fem-fATL Film Series: Une Femme – Female Leads & the French New Wave
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fem-fATL .com and Tilt Room Coffee Shop present the fem-fATL Film Series: Une Femme: Female Leads & the French New Wave, an ode to the female figures of the French New Wave period; which begins with Et Dieu… crea la femme | And God Created Woman (1956) on November 11th. Other films include Les Amants | The Lovers (1958), November 20; Les Bonnes Femmes | The Good Girls (1960), December 4th; and, Vivre sa Vie | My Life to Live (1962). All films will be shown at Tilt Room Coffee Shop, 274 Walker St. in the Castleberry Hill Neighborhood, at 8:00pm, and are open to the public and free of charge.
Schedule
[11.13] Et Dieu… créa la femme | And God Created Woman | Vadim | 1956 | 92 min
[11.20] Les Amants | The Lovers | Malle | 1958 | 90 min
[12.04] Les Bonnes Femmes | The Good Girls | Chabrol | 1960 | 93 min
[12.11] Vivre Sa View | My Life to Live | Goddard | 1962 | 85 min
Location
Tilt Room Coffee Shop
274 Walker Street, Atlanta, GA 30313
(In the Castleberry Hill Neighborhood)
Located in the Historic Art District of Castleberry Hill in downtown Atlanta, Tilt is a neighborhood coffee shop designed to be a melting pot for the culturally diverse art community and those conscious individuals focused on Earth, Body and Soul. In addition to what is expected in today’s shops, such as Wi-Fi, a warm atmosphere and a variety of coffees including organic and fair trade, Tilt also serves as a gallery for up and coming artists and serves the business community with its “entrepreneur enabled” computers, printing, faxing and copying services. Visit Tilt today at 274 Walker Street, Atlanta, GA 30313 where everything is Tilted in your favor. (404) 688-4284.
Detail Schedule
11.13 Et Dieu… créa la femme| And God Created Woman | Vadim | 1956 | 92 min
Celebrating: Brigitte Bardot
Synopsis: The astounding success of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways. —The Criterion Collection
Synopsis from http://www.theauteurs.com
11.20 Les Amants | The Lovers | Malle | 1958 | 90 min
Celebrating: Jeanne Moreau
Synopsis: Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, Elevator to the Gallows. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash The Lovers (Les amants), he made her a star once and for all. A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, perched on the edge between classical and New Wave cinemas, The Lovers presents Moreau as a restless bourgeois wife whose eye wanders from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger (Jean-Marc Bory). Thanks to its frank sexuality, The Lovers caused quite a stir, being censored and attacked for obscenity around the world. If today its shock has worn off, its glistening sensuality and seductive storytelling haven’t aged a day. —The Criterion Collection
Synopsis from http://www.theauteurs.com
12.04 Les Bonnes Femmes | The Good Girls | Chabrol | 1960 | 93 min
Celebrating: Bernadette Lafont, Claude Berri, Clotilde Joano
Synopsis: In The flippant youth of the French New Wave get a thrilling dose of menace in Claude Chabrol’s third film. With the spontaneity and freshness so particular to the New Wave, the film follows the carefree lives of three young Parisian shopgirls (a stunning Bernadette Lafont, Chabrol’s future wife and constant collaborator Stéphane Audran, and Clotilde Joano as the doe-eyed, naïve romantic of the group). But while these chic young women may be emblems of a hip, modern new generation looking for love and success in the city, behind Paris’ glittering energy lurks the malevolence of men. While a absurdly comic, lecherous male duo goes playfully hunting for promiscuity amongst the girls, a mysterious, motorcycle-riding stalker (Mario David) follows their every move. Possessing the aura of romance that Clotilde Joano dreamily seeks, the man’s distant devotion and constant presence suggests all exciting, ambivalent mystery of a vivacious Paris of 1960. Whimsy turns to pain; humiliation is saved by unexpected chivalry; and the great, true love of dreams is never what it seems. Often ignorantly dismissed for his influence from Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, Chabrol’s early film is energetic, spontaneous, and thrillingly bizarre. Grafted together are the fresh street views of Paris and impulsive, romantic youth life of the New Wave with cautioning, darkly droll hints at the peril such wide-eyed flirtations may be inviting.
Synopsis from http://www.theauteurs.com
12.11 Vivre Sa View | My Life to Live | Goddard | 1962 | 85 min
Celebrating: Anna Karina
Synopsis: Faced with a failed relationship, a dead-end job, and potential homelessness, young Parisienne Nana Kleinfrankenheim (Anna Karina) turns to “the life” – that is, prostitution. A simple tale told in twelve Brechtian tableaux, Vivre sa vie is one of Godard’s most deeply felt films, anchored by Karina’s astonishing lead performance and Nouvelle Vague favorite Raoul Coutard’s breathtaking cinematography of street-level Paris.
