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Friday
April 5th
7pm
Aperitif-Conversation
8pm Film
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Le Grand Voyage
2004 Film by
Ismael Ferroukhi
Morocco |
Plot Summary
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations. |
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Friday April 19th
7 pm
Aperitif -Conversation
8 pm Film
10 pm Discussion |
RAJA
film by
Jacques Doillon |
RAJA is set against the contemporary backdrop of Marrakech, is a cross cultural drama about a whealth middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth.
A French / Moroccan production - 112 Minutes |

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Friday May 3rd
7 pm
Aperitif -Conversation
8 pm Film
10 pm Discussion
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Inch' Allah Dimanche
a film by Yamina Benguigui |
The director brings us a passionate immigrant story of a woman struggling against old world traditions.
Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children and mother-in-law, to join her husband in France where he has been living for 10 years. She struggles between her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
French / Algerian Production - 98 minutes
On June 21, 2012, Yamina Benguigui has been confirmed as Minister for la Francophonie in the French Government. On June 30, 2012, the French President Francois Hollande asked Yamina Benguigui to succeed to Former French Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin as his authorized representative for the OIF . She still roots very hard for the Maghreb and French bi-culturism. |

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Friday May 17th
7 pm
Aperitif -Conversation
8 pm Film
10 pm Discussion
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Viva Laldjerie
film by Nadir Mokneche |
Viva La’ldjerie follows the lives of three women living in Algiers as they negotiate the yawning gap created by the two vastly different cultural worlds they live in. As the spread of fundamental Islam clashes with the westernized aspects of Algerian society, the three women attempt to adjust their lives with varying degrees of success.
An Algerian Production |

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Friday May 31st
7 pm
Aperitif -Conversation
8 pm Film
10 pm Discussion
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DREAMS OF DUST
film by Laurent Salgues |
Rêves de Poussières is a French-Canadian-Burkina Faso production in French with english sub-titles.
In this beautiful tale, a Nigerian peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in NorthEast Burkina Faso where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him...
Introduced to the US at the 2007 Sundance Festival, and subsequently at the Rome Festival, Venice, and others.
"Hypnotic widescreen photography!"- Variety
Starring: Makena Diop, Rasmane Ouedraogo
Directed by: Laurent Salgues
Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes |

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Friday June 14th
7 pm
Aperitif -Conversation
8 pm Film
10 pm Discussion |
LA GRAINE ET LE MULET Film by Abdellatif Kechiche |
33 Awards amongst which...
64ème Mostra of Venice : Special Jury Award - Most Promising Actress - International Critic Award
4 César 2008 for Best Film-Most Promising Actress-Best Director-Best Editing-Best Screen Play
By one of the most promising director of the franco-tunisian film industry.
Plot: Despite his age, Slimane Beiji, a 60-year-old North African immigrant, continues to toil for a meagre wage at a shipyard in the southern French town of Sète. It is work that exhausts him, physically and morally, and this merely adds to his sense that his life has been a total failure. His dream is to open his own restaurant but he clearly hasn’t the means to do so. Moved by the old man’s plight, his relatives, who have financial worries of their own, decide to work together to make his dream a reality...
A French Tunisian Production |

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Friday June 28th
7 pm
Aperitif -Conversation
8 pm Film
10 pm Discussion
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35 Shots of Rhum
Film by Claire Denis |
"A QUIETLY BLISSFUL ROMANCE. SEE 35 SHOTS OF RUM TO REMIND YOURSELF WHAT MOVIES ARE ABOUT" Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Hailed the best movie of 2009, Claire Denis, the renowned Director of Beau Travail, White Material, brings us the moving story of a father and a daughte whose close-knit, tender relashionship is disrupted by a handsome young suitor. Sumptuously filmed and featuring an evocative score by Tindersticks, 35 Shots of Rhum casts a lovely spell unlike any other movie you've seen. |
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Friday February 1st
7-pm
Aperitif-conversation
8 pm Film
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2009 Film by
Denis Villeneuve
with
Remy Girard
and
Lubna Azabal |
Won 36 Awards and 10 Nominations
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to the Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love. |
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Friday Febuary 15th
7pm
Aperitif-Conversation
8pm Film
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1988 Film by Claire Denis
with
François Cluzet
Guilia Boschi
Isaach De Bankolé |
"Erotic, sophisticated, and distinctive" (L.A. Weekly)
A young French woman makes a return visit to the Cameroons where she grew up as a young girl in the 1950s. She remembers her childhood, living in a French outpost amid the wild African landscape. Her father worked as a petty official whilst her mother stayed at home, waited on by a servant boy. |

