FOCUS FRANCE
Six of the most successful French films of the last year, selected at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin festivals, will be screened in a special section dedicated to French cinema.
Hors-saison
Directed by: Stéphane Brizé
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Alba Rohrwacher
Drama – France – 2023 – 1h 55min +15
Language: French
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Synopsis:
Mathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small balnearic town. They have a short affair, and then each one follows their own path. To wash his melancholy, Mathieu goes to a thalasso, where by chance he finds Alice.
Festivals: Venice, Zurich, Istanbul
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m., part of the Opening Gala
Timis Cinema, Timisoara
Le deuxième acte
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel
Comedy, Drama – France – 2024 – 1h20min +15
Language: French
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Synopsis:
Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father. But David isn’t attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
Festivals: Cannes – Opening Film
Thursday, July 18, 2024, 10:00 p.m.
Capitol Summer Garden, Timisoara
* in case of bad weather, the screening moves to Timiş Cinema
Une année difficile
Directed by: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Cast: Noémie Merlant, Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen
Comedy – France – 2023 – 1h58min +15
Language: French
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Synopsis:
Two swindlers, deep in debt, infiltrate a group of climate activists when they are attracted to the free food and drinks they are offered.
Festivals: Toronto, Goteborg
Friday, 19 July 2024, 9.45 p.m.
Traian Square, Timisoara
* in case of bad weather, the screening is cancelled
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L’Empire
Directed by: Bruno Dumont
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin
Comedy, Drama, SF – Franţa – 2024 – 1h50min +15
Language: French
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Synopsis:
A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.
Festivals: Berlinale – Silver Bear – Jury Prize
Friday, 19 July 2024, 10.00 p.m.
Capitol Summer Garden, Timisoara
* in case of bad weather, the screening moves to Timis Cinema
Yannick
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne, Agnès Hurstel
Comedy, Drama – France – 2023 – 1h9min +15
Language: French
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Synopsis:
In the middle of a performance of the play “Le Cocu”, a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Festivals: Locarno, Mar del Plata, São Paulo
Saturday, July 20, 2024, 10:30 p.m.
Victoria Cinema, Timisoara
The film is brought with the support of the French Institute in Timisoara.
Daaaaaali!
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï, Didier Flamand, Romain Duris
Comedy – France – 2023 – 1h17min +15
Language: French
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Sinopsis:
A French journalist meets the iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí on several occasions for a documentary project that never came to be.
Festivals: Venice, BFI, Rotterdam, Mar del Plata
Sunday, July 21, 2024, 10:00 p.m.
Capitol Summer Garden, Timisoara
* in case of bad weather, the screening moves to Timis Cinema