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  Arts Programmes: French Movies at Alliance

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ON CONNAIT LA CHANSON (1997)

(Same Old Song)

France/UK/Switzerland, Colour, 120 min

Date:               Tuesday, 3 June 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Alain Resnais

Cast:               Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier, Agnès Jaoui

Synopsis:        Odile (Sabine Azéma) is looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille (Agnès Jaoui) who just completed her doctoral thesis has fallen in love with an estate agent who is responsible for Odile's apartment and who has an elder employee.

LE PIANISTE (2002)

(The Pianist)

France/UK/Germany/Netherlands/Poland, Colour, 149 min

Date:               Tuesday, 10 June 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Roman Polanski

Cast:               Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Michal Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Maureen Lipman

Synopsis:        A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labour camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

LOVE ME (2000)

France, Colour, 107 min

Date:               Tuesday, 17 June 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Laetitia Masson

Cast:               Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin, Aurore Clément, Julie Depardieu

Synopsis:        The movie presents a map of its main character's mind rather than a story. Realistic scenes mix with dream sequences and hallucinations. The realistic episodes feature Gabrielle, a young woman living in a trailer on a beach in northern France. She works in a bar, drinks a little too much and is a big fan of aging rock-blues singer Lennox. A more dreamlike storyline shows the same woman wandering disorientatedly through an American city and meeting Lennox after a concert.

LA SYMPHONIE PASTORALE (1946)

France, B&W, 110 min

Date:               Tuesday, 24 June 2003 – 9pm

Director:         Jean Delannoy

Cast:               Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, Line Noro, Jacques Louvigny, Jean Desailly

Synopsis:        This adaptation of André Gide's classic novel tells of a pastor's forbidden love for a blind girl... and the tragic consequences of that passion. The cleric takes charge of the orphaned Gertrude, and devotes all his care and affection to her. As she grows to womanhood, his initially charitable behaviour becomes compromised by romantic desires. Gertrude, however, remains literally blind to her guardian's emotions, and their effects on his wife and family. Until, one day, everything changes.

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