Flim/Video VIGNETTES OF LIFE: FINKIEL, DEPARDON, SIMON CASTING DIRECTED BY EMMANUEL FINKIEL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2002 8 PM $6 ($4 WALKER, ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM VIGNETTES OF LIFE: FINKIEL, DEPARDON, SIMON JUNE: 5 | 6 | 7 Responding to a casting call for Yiddish-speaking 65- to 90-year-olds, a range of elderly Parisian residents, most of whom relocated from their Eastern homelands during the war, audition for a feature film. Finkiel fondly documents their awkward performances, their corrective feedback for the script, and their personal recollections. Through the participants' stories, a humorous and melancholy oral history of the eclectic Yiddish community emerges. 2001, France, color, video, in French and Yiddish with English subtitles, 87 minutes. THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM THE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL. SPECIAL THANKS TO ERIC DAMIEN FOR HIS COLLABORATION.