The 22 Annual Festival of French and Francophone cinema is back, exploring how movies tell us stories from epic to profoundly personal, bittersweet comedy to Greek tragedy. This year we have an exciting line-up of nine films, ranging from a 1928 silent movie accompanied by pianist Patrick Miller to the newly released film Antigone on Saturday Closing Night. Please join us then for a reception and a chance to meet the lead actor, Nahéma Ricci, who will lead a Q&A after the film!
—Karen Humphreys, Festival Director

Conte d'été (A Tale of Summer)
Eric Rohmer | France | 1995 | 113 min.
According to New Wave auteur Eric Rohmer, the third film of his Tales of the Four Seasons is his “most personal.” Based on events from Rohmer’s youth, A Tale of Summer follows amateur musician Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) to a seaside resort in Dinard on the coast of Brittany. It is there where three women (Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, and Aurelia Nolin) each offer the possibility of romance. But Gaspard’s inability to commit to just one puts all his chances at love in jeopardy. Summer is the perfect venue for Rohmer’s wistful look back at his youth. The stories it tells illuminate the fleeting nature of desire and the random nature of our choices, lit up by the languid waves and sun-saturated beaches of summer.
“A beautiful and bittersweet romantic comedy”
—Tom Dawson, BBC.com