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UPCOMING EVENTS
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August 1, 2010
Cafe Cinematheque International
This month the French dark comedy "Aaltra"
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August 4, 2010
Cinema A La Mode XIII
Cooking class and a movie!
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August 7, 2010
FAB! Films for Kids!
FREE
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August 11, 2010
Senses of Cinema
Monthly reception, film and discussion hosted by Shelly Isaacs
Next Up
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Ongoing
14th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami
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August 22, 2010
Opera in Cinema
Up Next:
Wagner's Gotterdammerung
Performed Valencia
Sunday, August 22 - 1pm
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August 23, 2010
Volunteers Needed For FLIFF2010 & Cinema Paradiso
Become a volunteer today!
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Ongoing
1st Annual Cinema Paradiso Surf Fest
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September 4, 2010
75th Anniversary Celebration of 20th Century Fox
Featuring an encore screening of Porky's
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Ongoing
Labor-Day Weekend Comedy-A-Thon for Charity
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Ongoing
Reggae Music & Technology Expo
and Reggae Walk of Fame Induction Ceremony 2010
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September 16, 2010
FLIFF2010 Kick Off and Poster Unveiling Party
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October 7, 2010
2010 FLIFF Membership Party
FLIFF Membership party moves to OFF THE HOOKAH
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Ongoing
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July 2010
Betty Lakeysmith
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9th Annual Perrier French Film Festival
Ongoing
Take a journey to France, from the comfort of Cinema Paradiso's plush, stadium style seating as the 9th Annual Perrier French Film Festival lifts off July 29 - August 2, 2010.
14 films will be featured over the five-day fest featuring an eclectic array of historical dramas, scenic adventures, and side-splitting comedies. As no one does funny like the French, FLIFF will open and close with a heavy dose of laughter.
French Film Festival Fast Passes on Sale Now!
French Film Festival Fast Passes save you over 25% and keeps you hydrated through out the entire festival!
With your Fast Pass you receive:
FREE tickets to all films
FREE admission to all parties and receptions
FREE Perrier during the festival
2010 FFF Fast Passes
General Admission $115 | FLIFF Members $70 | Superstars FREE!!!
French Film Festival Raffle
Support FLIFF and be a winner. Tickets will be on sale at any of the French Film Fest screening and $2.00 per ticket gives you the chance to win one of the following:
GRAND PRIZE: copy of book ENTRE NOUS, A Woman's Guide to Finding her Inner French Girl (signed by ladies of Entre Nous) PLUS 2 tix to each: Opening night film and Gala, Centerpiece film and party, and Wrap film and party
Second Prize: Two nights at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, FL
Third Prize: One Night at the Fort Lauderdale Beach Hilton Resort.
To purchase raffle tickets online:
Select "yes" under members so you do not get charged the $1 per ticket service charge
10am -FAB! FILMS FOR KIDS
Our Summer MAKE-A-MOVIE Camp concludes with a screening of the campers final film projects with a French flair. Free for everyone!
 11:45am -TWO IN THE WAVE
Directed by Emmanuel Laurent / France / 2009 / 91 min / French w/English sub-titles)
In the documentary Two in the Wave, first-time director Emmanuel Laurent decided, perhaps wisely, to base the entirety of the relationship between French New Wave icons François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard from the time period when they were friends and colleagues, beginning in the early 1950s, through to the 1970s.
He has made an absorbing, adulatory look at the directors, who in archival interviews are able to express how they made their films in a way that was different than those filmmakers that came before them. That is not to say they rebelled against all filmmakers—Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Jean Renoir, and Nicholas Ray were their idols—but against a stale, studio aesthetic from the 1950s that they felt needed a change. It’s not that they were out to actively tear apart the world of filmmaking. Their purpose was to make new, exciting, and personally meaningful films.
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 1:15pm - CAUSE TOUJOURS!
Directed by Jeanne Labrune / France / 2004 / 87 min / French w/English sub-titles)
My first is a moth (exasperating)…My second is a mute (enigmatic)…My third is a house (worrying)…My all is a film, which takes the form of a fantasy, about mistrust and trust.
