California Lutheran University will hold its fifth annual French film festival, a series of free screenings, from Sept. 7 through 30.
The Tournées Festival: French Films on the CLU Campus will feature five movies, which will all start at 7:15 p.m. in Preus-Brandt Forum. They explore the themes of integrity, compassion and diversity. All films are subtitled in English.
In this 2007 film directed by Claude Lelouch, “Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks),” a successful crime novelist is in search of inspiration. A notorious serial killer escapes from prison. A professor disappears. A hairdresser finds herself abandoned on the side of a road by her fiancé, and a passer-by offers to help her. Is there anything to link these apparently unconnected events?
Presented by the French program in CLU’s Department of Languages and Cultures, the free festival is made possible with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation and highbrow entertainment.
Preus-Brandt Forum is located south of Olsen Road between Mountclef Boulevard and Campus Drive. For more information, contact Karen Renick of the French Department at renick@callutheran.edu or go to http://www.callutheran.edu.
