Instead of focusing exclusively on New Wave films, which have been revived so many times, The French Way begins in the 1930 s with acclaimed work by Jean Vigo and Jean Renior. The series then moves to the unjustly overlooked postwar period, where masters like Max Ophuls and Henri-Georges Clouzot made their most significant films, including La Ronde and The Wages of Fear . The French Way continues through the 1980s and 1990s, when French cinema became a shifting galaxy of auteurs of every age, from Bertrand Tavernier, to the 25-year olds, to the many New Wave survivors.
All films are in French with English subtitles.
This series was made possible thanks to the invaluable assistance of Mohamed Bendjebbour and Francois Truffart of the Consulate General de France. All My Loved Ones is the disturbing, tragic, yet beautiful story of an extended Jewish family in 1938 Czechoslovakia whose stubborn faith in humanity prevents them from foreseeing the horrible reality of the Nazi threat. This film sold out every showing at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. In order to give you the opportunity to see this remarkable work, MoPA will hold four screenings. Presented in association with the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture.