Evenings with French Filmmakers:
Claude Miller and Patrice Chéreau
October 24 and 31, 2003
This fall, Unifrance and the
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs are inaugurating a series of
master classes with French filmmakers
at
eight American universities, and MoMA’s Department of Film
and Media is hosting special public screenings. On October 24, MoMA
presents
the New York premiere of Claude Miller’s La Petite Lili (2003),
followed by an onstage conversation between the director and Siri
Hustvedt, author of the recent novel What I Loved (2003).
On October 31, we honor the actor-writer-director Patrice Chéreau,
Chair of this year’s Cannes Film Festival jury, who will present
his acclaimed 1998 film Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train,
followed by an onstage conversation with the novelist and filmmaker
Paul Auster.
Organized
by Joshua Siegel and Florence Charmasson, Unifrance, Paris. Special
thanks to Catherine Verret-Vimont, Unifrance/French Film
Office, New York; Marie
Bonnel, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York; Antoine Khalife,
Unifrance, Paris; and Jay Anania. 
. 2003. France. Directed
by Claude Miller. Screenplay by Miller and Julien Boivent. With
Ludivine Sagnier, Nicole Garcia, Robinson Stevenin.
Miller renders the whole of human emotion—familial love and bitterness,
fragility, hope, regret—in this astute interpretation of Chekhov’s
The Seagull. In French, English subtitles. 104 min.
.
1998. France. Directed by Patrice Chéreau. Screenplay
by Chéreau,
Danièle Thompson, Pierre Trividic. With Pascal Greggory, Valeria Bruni
Tedeschi, Jean-Louis Trintignant. The friends and lovers of a bisexual painter
are thrown together on a train bound for his funeral. Chéreau’s
most personal, elegiac, and mischievous film to date. Courtesy Kino International,
New York. 120 min.
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