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Experience the diversity and richness of European cinema through the European Film Series, a curated selection of critically acclaimed films from across the continent. The series will run from December 30th to January 22nd, offering an exciting range of films from both established filmmakers and emerging voices. The classic films will feature introductions by LSU Ph.D. student Mark Hue.
Monday, Dec. 30th, 2024 @7:30 PM - BIRD (U.K.)
Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
Friday, Jan. 3rd, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - VERMIGLIO (Italy)
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.The film premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. It was designated as the Italian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.
Sunday, Jan. 5th, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - THE 400 BLOWS (France)
François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told from the point of view of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. The film marked Truffaut’s passage from leading critic to trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.
Tuesday, Jan. 7th, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - LA HAINE (France)
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.
Wednesday, Jan. 8th, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - FLOW (Latvia, Blegium)
The dialogue-free, 3DCG animated feature "Flow," from Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis, is bookended by animal characters seeing themselves in the mirror-like reflectiveness of a puddle of water. These images brim with profound gravitas, even for a movie whose fundamental concept is communicating in purely cinematic terms. The journey that separates the two pensive scenes is the sea between individualism and community. The cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.
Wednesday, Jan. 22nd, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - QUEER (Italy)
In 1950s Mexico City, an American ex-pat in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.
Visit the LSU Museum of Art for their Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer: The Marvel of Old Masters exhibit!
Manship Theatre does not authorize third party ticket sellers. Any ticket purchased outside the Manship Theatre Website may not be valid. All patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket to attend performances. Please carefully consider whether a performance is appropriate for children before planning to attend.
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