The Alliance Française of Greenwich will present the East Coast Premiere of the French thriller, Dalloway (La Résidence), directed by Yann Gozlan and starring Cécile de France, on Sunday, April 12 at 2:00pm at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. The film is based on the novel Les Fleurs de l’Ombre ( Flowers of Darkness) by Tatiana de Rosnay.
This screening marks the fourth in- person presentation in the Festival Season of Focus on French Cinema 2026 (FFC2026), produced by the Alliance Française of Greenwich in partnership with The Bruce Museum.
Following the screening at The Bruce, the festival will present an online screening of the documentary D’Un Monde à l’Autre, the U.S. Premiere of a film directed by Jérémie Renier from April 13-27.
About Dalloway (La Résidence): “Focus on French Cinema favorite Yann Gozlan( “Black Box”) returns with an up-to-the minute thriller about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. Cécile de France stars as a novelist at a writer’s retreat who begins to fear that her A.I. assistant- whimsically named after a Virginia Woolf heroine, Mrs. Dalloway- might have an agenda of her own,” FFC Director of Programming Joe Meyers said.
“Devastated by the sudden accidental death of his best friend, the Belgian actor Jérémie Renier didn’t know how to deal with his grief. He decided to give himself a major physical and emotional challenge by accompanying an explorer on a dangerous trek across the desolate Arctic. Renier filmed the adventure, and the result is a powerful examination of how he began to move past the loss of his great fellow actor Gaspard Ulliel. Like the Joan Didion memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking”, this very personal journey though grief has universal applications,” Meyers said.
A Q &A discussion and reception will follow the screening with Joe Meyers and Quoc-Bao Nguyen Quoc-Bao Nguyen has spent more than three decades at the intersection of artificial intelligence and complex problem -solving. With an academic foundation from Paris and Columbia University, his career has included pivotal roles at Bell Communication Research and a 23-year tenure at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center.
From applying deep learning to diagnose skin cancer to winning an Emmy Award in 2023 for AI -driven sports curation, Nguyen has consistently pushed the boundaries of what technology can achieve. Today, he translates that expertise into the world of fine art, blending AI and machine learning with traditional mediums like printmaking and collage to explore new creative frontiers.
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