French 75

French 75 features a trio of Francophone films from 1975 marking their 50th anniversaries. All screenings are free and open to the public.

Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
320 York Street
New Haven, CT

JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
7 p.m. Friday, March 28, 2025
(Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1975, 35mm, 202 mins)
New print! Named “the greatest film of all time” in the latest Sight & Sound critics’ poll, JEANNE DIELMAN is “an unflinching portrait of the mundanity of middle-aged womanhood” (Roxana Hadadi) that’s “as courageously experimental as anything produced in the history of the avant garde” (David Parkinson). Delphine Seyrig stars in the title role, as a widowed housewife whose predictable routine starts to shatter. In French with English subtitles. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

THE STORY OF ADÈLE H.
7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, 2025
(François Truffaut, France, 1975, 35mm, 96 mins)
Truffaut’s “most severe, most romantic meditation on love” (Vincent Canby) stars Isabelle Adjani in an Oscar-nominated performance as Adèle, the troubled daughter of Victor Hugo. Rejected by a British officer she longs to marry, she pursues him through the colonies under a string of invented identities. Based on Adèle Hugo’s decoded diaries, the film was shot by the great Nestor Almendros. In French with English subtitles. 35mm print from Film Desk.

INDIA SONG
7 p.m. Thursday, April 17
(Marguerite Duras, France, 1975, DCP, 120 mins)
The downfall of Anne-Marie, wife of the French ambassador in 1930s Calcutta, is told through off-screen whispers, while on screen she drifts through a decaying mansion, driven by ennui to a dalliance with a disgraced diplomat. INDIA SONG is an “elliptical dream poem” (Travis Crawford) and a “rarefied work of lyricism, despair, and passion, imbued with a kind of primitive emotional hunger” (Molly Haskell). In French with English subtitles. DCP from Janus.

See the full Yale Film Archive screening schedule here.