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FIAF Presents Hugues de Montalembert’s “Black Sun”
“Black Sun” is a documentary- if it can be called a documentary- about the experiences of painter, filmmaker, and writer Hugues de Montalembert, who was attacked and blinded on his way home to his apartment in New York City in 1978. With humor, beauty, and an original score that perfectly sets off Montalembert’s narration,... »
La Crème de la Crème: Hottest tickets in town to French film, lectures, and theater events in New York City
For the lover of all things French, New York in January and February is alive with lectures, film, and plays from across the Atlantic. You can hear Bernard Henri Lévy discuss free speech at Columbia and listen to Sylvia Kahan dish the dirt on the American heiress and salon hostess that inspired Proust;... »