• Title:
• El Cantor

• Director:
• Joseph Morder

• French and English with English subtitles

• France, 90 minutes

• Venue:
• Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema and
  Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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Set in the French coastal town of Le Havre , Joseph Morder’s first full-length feature film presents a reunion between two cousins who haven’t seen one another in thirty years. The arrival of Clovis Fishermann disrupts William’s life at a time when his wife Elizabeth is still mourning the loss of her father and in no mood to host an unfamiliar guest. Clovis seems to have returned with an agenda that he keeps to himself but brings William along with him to revisit the boyish escapades of their youth. The son and grandson of famous cantors, Clovis was deliberately kept from learning the family trade after the Holocaust—a legacy that haunts his travels around the quiet port city. Long a fixture of the French underground cinema, and a significant influence on such modern French filmmakers as Francois Ozon, Variety calls Morder’s film, “a quirky addition to the ranks of films that address the post-Shoah Jewish experience that one needn’t be Jewish to appreciate.”

CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of France, the Alliance Française de Washington and Generation After

Special Guest: Joseph Morder, director

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