In 1968, the prim-and-proper Paulette (Juliette Binoche) tries to keep her boarding school afloat while reconnecting with her first love. https://www.mfah.org/calendar/how-to-be-a-good-wife/202205071900#tickets
A woman (Josiane Balasko) moves in with her daughter and son-in-law for “a few days.” https://www.mfah.org/calendar/knock-knock-its-mom/202205072115#tickets
When their grandmother loses her memory, a family sneaks her out of a nursing home in search of the man they believe to be their long-lost grandfather. https://www.mfah.org/calendar/when-granny-meets-grandpa/202205081600#tickets
What is the Haute Provence? A land of wild beauty, home of eagle and marmot, a seductive sea of mountains. Le Chapeau de Gendarme. Le Chambeyron. Pelat. An uncompromising place, with gorges of ruby red and golden honey, it rivers untethered, untamed. The Haute Provence is a geologist’s paradise, a hiker’s unceasing wonder, a skier’s …
Alliance favorite Cara Black returns to Houston’s Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet, on March 18 at 3 PM. Join the Alliance for a glass of wine to welcome Cara as she presents Night Flight to Paris, a follow-up to her gripping historical thriller Three Hours in Paris.
Brittany has Europe’s largest concentration of prehistoric monuments: menhirs (giant standing stones), dolmens (like huge stone tables), cairns (stone mounds over burial chambers), and alignments of megaliths that stretch in columns for miles. Experts generally agree that these mysterious monuments, built between 5000 and 2000 BCE, had a religious function. This lecture will give you …