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UCR French Film Series Starts April 29<br>
Tournées Festival will feature five films at University Village.<br>
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Tournées Festival, UC Riverside’s five-week
series of French and francophone films, begins Tuesday, April 29, at the
Metropolitan University Village Cinemas. <br><br>
The Tuesday-evening film series is organized by
<a href="http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=2426">
Michelle Bloom</a>, associate professor of French and comparative
literature, with the assistance of Anna Gutierrez, a recent UCR graduate
who majored in French. The festival is sponsored by UCR’s College of
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the departments of Comparative
Literature and Foreign Languages, Creative Writing, Media and Visual
Culture, and Women’s Studies. French Cultural Services also helped
sponsor the festival. <br><br>
The Tournées Festival is named after the French word for shooting a film
– tournage – and tournée, which means a round or circuit. The films,
which are all subtitled, will be shown every Tuesday night from April 29
through May 27 at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $7 for general admission and $5
for seniors and students with identification. <br><br>
This year’s theme, “Greatest Hits,” reflects the choice of a diverse
group of films that were all box-office and/or critical successes when
they were released in France, Bloom said. <br><br>
“We are showing an array of films ranging from the ensemble film ‘Paris
je t’aime’ to ‘Lady Chatterley,’ a new adaptation based on D.H.
Lawrence’s provocative novel, to the francophone film ‘Bamako,’ to the
animated film about the Iranian revolution, ‘Persepolis,’ based on the
director’s graphic novels,” Bloom said. “Our second film, ‘Indigenes’
(‘Days of Glory’) was a smash hit in Paris. We’re really excited about
the films we were able to get our hands on. It’s going to be an exciting
and accessible festival, representing different cultures and genres.”
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The schedule of films follows: <br><br>
April 29: “Paris, Je t'aime” <br><br>
May 6: “Lady Chatterley” <br><br>
May 13: “Indigènes” <br><br>
May 20: “Bamako” <br><br>
May 27: “Persepolis”<br><br>
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