March brings French movie
View(s):Alliance Française de Colombo, one of the premier institutions that promote French cinema would showcase a number of French cinematic productions during its weekly film screening on Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the month of March.
The screenings for the month start with ‘Mammuth’, a 2010 film directed by by Gustave de Kervern and the shows at 3 pm on March 5 and at 6.30 pm on March 6.
The film narrates around Serge Pilardosse who has just turned 60 years old. He works from the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the time retirement rang, and it is the disappointment: it lacks points, some employers have forgotten to declare! Driven by Catherine, his wife, he mounts his old motorcycle 70s, a “Mammut” which earned him his nickname, and goes in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he finds his past and his quest to document administrative soon becomes accessory …
‘Police’ (1985) by Maurice Pialat is a crime/ romantic drama around Mangin, a tough Parisian cop who is trying to break a Tunisian drug smuggling ring. In the course of his investigations, he meets and falls in love with the drug carrier’s girlfriend, Noria,a compulsive liar, who has stolen cash and drugs from the gang.
It will be screened at 3 pm on March 12 and at 6.30 pm on March 13.
French/ Canadian film ‘Léolo’ (1992) directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon revolves around young Leo Lauzon who is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he’s Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). It screens on March 19 and 20.
‘Noce Blanche’ (1990) directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau is a movie around a teacher of philosophy who discovers a complicated pupil, a seventeen years old girl with a quite a cynic and lucid view of the world. He gets involved in helping her to follow the routine of the study, but soon he is fascinated by her and they fall in a passionate love.
The film will be screened only on March 27 at 6.30 pm.
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