Microbe and Gasoline by Michel Gondry

December 13 | 7:00 p.m
Embassy of France

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy presents the 2015 film Microbe and Gasoline by Michel Gondry.

In his most personal comedy, French director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) portrays the friendship between two male adolescents looking for adventure and freedom.

“If you’re my friend, you’re an independent spirit”, Theo tells Daniel, as the pair of outsiders travel the country. Mostly inspired by Michel Gondry‘s childhood, this film celebrating the power of imagination is also the story of an emancipation.

In French with English subtitles

Microbe and Gasoline will be followed by an End of the Year Reception.

Online registration is required for this free admission event.

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29th AFI European Union Film Showcase

December 1 - 18
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy announces the AFI European Union Film Showcase.
For its 29th year, the AFI European Union Film Showcase will screen 47 films, including five 2016 French co-productions. The festival features international film festival award winners and several U.S. premiers.

THINGS TO COME (L'AVENIR) by Mia Hansen-Løve
France/Germany

SAINT AMOUR by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
France/Belgium

FRANTZ by François Ozon
France/Germany

THE RED TURTLE (LA TORTUE ROUGE) by Michaël Dudok de Wit
Japan/France/Belgium

LOUISE BY THE SHORE (LOUISE EN HIVER) by Jean-François Laguionie
U.S. Premiere
France/Canada

All films are screened with English subtitles

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Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890 – 1950

October 8, 2016 - January 9, 2017
The Barnes Foundation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Cultural services of the French Embassy is pleased to announce the exhibition Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890 – 1950.

This first-ever photography exhibition at the Barnes Foundation includes over 170 photographs reflecting the spirit of France and especially Paris, at this period of profound transformation in the late 19th- to mid-20th century.

The work by masters such as Berenice Abbott, Eugène Atget, Ilse Bing, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edgar Degas, André Kertész, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Dora Maar, and Man Ray, are presented as part of the exhibition and resonate with the core of the institution, which holds an important collection of Post-Impressionist and early modern paintings.

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Book discussions

December 7 and 15
Alliance Française’s Library

The Alliance Française Washington, DC presents two lectures with French and American authors.

An Evening with Guy Sorman
December 7 | 7:00 pm
Author Guy Sorman presents his autobiographical novel, a collection of anecdotes of his experience straddling two countries – France and the US – after a clerical error leaves him country-less.

“The Némirovsky Question” – A Lecture with Susan Suleiman
December 15 | 7:00 pm
Award-winning author and Harvard professor of French civilization presents her latest book on Russian-French novelist Irène Némirovsky and issue of “foreigness” in 20th century France.

These events will be in English

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