#COLCOA New French Cinema at home ! * Premiered #COLCOA 2019 (North American Premiere): Coming soon in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the U.S. (05/29): "PAPICHA", a drama co-written and directed by Mounia Meddour, starring Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda, Zahra Doumandji. Official Selection Cannes IFF 2019 (Un Certain Regard), North American Premiere #COLCOA 2019. Official Algerian entry Best International Film Academy Awards 2020. Winner Best First Feature Film and Best Promising Actress (Lyna Khoudri). Available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the U.S. starting on May 5, 2020.
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* HOW TO WATCH THE FILM IN VIRTUAL CINEMA. Watch the film at home and support a US theatre during the lockdown. Click on http://www.distribfilmsus.com/our-movies/papicha-available-spring-2020/. Then click on "Virtual Cinema Booking". Select a cinema of your choice to buy ticket and watch the film.
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* Trailer: http://www.distribfilmsus.com/our-movies/papicha-available-spring-2020/
* More about COLCOA French Film Festival: www.colcoa.org
* More about new French Cinema in the U.S.: Like the COLCOA page on Facebook
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(Mounia Meddour‘s loosely-autobiographical debut feature literally bursts onto the screen with a superlative cast of charismatic newcomers led by gifted Lyna Khoudri (2017 Venice Film Fest Best Actress for Sofia Djama’s The Blessed). Set in Algiers during the “Black Decade” of the 1990s, Papicha follows Nedjima, an 18-year-old university student and feisty fashionista who refuses to let the Algerian Civil War strip away her personal freedoms… or tell her what to wear! But when Islamist insurgents amp up the violence, events turn tragic, and their extremist stranglehold tightens around her world, Nedjima revolts and launches a feminist revolution the only way she knows how — by putting on an emphatic, in-your-face fashion show.) ... See more

#COLCOA Cinema * Support U.S. movie theatres by watching a new French film at home ! * Now available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the U.S.: "THE PERFECT NANNY", a drama/thriller written and directed by Lucie Borleteau, based on Leïla Slimani's Best Seller, starring Karin Viard, Leïla Bekhti, Antoine Reinartz. A Distrib Films U.S. release. Now Available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the U.S.
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* HOW TO WATCH THE FILM IN VIRTUAL CINEMA. Watch the film at home and support a US movie theatre during the lockdown. Click on this page: http://www.distribfilmsus.com/our-movies/the-perfect-nanny-virtual-cinema/ . Click on "Virtual Cinema Bookings" and select the cinema you want to support.
* Trailer: http://www.distribfilmsus.com/our-movies/the-perfect-nanny-virtual-cinema/
* More about COLCOA French Film Festival: www.colcoa.org
* More about new French Cinema in the U.S.: Visit and like the COLCOA page on Facebook.
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(Myriam (Leïla Bekhti) and Paul (Antoine Reinartz), are your typical pair of Parisian bobos and parents of two young children, toddler Adam, and 5-year-old Mila, who are taking up all of Myriam’s time. When Myriam decides to go back to work despite her husband’s initial reluctancy, the couple starts looking for a nanny. After a very selective process, they finally find the perfect candidate, Louise (Karine Viard), a poised 40-year old woman who is an instant hit with both kids and parents. But appearances can be deceiving, even dangerous…
Adapted from the eponymous novel by Leïla Slimani, winner of the Goncourt prize, and based on a a true story that took place in Manhattan in 2012, the film offers a true pedestal to Karin Viard who seizes with formidable mastery this role of a disturbed nanny whose mask of perfection gradually cracks.) ... See more

R.I.P. Michel Piccoli (1925-2020). French Actor ("CONTEMPT", "BELLE DE JOUR", "LA BELLE NOISEUSE")

#COLCOA Cinema * Support U.S. movie theatres by watching a new French film at home ! * Now available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the U.S.: "ZOMBI CHILD", a drama/horror written and directed by Bertrand Bonello ("NOCTURAMA", "L'APPOLONIDE"", "SAINT-LAURENT"), starring Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Adilé David. Official Selection Cannes IFF 2019, Toronto IFF 2019, New York IFF 2019. A Film Movement release. Now Available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the U.S.
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* HOW TO WATCH THE FILM IN VIRTUAL CINEMA. Watch the film at home and support a US movie theatre during the lockdown. Click on a cinema of your choice on this page: https://filmmovement.com/zombi-child#playing.
* Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23pNPezU1RI
* More about COLCOA French Film Festival: www.colcoa.org
* More about new French Cinema in the U.S.: Visit and like the COLCOA page on Facebook.
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("The latest from French master Bertrand Bonello, "ZOMBI CHILD" is an “audacious & cunning” (Little White Lies) new take on classic horror tropes that “poses timely and provocative questions...a zombi drama that’s not undead but bracingly alive" (Screen Daily). Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.) ... See more

