Museum Films’ annual festival of French cinema returns to the Noble Theater this month with a slate of acclaimed new releases and a series of newly restored masterpieces by François Truffaut. Our July film schedule also features the exquisitely romantic indie blockbuster Past Lives, and Afire, an elegantly entertaining vacation chronicle from award-winning German filmmaker Christian Petzold.
As always, OKCMOA Film Society Members (including Fellow, Friend, and Sustainer members) receive $5 tickets to Museum Films screenings. To learn more about joining the Film Society, visit: https://www.okcmoa.com/filmsociety
Visit OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache during regular Museum hours for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.
Click here to view the printable July Film Schedule + Calendar.
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THE 400 BLOWS | François Truffaut | 1959 | subtitled | 99 minutes | NR
Thurs., July 6 @ 7:30 pm | The Adventures of Antoine Doinel; New 4K restoration
One of the landmark achievements of the French New Wave, François Truffaut’s iconic debut feature introduced viewers to Antoine Doinel, a 13-year-old wild child in Paris whose adventures were based on the director’s own adolescence.
FULL TIME | Éric Gravel | 2021 | subtitled | 88 minutes | NR
Fri., July 7 @ 5:30 pm | New French Film in July
The everyday experiences of a divorced working mother desperately trying to navigate a Parisian transit strike form the basis of Éric Gravel’s riveting, humane, and brilliantly acted drama. Winner of Best Director and Best Actress prizes at the Venice Film Festival.
THE FIVE DEVILS | Léa Mysius | 2022 | subtitled | 96 minutes | NR (viewer discretion advised)
Fri., July 7 @ 8 pm | Sat., July 8 @ 5:30 pm | New French Film in July
Set in the breathtaking French Alps and featuring a magnetic performance from Adèle Exarchopoulos, writer-director Léa Mysius’ hypnotic family drama centers on Vicky, a young girl with a supernatural talent for reproducing the scent of anyone and anything she encounters.
SCARLET | Pietro Marcello | 2022 | subtitled | 100 minutes | NR
Sat., July 8 @ 2 pm | Sun., July 9 @ 12:30 pm | New French Film in July
Set in Normandy, France between WWI and WWII, this enchanting fable delicately interweaves realist drama, ethereal romance, and musical flights of fancy as it follows idealistic beauty Juliette from childhood to adulthood.
Sat., July 8 @ 8 pm | Sun., July 9 @ 3 pm | New French Film in July
This luminous romantic drama from writer-director Rebecca Zlotowski stars Virginie Efira as a teacher whose new relationship with a single father becomes complicated when she begins to connect with his young daughter. A 2023 Lumière Award-winner for Best Actress.
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Thurs., July 13 @ 7:30 pm | The Adventures of Antoine Doinel; New 4K restoration
The second and third chapters in the irrepressible Antoine Doinel’s cinematic life: Truffaut’s doppelganger falls for a music student in the short film Antoine and Colette, and is dishonorably discharged from the army and courts an old girlfriend in Stolen Kisses.
THE INNOCENT | Louis Garrel | 2022 | subtitled | 99 minutes | NR
Fri., July 14 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., July 15 @ 2 pm | New French Film in July
The latest comedy from writer-director-star Louis Garrel follows Abel, a young man who finds himself drawn into a world of criminal mischief alongside his impetuous friend Clémence (Noémie Merlant) after his mother marries a reformed convict. A 2023 César Award-winner for Best Original Screenplay.
Fri., July 14 @ 8 pm | Sat., July 15 @ 5:30 pm | New French Film in July
1980s Paris comes alive in this tender, richly observed drama, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as a woman starting a new life on the radio airwaves.
REVOIR PARIS | Alice Winocour | 2022 | subtitled | 105 minutes | NR (viewer discretion advised)
Sat., July 15 @ 8 pm | Sun., July 16 @ 3 pm | New French Film in July
Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia (Virginie Efira) is determined to piece together her lost memories by bonding with fellow survivors in Alice Winocour’s deeply moving drama. Winner of the 2023 César Award for Best Actress.
THE WORST ONES | Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret | 2022 | subtitled | 99 minutes | NR
Sun., July 16 @ 12:30 pm | New French Film in July
A funny and thought-provoking meditation on art and authenticity, this Cannes Film Festival award-winner follows the production of an independent film that casts young non-professional actors from a housing project in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France.
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BED AND BOARD | François Truffaut | 1970 | subtitled | 97 minutes | PG
Thurs., July 20 @ 7:30 pm | The Adventures of Antoine Doinel; New 4K restoration
Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel further matures in this comedy about marital intimacy and infidelity, with he and Christine adrift in the matrimonial sloop, amid often stormy seas.
PAST LIVES | Celine Song | 2023 | In English and subtitled | 105 minutes | PG-13
Fri., July 21 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sat., July 22 @ 2, 5:30 & 8 pm | Sun., July 23 @ 12:30 & 3 pm | Fri., July 28 @ 8 pm | Sat., July 29 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., July 30 @ 12:30 pm
After two decades apart, South Korean childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung reunite in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny in Celine Song’s globally acclaimed and exquisitely romantic debut feature.
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LOVE ON THE RUN | François Truffaut | 1979 | subtitled | 95 minutes | PG
Thurs., July 27 @ 7:30 pm | The Adventures of Antoine Doinel; New 4K restoration
In the final chapter of Antoine Doinel’s story, Antoine and Christine have separated, and he is seeing a new woman when Colette (Marie-France Pisier) re-enters his life, and encourages him to write a novel.
AFIRE | Christian Petzold | 2023 | In German with English subtitles | 102 minutes | NR
Fri., July 28 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., July 29 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., July 30 @ 3 pm
Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, the stunning new film from acclaimed German writer-director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit) is a deceptively breezy, yet emotionally layered tale of creative and romantic insecurities set against the backdrop of a seaside town threatened by encroaching wildfires.
