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Come join UCR's French department on Monday, November 6th for the next
installment of the Coffee Depot French film series! <br>
This month, we're featuring Yolande Moreau's 2005 film:<br><br>
<font size=4>When the Sea Rises (Quand la mer monte) <br><br>
</font>Moreau wrote and directed this film which took a César award for
best film, and Moreau's semi-autobiographical performance also earned her
the best actress César. <br><br>
Film rolls at 7:30; arrive between 7:00-7:15 for seating.<br>
Coffee Depot is located at 3204 Mission Inn Avenue in downtown Riverside
(corner of Mission Inn and Vine; next to Café Sevilla) <br><br>
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~Review Summary~ <br>
Irène (Yolande Moreau), the magnetic central character of "When the
Sea Rises," is a soft, round woman with a sweet face, well into
middle age, who performs her touring one-woman show, "Nasty Business
— Sex and Crime," at school auditoriums and retirement centers in
towns around the French-Belgian border. This French-Belgian movie is a
serious romantic comedy with surreal touches. Although Irène has a
husband and child with whom she keeps in regular touch by cellphone, her
career as a traveling entertainer seems divorced from any home life. As
she drives her Peugeot from one low-rent hall to the next, you come to
see her as a brave, lonely soldier of comedy. Stalwart but sad, and at
moments almost monumental, she is a figure of mournful comfort. Ms.
Moreau's performance deservedly won her a César (the French counterpart
to an Oscar) for best actress. And as you watch her sink into this
semiautobiographical role (she was herself a touring performer in the
1980's), the character emerges as a deep, multilayered woman: kind,
gentle and happily partaking of life's simple pleasures much of the time,
but when necessary, as tough as her stage character through whom she
relishes expressing her residual anger at life's hardships and
disappointments.— Stephen Holden, The New York Times</blockquote>
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John M. Ganim<br>
President, New Chaucer Society<br>
Professor of English<br>
Department of English<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
900 University Avenue<br>
Riverside CA 92521<br>
TEL (951) 827-1540<br>
FAX (951) 827-3967<br>
ON CAMPUS PHONE 21540<br>
EMAIL John.Ganim@UCR.EDU<br>
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