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Friday
March 1st
7pm
Aperitif Conversation
8pm Film
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2009 Film by
Claire Denis
with
Isabelle Huppert
and
Christophe Lambert |
Plot Summary
Somewhere in Africa, in a region plagued by civil war, Maria refuses to abandon her coffee plantation before the end of the harvest. Most of her regular workers have deserted her and finding men to replace them appears to be impossible. But Maria persists, seemingly oblivious to the dangers which threaten to engulf her and her family...
Limited USA release in 2010 |
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ANNUAL CLASSICAL MUSIC MONTH |

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Tateuchi Hall
Finn Center
230 San Antonio Cir.
MountainView
94306
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"SPRING AIRS"
March 15th 8pm
Tateuchi Hall Moutain View |
Flutist ROBERT STALLMAN
AND FRIENDS:
special guest:
Isabelle Chapuis, flute.
“SPRING AIRS” / flutist ROBERT STALLMAN in Recital with Special Guest, Isabelle Chapuis, flute/ and Friends Dmitriy Cogan, piano/ Ai Goldsmith and Annie Wu, flutes.
Mendelssohn-Sonata in F Minor, Op. 4 ~ Debussy-Six Epigraphes Antiques ~ Bartok-Hungarian Peasant Suite ~ Heiden-Sonatina ~ Vivaldi-Concerto in B Minor for Four Flutes ~ Kuhlau-Trio in G Major for Two Flutes and Piano.
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Main Theater
Le Petit Trianon
72 N 5th Street
San Jose,95112
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"SPRING FEVER"
March 22nd 8pm |
Flutist ROBERT STALLMAN AND FRIENDS:
special guest:
Isabelle Chapuis, flute.
“SPRING FEVER” / flutist ROBERT STALLMAN in Recital with Special Guest, Isabelle Chapuis, flute/ and Friends Dmitriy Cogan, piano/ Ai Goldsmith and Annie Wu, flutes.
Music of Schubert, Faure, Feld, Vivaldi (Concerto for 4 Flutes) Lipatti and Doppler (“Rigoletto” Fantasy) |
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Friday
9/7
Doors open
7:30 pm
Film 8:30 pm |
Movienight
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Barbarella Queen of the Galaxy-1968 directed by Roger Vadim
The cult classic sci-fi produced by Dino De Laurentiis, form a comic book by Lean-Claude Forest- With Jane Fonda, John-Philip Law, Ugo Tognazzi... |

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Friday
9/21
Doors open
7:30 pm
Film 8:30 pm |
Secret Screening Movienight |
SPECIAL SECRET SCREENING FUND RAISING NIGHT
In order to support our friend Director, Jean-Louis Milesi who is in the middle of shooting his new film "Don't Give Up the Ghost", we invite you to join us and participate to a special fundraising Movienight.
The Secret Screening was "The Snows of Kilimandjaro" directed by Robert Geudiguian, co-written with Jean-Louis Milesi. |

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Saturday
9/29
2 pm
Crêpes after the movie |
Family Afternoon Entertainment
In Support of French School Teachers |
Asterix and the Vikings (HD Blue Ray) -2006- from the comic book by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
Directed by Stefan Djeldmark
Justforkix is a fearful teenager who can dance well. For the Vikings fear is a desirable property because, due to a misunderstanding, they think that fear makes one fly. Therefore they kidnap the boy.
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Saturday
10/27
2 pm
Crêpes after the movie |
Family Afternoon Entertainment
In Support of French School Teachers |
PERSEPOLIS-A film by Mariane Strapi and Vincent Paronnaud. Both entertaining and informative, it gives an insight into what life was like for a young woman growing up and trying to find happiness in a country that was upended by revolution and war, a country in which women were (and still are) considered inferior to men and where political dissent was invariably rewarded with arrest and execution. |

