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Synonyms

The Sixth and Final Part of the GCL Film Series

The Department of Global Cultures & Languages (GCL) cordially invites you to join us virtually as we present Synonyms, the sixth and final film selected from the Tournées Film Festival for our GCL Film Series.

Tournées Film Festival is a program which aims to bring French cinema to American colleges and university campuses. Tournées Film Festival reflects the diversity and the richness of French cinema, and the selection includes internationally acclaimed films from renowned filmmakers.

Please join us on Zoom at 6:00pm for opening remarks and to gain access to the virtual streaming platform. After streaming, we will return to Zoom for a discussion of the film.

All films in the GCL Film Series will be subtitled in English.

SYNONYMES
SYNONYMS

View the trailer here

With his third feature and first film set in France, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid provides an incendiary reminder that cinema is most powerful when it raises questions rather than provides answers, when every shot seems born of the desire to try out a new idea rather than bow to narrative convention, and when every scene feels as inevitable as it is surprising. With Synonyms, Lapid turned to his own experience as a young exile in France twenty years ago to tell the story of Yoav, a young Israeli who arrives in Paris knowing no one and barely speaking French but committed to forgetting his homeland and becoming a Frenchman. On his first night in Paris, Yoav is robbed of everything he owns and throws himself on the mercy of a bourgeois couple who will become his guides in the French approach to art, friendship, and sex. But the shadow of Yoav’s troubled native land is never far away. Subversively funny, brilliantly executed, constantly astonishing, and tragic in its political implications, Synonyms won a richly deserved Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, confirming Nadav Lapid’s reputation as one of the most promising filmmakers to emerge in the last decade.

Tournées Film Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation, and Highbrow Entertainment.

When

Past occurrences (1)

  • 6 p.m. Monday, April 19, 2021

Where

Online

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Anna Keefe at 608.785.5246 or akeefe@uwlax.edu.

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