Rendez-Vous with French Cinema!

O CINEMA Miami Shores @ the Miami Theater Center is proud to present Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film! Throughout the week, O Cinema will be screening a selection of films from the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema program contemporaneously with Film Society of Lincoln Center, IFC Center and BAM in New York City.French Cinema is as varied and vital as ever in 2013, and this year’s edition of Redez-Vous with French Cinema covers the cinematic spectrum, featuring new works from uncompromising auteurs like Damien Odoul and master filmmaker Patrice Leconte, as well as films featuring beloved French stars like Romain Duris and Charlotte Gainsbourg.All films are presented in French with English subtitles.Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Program:

Journal de France - Thu, March 28th @ 7pm

Raymond Depardon & Claudine Nougaret, 2012, France, 100mDepardon’s brilliant self-portrait (co-directed by his longtime collaborator and sound engineer Claudine Nougaret) takes a surprising point of view on the great documentarian’s life—not only as a filmmaker, but as a photographer of expressive precision, capturing the entirety of French society over the decades. The patience of this imagemaker’s practice is testament to an alternative to the hyper-fast, instant delivery of digital images that now dominates the culture.BUY TICKETS HERE!AUGUSTINE - Thu, March 28th @ 9pm

Post-screening Q&A with director Alice Wincour!Alice Winocour, 2012, France, 102mBased on a true case, writer-director Winocour has adapted the story of a progressive 19th century doctor/therapist and his unusual patient into a study of personal wills, hidden desires and reversals of fate. A maid who suffers from seizures is sent to a mental hospital, where it seems she’ll be condemned for life until Professor Charcot finds in her the possibilities of testing his advanced notions of the sources of so-called “hysteria.” Soko as Augustine and Vincent Lindon as Charcot deliver astonishing performances. A Music Box Films release.BUY TICKETS HERE!Rich Is The Wolf (La richesse du loup) - Fri, March 29th @ 7pm

Damien Odoul, 2012, France, 82mPerplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he’s recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues. Odoul’s most daring feature, whose color and black-and-white images are culled from his own videotaping, confirms his place as one of France’s genuinely exploratory filmmakers. Stars Marie-Eve Nadeau, Damien Odoul.BUY TICKETS HERE! You, Me and Us (Un enfant de toi) - Fri, March 29th @ 9pm

Jacques Doillon, 2012, France, 136mThe tentative nature of relationships is explored in dazzling, three-dimensional fashion in this cleverly written and directed roundelay between current and former lovers. Aya, the mother of a bright young daughter, struggles to come to terms with the end of her marriage, while hoping to have a child with her new lover. Stars Lou Doillon, Samuel Benchetrit, Malik Zidi, Olga Milshtein.BUY TICKETS HERE! Granny’s Funeral (Adieu Berthe: L’enterrement de mÉmÉ) - Sat, March 30th @ 7pm

Bruno Podalydès, 2012, France, 100mAlthough he made no effort to see his grandmother in her waning years, pharmacist Armand (director Podalydès’ brother and co-writer Denis) must now deal with her funeral arrangements. This is awkward enough, but nothing like his emotional swings between a wife he can’t quite part from and a lover he can’t quite commit to, in a comedy stamped with the Podalydès brand of caustic, Gallic wit. With Valérie Lemercier, Isabelle Candelier, Catherine Hiegel and Benoît Hamon.BUY TICKETS HERE! The Suicide Shop (Le Magasin Des Suicides) - Sat, March 30th @ 9pm

Patrice Leconte, 2012, France, 105mMaster filmmaker Leconte makes a startling and unforgettable departure from his previous work with this whimsical animated 3D musical about a family business offering certain special “end-of-life” services. Rather than succumbing to a purely mordant perspective, the movie switches course and mood, driven by the family’s perpetually happy child whom they can’t control. Based on the novel by Jean Teulé and with the voices of Bernard Alane, Isabelle Space, Kacey Mottet Klein, Isabelle Giami, Laurent Gendron.BUY TICKETS HERE!YOU WILL BE MY SON (TU SERAS MON FILS) - Sun, March 31st @ 7pm

Gilles Legrand, 2012, France, 102mInstead of grooming his son to inherit his lucrative wine-growing business, an imperious vintner (Niels Arestrup) looks to a talented California-based grower, rendering a harvest of jealousy and worse. Legrand’s narrative takes on Shakespearean qualities, driven by a titanic performance by Arestrup, while the film’s observations on the wine-growing business are thoroughly engrossing. A Cohen Media Group release.BUY TICKETS HERE!PERSECUTION - Sun, March 31st @ 9pm

Patrice Chéreau, 2009, France, 100minA brutally intimate close-up of the moment-to-moment dissolution of a love affair, this psychological drama stars Romain Duris as a brooding, bestubbled Parisian juggling a hot-and-cold relationship with a jet-setting careerist (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and the intrusions of a middle-aged male stalker who has claimed him as the love of his life. Fueled by emotionally charged dialogue and nervy, passionate performances, Persecution continues Chéreau’s masterful observation of human desire in all its intricacies and contradictions. With Jean-Hugues Anglade.BUY TICKETS HERE!Special Week Long Passes Available Below!Rendez-Vous w/ French Cinema: Vive le France Week Pass - General AdmissionRendez-Vous w/ French Cinema: Vive le France Week Pass - Senior / Student