Film and Meeting the Director Opportunity: Demande à ton Ombre, by Lamine Ammar-Khodja (11/7 at 4:30pm)

The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul presents:

Demande à ton Ombre, by Lamine Ammar-Khodja, 83 min, France, Algeria, 2012.

Arabic, French with English Subtitles

Documentary

Special screening Nov. 7 at 4:30pm followed by a Q&A with Director Lamine Ammar-Khodja

Students: Meet with the director, Lamine Ammar-Khodja, prior to the screening!

Special Screening:

Film discussion with director Lamine Ammar-Khodja and professor Patricia Lorcin, Department of History, University of Minnesota.

Eight years after leaving native Algeria for France, Lamine
Ammar-Khodja decides to end his exile on January 6, 2011, the day major
riots break out in Algiers. Organised chronologically, the film is a
first-person narrative and, just like Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal,
to which the director pays tribute, it deals with the difficulties of
getting back home. Because this journey isn’t only a private matter, but
also an opportunity to go back over Algeria’s recent history, at a time
when it could have taken another major turn. The subject is addressed
in the tone of comedy, using humour and irony, instead of expected
despair. Cheerfully mixing styles, playing freely and gracefully with
the cinema medium, and claiming rebellious youth in the name of all the
young outcasts, this first film surely reveals an original artistic
stance and writing: a new director is born. (by Jean-Pierre Rehm)

Director Biography: Lamine
Ammar-Khodja was born in Algeria in 1983, and grew up in the suburb of
Bab Ezzouar. He later moved to France in 2003. His previous short films
include: Algiers Less Than Zero, '56 South, How to Reframe an Outlaw by Pulling at a Thread. His first feature documentary film Ask Your Shadow was selected in FID Marseille 2012 and received the First Film Prize.

Meet with the Director:

The director is looking forward to meeting our students at all levels
for an informal discussion around themes and topics raised by the
attendees. The informal discussion, which will take place in Nolte 125,
will start at 3:00 and end at 4:00 on November 7. Students may arrive
at any time during the meeting if they are not able to be in attendance
right at 3:00.

Sponsored by: Institute
for Global Studies, Department of French and Italian, European Studies
Consortium, Mediterranean Initiative, and The Film Society of
Minneapolis St. Paul

Play: La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin (10/28, 4pm; 10/29, 7pm)

Le Theatre de la Chandelle Verte, will perform their current hilarious production of the well-known medieval farce: La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin

Le Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte is an alliance of professional artists and scholars from universities across the United States, dedicated to performing theatre in French to audiences nationwide.

La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin: A creative and dynamic adaptation of the popular fifteenth-century
play, featuring hilarious misadventures and a loveable cast of misfits,
including the trickster Pathelin and his accomplice wife Guillemette,
the conniving merchant Guillaume Joceaulme, and the wisest fool of them
all, Thibaut L’Agnelet.

Performed in French by members of the troupe. Suitable for all ages and all levels of French proficiency. Runtime: lasts
one hour, and is free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly
recommended.

Sunday, October 28 at 4pm.

Monday, October 29 at 7pm.

Location:

Saint Catherine University Recital Hall
2004 Randolph Ave. Saint Paul, MN 55105

Map / directions

RESERVATION CONTACT: Sally Sundberg sjsundberg@stkate.edu (651) 690 6548

Film: The Intouchables, by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano, 10/5-10/11

The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul presents:

The Intouchables, by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano, 112 min, France, 2011.

In French with English subtitles.

Showing - Fri, Oct 5 through Thurs, Oct 11 at St. Anthony Main Theatre.

2012 MSP International Film Festival Opening Night Hit!

This true story of two men who should never have met was an unprecedented box-office phenomenon in France, where it shattered records to become the second most successful French film of all time and has sparked much heated political debate. This award-winning film tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a handicapped white millionaire Philippe (Tell No One star François Cluzet) and his free spirited Senegalese caretaker Driss (Omar Sy). Paralyzed from the neck down in a paragliding accident, Philippe has grown weary of the pitying attentions of his live-in help. On a whim he hires Driss, a recent prison parolee, as his caretaker. Gradually, these two men from very different worlds grow close, sharing in the joy and pain of each other’s lives in this hilarious and heartwarming crowd-pleaser from directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano. With standout performances from both Cluzet and Sy, The Intouchables provides a lively and emotionally engrossing take on the conflicts of class and culture.

Showtimes:

Fri, Oct 5 at 1:00, 9:55

Sat, Oct 6 - NO SHOWS

Sun, Oct 7 at 1:00, 4:00, 9:55

Mon, Oct 8 at 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 9:55

Tue, Oct 9 at 1:00, 7:40, 9:55

Wed, Oct 10 at 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 9:55

Thu, Oct 11 at 1:00, 4:00