Past Events

At the intersection of steamy romance and eccentric comedy, Plein Sud features Dewaere as a married professor who drops everything to follow a bombshell to Barcelona. There’s only one problem: outside of sexual chemistry, the couple have nothing in common. 

A tale of doomed passion, set in the resort town of Biarritz. Téchiné captures Dewaere’s bewitching blend of vulnerability and wounded charisma and gives Deneuve a haunted quality belying her icy exterior. Interviewed after Dewaere’s death, Deneuve revealed that he was one of the few actors whose work ever made her weep on set.

Carolers and tinsel; the perfect setting for Christmas Eve in a snowy mountain village. But when a body is discovered, dressed as Santa, the hysteria soon spreads and accusations fly.

Celebrate the holidays with your L’Alliance New York famille at a stylish soirée at the French Consulate’s beautiful mansion on Fifth Avenue.

Laurent Achard’s debut film, Plus qu’hier, moins que demain, portrays a troubling family reunion and the impact of ambient violence on children. This rare screening introduces American audiences to an underrated figure in French cinema.

A young man returns to Paris — and confronts his demons — after spending five years in a U.S. prison on narcotics charges.

In what he considered his best performance, Patrick Dewaere plays a door-to-door salesman lured into a get-rich-quick murder scheme after meeting a captivating teenager.

Combining solo performance with an art scene from the peripheries and the Antilles, this two day celebration centers around transdisciplinary artist Bintou Dembélé’s grassroot investigations into the concept of “marronnage”—a term historically identified with enslaved peoples’ escape from the plantation, but which has come to signify the fugitivity of the body, spirit and soul from all forms of current oppression, in order to create new societies.

The most thrilling actor of his generation, Patrick Dewaere was a blazing comet that streaked across French cinema all too briefly. Part one of this series highlights three recently restored films that show Dewaere’s unique depth and pathos: Judge Fayard aka The Sheriff, A Bad Son, and Serie Noire.

A young, crusading DA in a provincial city tries to take on corrupt politicians, police and exploitative factory owners, soon discovering the link between all is a history with a far-right organization.