2009 Program
The French Reconnection
Remember Freedom Fries and the rabid anti-French hysteria that swept America after the invasion of Iraq? No more — Obama’s in office and we love France and the French love us (well, most of us) Vive le cinéma français!
The Beautiful Person
Unrequited love is no bore in this scintillating Gallic tale of a young teacher’s sexual obsession with a high school student.
Unrequited love is no bore in this scintillating Gallic tale of a young teacher’s sexual obsession with a high school student.
A French Gigolo
A successful middle-aged women (Nathalie Baye) decides to avoid emotional entanglements and instead uses male escorts for her sexual needs. This is a classy, spirited and satisfying French comedy.
A successful middle-aged women (Nathalie Baye) decides to avoid emotional entanglements and instead uses male escorts for her sexual needs. This is a classy, spirited and satisfying French comedy.
The Girl From Monaco
This over-the-top French sex comedy follows the trials of a staid defense attorney whose world goes topsy-turvy when he travels to Monaco to defend a local matriarch and falls under the rollicking influence of a party hound who is also a local cable channel’s weather girl.
This over-the-top French sex comedy follows the trials of a staid defense attorney whose world goes topsy-turvy when he travels to Monaco to defend a local matriarch and falls under the rollicking influence of a party hound who is also a local cable channel’s weather girl.
The Joy of Singing
Fasten your cinema seatbelts for this witty spy-caper musical involving a missing key; duplicitous, bed-hoping spies and a seriously unusual singing class.
Fasten your cinema seatbelts for this witty spy-caper musical involving a missing key; duplicitous, bed-hoping spies and a seriously unusual singing class.
Julia
Tilda Swinton is mesmerizing as a raging alcoholic in this adrenaline rush of a film about a botched kidnapping.
Tilda Swinton is mesmerizing as a raging alcoholic in this adrenaline rush of a film about a botched kidnapping.
Jury Duty
A mild-mannered murderer serves on the jury for the very crime he committed in this gripping crime thriller.
A mild-mannered murderer serves on the jury for the very crime he committed in this gripping crime thriller.
One Day You'll Understand
Israeli director Amos Gitai brings us this complicated family drama which asks whether a Holocaust survivor has the right to avoid the issue, or must pass on its sad facts.
Israeli director Amos Gitai brings us this complicated family drama which asks whether a Holocaust survivor has the right to avoid the issue, or must pass on its sad facts.
The Other One
A middle-aged woman descends into obsessive jealousy when her much younger lover begins seeing another older woman in this startlingly cool and complex film.
A middle-aged woman descends into obsessive jealousy when her much younger lover begins seeing another older woman in this startlingly cool and complex film.
The Sea Wall
A classic and sensual melodrama starring Isabelle Huppert as a widow who must desperately fight to save her land and family.
A classic and sensual melodrama starring Isabelle Huppert as a widow who must desperately fight to save her land and family.
Summer Hours
Three adult siblings must decide what to do with their recently deceased mother’s art-filled home in this elegant drama about family life and French culture.
Three adult siblings must decide what to do with their recently deceased mother’s art-filled home in this elegant drama about family life and French culture.
2009 TLA Entertainment Group, Inc. / 2009 Philadelphia Cinema Alliance
