“C’est Chic!” DC French Film Festival (10/23-11/01)

Mauvaise foi (Bad Faith)

Avalon Theatre: Sat. Oct. 27 @ 8:30PM

When Jewish Clara discovers that she is pregnant with her Muslim boyfriend’s baby, they realize that they are going to have do the unthinkable: meet each other’s families.

Jessica Jackson

Erin Conroy

Caramel
Avalon Theatre: Fri. Oct. 26 @ 6:30PM
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.Layal (Nadine Labaki) works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with 3 other women. Each one has a problem: Layal has a relationship with a married man, Nisrine (Yasmine Al Masri) who is no more a virgin, will soon be married, Rima (Joanna Moukarzel) is lesbian and Jamal (Gisèle Aouad) is worried about getting old. Rose (Sihame Haddad), a tailor with a shop next to the salon, is an old lady who devoted her life to take care of her older sister, have found her first love.

Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks)
Avalon Theatre: Sat. Oct. 27 @ 5:30PM
A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller. A serial killer has just escaped from a high-security prison! Huguette, a hairdresser in top Paris salon, is going to change their destiny.

Jessica Jackson

Erin Conroy

Les Fragments D'Antonin (Fragments of Antonin)
Avalon Theatre: Sun. Oct. 28 @ 5:30PM
Five names endlessly repeated. Five obsessive gestures. Five moments of war. Antonin has returned from the fighting without any visible signs of injury. But his wounds are of an intimate, internal nature, deeply buried. It’s 1919 and Professor Labrousse, a pioneer at treating soldiers suffering traumatic shock, develops a passionate interest in Antonin’s case. His new, controversial method involves making the patient relive the most intense moments of the war in order to free himself from them.

Erin Conroy

Alison Rudel

Emily Ericson

Lagerfeld Confidential
Avalon Theatre: Sun. Oct. 28 @8:00PM

A documentary about the legendary fashion icon.

Erin Conroy

Alison Rudel

Emily Ericson

Les chansons d'amour (Love Songs)
Avalon Theatre: Sun. Oct. 28 @ 3:15PM
“Love Songs“ chronicles the lives of Ismael and Julie, two young lovers looking to spice things up. They invite Ismael’s co-worker Alice to join their life and their bed, but before long, Julie dies from an embolism, leaving Ismael shocked and torn.

Le Pressentiment (Premonition)
Avalon Theatre: Sun. Oct. 28 @ 1:00PM
A Parisian lawyer (Darroussin) moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values. Charles Bénesteau breaks away from upper class society to which he belongs. He leaves his wife, family, and friends to live anonymously and alone in a working-class neighborhood of Paris. Here, his desire to be another man, to extricate himself from history, and to withdraw so as to become the person he’s dreamed of being clashes with new adventures.

Le prix à payer (The Price to Pay)
Avalon Theatre: Sat. Oct. 27 @ 1:00PM
A wealthy businessman takes advice from his chauffeur on how to put the spark back into his marriage. Jean-Pierre Ménard, a rich businessman, has everything he needs to be happy: a successful career, a beautiful wife, Odile, a sixteen-year-old daughter, a lovely apartment, and a fine car with chauffeur. He does, however, have one little problem: for several years now he and his wife have had separate bedrooms, and he feels alone, very alone. He decides to halt the money flow by establishing a new rule between them: “No sex, no cash!”

Les petites vacances (Stolen Holidays)
Avalon Theatre: Sat. Oct. 27 @ 3:00PM
Danielle, exemplary granny for whom the life seems to run out without the least problem, will rock quickly in an existential crisis. The opposition of its grand-daughter Navy, pre-teenager, will push Danielle in her last cuttings off through an alpine road movie.
Erin Conroy

Très bien merci (Very Well Thank You)
Avalon Theatre: Fri. Oct. 26 @ 9:00PM
NationalArtGallery (East Building Auditorium): Sun. Oct. 28 @ 4:30PM
Alex and his wife Beatrice live a peaceful life. When Alex runs into the police while they are arresting a young man, and gets arrested only because of his curiosity, his life begins to fall in pieces. He ends up jobless and in a psychiatric clinic... But the crazy ones are not the ones we would suspect.

Erin Conroy