#COLCOA CINEMA * Coming soon to U.S. theatres (July 10) * Closing film COLCOA 2019 (U.S. Premiere): "LA BELLE EPOQUE", a drama, comedy written and directed by Nicolas Bedos ("MR & MRS ADELMAN" - Best Audience Award COLCOA 2017), starring Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Fanny Ardant, Doria Tillier. World Premiere Cannes IFF 2019, Official selection Toronto IFF and COLCOA 2019. Cesar Winner Best Original Script 2020. A 101 Studios release. Opening in select U.S. theatres on July 10. Check your local calendar and COLCOA page on Facebook for updates as release date may be postponed depending on movie theatres reopening.
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* Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i31Ry-PsG4
* Interview Doria Tillier @ COLCOA 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCtlgG0jAH0&t=205s
* More info: https://colcoa.org/cinema/colcoa-cinema/la-belle-epoque/
* More about COLCOA: www.colcoa.org
* More about about upcoming new French films and series in the U.S.: "Like" the COLCOA French Film Festival page on Facebook.
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(Nicolas Bedos’ ingenious, gleeful, thoroughly entertaining second feature is both a clever throwback to the uproarious French farce tradition and an intelligent meditation on our (perhaps more bewildering) age. The time-traveling romantic comedy — in which an inventive theatrical troupe meticulously orchestrates historical reenactments — is infused with wit and devoid of the slightest technological gimmickry. La Belle Époque instead relies on old-fashioned stagecraft, an enthusiastic suspension of disbelief, a couple of old pros at the top of their game (the superb Daniel Auteuil and Fanny Ardant), and the young whippersnappers who are pulling the strings (the bewitching Doria Tillier and Guillaume Canet). Literally taking off like a rocket from scene one, the highly ambitious screenplay delivers on every level and is a beautiful illustration of the various stages of life, the bliss that swells in our hearts as we take that first blind leap into the abyss, and how this crazy thing called love evolves over the course of a lifetime.)
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#COLCOA New French Cinema at home ! * Premiered #COLCOA 2019 (Mystery Closing Film): Now available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the US: "DEERSKIN", a dark comedy written and directed by Quentin Dupieux ("RUBBER", "WRONG", "REALITY", "KEEP AN EYE OUT"), starring Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy. Official Selection Director's Fortnight Cannes 2019, Toronto IFF 2019, Fantastic Festival in Austin, COLCOA 2019, AFI IFF 2019. A Greenwich Entertainment release. Now Available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the U.S.
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* HOW TO WATCH THE FILM IN VIRTUAL CINEMA. Watch the film at home and support a US theatre during the lockdown. Click on a cinema of your choice on this page: https://www.deerskinmovie.com/
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* Trailer: https://www.deerskinmovie.com/videos/
* More about COLCOA French Film Festival: www.colcoa.org
* More about new French Cinema in the U.S.: Like the COLCOA page on Facebook
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(In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) is a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. Set in a sleepy French alpine village, he falls into the guise of an independent filmmaker and befriends a trusting bartender and aspiring editor (Adèle Haenel, Portrait of a Lady on Fire) who becomes his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself.) ... See more

#COLCOA TELEVISION ** WATCH IT AT HOME IN THE U.S. ** Only on NETFLIX this Friday (05/15): "INHUMAN RESOURCES / Derapages" (Season 1), a series, thriller (6 x 52') written by Pierre Lemaitre and Perinne Margaine, directed by Ziad Doueri, starring Eric Cantona, Suzanne Clément, Alex Lutz, Gustave Kervern, Alice de Lencquesaing. Original Broadcasting in France: Arte, April 2020. Coming to the U.S. on NETFLIX, on May 15, 2020.
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* Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7V3nIl8rs
* More about COLCOA: www.colcoa.org
* More about upcoming French films and series in the U.S.: Like the COLCOA French Film Festival page on Facebook
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(Alain Delambre (Eric Cantona), unemployed and 57, is lured by an attractive job opening. But things get ugly when he realizes he is a pawn in a crual corporate game) ... See more

