October 2014 - Alliance Française of Greenwich

October 2014
Lundi
Mardi
Mercredi
Jeudi
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EDUCATION
LA TABLE FRANCAISE
Fall Session
Starts Sept. 8
Brush-up Basics
Le Penguin
Every Wednesday!
1pm - 2:30pm
Details by email
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CAUSERIES
Pourquoi ils aiment la
France
13h30
Bibliotheque de Cos Cob
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Dimanche
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CAFÉ
FRANCO-AMÉRICAIN
9:30 - 12:30pm
rsvp: [email protected]
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PROUST GROUP
5-7pm | Byram Library
MUSIC & READING
Antoine de St Exupery
7pm Byram Library
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CONFERENCE
La guerre de 14-18
1.30pm
Round Hill Com.Church
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REED LECTURE
CONVERSATION
1:30pm | Byram Library
INTERNATIONAL
BOOK CLUB
Detail in Newsletter
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CINE-CRITIQUE
CAFÉ
FRANCO-AMÉRICAIN
FRENCH
CINEMATHEQUE
9:30 - 12:30pm
Details on p. 2 & emails.
Details en page 2
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Samedi
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EDUCATION
Register now!
Vendredi
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CLUB DE LECTURE
La Chute de L’Empire
Romain
13h30
Cos Cob Library
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rsvp: [email protected]
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CINE-CLUB
EDUCATION
Immersion Day
Chicken with Plums
Poulet aux Prunes
La Bretagne
RSVP: 203.629.1340
[email protected]
7pm | Byram Library
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CAFÉ
FRANCO-AMÉRICAIN
9:30 - 12:30pm
rsvp: [email protected]
Conférences & Conversations
Littérature
Cinéma
Cuisine & Discussion
Musique
Evenements
Education
EVENT
Thursday, Oct. 9 | 7pm
PROUST GROUP
CON FER ENC E
Thursday, Oct. 9 | 5-7pm | Byram Shubert Library
T ue. Oc tob er 14 | 1.3 0pm
In this month reading, the narrator describes the dinner parties at the Guermantes house. The narrator realizes that the
society he fantasized about is not what he thought it was.
“In the period that followed I was continually to be invited,
were it with a small party only, to these repasts at which I
had at one time imagined the guests as seated like the Apostles in the
Sainte-Chapelle. They did assemble there indeed, like the early Christians, not to partake merely of a material nourishment, which incidentally
was exquisite, but in a sort of social Eucharist”
FRENCH
CINEMATHEQUE
Thurs. Oct. 16 7:30pm
Venus in fur
Children & families welcome!
The latest movie from master filmmaker Roman Polanski. Alone in
a Paris theater after a long day of auditioning actresses for his
new play, writer-director Thomas (Mathieu Amharic) complains
that no actress he's seen has what it takes to play the lead female
character: a woman who enters into an agreement with her male
counterpart to dominate him as her slave. Thomas is about to
leave the theater when actress Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner)
bursts in, a whirlwind of erratic - and, it turns out, erotic - energy
Byram Shubert Library
Avon Theatre - 272 Bedford St, Stamford
CLUB DE LECTURE
Mercredi 22 octobre | 13h30
Le dernier livre de Max Gallo,
membre de l’Académie Française,
publié cette année.
En 446, Galla Placida, mère
d’empereur, est persuadée que
l’empire romain est immortel.
Mais une horde de barbares s’apprête à déferler. Attila, le redoutable roi des Huns, est à leur tête…
Byram Shubert Library
CINE-CRITIQUE
Thursday, October 16 | 1pm
The Chambermaid on the Titanic
En 1912 Horty remporte la course annuelle
qu’organise le patron de sa fonderie. Il gagne un
voyage à Southampton pour voir appareiller le
“Titanic”. En Angleterre ii rencontre Marie qui doit
embarquer le lendemain comme femme de
chambre sur le paquebot. Elle n’a pas d’endroit
ou dormir. Il lui cède son lit. ou elle lui fait vite
une place a son coté. Au matin, Horty se réveille
seul tandis que le Titanic s’éloigne…
Cos Cob Library
La guerre de 14-18
Littérature, mémoire et histoire
La Guerre de 14-18, qui a fauché au moins 560 écrivains
combattants parmi ses millions de morts, -- les noms sont
gravés sur les pierres du Panthéon à Paris -- nous a légué
une littérature énorme : poésies, romans, pièces de théâtre,
cinéma, témoignages, lettres, et mémoires. Notre conférence en évoquera un apercu, à travers quelques textes de
Guillaume Apollinaire, Émile Chartier connu sous le nom
d’Alain, Colette, André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard, Jean
Norton Cru, Marcel Proust, Jules Romains et bien d’autres.
Jeanine Parisier Plottel, PhD (Columbia
University) is a professor emeritus of
French, CUNY Hunter College and the
Chair of the Executive Committee of the
Maison Française at Columbia. The
French government has decorated her
twice for her contribution to French language, literature and culture.
(see more in our newsletter!)
Round Hill Community Church
EDUCATION
Fall Session
Adults - Teens - Kids - Playschool
Classes / Tutoring
All Levels
from Total Beginner
to Advanced & Bilingual
Native Teachers
[email protected]
203.629.1340
Please note: All movies are in French with English subtitles. Activities described in English are held in English and vice-versa with French.