The Springfield Free Public Library is hosting The International Film Festival with POTICHE (France, 2010). The showing of this film will take place at 12:00pm and 7:00pm. Catherine Deneuve plays Suzanne, a trophy wife (or "potiche") who steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband (Fabrice Luchini) after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone's surprise, she proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action, but when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. Gerard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne's ex-beau who still holds a flame for her. In French with English subtitles and rated R. This film is 103 minutes. Funding for the film is made possible in part by the NJ State Council on the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs and by the Friends of the Springfield Public Library. All programs are free and open to the public. Assistive listening devices are available upon request. Please see our web site for additional information: www.sfplnj.org or call 973-376-4930. All are welcome.