#COLCOA New French Cinema at home in the U.S. !* U.S. Premiere (Opening Film) #COLCOA 2019 * Now available on streaming in the U.S. (exclusively on Amazon Prime): "LES MISERABLES", a drama co-written and directed by Ladj Ly, starring Djebril Zonga, Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti. Winner Jury's Prize (Cannes IFF 2019), D'Ornano Prize (Deauville 2019), Best First Feature @ COLCOA 2019. Golden Globe nomination Best Foreign Film 2020, Academy Award nomination Best International Film 2020. Winner 3 Cesars 2020: Best Picture, Best Male Newcomer, Best Editing. An Amazon Studios original film. In U.S. theatres since January 10. Now available on Amazon Prime in the U.S.
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* Official U.S.Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFfdlLW9Rwg
* Interviews @ COLCOA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hmKxwtB-kw
* More info: https://colcoa.org/cinema/colcoa-cinema/les-miserables/
* More about COLCOA: www.colcoa.org
* More about French Cinema in the US: Like us the COLCOA French Film Festival page on Facebook.
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(Victor Hugo’s magnum opus is both lionized and shaken up in Ladj Ly’s sprawling fresco of his native Montfermeil — a collection of housing projects crawling with sleazy cops, small-time hoods, the Muslim Brotherhood, and a ragtag group of kids left to fend for themselves… all jockeying for turf and struggling to forestall the inevitable. Majestic, stirring, gripping and compassionate, with a musical score that is, at once, moving and thrilling, the film follows an upright cop on his first day on the job, as he learns the ropes and struggles to hold onto his principles. It opens with a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise and a joyous eruption of fraternité, and concludes with a resounding eleventh-hour alarm and powerful plea to diffuse the tinderbox and somehow resolve all this (justified) anger and violence. Because the revolution is ever at hand! ... See more

#COLCOA New French Cinema at home !* North American Premiere #COLCOA 2019: Now available in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the US: "SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE", a comedy/drama written and directed by Cédric Klapisch ("L'AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE/ RUSSIAN DOLLS / CHINESE PUZZLE" trilogy), starring François Civil , Ana Girardot, Eye Haïdara, Pierre Ninet, Camille Cottin, François Berléand. A Distrib Film release. Available in VIRTUAL CINEMA since April 24.
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* HOW TO WATCH THE FILM IN VIRTUAL CINEMA. Watch the film at home and support a US theatre during the lockdown. Click on a cinema of your choice on this page: http://www.distribfilmsus.com/our-movies/someone-somewhere-opening-spring-2020/
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* Trailer: http://www.distribfilmsus.com/our-movies/someone-somewhere-opening-spring-2020/
* More info: https://archive.colcoa.org/colcoa/2019/cinema/colcoa-cinema/someone-somewhere/index.html
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(Director Cédric Klapisch takes a major turn in an already booming career with his inventive, delicate, astonishingly moving new film, Someone, Somewhere. The notion that it takes two clear-eyed, self-aware souls, who have healed their own wounds and attained a certain measure of self-love before they can ever hope of finding a requited relationship is not a new concept. Yet it’s one that is sorely absent from what we have come to expect from the romance genre. With nary a cutesy cliché nor romantic projection in sight, this love-story-that’s-not-a-love-story is, rather, a wholly refreshing take on that leap into the abyss that is the indomitable human pursuit of true love. Rising star François Civil displays the deft comic timing of a young Cary Grant and Ana Girardot brings a poignant, fresh-faced vulnerability to the ultimate girl-next-door role. Both give nuanced, heartfelt performances in this sweet, very funny, beautifully photographed, buoyant film… which even manages to squeeze in a little valentine to Dr. Freud!) ... See more

#COLCOA New French Cinema at home !* North American Premiere #COLCOA 2019: Opening tomorrow (05/08) in VIRTUAL CINEMA in the US: "ON A MAGICAL NIGHT", a comedy/drama written and directed by Christophe Honore, starring Chiara Mastroianni, Vincent Lacoste, Benjamin Biolay, Camille Cottin, Carole Bouquet. Official selection Cannes IFF (Best Actress Winner Un Certain Regard - Chiara Mastroinni). A Strand Releasing film.
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* HOW TO WATCH THE FILM IN VIRTUAL CINEMA, starting May 8: watch the film at home and support a US theatre during the lockdown. Click on a link of your choice on this page: https://strandreleasing.com/films/on-a-magical-night/
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* Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB-guPG0X2w * More info: https://archive.colcoa.org/colcoa/2019/cinema/colcoa-cinema/magical-night/index.html
* Actor Vincent Lacoste at COLCOA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=392bS0Zf_5c
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(Chiara Mastrioanni won the Best Actress Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her delicious star turn in Christophe Honoré’s quirky, song-laden, fantasy-drenched romantic farce, On a Magical Night. (Think A Midsummer Night’s Dream meets Scenes From a Marriage.) Mastrioanni is surrounded by a delightful cast of somewhat unexpected characters, beautifully brought to life by the likes of Camille Cottin, Vincent Lacoste, and a wonderfully wise Carole Bouquet. The plot is triggered by a sudden marital crisis (and quite a bit of genre-appropriate bed-hopping), and takes place over the course of one life-changing night in Paris. Yet, under its frothy surface, the film is actually a kind of deconstructed love story, in which the dreams of youth are held in sharp contrast to the world-weariness of middle age. But maybe the key to happiness lies somewhere in between… As Barry Manilow ponders, “Could this be the magic, at last?”) ... See more