Recommended for 18 + |
Friday
11/2
Doors open
7:00 pm
Film 8:00 pm
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Movienight
Comedy
Drama
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La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast) by Marco Ferreri (Rated NC 17 in 1973)
With Philippe Noiret-Marcello Mastroianni-Ugo Tognazzi-MichelPiccoli- and Andrea Ferreol- Winner Cannes Festival FIPRESCI (Film Critics) and Berlin Gold Award
Four successful middle-aged men Marcello, a pilot; Michel, a television executive; Ugo, a chef; and, Philippe, a judge go to Philippe's villa to eat themselves to death. After the first night, Marcello insists that women should join them. Three prostitutes and a local school teacher, stays to the end. The villa, the food, and a Bugati roadster are essential props. |



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Friday
11/16
Doors open
7:00 pm
Film 8:30 pm
104 minutes |
Movienight |
To make room for a special Beaujolais Nouveau wine tasting party, the original movie has been replaced with a comedy, (a spoof on a real person) by Claude Zidi with Louis De Funes and Coluche.
The Wing or The Thigh? (L'Aile ou la Cuisse?)
Summary: Charles Duchemin is France’s most reputed culinary expert, an esteemed food critic and author of the best-selling Duchemin restaurant guide. He is about to be received into the Académie Française and plans to retire, intending that his son Gérard will continue his work.
Unfortunately, Gérard’s sole ambition is to become a comedian and, without his father knowing it, he works part-time as a clown in a travelling circus. Duchemin’s mortal enemy is Jacques Tricatel, the supermarket magnate who is planning to open a chain of fast-food restaurants.
When he hears about this, Duchemin agrees to appear on a chat show with Tricatel in order to expose him as an enemy of French cuisine. However, before the show goes out Duchemin loses his sense of taste and Tricatel discovers his son’s secret pastime...
REVIEW Haute cuisine takes on the might of prêt-à-manger in this spirited satirical farce which serves up a mouth-watering double portion of comic genius in the shape of Louis de Funès and Coluche. One of the better films that De Funès made for director Claude Zidi, L’Aile ou la cuisse offers not only some sublime comedy but also a deliciously acerbic satire on several aspects of culinary life in France. Of course, what sells the film is the unforgettable union of two immensely talented comedic performers, each of whom achieved an unrivalled popularity in the course of his career.
This Movienight is made in cooperation with Alliance Française of Santa Clara Valley / Silicon Valley. All proceeds shared with Alliance will be for the 2013 Scholarship Program
Visit www.afscv.org |
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Friday
11/30
7:30 pm
Doors/Buffet starts at 6:30 pm |
MovieNight
Drama Romance |
Unrated (as NC-17: graphic nudity and sex, much colorful Gallic swearing, violence)
DIRECTOR'S CUT FULL 3 HOUR VERSION
What once was a movie about sex and death is now clearly, and affectingly, a movie about life!
Zorg and Betty eke out an existence maintaining seaside holiday bungalows in the South of France.
After a dispute with Zorg’s boss, the two return to Paris to start a new life. Having chanced upon the manuscript of a novel that Zorg wrote before meeting her, Betty is convinced that her lover has a promising career as a writer and pushes him to submit his novel for publication.
More realistic, Zorg is content to work as a waiter in a restaurant for his friend Eddy.
As the rejection slips for Zorg’ s novel mount up, Betty starts to lose her grip on reality. |
POSTPONED

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Saturday
12/01
2 pm
Crêpes after the movie |
Family Afternoon Entertainment
In Support of French School Teachers |
ZARAFA by Rémi Bezançon 2012 - Animated film-
A grandfather telling his grandkids the story of Maki, a young boy who escapes from slave traders, befriends a giraffe (the title character), cross the desert, meet a pirate, and a few other things on a trip that takes him from Africa to Paris. Magnificent storyboard, beautiful voice over work
Recommended for 3 to 12
WE REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THAT DUE TO LACK OF PARTICIPATION FOR MOVIE MATINEES, THIS MOVIE MATINEE IS POSTPONED TO 2013 |

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Friday
12/7
Doors open
7:00 pm
Film 8:00 pm |
Movienight |
LE PREMIER JOUR DU RESTE DE TA VIE (The First Day of the Rest of Your Life)
Directed by Rémi Bezanson in 2008 Nominated for 9 awards won 3 , film has some exceptional performances and great music Daho, Bowie and Divine Comedy. An absolute delight!
Recommended for 13+
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Friday
12/21
Doors open
7:00 pm
Film 8:00 pm |
Movienight
and
Holiday Party |
SPECIAL GALA NIGHT FEATURING THE MASTERPIECE BY JACQUES TATI: PLAYTIME, 1967
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner. Reviews-Video
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