This fall, FIAF Montclair, in partnership with Montclair Film, is launching a new cinema series celebrating the work of acclaimed French artists and filmmakers. All screenings in French with English subtitles will be held at Cinema505 at Montclair Film.
Possession
Friday, October 25, 2019
7:30pm
Cinema505 at Montclair Film
Was Isabelle Adjani truly possessed while shooting this allegorical fantasy about a couple separating in the shadow of the Berlin Wall? You might think so when you witness her César-winning performance as an alienated housewife and her doppelgänger in this paranoid masterpiece by Andrzej Zulawski.
Quartet
Saturday, October 26, 2019
7:30pm
Cinema505 at Montclair Film
This gripping Merchant Ivory adaptation of Jean Rhys’s acclaimed autobiographical novel features Isabelle Adjani as a penniless young woman who is toyed with by a wealthy British couple in 1920s Paris. Directed by James Ivory.
Camille Claudel
Sunday, October 27, 2019
7:30pm
Cinema505 at Montclair Film
With this emotionally bare biopic, Isabelle Adjani won her third César, was nominated for an Oscar, and righted a historical wrong by turning the spotlight on Camille Claudel, scorned mistress of Rodin (played by Gérard Depardieu) and an artistic genius in her own right. Directed by Bruno Nuytten.
The Science of Sleep
Friday, November 22, 2019
7:30pm
Cinema505 at Montclair Film
Charlotte Gainsbourg joins maverick director Michel Gondry to explore the tenuous line between dream and reality in this charming tale of a Mexican inventor who moves to Paris, falls in love with his neighbor and invites her into his dreams.
Melancholia
Saturday, November 23, 2019
7:30pm
Cinema505 at Montclair Film
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s second of three landmark collaborations with Danish auteur Lars von Trier starts with an epically botched wedding party and culminates in the earth’s collision with a rogue planet, delivering an aesthetically sublime vision of human frailty along the way.
Jane Eyre
Sunday, November 24, 2019
7:30pm
Cinema505 at Montclair Film
Franco Zeffirelli’s triumphant adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece beguiles with its visual elegance without sacrificing the novel’s emotional rawness. In the role of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Gainsbourg refined her trademark mix of deceptive fragility and fierce intelligence, delivering one of her finest performances.