The Bellarmine Film Association is a student-run group dedicated to bringing a wide array of the world's cinema to the Bellarmine campus. The BFA seeks to show films from across the spectrum, from mainstream to avant-garde, from arthouse to drive-in, from blockbusters to micro-cinema, from local to transnational. It also seeks to encourage film and video production in the Louisville community.
The Bellarmine Film Association, the Insitute of Media, Culture, and Ethics, and the Dept. of Communication proudly present the Tournées Festival this Spring on the Bellarmine Campus.
Tournées Festival
L’ICEBERG/THE ICEBERG 84 minutes, not rated
(Belgium, 2005 – Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, directors)
Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant and lives with her family in the suburbs. She seems happy until one day she accidentally gets locked in a walk-in industrial freezer while closing up the restaurant. Half frozen and barely alive in the morning, she realizes that her husband and two children didn’t even notice that she was missing. Little by little, Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs... One day she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home: she wants to see a real iceberg.
Pasteur Hall Small Theater – Pasteur 102
March 14, 2008
7:00 p.m.
L’IVRESSE DU POUVOIR/COMEDY OF POWER 110 minutes, not rated
(France, 2006 – Claude Chabrol, director)
Jeanne, a magistrate, must sort out and prepare for trial a complex case of misappropriation and embezzlement of public funds implicating the president of an important industrial firm. As her investigation progresses, she realizes that her power is great: the more she delves into secrets, the more her means of applying pressure increase. Politicians and businessmen are scheming together, and Jeanne thinks it's high time somebody stepped in to clean up this mess.
Pasteur Hall Small Theater – Pasteur 102
March 25, 2008
7:00 p.m.
CHATS PERCHES/CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT 58 minutes, not rated
(2004 – Chris Marker, director)
In his newest film, French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on art, culture and politics at the start of the new millennium. In November 2001, he became intrigued by the sudden appearance of grinning yellow cat paintings on Paris buildings and public surfaces, and began to document the mysterious materializations of this charming feline. Purportedly looking to solve the mystery of this unknown artist, dubbed M. Chat, the filmmaker uses it instead as a springboard to examine the city's changing social climate -- from the pro-American feelings generated shortly after Sept. 11, to the anti-Bush and Iraq War demonstrations that have become so prevalent.
Hilary’s – Campus Center 122
April 4, 2008
7:00 p.m.
FAUTEUIL D’ORCHESTRE/AVENUE MONTAIGNE 100 minutes, PG-13
(France, 2006 – Daniele Thompson, director)
Jessica is a beautiful and naive girl from the south-east of France. She is extremely close to her grandmother who continuously repeats the same story: when she was young she managed to move up in the world while working as a cleaning lady in a popular luxury hotel in Paris. One day, Jessica decides to go to Paris and finds a job at a cafe frequented by the "tout Paris". Indeed, it is located on Avenue Montaigne, in the wealthy section of Paris.
Hilary’s – Campus Center 122
April 17, 2008
7:00 p.m.
The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC). The Tournées Festival is sponsored by the Institute for Media, Culture, and Ethics and supported by the Department of Communication at Bellarmine University.
For more on the Bellarmine Film Association or the Tournées Festival, contact Kyle Barnett at kbarnett@bellarmine.edu.
