French Film Festival reviews
This year, the 18th Annual French Film Festival joined with the James River Film Festival to continue its tradition of welcoming visitors from all over the country to partake in the largest French film festival in the United States. The festival, organized by Francoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, a professor of French at the University of Richmond, and her husband, Peter Kirkpatrick, an associate professor of French at Virginia Commonwealth University, consisted of 25 feature length and short films and boasted a delegation of more than 40 French directors, actors and actresses. Along with the films shown at the historic Byrd Theatre, the festival offered a "master class" which focused on 3-D technology in filmmaking as well as commentary from prominent French directors.