Thank you

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Not all the movies we show have
been rated. The presence of minors
under 18 will be accepted only if
accompanied by an adult. Thanks!

Bastille Day Cash Bar Sponsor
by The Gourmet Corner
The wines served were:

Red: Lalande de Pomerol 2008
Red: Saumur Champigny (Cabernet)2009
Red: Lirac - Black Grenache and Syrah
White: Haut Poitou 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Bright Rosé: Tavel

You can expect similar quality french
wines at all our Movienights.

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Restaurant with great Parisian
food and ambience? Try
BISTRO VIDA
641 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park

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