This fall the Ferguson Library and the Jeremy Richard Library at University of Connecticut Stamford will come together once again to share some of the most exciting international films of recent years.

“Our World of Film” will spotlight four notable films from Germany, Italy, Sweden and France. The programs will be held on Wednesday evenings @ 6:30 at the UCONN Stamford campus in the Multi-Purpose Room #108.

Wednesday October 13, 2010

Coco Before Chanel
With Audrey Tautou and Benoit Poelvoorde. Directed by Anne Fontaine.2009. 110 min. France.
This biopic details the rise of legendary fashion designer Coco Avanti .Chanel.

Wednesday October 20, 2010

Vincere
With Fabrizio Costella and Giovannia Mezzogiorno. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. 2009.128 min. Italy.

     This unusual and offbeat historical drama resst on a little known fact. Though seldom discussed in history books and undisclosed for half a century, fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had a son with a woman named Ida Dalser. A son he allowed to be born , acknowledged, and then promptly denied for the duration of his life.

Wednesday November 3, 2010

 The Girl Who Played with Fire
With Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. Directed by Daniel Alfredson. 2009     130 minutes. Sweden/Denmark/Germany.

      The second installment of Steig Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy comes to the big screen with this tale of a prominent magazine publisher who launches an investigation into Swedish sex trafficking and political corruption.

Wednesday November 17, 2010

The White Ribbon

With Christian Freidel and Leonie Benesch. Directed by Michael Haneke. 2009, 144 min. Germany/Austria.

     In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village school teacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual.  This film won the Palme D’Or  at the Cannes Film festival this year.