French and American Cinema: Origins & Echoes Series at Violet Crown 7/22

Exploring the cross-cultural influence of one film industry on another, French and American Cinema: Origins & Echoes Series celebrates the enduring relationship between the two nations through artistic expression. Presented in partnership with the Alliance Française de Charlottesville, the program brings together a landmark work of French filmmaking with an American contemporary counterpart, tracing lines of inspiration, homage, and reinvention across time and culture. Up first: Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville’s story of precision, solitude, and moral code, screens a week ahead of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch’s meditative tale of a lone hitman in a modern American landscape. $11–13, 7pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. charlottesville.violetcrown.com

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