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Skylab

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77265

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7:00 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2013

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Galleries | Art,  Art Exhibits,  Museums | Sights

Invoking her 11-year-old self as the precocious Albertine, Julie Delpy sets this film in July 1979, as news reports predict that the 850-ton space station Skylab will soon crash to earth in France. That provides the subplot for the summer holidays, in a house somewhere in Brittany, where a boisterous extended family (parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other relatives) are gathered to celebrate the birthday of Granny Amandine (Emmanuelle Riva from Amour). Drama and dysfunction unfold among the assortment of relatives played by Delpy, Eric Elmosnino (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life), Bernadette Lafont, et al.  
 
 
 

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