International Film Series and the Tournees Festival

Presented by the Department of Languages and Culture Studies, UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

March 13-25
Free Admission

The UNC Charlotte Department of Languages and Culture Studies presents the International Film Series and the Tournées Festival, March 13 –25, 2013. Admission is free to any of ten film viewings presented in collaboration with the UNC Charlotte’s J. Murrey Atkins Library, French Club, Russian Club, Film Studies Program, and Pfeiffer University with support provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée, Alliance Française de Charlotte, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte Film Society, Mosfilm, Piedmont Music Center, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the J. Murrey Atkins Library and the Office of International Programs. See filmfest.uncc.edu for more information including film summaries, schedule, and locations.

March 13
5:00pm
UNC Charlotte Main Campus, Student Union Theater

LES FEMMES DU 6ÈME ÉTAGE / THE WOMAN ON THE SIXTH FLOOR

Philippe Le Guay, France. 2010 / 104 min.

Introduction by Michèle Bissière, Associate Professor of French, UNC Charlotte. Discussion will follow screening.

Set in 1962, the film centers on the transformation of third-generation stockbroker Jean-Louis, husband of a brittle, insecure woman from the provinces and father of two boarding-school brats. The self-centered businessman starts to discover his altruistic side after the arrival of the new Spanish maid María, who stirs deep compassion in Jean-Louis, with her stories of working 15 hours a day as a teenager at a tobacco factory back home during Franco’s regime.