13th New French Cinema Review

Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street
tickets: 16/18 PLN per movie, available at the Forum cinema’s box office (5 Legionowa Street), Ludwik Zamenhof Centre’s box office (19 Warszawska Street) and on bilety.bok.bialystok.pl

Screening schedule:

June 10
16:00 Notre Dame on Fire
NOTRE DAME ON FIRE offers a blow-by-blow recreation of the gripping events that took place on April 15, 2019, when the cathedral suffered the biggest blaze in its history. The film retraces how heroic men and women put their lives on the line to accomplish an awe-inspiring rescue.
20:15 Lost Illusions
Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist.

June 11
13:45 Cesar and Rosalie
Cesar is in love with Rosalie. But Rosalie isn’t making it easy for him, especially when her old flame enters the picture.
16:00 Paris, 13th District
Paris, 13th District today. Emilie meets Camille, who is attracted to Nora, who crosses the path of Amber. Three girls and a boy redefine what modern love is. Palme d’or winner Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bones, Dheepan) is back with an adaptation of the graphic novel Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine, a modern tale of love and friendship, co-written with Léa Mysius and Céline Sciamma and filmed in a sumptuous black and white.
20:30 Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
Claude and Marie Verneuil will soon be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. For the occasion, their four daughters – Isabelle, Odile, Ségolène and Laure – decide to organize a big surprise party in their family home in Chinon. They also decide to invite, each, the parents of their respective husbands – Rachid Benassem, David Benichou, Chao Ling and Charles Koffi.

June 12
14:00 Poly
When a 10-year-old girl discovers that Poly, the star pony of a circus, is mistreated, she decides to help organize his escape.
16:15 The Braves
Two young and carefree aspiring actresses chase their theater dreams in the streets of Paris until sudden hardship threatens their plans and tests their sisterhood.
20:30 Happening
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.

June 13
18:30 A Bookshop in Paris
Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her a few years earlier. One day Yolande, an exuberant, eccentric, funny and beautiful girl, bursts into Vincenzo’s shop. Charmed by her vital energy, the man starts feeling again emotions he’s been chocking-off for too long, and which will make him question his melancholic and somehow suspended way of facing life.

June 14
18:15 Madeleine Collins
Judith leads a double life: two lovers, two sons in France and one daughter in Switzerland. Entangled in secrets and lies, her lives begin to shatter.

June 15
18:00 The Passengers of the Night
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home. With them, Talulah experiences the warmth of a family for the first time. Although she suddenly disappears, her free spirit has a lasting influence. Elisabeth and her children grow in confidence and begin to take risks, changing the trajectory of their lives.

June 16
18:30 French Tech
Alexandre is unemployed and his bank account has been frozen. His wife is on a two-month top secret nuclear submarine mission. While she’s away, he has to prove that he can take care of the children and find a job. Following a surreal interview, he is hired at The Box on a trial basis – and thus Alexandre enters the 24-7 world of a greenwashed start-up with a strict no-child policy. He meets Arcimboldo, who juggles different jobs and apps and offers to look after the kids in exchange for accommodation. Between Alexandre’s killer colleague Severine, incessant conference calls and endless team building sessions, keeping his secret is no easy challenge.