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New French Shorts

Get ready for Bastille Day with Francophile flicks

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By D.L. Groover

Published on July 08, 2009 at 1:41am

All right, you Francophiles, celebrate your love of Sarkozy, champagne and truffles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with New French Shorts. Like all things Gallic, the two-day pre-Bastille Day screenings have a tasty little something for everyone, from Jean-Gabriel Périot’s 200,000 Phantoms, a poignant postcard reverie of Hiroshima, to Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont’s Manon on the Asphalt, a dreamy out-of-body experience nominated this year for an Academy Award. 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 1001 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-639-7515 or visit www.mfah.org. $6 to $7.
Sat., July 11, 7 p.m.; Sun., July 12, 7 p.m., 2009