Friday Night Nenette and Boni

Friday Night is the story of a one-night stand that takes place in a Paris traffic jam; Nenette and Boni is a warmly observed story of two teenage siblings in Marseilles dealing with an unwanted pregnancy.

Second feature start time: 8:45 pm. "Simply one of the sexiest films ever made about two people who find each other for one night."—Film Comment on Friday Night

Paris has rarely seemed as magical as Denis renders it in Friday Night. The setting is no less enchanting for being paralyzed by a mass transit strike that's in turn spawned a monster traffic jam. At a standstill in her car, a woman spends her last night before moving in with her fiancee all alone—until she decides to pick up a man stranded by traffic. What follows is a dream-like one-night stand that Film Comment described as "at once shy and bold, discreet and abandoned." (2002; 90 mins)

Nenette and Boni is a warmly observed story of two teenage siblings in Marseilles, with runaway Nenette turning to her slacker brother Boniface to help her cope with an unwanted pregnancy. (1996; 103 mins.)

support credits

Retrospective: Claire Denis presented with support from the Puffin Foundation and Ohio Arts Council.

Special thanks to Marie Bonnel, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York City and Florence Charmasson, Unifrance.

Season support provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.