LOUIS GARREL — THE INNOCENT
For Louis Garrel, “real” memories and cinema memories form a narrative weave and the basis of his work as a director. When he was five years old he walked in on his mother in bed with a man who wasn't
OLIVIER PEYON — LIE WITH ME
Given the biases and elisions of memory, perhaps it's just as well that Philippe Besson’s almost-memoir “Arrête avec tes mensonges” carries the description "novel" on its cover. Published in English as “Lie With Me”—three words that add an extra layer
RODEO — LOLA QUIVORON AND ANTONIA BURESI IN CONVERSATION
This week, Lola Quivoron brings her Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize winner RODEO—her feature follow-up to the bike culture doc Dreaming of Baltimore—to The American French Film Festival for its Los Angeles premiere. Join the writer-director and her co-writer
THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL — THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE RESTORATION
A durational examination of the weight of history on the private lives of three Parisians, post-’68, Jean Eustache's 1973 drama THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE stars Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Lebrun, and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the latter playing an ideological stand-in for