Good news for fans of French cinema in Lansing! Or, at least, fans of Juliette Binoche and Gérard Depardieu.
Following its big win at the Cannes Film Festival last year, Un beau soleil intérieur (“Let the Sunshine In”) has arrived in Lansing. This French language film (with English subtitles) opens this weekend at Celebration! Cinema – showtimes are here. It’s a bittersweet romantic comedy about a divorced woman (Binoche) looking for her soulmate, and has gotten rave reviews since its release in the U.S. earlier this spring.
This film was brought in town by the East Lansing Film Festival, which has been committed for over 20 years to screening foreign language films in this area. ELFF Director Susan Woods personally selected this film for Celebration!’s Indie Film Series, which brings independent and foreign films to Lansing nine months a year.
“When I found out this was available for local distribution, I did everything I could to make sure this could come to Lansing,” Woods said. “Because Lansing has a big international population, foreign films – especially French films – do very well here. And besides, Juliette Binoche is absolutely incredible. Everyone loves her.”
Binoche, of course, also starred in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), The English Patient (1996) –which she won an Oscar for – as well as Chocolat (2000) and Godzilla (2014).