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Alliance Française of Greenwich Focus on French Cinema / French Cinémathèque Series @ The Avon
October 11, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:45 pm
One Tuesday each month, the Alliance Française of Greenwich Focus on French Cinema hosts the French Cinémathèque Series at The Avon Theatre, Stamford.
Cost: Members: $7, Non-members: $12, Students: $9
This week’s film is: DON’T TELL ME THE BOY WAS MAD (2015), directed by
Robert Guédiguian.
Paris, 1981. Aram, a young man of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish Ambassador’s car seriously injuring Gilles, who just happens to have been passing by on his bicycle. Aram flees to Beirut to join the Armenian Liberation Army. His mother, Anouch, visits Gilles in hospital to ask for forgiveness for her son, but Gilles wants to meet his executioner face to face. With revenge in mind he heads to Marseille to confront Aram’s family and finds himself welcomed into their home for a prolonged stay. In Beirut Aram clashes with his comrades until the day when he decides to meet his victim in order to make him his spokesman.
LANGUAGE: French and Armenian with subtitles
RATING: NR RUNNING TIME: 134 minutes
Film starts at 7:30 PM, with a pre-film wine and cheese reception at 7:00pm.
