"The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the 22 films -- both old and new -- that will be screened as part of Film Comment magazine's Film Comment Selects festival on Feb. 17-27. Seventeen of the films will be premiering in New York for the first time. This year also marks the 14th year that the festival has taken place".
CHERCHEZ HORTENSE (2012) 100 min Director: Pascal Bonitzer, Country: France Jean-Pierre Bacri and Kristin Scott Thomas together at last—enough said? Another of the pleasing, underrated comedy-dramas of frequent Rivette and Ruiz screenplay collaborator and ex–Cahiers du cinéma critic Pascal Bonitzer. Bacri is a conflicted and ineffectual academic who reluctantly agrees to ask his father, a senior judge, to pull some strings on behalf of a Polish woman facing deportation—a task that fills him with horror since his relationship with his father is, you know,complicated. His marriage to a celebrated stage director (Scott Thomas) is on the skids, his teenage son is going through growing pains, a cranky old friend (Jackie Berroyer) is suicidal, and amidst all this he’s befriended by Aurore (Isabelle Carré), a girl half his age. Full of delightful moments and wry observations, this is an old-school relationship movie in which a self-involved member of the Parisian cultural elite comes to see how the other half lives, and it’s more than carried by Bacri, one of the best actors in contemporary French cinema. Tuesday, February 18 at 6:30PM Tuesday, February 25 at 4:45PM To read all the selection click here
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