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Palouse French Film Festival

About the event

WSU Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures and UI Department of Modern Languages and Cultures will be showing the fourth and final film of the 2016 Palouse French Film Festival at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow:

Mon amie Victoria / My Friend Victoria, drama directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac.

Synopsis: Adapted from a story by Doris Lessing, the film offers a touching if not quite gripping portrait of race and family in modern-day Paris through the story of Victoria, a young black orphan who seems passive and detached. As she slides from one low-level job to another, her thoughts return repeatedly to the bourgeois white family that sheltered her for one night when she was a child. Infatuated by its members’ affluent lifestyle and liberal beliefs, she casually stalks them for years, until a summer fling with the younger son produces a daughter, Marie. It will be seven years before Marie’s father learns of her existence, but that’s only one of the many unexplained decisions with which Victoria, whose default position is inaction, will shape her life.

The film will be introduced by Lysa Salsbury, Director of the UI Women’s Center.

Cost is $5 per film or $15 for the festival; free to students with ID.

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