BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave
718.636.4100
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Modern Life
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Apr 16, 2009 – Apr 28, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$11
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Michel Ciment, editor of French film journal Positif and member of the Prix Louis Delluc Jury, introduces several screenings, starting with the opening night film, Modern Life.
Prix Louis Delluc winners are an illustrious bunch, indeed. In 1950, the ascetic splendor of Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest swayed the jury; three years later, they found that certain je-ne-sais-quoi in the sly, elegant slapstick of Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday; and, come 1970, their tastes shifted to the cerebral eroticism of Eric Rohmer's penultimate Moral Tale, Claire's Knee. For two weeks, BAM rolls out the tricolor carpet to welcome a dozen recent and ancient honorees. The selections include Abdel Kechiche's naturalistic knockout, The Secret of the Grain (2007), Jacques Becker's spirited antecedent to the Nouvelle Vague, Rendezvous in July (1949), and the premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Raymond Depardon's sign-off to his pastoral trilogy, Modern Life.
