Alliance Française carries out chat about the importance of the work of Simone de Beauvoir in literature, in the movies and in the lives of women

The filmmaker Lucia Murat and Léonard Collette debate on the topic and the last
the film director, ' In three acts ', based on texts of the French writer

Onnext Wednesday, 09, às 19h30, the Auditorium of the Alliance Française Botafogo receives filmmaker Lucia Murat and film expert Leonard Collette to the chat “Of literature to the movies: Simone de Beauvoir” on the importance of the work of Simone de Beauvoir in the arts and in the lives of women. In addition, will talk about the latest film from the Director "In three acts", based in Une mort très douce "and" La vieillesse ", the French writer and philosopher. The event, that will be in Portuguese, have free entry, with limited places in order of arrival.

Lucia Murat, known, among other works, by "almost two movies award-winning Brothers" and "the memory that tells Me" launches in December "In three acts", a film that tells the story of an intellectual with 80 years are faced with aging and memory of mother's death 30 years before. Of poetic form, through dance and with texts by Simone de Beauvoir, the film reflects on the life cycle.

Léonard Collette is graduated in cinema at the Université Paris 8 and in film direction from the school of Cinema Darcy Ribeiro. In France, actively participated in the feature film “Artemis Coeur d ' Artichaut”, winner of numerous awards, including best French film at the festival of Vernont (2013). Currently teaches film workshop of the Alliance Francaise, which presents a brief history of world cinema, with an emphasis on French cinema.

About the Alliance Française

The French Alliance celebrates 130 years of activities in Brazil 2015. Besides being a reference in the language, she is, no doubt, the most respected institution and known the world, when it comes to the spread of the French language and Francophone cultures. She has, currently, more than 850 units 135 countries, where they study about 500.000 students. In France, it has schools and cultural centers for foreign students. The Brazil has the world's largest network of French Alliances with 40 associations and 67 units and from August more than 40 thousand students of the Brazilian network will use the new teaching method, the Alter Ego + (French Alliance Brazil version), which fit the criteria of quality of the common European framework of reference for languages defined by the Council of Europe, There is also a unique notebook developed by a team of pedagogues of the Alliance Française network Brazil working in partnership with the Publisher to address specifically the intercultural issues between France and Brazil in language learning.

It is the only institution in Brazil authorized by the Embassy of France, to apply the tests that give access to international diplomas DELF and DALF, recognized by the French Ministry of National Education. The Alliance Française is also official examination centre for international testing validity of two years TCF (The French Knowledge Test) and TEF (French Assessment Test) and the national test valid for one year Capes (recognized by agencies CAPES and CNPq MEC). The French Alliance in Brazil develops partnerships with numerous French and Brazilian companies as well as being an essential actor of Franco-Brazilian cultural dialogue.

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