Two French Films Remain

The Tournées Film Festival at Ashland University concludes this week with two more French film screenings showing on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Ronk Lecture Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

On Jan. 28, Mes Provinciales (A Paris Education) is Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s fresh spin on a time-honored narrative tradition. The audience follows the life of aspiring filmmaker and university student Etienne Tinan, using the time-honored themes of solitude, devotion, hope and hopelessness.

The series concludes on Jan. 29 with 2018’s Tazzeka, which also is the name of the Moroccan village that is home to Elias, an aspiring chef who finds nothing is what he imagined when he leaves his hometown for the roaring traffic of Paris.