Institut Français Cinéma is making your stay-at-home more pleasurable by streaming four movies selected for the Cannes Film Festival under the category "Un Certain Regard", free of charge, until June 11.
As a foretaste of the festival, which has been postponed to July, the "IFcinéma A La Carte" programme is allowing anyone to watch four French films, which come with French and English subtitles, free of charge. The line-up includes:
Bird People (2014) directed by Pascale Ferran. The story revolves around a computer engineer from Silicon Valley with professional and emotional pressures who decides to radically change the direction of his life and a young hotel maid who finds her existence turned upside down by a supernatural event.
Run (2014), a French-Ivorian film directed by Philippe Lacôte. Featuring a fictionalised account of the 2011 post-election upheaval in the Ivory Coast that saw 3,000 people killed. The movie was also selected as the Ivorian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards and received 12 nominations at the 11th Africa Movie Academy Awards.
The Workshop (2017) by Laurent Cantet is about a famous Parisian novelist who runs a writing workshop with a group of young people and becomes intrigued by Antoine, a taciturn and not very sociable young man.
Barbara (2017) by Mathieu Amalric. It tells the story of an actress who prepares to portray the famous French singer Barbara. She carefully studies the character, gestures, manners and intonations and gradually merges with the character. So does the film director.
Bird People.
Barbara. (Photos courtesy of Institut Français Cinéma)
