Film Screening: Potiche
FILM SCREENING: Potiche
NY NATAS members plus one adult guest are invited to attend a limited preview screening from Music Box Films of Potiche.
This invitation is non-transferable and you must receive an email response to attend!
RSVP by email only to Phyllis Bishop at pbscreenings@gmail.com. You must include your name, current NY NATAS member number and preferred screening time in your email. Please specify if you will be attending alone or if you will be bringing ONE GUEST only. You must receive and answer an email response to attend.
Screening date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Screening Location: Cinema 1, Third Avenue at East 60th Street
TWO Screening Times:
First Screening Arrival Time: 5:15 PM
First Screening Start Time: 6:00 PM
First Screening Arrival Time: 5:15 PM
First Screening Start Time: 6:00 PM
Second Screening Arrival Time: 8:00 PM
Second Screening Start Time: 8:30 PM
Second Screening Start Time: 8:30 PM
**Please join the distributor’s line outside the cinema (Phyllis will be inside the screening room)
Potiche reunites French cinema legends Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in an ensemble cast that includes comic greats Fabrice Luchini (as Deneuve's husband) and Karin Viard (as her husband's secretary/mistress).
Potiche was selected for the 2010 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, has been nominated for four Cesars (France's equivalent of the Academy Awards) for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Costume Design.
Written and Directed by Francois Ozon (who previously directed Ms. Deneuve in the international hit 8 Women and also directed Swimming Pool, Under the Sand, and Time to Leave)
Adapted from the play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy
Produced by Eric and Nicholas Altmeyer
This film is not yet rated
French with English subtitles
Run time: 1 hour, 43 minutes
Synopsis: Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, Potiche is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol, a submissive, house-bound "trophy wife" (or "potiche") who steps in to manage her wealthy and tyrannical husband (Fabrice Luchini)'s umbrella factory after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. Gerard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne's ex-beau who still holds a flame for her.