- Pendant le film: notez scrupuleusement tous les détails en rapport avec les thèmes abordés dans ce cours.
- Après le film:
- Rédigez une synthèse personnelle d'une à deux pages (double interligne) sur:
- les questions soulevées par le film.
- ce qui vous a le plus intéressé/e
- Les rapports entre ce film et certains documents étudiés en classe.
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FILMS
FILMS
(disponibles au centre Avery Fisher de Bobst)
NB: la liste des films n'est pas exhaustive, et je suis ouvert à toute suggestion.
- Le nom des Gens/The Names of Love (Michel Leclerc, 2010)
- A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.
- Parlez moi de la Pluie/Let it Rain (Agnes Jaoui, 2008)
- Agnès Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother's belongings. While she's there, the son (Jamel Debbouze as Karim) of family maid (Mimouna Hadji) takes advantage of her presence and attempts to interview her as part of a documentary about successful women that he's undertaken with his film school teacher, Michel (co-writer Jean-Pierre Bacri). However, Michel's intentions aren't quite what they seem, as he's having an affair with Florence and hoping to persuade her to leave her husband. Meanwhile, Karim finds his own marriage threatened when his attractive hotel co-worker (Florence Loiret-Caille) declares an interest in him.
- Inch Allah Dimanche (Yamina Benguigui, 2001)
- The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
- La grande illusion/Grand illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
- During World War I, three captured French pilots have an uneasy relationship with their German commandant.
- Mon Oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais, 1980)
- Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
- L’emploi du temps/Time out (Laurent Cantet, 2002)
- Businessman Vincent is leading a double life. He was fired from his job and constructed an elaborate fantasy of employment that has become his full-time occupation. Vincent must decide which of his lives is more important.
- Les visiteurs/The Visitors (Jean-Marie Poiré, 1993)
- A wacky medieval knight and his faithful servant are suddenly transported into the present day. They begin an all-out comic assault on their former castle, now a luxury hotel, in their quest to return to the past.
- L'esquive/Games of Love and Chance (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2004):
- Abdelkrim (Osman Elkharraz), dit Krimo, quinze ans, vit dans une cité HLM de la banlieue parisienne. Il partage avec sa mère, employée dans un supermarché, et son père, en prison, un grand rêve fragile : partir sur un voilier au bout du monde. En attendant, il traîne son ennui dans un quotidien banal de cité, en compagnie de son meilleur ami, Eric, et de leur bande de copains. C'est le printemps et Krimo tombe sous le charme de sa copine de classe Lydia (Sara Forestier), une pipelette vive et malicieuse...
- Ressources Humaines/Human Resources (Laurent Cantet, 1999)
- The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.
