Say Oui to the Boston French Film Festival
Annual event at MFA showcases major contemporary French cinema
Celebrate contemporary French cinema at the 13th annual Boston French Film Festival through July 27 at the Museum of Fine Arts. The selected films, among them award-winners and box office hits, showcase some of France’s best actors and directors.
Four films will be shown today, July 17. The comedy 48 Hours a Day (48 Heures Par Jour), directed by Catherine Castel, is about a woman unhappy with her domestic life who forces her husband to take on some of the household responsibilities, at 2:30 p.m. Claude Miller directs A Secret (Un Secret), about a young boy who discovers his parents’ secrets during the Holocaust, at 8 p.m. Also being shown are Pierre Jolivet’s Could This Be Love? (Je Crois Que Je l’Aime), at 4:10 p.m., and Nora Hamidi’s Dolls and Angels (Des Poupées et des Anges), at 6 p.m.
The Boston French Film Festival, sponsored by the Cultural Services Office of the French Embassy, the French Library Alliance Française of Boston, and TV5 Monde, runs through July 27. Films are in French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted. For more information and ticket prices, click here.
Amy Laskowski can be reached at amlaskow@bu.edu.
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