As a lighter version of the monumental installation Les plantamouves originally created for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, this exhibition-workshop combines the tactile whimsy of mobile sculpture with interactive dance, inviting audiences of all ages to engage with more than 240 vibrantly colorful foam pieces through inventive video tutorials.

Savor France’s rich wine heritage with L’Alliance New York and iDealwine’s four-part Wine Masterclass Series. Spotlighting a different French region and style with insights from producers and experts during each session, you’ll sip, learn, and enjoy in a warm, convivial setting.

Join L’Alliance for the winter season of Family Saturdays, featuring multidisciplinary arts programming that engages young people and their families through visual art, dance, storytelling, and Francophone cinema.

The sparkling cinema of Sophie Letourneur blends reality and fiction, heartfelt and crude humor, and fearlessly reveals life in all its messy, unglamorous forms. Her stories of women and families are deceptively simple yet underneath, they display a deep perceptiveness combined with a nostalgia for recent experiences. Her contributions to modern French cinema, a selection of highly human autofiction films that challenge the formula, stand in a class of their own.

In memoriam of Frederick Wiseman, the great American filmmaker and part-time Paris resident, we present three of his cinematic portraits of French culture. Having lived in Paris in the 1950’s, Wiseman returned to live in later decades, making a quartet of documentaries on La Comédie-Française, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Troisgros dining establishments and the iconic Crazy Horse strip club.

Join us for temporary exhibition of student artworks inspired by the Les tutomouves installation!

Discover the joy of chess at our free introductory lesson! Presented with Story Time Chess, this engaging, story-driven method builds strategy and critical thinking skills in a fun, approachable way. Open to the youngest chess learners and all levels of experience.

A radiant romantic comedy that sees an eccentric young woman (Lolita Chammah) who dreads being alone, left all by herself in the remote countryside. She latches onto a scruffy recluse (Benjamin Biolay), living in a tiny shed with his adorable dog, disrupting both his peaceful routines and her notions of solitude.

Fred (Jonathan Cohen), husband and manager to happily child-free classical pianist Claire Girard (Marina Foïs), catches the baby bug and devises a plot to impregnate his wife. It, of course, doesn’t go smoothly, but playful gender reversals and absurdist comedy serve to soften some of the tricky morality concerns raised by the film.

Created for family audiences, EUPHORIA is a playful duet told through movement, color and sound. Two half-human, half-owl creatures undergo a strange, poetic metamorphosis, discovering a new sense of wonder and joy.

On Monday, June 1, 2026, L’Alliance New York will proudly honor Petrossian with the Art de Vivre Award presented at a reception in our Skyroom, followed by dinner at Le Bilboquet.

L’Alliance New York is honored to welcome Jean-Pierre Gorin for his long-awaited return to New York to present a special program of three of his films and three films he has selected which, as he did for several decades in his legendary classes, reintroduce and vindicate bygone treasures of French cinema.

Followed by a conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin and Kent Jones

Renoir’s people’s love story and immigrant tale, propelled by crime and tragedy, was shot on location in Southern France, a region not often showed on screen to that time. Renoir, always leading with his heart, remarkably presents themes and style predating their adoption by major cinematic movements, namely Neo-Realism and the New Wave.

Introduced by Jean-Pierre Gorin

One of France’s greatest filmmakers, and long overlooked abroad in favor of his contemporaries, Grémillon made a series of films as strong as any in the heady days of the 30s and early 40s Gallic film production. Among many masterpieces, this poetic melodrama, made under the Occupation, is of a pair with Toni in their analysis of class, as Jean-Pierre Gorin will discuss.

Followed by a conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin and David Fresko

A “Groucho” Marxist riff on the Chicago 8 conspiracy trial is one of the Dziga Vertov Group’s most theoretically dense and comedically outrageous works. Godard and Gorin both appear and partake in this burlesque comedy to the fullest, which thoroughly mocks the U.S. justice system as well as the American New Left. Paired with Godard in America, a documentary following Godard and Gorin on a Grove Press-sponsored US college tour.

A program of three animated short films tells the stories of finding a community despite our differences. Delicately drawn, with a comic touch, these films remind viewers that despite moments of difficulty, no one is truly alone, and that magical things often await just beyond the edge of the familiar

In a seaside town, desolate and shuttered for the winter, a stranger arrives. Soon, a second man appears, and the perfect set up for a neat little drama is underway. The underknown Allégret contributes a late era twist on French realism, which will be a significant discovery for many.

