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Devoted exclusively to screening films from the Latin world for more than 20 years, Le Latina became Le Nouveau Latina on 1 October 2008. While continuing to provide a showcase for Latin filmmakers, the cinema has expanded its programme to include other types of films, with a focus on retrospectives, film heritage and young audiences. Le Nouveau Latina enjoys a warm and welcoming atmosphere and offers two screens, an art gallery, a tapas bar and a film bookshop.


Paris Romantic Film Festival

From 11 to 17 February, enjoy a selection of romantic films with English subtitles offered in four cinemas in Paris (Le Balzac (Champs-Elysées, 8^th), Le Nouveau Latina (Marais, 4^th), the Reflet Médicis (Quartier Latin, 5^th) and the Studio 28 (Montmartre, 18^th)).

On the Nouveau Latina cinema programme  :

Wednesday, 11 February
11:30am : « Charade », by Stanley Donen (1963, 1:54).
With Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Original English version with French subtitles.
Regina "Reggie" Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) meets a charming stranger calling himself Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) on a skiing holiday in Megève. She returns to Paris, planning to ask husband Charles for a divorce, but finds all of their possessions gone. The police notify her that Charles has been murdered, thrown from a train. They give Regina her husband's travel bag…She is summoned to the U.S. Embassy, where she meets CIA agent Hamilton Bartholomew (Walter Matthau). He informs her Charles was involved in a theft during World War II. Reggie recognizes the oddballs from the funeral in pictures shown to her by Bartholomew. He insists she has the money, even if she doesn't know where it is. Peter appears and offers to help her figure out what to do. Reggie becomes attracted to him, even though he keeps changing his name (simultaneously amusing and confusing her) and unabashedly admits he's after her late husband's money as well.

Thursday, 12 February
11:30am : « Les demoiselles de Rochefort » (The Young Girls of Rochefort) , by Jacques Demy (1967, 2:04).
With Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin.
Original French version with English subtitles.
A musical film directed by Jacques Demy, takes place over the course of one weekend in the seaside town of Rochefort, where a fair is coming to the town square. The story centers on twin sisters Delphine (Deneuve) and Solange (Dorléac) — Delphine teaches ballet classes and Solange gives music lessons for a living, but each longs to find her ideal love and a life outside of Rochefort...

Friday, 13 February
11:30am : « Jules et Jim » (Jules and Jim), by François Truffaut (1962, 1:45).
With Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre.
Original French version with English subtitles.
The film is set before, during and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Jim (Henri Serre). They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. Early in the movie, they become entranced with a statue of a goddess, smiling serenely. After encounters with several women, they meet the free-spirited, capricious Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), a doppelganger for the statue with the serene smile. Although she begins a relationship with Jules, both men are affected by her presence and her attitude toward life.

06:00pm : « La Leçon de tango » (The Tango Lesson), by Sally Potter (1998, 1:42).
With Sally Potter, Pablo Veron
Original English version with French subtitles..
The film tells of Sally (Sally Potter) a filmmaker and screenwriter who is suffering from writer's block. She takes a break and travels to Paris, where she sees the dancer Pablo (Pablo Verón) performing tango. She becomes obsessed with the dance and offers Pablo a part in her film in exchange for dance lessons. The two become deeply involved as dancers and as lovers, and their emotional intimacy threatens the success of their dancing together.The film explores the conflict between the woman dancer accepting the man's lead in the dance, while the man must accept the woman's lead in the film. It is also a love story, as well as a showcase for Verón's dancing.

Saturday, 14 February
12:00pm : « La Leçon de tango » (The Tango Lesson), by Sally Potter (1998, 1:42).
With Sally Potter, Pablo Veron
Original English version with French subtitles..
The film tells of Sally (Sally Potter) a filmmaker and screenwriter who is suffering from writer's block. She takes a break and travels to Paris, where she sees the dancer Pablo (Pablo Verón) performing tango. She becomes obsessed with the dance and offers Pablo a part in her film in exchange for dance lessons. The two become deeply involved as dancers and as lovers, and their emotional intimacy threatens the success of their dancing together.The film explores the conflict between the woman dancer accepting the man's lead in the dance, while the man must accept the woman's lead in the film. It is also a love story, as well as a showcase for Verón's dancing.

Sunday, 15 February
12:00pm : « French Kiss », by Lawrence Kasdan (1995, 1:51)
With Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton
Original English version with French subtitles.
Kate (Meg Ryan) is a fastidious young woman who thinks she knows exactly what her future will be : marry a Toronto doctor named Charlie (Timothy Hutton) and live happily ever after as soon as he comes back from a business trip to Paris. Her plans get ruined, however, when her man runs off with a beautiful French seductress named Juliette (Susan Anbeh). Determined to get him back, Kate overcomes her fear of flying and boards a flight for Paris. Onboard, she is seated next to a Frenchman named Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline), a crude petty thief whom she is forced to tolerate for the next few hours of the flight...

Monday, 16 February
11:30am : « 2 days in Paris », by Julie Delpy (2007, 1:36)
With Adam Golberg and Julie Delpy.
Original English version with French subtitles.
Marion (Delpy) is a French photographer living in New York with her neurotic chain-smoking American boyfriend, Jack (Goldberg). After a markedly unromantic trip to Venice which was originally conceived to re-ignite their damaged relationship, the couple take a night train to Paris to pick up Marion's cat from her parents (Delpy and Pillet) and decide to stay for two days. Jack is surprised to learn how many ex lovers Marion has stayed in touch with and becomes increasingly uncomfortable due to language barriers and a multitude of old flames. Meanwhile, Marion wrestles with her own insecurities about love, relationships, and her impulsive nature.

Tuesday, 17 February
11:30am : « Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé » (Not Here to Be Loved), by Stéphane Brizé (2005, 1:33).
With Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, Georges Wilson.
Original French version with English subtitles.
"Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé" ("I'm Not Here to Be Loved") is a charming French film about a budding romance between Jean-Claude, laconic 50-year-old process server and forty-year-old woman Françoise. As they meet each other in tango lesson class, a love story about grown-up people and their romance unfolds with intelligence and hidden passion...

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