French Film Festival 2014

Celebration of the director who died just 91 days after completing his final film.

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Hiroshima Mon Amour Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Mon Amour and Life Of Riley
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Country: France, Japan; Year: 1959; Director: Alain Resnais; Writer: Marguerite Duras; Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson)
A French actress making an anti-war film embarks on an affair with a married man.
Life Of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter) (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Alain Resnais; Writer: Alan Ayckbourn, Jean-Marie Besset, Laurent Herbiet, Alain Resnais, Caroline Silhol; Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi, Michel Vuillermoz, Caroline Sihol, Travis Kerschen)
A group of close friends discover that one of them only has a few months to live.
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