[Englecturers] Coffee Depot French Film Series--November Film Announcement

[John Ganim]

>
>Come join UCR's French department on Monday, 
>November 6th for the next installment of the Coffee Depot French film series!
>This month, we're featuring Yolande Moreau's 2005 film:
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>When the Sea Rises (Quand la mer monte)
>
>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.
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>Film rolls at 7:30; arrive between 7:00-7:15 for seating.
>Coffee Depot is located at 3204 Mission Inn 
>Avenue in downtown Riverside (corner of Mission 
>Inn and Vine; next to Café Sevilla)
>
>
>
>~Review Summary~
>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

John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
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