Calendar
A prismatic portrait of the iconic 90s indie band, Alex Ross Perry's enthralling meta-documentary shows Pavement preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, an exhibition devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.
One of the great overlooked gems of the French New Wave, Jacques Rozier’s bold yet playful feature debut satirizes early-60s French culture while tracing the love triangle that develops between three friends on vacation in Corsica. Adieu Philippine screens in a new digital restoration as part of Museum Films' French Film in July retrospective series Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer.
Doting grandmother Michelle (Hélène Vincent) is enjoying a quiet retirement in Burgundy when a culinary disaster sparks renewed tensions with her estranged adult daughter Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier) in this beautifully acted and slyly suspenseful drama from acclaimed French writer-director François Ozon. Winner of Best Screenplay and Supporting Actor at the San Sebastián Film Festival, When Fall is Coming screens as part of OKCMOA’s French Film Week festival.
Winner of both the Lumière and César awards for Best First Film, Louise Courvoisier’s charming and richly textured coming-of-age comedy follows rural French teenager Totone, who hatches a scheme to provide for his family by producing a prize-winning comté cheese. Recipient of the Un Certain Regard Youth Prize at Cannes 2024, Holy Cow screens as part of OKCMOA’s French Film Week festival.
French Film icon Catherine Deneuve sparkles as Bernadette, the wife of French President Jacques Chirac, who seizes the spotlight after years of supporting her husband behind the scenes in Léa Domenach’s witty and uplifting biographical comedy. A Lumiere and César award nominee, The President’s Wife screens as part of OKCMOA’s French Film Week festival.
A northern French fishing village becomes the battleground for an extraterrestrial war between good and evil in this defiantly goofy, visually spectacular Star Wars spoof from celebrated French provocateur Bruno Dumont (Li'l Quinquin, Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc). Winner of the 2024 Berlin Film Festival Jury Prize, The Empire screens as part of OKCMOA’s French Film Week festival.
In this warm, elegant, and profoundly personal new film from modern master Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep), two brothers—a neurotic filmmaker and a mellow music journalist—return to their family’s French country house to ride out the 2020 COVID lockdown, prompting renewed tensions and surprising revelations. Suspended Time screens in a special advance preview as part of OKCMOA’s French Film Week festival.
Perfectly capturing both the liberating promise and the melancholic effervescence of summer holidays, Jacques Rozier's sun-soaked sophomore feature is a minor masterpiece of the post–New Wave era and a beautiful meditation on the fleeting nature of youth, love, and time. Near Orouët screens in a new 4K restoration as part of Museum Films' French Film in July retrospective series Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer.
Playwright and filmmaker Celine Song follows up her exquisite Oscar-nominated drama Past Lives with this smart, soulful, and thoroughly modern deconstruction of the classic romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson as a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker who finds herself torn between the perfect match (Pedro Pascal) and her imperfect ex (Chris Evans).
Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra (Pacifiction) trains a patient and poetic lens on the dazzling pomp and devastating brutality of bullfighting in his new documentary portrait of the charismatic Peruvian-born matador Andrés Roca Rey. Winner of the Golden Seashell for Best Film at the 2024 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Afternoons of Solitude screens exclusively at OKCMOA as part of Museum Films’ Art House Expanded series.
Winner of the Prix Jean Vigo in 1986, Jacques Rozier’s penultimate film is a lighthearted, shaggy-dog story that traverses cultural, linguistic, and class divides by land, by sea, and by air. Maine-Océan Express screens in a new 4K restoration as part of Museum Films' French Film in July retrospective series Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer.
In Laura Piani’s charming and witty debut, a Parisian aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel. A highlight of the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life screens as part of OKCMOA’s French Film in July series.
An Oscar-nominated art house sensation turned beloved modern classic, Joe Wright’s (Atonement) enthralling and lushly textured adaptation of Jane Austen’s immortal tale of love, class, and character stars Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet and Mathew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy. Returning to theaters in celebration of its 20th anniversary, Pride & Prejudice screens as part of Museum Films ongoing Saturday Classics series.