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NEW YORK MON AMOUR: A View of French Cinema by Catherine Verret Vimont, opens at the Furman Gallery at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theatre (West 65th Street, plaza level, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue) on September10, 2011 and runs through October 4. As Executive Director of the French Film Office UniFrance Films USA, the leading proponent of the French film industry in the US, and the wife of the French Ambassador to the U.S., Catherine Verret Vimont had a unique opportunity to casually photograph many of the visiting French directors and actors. Catherine Verret-Vimont has put together an exhibition of 95 photos capturing the likes of, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Danièle Thompson, Costa-Gavras, Barbet Schroeder, Bulle Ogier, Benoît Jacquot, Bruno Dumont, Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Chereau, Arnaud Desplechin, Xavier Beauvois, Lambert Wilson, Jeanne Moreau and so many other French actors andfilmmakers we all know so well.
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