Following six underground films as the Dziga Vertov Group, Godard and Gorin returned to the commercial film industry and a somewhat traditional narrative work. Jane Fonda and Yves Montand star as a bickering couple held captive in a sausage factory, emphasizing the personal dimensions of politics via their unresolved feuding. Gorin took on most of the directing duties and synthesized Godard’s iconic tricolor aesthetics with post-Brechtian dramaturgy and Jerry Lewis-inspired pranks.

Claude Chabrol’s partnership with Isabelle Huppert spanned nearly 40 years and seven films – six of which are presented in this series. Traversing a large range of misconduct and illegal behavior, Huppert and Chabrol infuse their thorny characters with humanity, revealing victims of circumstance and time.

In this gut-wrenching true-crime story set in 1933 Paris, Huppert plays an angelic-looking teenage dreamer leading a double life as dutiful student/daughter by day and scheming sex worker by night. As Violette’s resentment grows more extreme, her rebellion turns literally poisonous toward her ineffectual, possibly abusive father and overbearing mother.

In early 2009, Wiseman was on the scene at the titular Parisian cabaret to closely document the preparations of an avant-garde new show called Désirs. While an elevated peep show seemed unlikely terrain for Wiseman, he provides his typically unrivaled examination of the machinations of what makes the production: the audience, the performers, the financiers and the legacy to which they all belong.

Huppert delivers one of her finest performances as real-life “criminal” Marie Latour, a woman forced to the extremes: performing illicit abortions and renting out her home for prostitution to support her two children in Nazi-occupied France while trapped in a loveless marriage with an absent partner (François Cluzet).

Join L’Alliance New York at one of New York’s most iconic rooftop clubs! Enjoy lively DJ sets and drinks while watching the sunset, surrounded by the best views in NYC.

Introduced by and book signing with Violaine Huisman, author of The Monuments of Paris

On September 1^st, 1939, the first ever Cannes Film festival was set to open with The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But that day, Germany invaded Poland and France entered WWII, cancelling the festival until 1946. The details and individuals who nearly made history, little known outside of France, is one of many revelatory stories told in Violaine Huisman’s new novel of family and history, The Monuments of Paris, including the author’s grandfather’s involvement in what was to become the world’s most celebrated film fest.

Curated in collaboration with Women in Animation, this program reunites the most talented female directors from the 2025 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the world’s leading festival of animation. Animation First Presents is L’Alliance’s new seasonal series of Francophone (and beyond!) animation, keeping the spirit of our Animation First festival alive year-round!

The clinical storytelling of Flaubert’s oft-adapted novel proves an ideal match for Chabrol’s cool control, while Huppert’s embodiment of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a spiritless country doctor (Jean-François Balmer) who keeps herself vitalized through lusty affairs and extravagant spending, digs deep into the psychology of her ill-advised choices.

As gorgeously crafted as it is absolutely chilling, Chabrol’s adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone is widely considered the director’s crowning achievement. It depicts the dangerous pairing of two kindred spirits: stoic maid Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) and free-spirit Jeanne (Huppert), who will become the worst nightmare of Sophie’s employers.

Jacques Tati’s first color film brings back the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot, hopelessly at odds with the advancements of modern life and hilariously out of place in his sister’s geometric, mechanized home. Winner of the 1959 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Mon oncle remains one of cinema’s most delightful comedies.

Opening the Cannes Film Festival last year, Leave One Day is a charming, heartwarming musical following Cécile (Juliette Armanet), who returns to her native village after her father’s heart attack; a reunion with her teenage crush stirs long-buried memories. Amélie Bonnin’s debut is a warm, retro-tinged feel-good film, punctuated by songs that linger long after the credits roll.

In celebration of Bastille Day, we present Renoir’s epic historical drama, which chronicles the French Revolution’s onset through fictional volunteers fighting for their country and characterizations of historical figures. Said Bertrand Tavernier of the film: “There’s a grounding, a strength, a lyricism, and openness of mind.”

In the most playful film of the Chabrol-Huppert alliance, petty scam artists Betty (Huppert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) join the big time when Betty eyes a larger target. As they enter dangerous new territory, it’s not always clear who’s playing who, but that’s all just part of the fun.

For his truly fitting swan song, Wiseman focuses his camera on the Troisgrois family, who for generations have run three restaurants in central France. The result is a highly detailed look at a bustling yet civilized and creative environment, the owners never tiring in the desire for continued greatness.

When a young aspiring musician (Anna Mouglalis) learns of a strange past connection to a famous concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc), she feels compelled to meet him. His embrace of her presence sparks the jealousy of his son and, more perilously, his devoted third wife (Huppert).