The Hamilton College French Club Tournées Film Festival will screen Paris Je T’aime on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. in the KJ Auditorium. The screening is free and open to the public.
Paris Je T’aime is a pastiche of 18 different mini-stories, each running about five minutes and located in a different section of Paris. These episodes are all different in tone, theme, and atmosphere, but they also manage to seamlessly blend together in order to create a vivid portrait of the city and of those who live in it. The film features directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, and Gus Van Sant. Starring are such actors as Natalie Portman, Gena Rowlands, Elijah Wood, and Catherine Deneuve.
The Tournées Festival is funded by an annual grant awarded to American colleges and universities to support the screening of contemporary French cinema. Grants are awarded in hopes that schools will begin their own self-sustaining French film festivals. The grant is organized by FACE, the French-American Cultural Exchange, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing French-American relations through innovative international projects in the arts, education, and cultural exchange. This is the first time that the Hamilton College French Club has received a FACE grant.
Paris Je T’aime is a pastiche of 18 different mini-stories, each running about five minutes and located in a different section of Paris. These episodes are all different in tone, theme, and atmosphere, but they also manage to seamlessly blend together in order to create a vivid portrait of the city and of those who live in it. The film features directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, and Gus Van Sant. Starring are such actors as Natalie Portman, Gena Rowlands, Elijah Wood, and Catherine Deneuve.
The Tournées Festival is funded by an annual grant awarded to American colleges and universities to support the screening of contemporary French cinema. Grants are awarded in hopes that schools will begin their own self-sustaining French film festivals. The grant is organized by FACE, the French-American Cultural Exchange, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing French-American relations through innovative international projects in the arts, education, and cultural exchange. This is the first time that the Hamilton College French Club has received a FACE grant.
