Running Dry

Running Time: 80 minutes
Country: USA
Genre: Documentary
Narrator: Jane Seymour
Director: Jim Thebaut

• Description: 

“Running Dry” was inspired by the late Senator Paul Simon’s powerful book “Tapped Out.” Jim Thebaut, the film’s producer and director, had been developing the project in association with Simon until his recent death. Simon’s widow, Patricia Simon, has continued her husband’s legacy by working with Thebaut. Award-winning actress Jane Seymour narrates as the film takes viewers on a journey that explores the impending severity of the global water crisis throughout specific regions in southern Asia, northern China, the Middle East, Africa and the American southwest. Various experts and world leaders, including former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, are interviewed throughout the documentary stating their concerns, not only about their own regions, but also about the challenges that exist throughout the world.Enjoy free movies every month!

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Description  and playdates from the French Alliance in San Francisco:

• Mauvaise foi (Bad Faith)

Directed by: Roschdy Zem
Language: French, English subtitles

Clara and Ishmael are gorgeous, happy, in love and in Paris.

How nice is that? Like many cosmopolitan Parisian couples, the fact that she is Jewish and he is Muslim barely crosses the minds of these oh-so-secular lovebirds…until Clara announces that she’s pregnant.

That’s when the troubles start in this charming and timely romantic comedy whose title could have been “Guess Who’s Coming to Shabbos Dinner?”

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http://sfjff.org/festival_2007/film/472/

Co-presented by the Alliance Française de San Francisco.

• Screenings:

> Castro Theatre: July 22 2007 5:00pm
> The Roda Theatre: July 29 2007 6:45pm
> Aquarius Theatre: July 31 2007 6:15pm
> Smith Rafael Film Center: August 4 2007 6:30pm

• Comme t’y es belle! (Gorgeous!)

Directed by: Lisa Azuelos
Language: French, English and Hebrew subtitles

“Gorgeous!” really earns that exclamation point. In this tale set in the City of Lights, director Lisa Azuelos and her co-writers have crafted an inviting comic drama that celebrates the au courant Parisian woman. They’ve whipped up a coterie of breathtaking Sephardic femmes whose witty, rat-a-tat-tat dialogue crackles with energy.

The entire film vibrates with their smarts, charm, guile and not an insignificant amount of sex. Isa (Michele Laroque), Lea (Aure Atika), Alice (Valerie Benguigui) and Nina (Geraldine Nakache) are nobody’s fools as they stare down traditional gender roles, the tax system, the beauty business and the institution of marriage – such as it is in France.

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Co-presented by the Alliance Francaise de San Francisco.