Trailer for ‘San Francisco Beyond the Postcard’ © Christian Jeunet
The Tuesday movie this week – and next – at the San Francisco Alliance Française features a two-part documentary on the city by French filmmaker Christian Jeunet.
Entitled San Francisco Beyond the Postcard, this documentary aims to celebrate what’s wonderful about the city, apart from those attractions which are well known to visitors the world over. To achieve this, Jeunet – who has apparently been working on this project over the course of eight years – does, of course, include footage of all those natural and man-made attractions which make San Francisco famous, but he also turns his lens on the people who live here, and whose individual cultures and personalities contribute to the charm and appeal that make this city unique, those who represent the diversity of its many neighborhoods and communities. He allows San Franciscans to describe what it is that they love about the city, and why they choose to live here.
Part 1 of this series will be shown at the Alliance Française, 1345 Bush Street, on Tuesday, September 13, at 7.00 pm. Admission is free, but a donation of $5 is suggested. Part 2 will follow at the Alliance Française on September 20.
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