Programmed July 2025

Directed by Jacques Rozier

One of the essential but long-neglected voices of the French New Wave, Jacques Rozier was a comedic master whose small yet rich body of work remains ripe for rediscovery. Starting with his feature debut, Adieu Philippine , Rozier was determined to explode conventional story forms, combine seemingly incompatible genres and tones, and gleefully stretch his characters’ possibilities to their breaking points. Overlooked upon its initial release, Adieu Philippine has since been hailed as a high point of the nouvelle vague’s youthful energy and experimentation, though Rozier’s four other, lesser-known features— Near Orouët , The Castaways of Turtle Island , Maine-Océan Express , and Fifi Martingale —are just as startling for their emotional complexity, satirical insight, narrative mischief, and humorous, self-reflective examinations of the nature of creativity. Long overshadowed by the films of his peers, Rozier’s core work reveals a brilliant and distinctive cinematic vision.

Still watchable end to end