Past Events

Kick off Bastille Day Weekend under the stars at the beautiful Kip’s Castle during our annual Bastille Day Garden Party.

Interact with this large-scale art installation created by French artists Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine and Pauline Lévêque as a tribute to the long and historic friendship between France and the US. Roll the gigantic dice and see where their interpretation of the Game of Goose takes you. Composed of 63 squares, each representing a beloved monument in Paris or New York, from Versailles to the Statue of Liberty.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.