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Avignon in New YorkLFNY Alumni Movies (3) and Provençal Dinner at the Avignon/New York Film Festival – held in NY on April 16, 2002Jeremy Yates ’74From 5:45 to 6:30 pm the alums got together at the Alliance Française for cocktails which consisted of Grand Marnier cosmopolitans. I missed the cocktails since I got there at 6:30. We all then went to the cinema of the Alliance where a host was introducing the directors of the films we were about to see.There were two short films and a feature. One short was called "Celebration" and was about an eight year old kid announcing to society that he was homosexual. The other short was called "Life" and showed the entire life of a male person from infancy through old age and death in a space of about 5 minutes. The feature film, which won the award for best (***) film in the festival, was a comedy of errors called "Gregoire Moulin contre l'Humanité". It was the story of a man named Gregoire Moulin who was born in the Franz Kafka Clinic and has a mother who wants him to be a doctor and a father who wants him to be a soccer player. After his parents die he is raised by his uncle and grandmother who want him to be a soccer player but he wants to be a dancer after seeing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on t.v. He then leaves for Paris to work in an insurance firm and falls in love with the ballet teacher whom he sees teaching in the building across the street from his desk. He then steals her wallet in a restaurant while she is in the w.c. in order to find out her identity, and then calls her to return the wallet that he says he found in the street. They agree to meet at a cafe called Le Penalty which it just so happens is the night of the soccer cup final between Paris and Brittany. The ensuing story is all farce, but in the end the two lovebirds end up dancing on the moon which is used as a soccer ball by a huge divine foot. Following the film we cabbed it to the Roger Smith Hotel where a sumptuous provençal feast was prepared buffet style. There was ratatouille, pork, quiche lorraine, and many other delicacies. For dessert there was chocolate cake, fruit tart, flan, and chocolate mousse. A good time was had by all. Attendees included : Stephen Allen ’80; Robert April; Alain Benzaken ’78; Violette Benzaken (faculty); Alain de La Chapelle ’57; Philippe de La Chapelle ’58; Micheline Dugué, MD ’87; Dr. & Mrs. Mahmoud el-Tamer (parents); Alessandra Gagliardi ’86; Francine Glick ’74; Alain D. Hyman ’73; Robert V. Kulick ’74; Vivianne Kurzweil ’74 (and husband, Robert); Peter Laurence ’69; Beck Lee ’78; Roger D. Liwer ’68; Thong Nguyen ’76; Danielle Schanz ’77; Paul Schwenger ’84; Susan Schwenger ’80; Kriti Siderakis ’78 (and guests); Gloria Tulliu DVM ’73; Jeremy Yates ’74; Marguerite Yates (parent); and Natalie Yates Cacciato ’78 (and husband, Richard) ***Gregoire contre l'Humanite won first prize in the European/French film category! |
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