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Friday Night
(Vendredi soir)

Screening on Film
Directed by Claire Denis.
With Valerie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon.
France, 2002, 35mm, color, 90 min.
French with English subtitles.

Claire Denis conjures up a spellbound night in Paris. Laure, having packed up her possessions to move in with her lover, is more unsettled about this new commitment than she appears. Heading out for a last dinner with friends, she becomes stuck in a terrible traffic jam. As she takes in the sights and sounds around her—the blare of horns and arguments, the shimmer of lights and camaraderie—Laure encounters a stranger who will change her life. Intensely erotic and romantic, Friday Night is a lyrical ode to unexpected pleasures, to the independence of self, and to the most beautiful city in the world.

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