Rendezvous With French Cinema starts this week

The annual excellent Rendezvous With French Cinema starts this week and it’s time for you to get excited.

Covering a wide swath of films from France it is a place to discover a number of films you’ll be thinking about at years end. For me the one I’m going to remember if the opening night film THE ANIMAL KINGDOM which has a couple of sit bolt upright moments that force you to wonder what in the hell you are watching in a good way.

I love this fest and it’s here that I discovered so may films and performers that I never knew existed. Last year Virginie Efira was in two films that haunted me all year long. This year she’s in at least two more that I know of, one of which ALL TO PLAY FOR is deeply moving family drama.

Normally I wade in and see a ton of films before hand but my life didn’t allow me to do that this year, so I will be wading into the in personal screenings (If you see me and my monster bag stop by and say hi). Right now I’ve seen 8 films and I’m going to be seeing a few more assuming the planets stay aligned.

Do yourself a favor and get some tickets. I’ve liked everything I’ve seen, though some is better than others, so I can’t tell you not to see anything.

The slate and tickets can be found here, so take a look and buy some tickets and go.