Master filmmaker Benoît Jacquot will be in town for the opening weekend of For the Love of Movies: The Cinema of Benoît Jacquot. This nearly three-week, 22-film celebration of one of France’s preeminent Post-New Wave masters will take place June 23 – July 11 at the Walter Reade Theatre.

One of the many young Parisians who grew up in the 50s and 60s enraptured by movies, Benoît Jacquot is a charter member of the group of filmmakers known, somewhat dubiously, as the “Post-New Wave Generation.” It has often been remarked that Jacquot is interested in filmed adaptations—of plays, novels, and short stories, by writers as varied as Borges, Henry James, Marivaux (represented in the festival with "Marianne," based on the unfinished novel La vie de Marianne), Benjamin Constant ("Adolphe"), and Dostoyevsky ("The Musician Killer," based on the unfinished novel Netochka Nezvanova). It has been just as often remarked that Jacquot has a passion for filming beautiful women—Judith Godrèche, Virginie Ledoyen, Sandrine Kiberlain, Isild Le Besco; Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Seyrig, Anna Karina, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, and Marguerite Duras, the subject of two remarkable filmed portraits (1993’s "La Mort Du Jeune Aviateur Anglais" and "Ecrire").

In Jacquot’s work, these supposedly separate fields of interest—the literary and the carnal—appear to originate from the same impulse, an impulse that has given the world of cinema an oeuvre of stunningly varied topography. Jacquot is forever moving into different registers and new relationships with his material. More than just a modern filmmaker who longs for the conditions of the old studio system, Jacquot is an artist in perpetual search of vital connections, a spark of revivifying energy for himself, his actors, and his characters.

“Jacquot once explained to me that with the constantly moving camera and unified duration of "La Fille Seule," he was trying to create a film that took place in ‘mental time,’” says Kent Jones, the Film Society’s associate director of programming and curator of this series. “This seems to me a perfect way of describing his entire body of work, which, considered altogether, is one of the most moving in modern cinema. In a way, each of Jacquot’s films take place in this mental time, dedicated as they are to the realization of a lovely ambition: to describe, as carefully and as gracefully as possible, the relationship between the inner world and the outer world.”

Tickets are available at the Walter Reade Theater box office and online.
Ticket prices are $10 for adults, $7 for students, $6 for FSLC members, and $5 for seniors for weekday matinees before 6 p.m.

For more information and online tickets, log on to www.filmlinc.com

FULL SCREENING SCHEDULE:

Seventh Heaven Le Septième ciel France, 1997; 91m	Synopsis/Tickets Wed Fri June 23: 2:30 & 6:30 Sun Sun June 25: 6:30 Mon June 26: 4:15
A Single Girl La Fille seule France, 1995; 86m	Synopsis/Tickets Wed Fri June 23: 4:30 & 8:30 Thurs Sun June 25: 8:30 Mon June 26: 2:15
Right Now A Tout de suite France, 2004; 95m	Synopsis/Tickets Thurs Sat June 24: 4 & 7:45 Tue June 27: 2
The Disenchanted La Désenchantée France, 1990; 78m	Synopsis/Tickets Sat June 24: 6 & 9:40 Sun June 25: 2:45 Tue June 27: 4
The False Servant La Fausse suivante France, 1999; 90m	Synopsis/Tickets Sun June 25: 4:30 Wed June 28: 4:30 & 8:30 Thurs June 29: 2
Marianne France, 1997; 100m	Synopsis/Tickets Fri Wed June 28: 2:30 & 6:30 Fri June 30: 5 & 9:15
School of Flesh L’Ecole de la chair France/Luxembourg/Belgium, 1998; 103m	Synopsis/Tickets Thurs June 29: 4 & 9 Fri June 30: 2:45 & 7
Alfred Deller: Portrait of a Voice France, 1976; 60m Preceded by Merce Cunningham and Co France, 1982; 40m	Synopsis/Tickets Sat July 1: 2 & 6:30 Tue Mon July 3: 1 Wed July 5: 1
Elvire-Jouvet 40 France, 1986; 62m Preceded by Louis René des Fôrets France, 1988; 49m	Synopsis/Tickets Sat July 1: 4:15 & 8:45 Wed July 5: 3:15
Jacques Lacan's Psychoanalysis Part One France, 1974; 46m Preceded by Nombres et neurones France, 1990; 37m	Synopsis/Tickets Sun July 2: 2:15 Mon July 3: 7 Sat July 8: 4:30
Ecrire France, 1993; 43m Preceded by La mort du jeune aviateur anglais France, 1993; 40m	Synopsis/Tickets Sun July 2: 4:15 Thurs July 6: 2:30 & 8:30
Princesse Marie France, 2003; 180m with 10m intermission	Synopsis/Tickets Sun July 2: 6 Mon July 3: 3:15 Sun July 9: 2 Tue July 11: 2:15
Tosca Giorgio Diritti, 2005; 110m	Synopsis/Tickets Mon July 3: 9 Tue July 4: 1:30 & 6 Sun July 9: 8
Sade France, 2000; 100m	Synopsis/Tickets Tue July 4: 4 & 8:30 Thurs July 6: 4:15 Sat July 8: 9
Adolphe France, 2002; 102m	Synopsis/Tickets Thurs July 6: 6:30
The Musician Killer L’assassin musicien France, 1974; 120m	Synopsis/Tickets Fri July 7: 2 & 6:30 Mon July 10: 3:45 & 8:20
Keep It Quiet Pas de scandale France, 1999; 105m	Synopsis/Tickets Fri July 7: 4:20 & 9 Sat July 8: 2:15 & 6:45
Closet Children Les enfants du placard France, 1977; 105m	Synopsis/Tickets Sun July 9: 5:45 Mon July 10: 1:30 & 6:15 Sun July 9: 8

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