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RGSS Food Films Series - Chocolat
Sun, 27 April, 2025
6:00pm - 8:00pm
GFI affiliate faculty, Masha Belenky, Professor of French, Director, Centre d'Excellence, Director of French Literature and Lynn Westwater, Department Chair, Professor of Italian, Director of Italian Language and Literature, Director of Portuguese, who are part of GW’s Department of Romance, German and Slavic Studies (RGSS) in the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences are launching a Romance Language movie series centered around food.
The last event will take place on Tuesday, April 27 from 6 -8 pm in Phillips Hall, Room 209. The film will be 2000's Chocolat.
See the full list of films below.
RGSS Food Film Series
Haute Cuisine / Les Saveurs du palais (2012)
Tuesday, March 18, 2025: 6:10 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Phillips Hall, Room 348
Director: Christian Vincent
Film based on the true story of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for French President François Mitterand.
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io Sono l'Amore / I am Love (2009)
Wednesday, March 19, 2025: 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Phillips Hall, Room 416
Director: Luca Guadagnino
The matriarch of a rich Milanese industrial family, Emma, has an affair with the talented chef at her son's restaurant which leads to family turmoil and tragedy.
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Chocolat (2000)
Sunday, April 27, 2025: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Phillips Hall, Room 209
Director: Lasse Hallströng
A rural French town is shaken up when a woman and her young child move to the town and open a chocolate shop that disrupts the Catholic traditions of the town.