MFAH Film – Young French Cinema: Grand Central
- When
- November 08, 2015
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $65
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the film series Young French Cinema. Discover rising talents of France’s filmmaking scene in this showcase, a program of UniFrance Films in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Grand Central
Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski
2013, in French with English subtitles
France
94 minutes, DCP
A nuclear power plant serves as the setting for a forbidden romance as volatile as the facility itself in the intense, brilliantly acted second feature from Rebecca Zlotowski (Belle Epine).
Gary (A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim) is an unskilled laborer looking for easy money and a place to belong. Karole (Léa Seydoux) is the fiancée of longtime plant employee Toni (Denis Ménochet).
Soon Gary and Karole fall in love, their moonlit trysts posing a growing threat.
Rebecca Zlotowski focuses both on the everyday routines of the workers and on the swooning passions of the love triangle at the film’s heart, with electronica pulsating on the soundtrack as her characters gamble ever more perilously in work and love. – The Film Society of Lincoln Center