[Englecturers] French Film Festival

[John Ganim]

UCR French Film Series Starts April 29
Tournées Festival will feature five films at University Village.
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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.

The Tuesday-evening film series is organized by 
<http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=2426>Michelle 
Bloom, 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.

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.

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.

“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.”

The schedule of films follows:

April 29: “Paris, Je t'aime”

May 6: “Lady Chatterley”

May 13: “Indigènes”

May 20: “Bamako”

May 27: “Persepolis”

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