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 3:00pm -DREAMS OF DUST
(Directed Laurent Salgues / Burkina Faso, Canada, France / 86 min / French w/English subtitles )
Mocktar, a strikingly handsome peasant from Niger, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa. He is an intriguing individual, tall, strong, and an honest worker. He is also a "man with a past". The film does not reveal much about him; only that he was once a farmer, was married and had a daughter.
Mocktar is intrigued by the beautiful widow Coumba who is courageously struggling to raise her daughter, and hopes to send her to school in France. Dreams of Dust transports you to a world few have seen and totally immerses you there. The golden desert relaxes the viewer to sit back and drink in every frame.
"…hypnotic widescreen photography…which is well written and directed… Salgues' screenplay is perfectly crafted…" Variety
Nominated - Grand Jury Prize - Sundance Film Fesival
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 4:50pm -FATHER OF MY CHILDREN
(Directed Mia Hansen-Love/France / 110 min / French w/English subtitles )
Grégoire, a Parisian film producer, has it all — a beautiful wife, three adorable daughters, wealth and a buzzing career. On the surface he seems invincible, maintaining humor and charm as he tirelessly juggles the demands of his production company with his family's needs. But when Grégoire's reserves — both financial and emotional — reach a dramatic breaking point, his family's love and resilience is tested.
Winner of the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and featured at the Toronto and London Film Festivals, THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN is an extraordinarily perceptive new drama from emerging young talent Mia Hansen-Love, and a deeply moving portrait of family in tumult.
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 6:45pm -COCO CHANEL AND IGOR STRAVINSKY
(Directed Jan Kounen
/France / 120 min / French w/English subtitles )
Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable. Paris 1920, Coco is newly wealthy and successful but grief-stricken after Boy's death in a car crash.
Igor, following the Russian Revolution is now a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris. Coco is introduced to Igor by Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes. The attraction between them is instant and electric. Coco invites Igor along with his wife - now sick with consumption - together with his four children and a menagerie of birds to stay at her new villa, Bel Respiro, in Garches.
After the film
It's summer time at Cinema Paradiso and what better way than to have some sorbet & cupcakes from Gelato Station & Gelati Martini Lounge right after the movie Coco Channel & Igor Stravinsky.
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 9pm -MA VIE EN L’AIR
(Directed Rémi Bezançon / France / 2005 / 103 min / French w/English subtitles )
An instructor for an airline company, Yann Kerbec uses flight simulators to evaluate pilots’ abilities to handle extreme conditions. But Yann has a small problem: paradoxically, he’s afraid of flying, a debilitating panic linked to his birth and which, in his youth, stopped him from following the woman of his dreams to the end of the world. This phobia leads to a continued childhood immaturity, a detachment from practical life kept alive by the incapacity, or unwillingness, to fly.
Today Yann is thirty years old. With nostalgia and humor, he reflects upon his trauma and delivers a scathing stocktaking of his love affairs that went sour because of his phobia.
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 10:00am
Cafe Cinematheque International
presents
AALTRA
Cafe Cinematheque International, hosted by film expert Shelly Isaacs, is a monthly feature at Cinema Paradiso
As always, we begin the program with a brunch inspired by the film: for Sunday's brunch at 10am we will be serving croissants, pastries & French roast coffee or tea.
After the film join host Shelly Isaacs for an informative discussion about the film.
ABOUT THE FILM
Directed by Gustave K/Vern, Benoît Delepine / France / 2004 / 92 min / French w/English sub-titles)
Comedians Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who wrote, directed, and co-star in this  irreverent road movie, show a distinct flair for understated physical comedy and defiantly non-PC humor.
Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in an agricultural tractor, leaving them both paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. But rather than feel sorry for themselves, the embittered paraplegics decide to seek revenge against the tractor's manufacturer. They take to the road, redirecting their frustrations with their plights towards the people they meet on the way to Helsinki. Captured in sharp black-and-white Cinemascope photography that complements its exquisite Tati-like sight gags, Aaltra undermines conventional attitudes toward the disabled with its dry wit and acerbic, vengeful characters. Look for some recognizable cameos, including famous Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.
