Les Ogres

In Léa Fehner’s exuberant feature Les Ogres, a struggling traveling theater company overcomes a painful past, unruly performers, and an invasion of bovines to keep performing in the fields and vacant lots of southwest France. Based on the director’s own childhood and starring her father, mother, and sister along with movie greats Marc Barbé and Adèle Haenel, Les Ogres is a painfully intimate, authentic story with a joyful, ebullient sense of spectacle.

This screening is part of Young French Cinema, a program made possible with the support of UniFrance and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.