The American French Film Festival (TAFFF) is returning after last year’s Hollywood strikes hiatus and has unveiled its opening and closing films.
The 28th edition, running October 29 to November 3 in the Director’s Guild of America Theatre Complex, will open with Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez and close with The Count of Monte Cristo.
Both films are on the shortlist to be France’s submission for the Best International Feature Film, and could be in the running in other categories.
Jacques Audiard’s genre defying musical drama Emilia Pérez, about love and redemption, will be celebrated at The American French Film Festival with a gala, red-carpet Opening Night screening on October 29, presented in association with Netflix.
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