Tickets inlcude the brunch, film, and discussion
General Admission $12 | FLIFF Members $8 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 1:15pm -VILLA JASMIN
(Directed Ferid Boughedir / France / 87 min / French w/English subtitles )
Based on Serge Moati's novel, VILLA JASMIN, is a compelling double love story about a French-Tunisian Jewish family.
Serge Moati, a young, handsome Parisian and his equally beautiful wife visit La Goulette, Tunisia to discover Moati's family roots, seen in flashbacks from the 1920s through World War II. The film explores an exotic Jewish culture, which is marred by the impact of the Vichy Government under German Occupation in the 1940s. The locus of the film is the eponymous Villa Jasmin, the seaside mansion of Serge Senior and Odette Boccara. He is from an “old” established Tunisian Jewish family, and she from a “new,” immigrant one, and though they are very much in love, much is made of the social tensions between the two groups. Moati finds solace as he discovers that his parents' love for each other sustained them through good and bad times.
Their love was compared to the sweet aroma of Jasmin, the national flower of Tunisia. His mother's charm necklace given by his father with the hidden inscription from Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, "the love which moves the sun and stars" described their unique relationship.
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 3:00pm -DUMAS
(Directed by Safy Nebbou / France / 105 min / French w/English subtitles )
Stars Gérard Depardieu
Nobody knows Auguste Maquet, and yet everybody knows "The Three Musketeers", Everybody knows Alexandre Dumas who wrote the swashbuckling masterpiece but who knows that Maquet is his co-writer? Nobody does, as his name does not appear on the cover. At least not Charlotte Desrives, the lovely daughter of a doctor stagnating in prison for his political opinions. When the lively girl mistakes the shy Maquet for the fiery ex-revolutionary Dumas, begging him to help her to have her father released, the former makes few efforts to put her right. She is so admiring of "him" ... She is so pretty
Tickets
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 5:00pm - FILM - LET IT RAIN
Wrap Party Follows the Film
About the Film
(Directed by Agnes Jaoui/ 2009 / 110 min / French w/English sub-titles)
From the celebrated director of LOOK AT ME and THE TASTE OF OTHERS, Agnes Jaoui, comes LET IT RAIN, an endlessly charming and a sharp-witted battle of the sexes. An audience favorite at the New York Film Festival, this charismatic comedy is not to be missed for fans of French cinema everywhere.
Agathe Villanova (Jaoui) is a self-centered, workaholic feminist politician who, upon reluctantly returning to her home in the south of France to sort out her mother’s affairs, runs for an local election. Upon her arrival, Agathe grudgingly agrees to take part in a documentary being made by the blundering duo of Karim (Jamel Debbouze, AMELIE) an aspiring filmmaker, and self-professed "reporter" Michel (Jaoui’s regular writing partner Jean-Pierre Bacri), on the subject of “successful women." As Agathe's life hilariously unravels, the camera is there to capture it all.
"IT’S REALLY, REALLY GOOD. I OFTEN FELT WATCHING IT THAT I WAS IN THE UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN, BUT IT’S IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE." Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"ONCE IN A WHILE A COMEDY COMES ALONG AND YOU SURPRISE YOURSELF BY HOW HARD YOU’RE LAUGHING." David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"‘‘GRADE A! A RAPIER-SHARP COMEDY." Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Wrap Party
At 7:30pm the WRAP PARTY begins with a French Polynesian Show in the courtyard by Polynesian Proud Productions. And to eat, more French favorites such as: French Onion Soup, Nicoise Salad, Ratatouille & Quiche Lorraine; and for dessert delight yourself with the Chocolate fountains and samplings from our friends of Las Olas Schakolad & you may even win a Chocolate Eiffel Tower!!!!
