Convergence Zone
This spring, Paris is celebrating its ardent, lingering love affair with the movies. Every theater in town will be doing its part to show a retrospective of films that were either shot in, or have storylines relating to, their beloved City of Lights. Thankfully, for those Seattle cinephiles that lack the time or frequent flyer miles to attend this grand celluloid event, there's a consolation. Back in King County, far from the flickering screens of Paris, the Seattle Art Museum is offering up its own program of one of French cinema’s most renowned directors.
Every Thursday through June, The Museum of History and Industry turns cinematheque for the debut retrospective "Springtime in France: The Films of Louis Malle." The program offers up some of Louis Malle’s more obscure, but nonetheless brilliant, early French films -- some of which in their time were dubbed as ingenious "masterpieces" by critics.
By Justin McSimov | April 27, 2006
