MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE
Sunday, November 13th at 12:45PM, Click Here to Buy Tickets
Co-Presented by Alliance Francaise of Tucson, Literacy Connects and Pima Council on Aging
WINNER! Audience Award / 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival
TUCSON PREMIERE
“This little gem is all about the nature of chance encounters and how they can change us in unexpected ways.” – Betsy Sharkey, LOS ANGELES TIMES
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE is a charming story of life’s random encounters, starring legendary actors Gérard Depardieu (GREEN CARD) and Gisèle Casadesus (SARAH’S KEY). In a small French town, Germain, a nearly illiterate man in his 50′s and considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Marguerite, a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. She’s articulate, highly intelligent and frail. Between Germain and Marguerite, there are 40 years and 200 pounds difference. Germain is lured by Marguerite’s passion for life and the magic of literature from which he has always felt excluded. As Marguerite broadens his mind via reading excerpts from her novel, Germain realizes that he is more of an intellectual than he has ever allowed himself to be. Afternoons spent reading aloud on their favorite bench transform their lives and start them both on a new journey — to literacy and respect for Germain, and to the deepest friendship for Marguerite.
(Directed by Jean Becker, FRANCE, 2010, 82 mins, NR) HD Digital Presentation
