Promo still from Jaman.com AFS Essentials: Le Vent de la NuitTuesday, December 4thAlamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)FREE for AFS members, $4 non-members; 7pm[info] | [tickets]Tonight, AFS continues their amazing Phillipe Garrel retrospective with 1999's La Vent de La Nuit (The Wind of the Night), starring the timeless Catherine Deneuve as Hélene, a hot (duh) rich lady driven to distraction by her much younger art-student lover, Paul. Does he really love her for who......

Oh those beautiful and melancholy French people. They have to go and make a bittersweet love story where everyone sings all the time and yet not one song is hummable. Jacque Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a film opera with no great musical numbers to try and recreate in your living room when no one else is home. In other words, there's no I Feel Pretty or How Do You Solve a Problem......