Soirée Cinéma: 150 Milligrams / La Fille de brest

Friday, October 14; 7:00pm-10:00pm
Alliance Française de Sacramento’s Library
2420 N Street, Sacramento
In French with English Subtitles
FREE

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Please join us Friday, October 14; 7:00pm-10:00pm, in-person for the Alliance Française de Sacramento’s next Soirée Cinéma event in our library / screening room. Our October 2022 film is 150 Milligrams / La fille de Brest by Director Emmanuelle Bercot.

We start promptly at 7:00pm

We will start with a short presentation about the film, watch the film, and then open it up for a lively guided discussion in English.

FILM INFO

150 Milligrams / La fille de Brest

Director Emmanuelle Bercot
2016 France 2 hours 8 min
Biography, Drama
Not appropriate for audiences under 15 years old
Note: Autopsy scene

Starring: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel,  Charlotte Laemmel

Irène Frachon, a doctor who lives in the Breton town of Brest, dares to stand up to the French health and pharmaceutical industry, helping to uncover the media scandal surrounding the commercialization of a controversial medicine whose side effects have caused the death of hundreds of people.

Click here to watch trailer.