Tickets include Film and Wrap Party
General Admission $15 | FLIFF Members $10 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
6pm and 8pm - Encore Screenings
Titles to be annouced
6pm - Cocktails
6:30pm - Opening Night Soiree
7:30pm - PARIS EXPRESS
Opening Night Soiree - The soiree will begin at 6pm with a true classic French buffet featuring:
Coq au Vin (chicken with red wine sauce)
Gratin Dauphinois (potatoes and cheese)
Lentil Cassoulet (vegetarian casserole)
Melangee Verts Avec Blu Fromage Aux Poires (mixed greens with blue cheese and pears)
Dessert Crepes (Chocolate hazelnut and banana)
About the Film
(Directed by Herve Renoh France / 2009 / 90 min / French w/English sub-titles)
On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
France has found another accidental hero in the shape of speedy Sam the delivery man who innocently scoots into the heart of an art smuggling scam run by a shady organization called The Sphere. On his trusty two-wheeler, Sam puts his life on the line to reel in a missing Rembrandt and keep his girl. Michaël Youn (Iznogoud, Around The World In 80 Days) toplines in this street-smart comic adventure alongside Heroes star Jimmy Jean Louis and two of France's hippest, sexiest young actresses, Géraldine Nakache (Comme t'y es belle) and Catalina Denis (Go Fast).
Tickets include Opening Night Reception and Film
General Admission $25 | FLIFF Members $15 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
Party sold out, limited tickets available to the film only at the door
 5:00pm -THE ANGRY SISTERS
Directed by Alexandra Leclère / France / 2004 / 93 min / French w/English sub-titles)
Louise, 36, is a charming young woman who is disconcertingly open and rather awkward. She’s a beautician and lives in Le Mans. Martine, 38, is her older sister. She’s a very beautiful, elegant woman, although aloof. She lives a deeply middle-class world in Paris.
Louise has written a novel and she has an important meeting in Paris that could change the course of her life. She comes to stay with Martine for three days, during which time she and her obvious happiness drive Martine up the wall and shatters her life.
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 6:00pm - Wine and Cheese Reception
6:45pm - MICMACS
WINE, BAGUETTES & BRIE - At 6pm enjoy this typical French staple. Join us in the courtyard for a glass of wine, fresh baked bread from Croissan' Time French Bakery & different types of the world famous Brie cheese while listening to the wonderful melodies & French tunes by our guest singer of the night, the magnifique Nathalie Lajeunesse!
About the Film
(Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet France / 2009 / 105 min / French w/English sub-titles)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie is a landmark of cinematic ingenuity. Similar inspiration and wonder is echoed in his inventive, playful, and wildly entertaining Micmacs. Meet Bazil. He was raised in an orphanage from a young age, his father having been killed by a land mine as a soldier and his mom deemed insane. Flash forward years later, a grown-up Bazil is working at a video store when a stray bullet from a random drive-by shooting lodges into his brain. Unable to remove the stubborn slug, the doctors release him into the world to encounter an unexpected fate.
Homeless and hopeless, he is taken in by a group of merry misfits (the mic macs), among them an ex-con, a contortionist, a mathematician, and a human cannonball. The jolly motley crew lives in a junkyard, recycling materials and building ingenious knick-knacks to support themselves. But when Bazil discovers that his bullet and the bomb that killed his father are made by two feuding weapons companies, he hatches a brilliant plan to take them down. Quirky, energetic, and layered with timely themes, Jeunet's Micmacs is a feast for the eyes and fun for the whole family. Genna Terranova, Tribeca Film Festival
THE DIRECTOR: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's first feature film, Delicatessen (directed with Marc Caro, FLIFF 1991) brought new vigor to French cinema in 1991. He followed with the cult film The City of Lost Children (FLIFF 1995), Alien: Resurrection, Amélie (worldwide the most successful French film in history), and A Very Long Engagement.
Tickets include Wine and CheeseReception and Film
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
 8:30pm - COULD THIS BE LOVE
Directed by Pierre Jolivet / France / 2007 / 90 min / French w/English sub-titles)
Lucas, a rich 43 years old industrialist, is just getting over a terrible breakup when he meets Elsa (Sandrine Bonnaire of QUEEN TO PLAY), a nice looking, famous, 38 year-old ceramist to whom he commissions a fresco. Irresistibly attracted to the young lady, Lucas tries to conquer her. But even though he is a highly-skilled business man, Lucas lacks assurance when dealing with love. He therefore hires Roland Christin, a private detective from his firm, to spy on Elsa and find the reasons behind Elsa’s celibacy. Roland uses all the latest investigation techniques at his disposal for an ancestral feeling : love.
General Admission $10 | Students and Seniors $8 | FLIFF Members $6 | FREE for Superstar Members and with Fast Pass
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