Boston French Film Festival 2025

The Boston French Film Festival returns to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), with a hand-picked lineup of the year's most lauded Gallic cinema, ranging from stirring dramas to star-studded comedies through August 24. The festival continues this week with the New England premiere of Night Call (La nuit se traîne) on Aug. 1 at 7pm; Three Friends, Emmanuel Mouret’s bittersweet comedy about love, infidelity, and emotional entanglement among a trio of women on Aug. 2 at 11am; and When Fall Is Coming (Quand vient l’automne) on Aug. 2 at 2:30pm. Holy Cow brings charm to the lineup on Aug. 3 at 11am with a tale about a teenage cheesemaker chasing a contest prize, and Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s new adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo reminds us on Aug. 3 at 1:30pm that French cinema, like the country’s literature, still revels in grand tales of betrayal, justice, and revenge.