Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the film festival showcasing contemporary French cinema, returns to Film at Lincoln Center in New York City for its 29th edition, from February 29 through March 10, 2024.
The Rapture (Le Ravissement)(2023)
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Thomas Cailley’s ‘The Animal Kingdom’ to Open 29th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Festival in NYC Lineup
The Animal Kingdom
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Cannes Critics’ Week 2023 Reveals Lineup, Opens with Marie Amachoukeli’s ‘Ama Gloria’
Ama Gloria directed by Marie Amachoukeli 11 films have been selected for this year’s 2023 Cannes International Critics’ Week (Semaine de la critique), with 7 first films and 6 directed by women. To kick off this 62nd edition, Ama Gloria, first solo film by French director Marie Amachoukeli – winner of the Caméra d’Or for Party Girl that she co-directed with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. She delivers a delicate, intimate film about the deep connection between 6- year-old Cléo and Gloria, her nanny. Gloria must suddenly leave Cléo and return to Cape Verde. Marie Amachoukeli conveys with incredible grace cruel, heartbreaking farewells, awash in the summer sunlight.