COLCOA CLOSING DAY
COLCOA 2014 will close on Monday April 28th with a Free Program starting at 2:00 pm and ending with the special evening presentation of two exclusive French films presented out of competition, as well as the announcement of the 2014 COLCOA Awards winners.
The two festival closing films will be announced the day of the opening (April 21) on site, as well as Facebook, Twitter, colcoa.org and the COLCOA info line: (310) 289 5346.
All closing day screenings will be FREE with no reservation required on a first come, first served basis, depending availability.
Choose one of our two restored COLCOA Classics to start your day. Stay for the rerun of two of the 2014 COLCOA Awards winners at 5:30 pm and celebrate the end of the festival with one of the two exclusive closing films starting at 7:45 pm
RENOIR THEATER – 2:00 pm
QUEEN MARGOT (La Reine Margot – 1994)
West Coast Premiere • Digitally Restored Version • Director’s Cut
Homage to Patrice Chéreau
Sister of King Charles IX, Margot is young, beautiful, and Catholic. She is to be sacrificed on the altar - the wedding altar - to the coarse, petulant, and Protestant Henri, King of Navarre. The marriage has been arranged to help end the interminable religious wars that plagued 16th century France. Disgusted by Henri, Margot seeks solace in the form of love from someone well outside a court infested with intrigues, betrayals, and royal poisoners. But as Protestant aristocrats pack the city to attend the wedding, an assassination attempt triggers a bloody chain of events that will lead to wholesale slaughter. Sprawling, savage, fearless, sensual, and ingenious, this restless retelling of a grisly chapter in French history is stacked with career-defining performances, including Isabelle Adjani’s insatiable yet vulnerable Margot, and Virna Lisi’s rapacious and unrepentant Catherine de’ Medici. COLCOA is pleased to present this digitally restored director’s cut of Queen Margot to honor one of France’s most acclaimed filmmakers, Patrice Chéreau, who passed in October, 2013.
TRUFFAUT THEATER – 3:30 pm
THE MURDERER LIVES AT NUMBER 21 (L’Assassin habite au 21 - 1942)
International Premiere • Digitally Restored Version
Inspector Wens is hunting down a serial killer calling himself Mr. Durand. The trail leads him to 2l, rue Junot, the address of a shabby boarding house that an assortment of misfits and oddballs call home. The trail also leads him to Mila, an aspiring starlet who hopes that the publicity she gets by cracking the case will give her acting career a jumpstart. Working undercover, they try to root out the killer, but their initial suspicions soon give way to wilder speculations. Part Agatha Christie mystery, part screwball comedy, this wartime classic also has an enjoyably sinister undercurrent that captures the pervasive paranoia and dread that was in the air during the German Occupation. Here is your chance to see the first bow from the French grandmaster of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot, restored to its full original glory.
RENOIR THEATER – 5:30 pm
AWARD SCREENING 1
(Film announced on Sunday April 27)
TRUFFAUT THEATER – 5:30 pm
AWARD SCREENING 2
(Film announced on Sunday April 27)
RENOIR THEATER – 7:45 pm
2014 CLOSING FILM
North American Premiere
Dramatic comedy
Directed by Pierre Salvadori
Co-written by: David Léotard, Pierre Salvador
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gustave de Kevern
TRUFFAUT THEATER – 7:45 pm
2014 CLOSING FILM
North American Premiere
Thriller, Action
Directed by Fred Cavayé
Co-written by: Fred Cavayé
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Gilles Lellouche
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