The customary date with RENDEZ-VOUS. New French cinema is back. The showcase will be inaugurated by "Custody", presented by its director Xavier Legrand.

The National Cinema Museum is presenting Rendez-Vous. New French cinema, a brief showcase dedicated to contemporary French cinema, organised by the French Embassy and by the Institut Français. Four still unreleased films in Italy, including Jusqu'à la garde by Xavier Legrand, who will be a guest at the Cinema Massimo on Friday 6 April at 8.30 p.m., and La villa, Robert Guédiguian’s twentieth film.

Now reaching its seventh edition this year, the showcase, which features everyday lives stories in their natural flow, will be inaugurated by the screening of Jusqu'à la garde by Xavier Legrand.

Admission 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.

Screenings calendar

Xavier Legrand

Custody (Jusqu'à la garde)

(France 2017, 93', DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

A Silver Lion for best directing and a Lion of the Future as best first film at Venice 74, Xavier Legrand’s debut in a feature-length film is the tense and essential report of a separation, facing domestic violence in a skilful crescendo, through different cinematographic genres. The director is signing a “political film, a war film, maybe actually a horror film” showing how violence is nothing more than a victory by fear.

Fri 6, at 8.30 p.m./Sun 8, at 8.00 p.m.

Robert Guédiguian

The house by the sea (La villa)

(France 2017, 107', DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Guédiguian is celebrating his favourite cinema with his twentieth film - in Competition at Venice 74 – returning to his people and to his own places, to his themes, depicting a view of our present, a profound metaphor on the sense of the word “home”. And if memory brings a Chekhov-like and dejected flow to the film, the development of events is subsequently radiant, supported by a grand act of faith and of love for cinema. In a picturesque villa overlooking the sea at Marseilles, three brothers find themselves around their elderly father.

Sat 7, at 4.00 p.m.

Dominique Abel / Fiona Gordon

Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus)

(France / Belgium 2016, 83', DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Fiona is the bookstore owner in a Canadian village. When she receives a desperate letter from ninety-three year-old aunt Martha, who lives in Paris, she hastens onto the first flight for the French capital, where, however, she discovers that the elderly lady has disappeared. Amongst trials and amusing misadventures, Fiona ends up by meeting Dom, a seductive homeless man who will never leave her on her own again. As if to say that in losing oneself in the banks of the Seine, one finds love.

Sat 7, at 8.30 p.m./Sun 8, at 4.00 p.m.

Léonor Serraille

Montparnasse Bienvenue (Jeune femme)

(France 2017, 97', DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

The 2017 Camera d’Or in Cannes for the best first film awarded this bright and original film, which is a praise of instability, and which depicts a tragic-comical, dynamic and sunny female portrait with delicate realism. What does becoming a young woman mean? Paula, aged 31, excessive and a bit borderline, tells us, losing herself among the streets in Paris on returning from a long sojourn in Mexico.

Sun 8, at 6.00 p.m.