French cinema at AF Colombo
View(s):Weekly film screening at Alliance Française de Colombo will screen ‘Le Scaphandre et le Papillon’ a biopic drama revolving around a journalist who suffers a massive stroke will be screened at 3 pm on Sept 2 and at 6.30 pm on September 3. The film is directed by Julian Scanabel. On 8 December 1995 a massive stroke plunged Jean-Dominique Bauby, a journalist and father two children, in a deep coma. When he came out of it, all his motor functions had deteriorated. Suffering from what doctors say “locked-in syndrome”, he could not move, speak or even breathe without assistance. In this inert body, only one eye moves. This eye became his link with the world outside with life. He blinks once to say “yes” twice to say “no”. With his eye, he stops focus of visitors’ attention on the letters of the alphabet dictated to him and form of words, phrases….
‘Seul contre tous’, a French crime drama directed by Gaspar Noé will be screened at 3 pm on September 9 and at 6.30 pm on September 10. The drift of a former butcher equine, first in Lille, Paris and then he moved to the hotel de l’Avenir and tries to rebuild his life. Gradually, he withdraws into himself.Penniless and with only companion of a gun loaded with three balls he only sees clearly the driving force of his life. His stomach cries out for food. His brain tells him to take revenge. As for his heart…the unforeseen always try to arise at the end of the tunnel.