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OCTOBER
MOVIES
REGAIN (1937)
(Harvest)
France,
B&W, 127 min
Date:
Tuesday,
7 October 2003 – 9pm
Director:
Marcel
Pagnol
Cast:
Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Marguerite Moreno,
Robert Le Vigan
Synopsis:
Far up in the Alps in
the Provence region, the regeneration of an abandoned village,
successfully undertaken by an improbable couple: a strong and rough
poacher and a poor girl who used to be hired as a beast of burden by
a wandering scissors-grinder.
LE
TEMPS RETROUVÉ (1999)
(Time
Regained)
France/Italy/Portugal,
Colour, 169 min
Date:
Tuesday,
21 October 2003 – 9pm
Director:
Raoul
Ruiz
Cast: Catherine
Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich
Synopsis:
Marcel Proust is on his deathbed. Looking
at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his
lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of
society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and
forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with
the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the
pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine,
and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother
and grandmother. A supremely elegant, beautifully designed
adaptation of the last volume of Proust’s masterwork
“Remembrance of Things Past”. An international cast and an
imaginative script highlight Proustian motifs of memory and time as
it works through the intrigues and gossip mongering of Parisian high
society.
NOVEMBER
MOVIES
LE POULPE (1998)
(The Octopus)
France,
Colour, 100 min
Date:
Tuesday,
18 November 2003
Director:
Guillaume
Nicloux
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clotilde Courau, Stéphane Boucher,
Julie Delarme
Synopsis:
“Le Poulpe”, aka The Octopus, the hero
of a popular series of crime novels created by Jean-Bernard Pouy, is
a kind of investigator--outside the law, but neither a detective nor
a righter of wrongs, just an ordinary though unusually inquisitive
citizen. In this “waterfront western”, The Octopus drops anchor
in a shipbuilding port where seaside murder and dockside frolics go
hand in hand. Aided by his liberated girlfriend Cheryl and his
sidekick Pedro, the Octopus plunges into the tragicomic drama of a
harbour town in which everything seems to revolve around a
mysterious freighter and a gang of night-roaming thugs.
L’AFFAIRE
MARCORELLE (2000)
(The
Marcorelle Affair)
France,
Colour, 96 min
Date:
Tuesday,
25 November 2003
Director:
Serge
Le Péron
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Philippe
Khorsand
Synopsis:
“L'Affaire
Marcorelle” is a psycho-drama featuring a prosecutor
judge, a former radical of May 1968, who suffers from chronic
nightmares and walks the edge between dream and reality. He meets
Agnieszka, a Polish waitress, on a lonely night in a Turkish
restaurant and accompanies her to her place. A series of bizarre
events lead to the murder of the woman's father, but did Marcorelle
really commit the crime? Le Péron has fashioned a witty,
sophisticated suspense thriller that speaks of the agonising fears
and nightmarish phobias of the present day.
DECEMBER
MOVIES
L.627 (1992)
France,
Colour, 145 min
Date:
Tuesday,
2 December 2003
Director:
Bertrand
Tavernier
Cast: Didier
Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Jean-Roger Milo
Synopsis:
This gritty police drama shows us the
underbelly of the Parisian drug trade. Lulu is a tough streetwise
narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan,
doesn't play by the rules or kow-tow to his weak and/or corrupt
superiors. Lulu thrives in this violent world, where sheer guts can
overcome his squad's deficiencies of money and equipment. Despite
the ruthless environment that he lives and works in every day, he
still manages somehow to maintain his humanity.
SCÈNES
DE CRIME (2000)
(Crime
Scenes)
France,
Colour, 100 min
Date:
Tuesday,
9 December 2003
Director:
Frédéric
Schoendoerffer
Cast: Charles
Berling, André Dussollier, Ludovic Schoendoerffer, Pierre Mottet
Synopsis:
Two police investigators, Fabian and
Gomez, are assigned to look into the disappearance of a teenage
girl, Marie Bourgoin. Shortly after unearthing the remains of
Marie’s missing dog, they discover the mutilated corpses of two
young people. When more dismembered bodies are found, it becomes
clear that Fabian and Gomez are on the trail of a dangerous and
sadistic serial killer. For both men, this could be their final
case…
VIVEMENT DIMANCHE! (1983)
(Finally, Sunday)
France,
B&W, 110 min
Date:
Tuesday,
16 December 2003
Director:
François
Truffaut
Cast:
Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon,
Philippe Laudenbach
Synopsis:
When his wife’s lover and then his wife
are both murdered, estate agent Julien Vercel is the prime suspect.
However, his secretary, Barbara Becker is convinced of his
innocence, even if he has just given her the sack. Whilst Vercel
goes into hiding, Barbara sets out to uncover the real murderer and
discovers a tangled web of intrigue. But is Vercel really
innocent..?
JANUARY 2004 MOVIES
INSPECTEUR LAVARDIN
(1986)
France/Switzerland,
Colour, 100 min
Date:
January
2004
Director:
Claude
Chabrol
Cast:
Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc
Bideau
Synopsis:
Inspecteur Lavardin is called in to
investigate the murder of a leading moral figure in a village in
provincial France. Lavardin’s skills are put to the test as he
encounters a web of deceit and intrigue, not to mention some very
peculiar individuals. To top it all, the murder victim’s widow was
once one of Lavardin’s former loves, something which has a
profound bearing on the outcome of the investigation.
LES
MARCHANDS DE SABLE (2000)
(The
Sandmen)
France,
Colour, 102 min
Date:
January
2004
Director:
Pierre
Salvadori
Cast: Mathieu
Demy, Marina Golovine, Serge Riaboukine, Patrick Lizana
Synopsis:
After a spell in prison, Marie is reunited
with her brother Antoine, who now works as a waiter in a terrace café
in Paris. What she doesn’t know is that Antoine is mixed up with a
gang of ruthless drug dealers. After making a delivery to a client,
Antoine is killed by his drug-dealing associates when he tries to
trick them. Marie, refusing to accept Antoine’s death as an
accident, resolves to uncover his murderers. She enlists the help of
her brother’s former employer, Alain, who is unwittingly being
manipulated by the drug dealers.
GARDE
À VUE (1981)
(Under
Suspicion)
France,
Colour, 86 min
Date:
January
2004
Director:
Claude
Miller
Cast: Lino
Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand
Synopsis:
In a small French town, two young girls
are found raped and murdered. The obvious suspect is a lawyer, Jérôme
Martinaud. Convinced of his guilt, Inspector Gallien summons
Martinaud to his office on New Year’s Eve and starts to
interrogate him. At first, Gallien fails to make any progress, but
then Martinaud’s wife appears and makes some shocking
revelations…
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Contributor: LIEN
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Art Programmes: French Movies
