Tehran to host French film week

The cinematheque of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has been scheduled to play host to a six-day program of ‘French Film Week’.

Starting today, the program will screen ‘Zero for Conduct’, a 1933 French classic directed by Jean Vigo.

‘Naked Childhood’ directed by Maurice Pialat in 1968, ‘The 400 Blows’ directed by Francois Truffaut in 1959, and ‘Mouchette’ directed by Robert Bresson in1967 are some of the movies that have a retrospective look at French cinema.

‘Jacquot de Nantes’ directed by Agnes Varda in 1991, ‘Chocolate’ directed by Claire Denis in 1988, and ‘To Be and to Have’ directed by Nicolas Philibert in 2002 are also in the lineup.

French critic, historian of cinema and former chief editor of Cahiers du Cinemas Jean-Michel Frodon will review the flicks after the screening sessions.

Since the films’ plots are mostly about children, the organizers of the program have planned to make a comparison between French cinema and Iranian films by screening the films along with ‘Where Is the Friend’s Home’ directed by late celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

The cinematheque held the first edition of French cinema week in April 2016, where Frodon selected and reviewed the movies and was highly welcomed by the Iranian audience.

The second edition of the program, to be held in cooperation with the Embassy of France in Iran, is slated for April 26 to May 1.

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