Cannes Film Festival Essay Contest

The French and Italian Grad Students Organization is pleased to announce the Cannes Film Festival Essay Contest. The essay will concern Little Senegal, to be screened February 8. Please view the poster below for details. Click for larger version.

Un Homme, un vrai Tonight!

FIGSO is pleased to announce the first screening of the spring portion of our Cinéma Français Today film series. We will be showing the 2003 film, Un Homme, un vrai at 7 pm tonight at Dobie Theater. As always, the screening is free and open to the public. I will be leading an audience discussion after the film.

Here is a synopsis from Wikipedia:

"Boris, an apprentice film director, meets Marilyne, a young senior executive, during an evening in Paris and they declare their love for one another, despite their barely knowing each other. Five years later, during a business trip to the Balearic Islands, with Boris and their children, Marilyne runs away at the very moment when Boris is going to leave her. Five years down the road, Marilyne reappears at the other end of the Pyrenees mountains, with a group of Americans.
The man who will be their guide is none other than Boris, who is unrecognisable."