Tuesday, April 10, 2018 From 6:00 PM To 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 2018-04-10 18:00:00 2018-04-10 20:00:00 May '68 Film Festival: Milou en mai (May Fools) Join us for a special screening of the film Milou en mai as part the May '68 Film Festival in partnership with Northeastern University and Harvard University. Watch as an eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother. The French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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About the Film
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy
Praise
The film was nominated 7 times and won 2 awards, including a César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dominique Blanc.About the Director
Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Paris. His résumé showed that he had worked as an assistant to film maker Robert Bresson when Malle was hired by underwater explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau to be a camera operator on the Calypso. Cousteau soon promoted him to be co-director of The Silent World (1956). Years later, Cousteau called Malle the best underwater cameraman he ever had. Malle's third film, The Lovers (1958), starring Jeanne Moreau broke taboos against on screen eroticism. In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the obscenity conviction of an Ohio theater that had exhibited "Les Amants." A director during the "Nouvelle Vague, New Wave" of 1950s and 1960s (though technically not considered a Nouvelle Vague auteur), he also made films on the other side of the Atlantic, starting with Pretty Baby (1978), the film that made Brooke Shields an international superstar. The actress who played a supporting role in that film was given a starring role in Malle's next American film, Atlantic City (1980). That promising actress was Susan Sarandon.Above: ©Pyramide Distribution
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