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Presented by The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures STETSON UNIVERSITY DeLand, FL March 20 - April 10 Locations around Stetson campus and at the Athens Theatre Free admission for students, staff, and faculty, $5 general public (except for the opening screening at the Athens Theatre) Presented in collaboration with the Department of History, the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, the Cross-Cultural Center, and the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Athens Theatre. |
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FEATURES LIST |
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DATE: Wednesday, March 20, 7:30pm special screening at the historic Athens Theatre in downtown DeLand |
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THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius 2011 / 100 min. Post-screening discussion facilitated by Grady Ballenger, Professor, Department of English |
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A delightful homage to silent-era Hollywood, Michel Hazanavicius's mostly silent film, opens in 1927, when preening matinee idol George Valentin, is still the top draw at Kinograph Studios. George acts as a mentor to Peppy Miller, a chorus girl with big ambitions. The Artist tracks both Peppy's ascent and George's decline as he refuses to acknowledge the "talkies" as more than a passing fad. Winner of 5 Academy Awards in 2012 including "Best Picture". |
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DATE: Tuesday, March 26, 7:30pm screening at The Language Commons, 129 Sampson Hall |
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LE GAMIN AU VÉLO The Kid with a Bike Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne. 2011 / 87 min. Post-screening discussion facilitated by Yves-Antoine Clemmen, Professor of French, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures |
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The sublime tale of love and redemption begins with an 11-year-old boy in frantic, desperate motion. Refusing to acknowledge that he's been abandoned by his father, Cyril escapes the children's home where he's been living. As the authorities from the children's home catch up with him, Cyril, refusing to return, tightly grips a total stranger, a woman named Samantha, who will prove to be the heartbroken boy's savior. |
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DATE: Thursday, April 4, 8:00pm screening at the Rinker Environmental Learning Center |
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LA GROTTE DES RÊVES PERDUS Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog. 2011 / 90 min. Post-screening discussion facilitated by J. Anthony Abbott, Chair, Dept. of Geography, Director of Environmental Science program and Katya Kudryavtseva, Assistant Professor in Art History |
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Werner Herzog's breathtaking documentary gives viewers an unprecedented look at, as he accurately describes it, "one of the great discoveries in the history of human culture": the prehistoric drawings in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the south of France. First discovered in 1994, the images--including depictions of lions and mammoths--were made 30,000 years ago and are the earliest known human art. |
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DATE: Monday, April 8, Holocaust Remembrance Day, 7:30 pm screening at the Language Commons, 129 Sampson Hall |
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MOI, PETITE FILLE DE 13 ANS As a Young Girl of 13 Elisabeth Coronel, Florence Gaillard & Arnaud de Mezamat. 2010 / 88 min. Post-screening discussion facilitated by Eric Kurlander, Chair, Dept. of History and Robert Watson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures |
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In this crucial documentary, the eloquent and commanding Simone Lagrange recalls, with astonishing details, the horrors of the Holocaust and her indispensable role in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice. It is precisely Lagrange's razor-sharp memory for details that proves crucial in identifying Barbie more than 40 years later, when he was extradited to France after decades of living under an alias in South America. |
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DATE: Wednesday, April 10, 7:30pm screening at the Language Commons, 129 Sampson Hall |
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TOMBOY Céline Sciamma. 2011 / 82 min. Post-screening discussion facilitated by Yolany Gonnell, Assistant Director of Intercultural Initiatives and the Cross-Cultural Center |
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A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence, Tomboy, astutely explores the freedom of being untethered to the rule-bound world of gender codes. Laure, a gangly, short-haired kid about to go into fourth grade has just moved to a suburban apartment complex with her family a few weeks before the school year starts. The clan's relocation provides Laure an opportunity for re-invention, of sorting out what repels her. Part of TRANSphobia awareness day at Stetson University. |
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For more information, contact festival organizer, Dr. Robert Watson at rwatson@stetson.edu or (386)822-7282. Support for the Tournées Festival is provided by Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States / Centre National de la Cinématographie et l'Image Animée CampusFrance / Florence Gould Foundation / highbrow entertainment. |
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