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  Arts Programmes: French Movies at Alliance

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AUGUST MOVIES

LA BÊTE HUMAINE (1938)

(The Human Beast)

France, B&W, 100 min

Date:               Tuesday, 5 August 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Jean Renoir

Cast:               Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy, Gérard Landry

Synopsis:        Séverine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them, but doesn't tell the police, because he's in love with Séverine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her...

LA CLASSE DE NEIGE (1998)

(Class Trip)

France, Colour, 96 min

Date:               Tuesday, 12 August 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Claude Miller

Cast:               Clément van den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan, François Roy, Yves Verhoeven

Synopsis:        Claude Miller directed this French psychological drama adapted from Emmanuel Carrere’s 1995 novel (based on a factual news item). Detailing a troubled boy's traumas on a school skiing trip, the film dramatises Nicolas' visions as he describes his dreams and nightmares to his friend Hodkann. 

LES JEUX SONT FAITS (1947)

(The Chips are Down)

France, B&W, 105 min

Date:               Tuesday, 19 August 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Jean Delannoy

Cast:               Micheline Presle, Marcello Pagliero, Marguerite Moreno, Charles Dullin

Synopsis:        Eve Charlier is poisoned by her husband, an unscrupulous state official, so that he can marry her younger sister. At the same moment that she dies, a political agitator, Pierre Dumaine is shot dead by a police informer on the eve of an uprising against the state. Eve and Pierre meet up in the afterlife, where they can observe the world of the living but cannot alter anything, and are given a second chance at love.

UNE VIE (1958)

(End of Desire)

France/Italy, Colour, 86 min

Date:               Tuesday, 26 August 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Alexandre Astruc

Cast:               Maria Schell, Louis Arbessier, Gérard Darrieu, Marie-Hélène Dasté

Synopsis:        “End of Desire” is based on a novel by Guy de Maupassant. Maria Schell plays Jeanne, who enters into a loveless marriage with impoverished Julien. Having married Jeanne only for her money, Julien has no qualms about carrying on an affair with Gilberte, the family maid. Even after Gilberte gives birth to Julien's child, Jeanne forgives her husband, but he fails to learn his lesson and as a result deeply suffers. The physical and psychological isolation of the long-suffering heroine is emphasised by director Astruc's decision to film the movie almost exclusively in a remote country mansion.

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