Attend this film festival: Boston French Film Festival

The Sleeping Beauty

Always a must-see cinema event, The Boston French Film Festival at the MFA opens with laughs this year as it screens Philippe Le Guay's The Women on the Sixth Floor (2010; July 7 @ 7:30 pm; July 9 @ 5:40 pm), a comedy about a bevy of Spanish housekeepers who turn a staid bourgeois family upside down. Le Guay will be attending tonight's screening. Other highpoints include Bertrand Blier's The Clink of Ice (2010; July 17 @ 5:10 pm), Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty (2010; July 22 @ 6 pm; July 23 @ 3 pm) and the irrepressible Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme (2010; July 16 @ 1 pm; July 17 @ 3 pm). The Festival runs through July 24 at 465 Huntington, Ave, Boston | $11; $9 seniors, students; with reception $37; $32 seniors, students | 800.440.6975 or mfa.org/programs/film.