Different faces of love
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French romantic drama movies with interesting interpretation to love will be screened at the auditorium of Alliance Francaise de Colombo on every Tuesday and Wednesday. French drama ‘Loulou’ directed by Maurice Pialat portraying how contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution will be screened at 3 pm on February 10 and at 6.30 pm on February 11.
Starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu ‘Loulou’ is the story of a love affair between two young Parisians from totally different social backgrounds. Loulou, a petty criminal meets middle-class Nelly at a disco. Nelly works in advertising and has been living for three years with her boss André. Bored with André, she leaves him to live with Loulou……
‘Un Amour à taire’ (A Love to Hide), French film made loosely based on the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel by Pierre Seel and directed by Christian Faure will be shown at 3 pm on February 17 and at 6.30 pm on February 18.
Sarah, John and Philip were between twenty and thirty years in spring 1942. She is Jewish. They are gay.. In this period of occupation, all the social rules are disregarded. They, all the three are overcome by the same imperative desire: to survive, survive despite their “differences”, survive despite their age can neither give nor stop …until the day John wrongly accused of being the lover of a Wehrmacht officer, was deported by the Nazis. This is the beginning of his descent into hell under the sign of Pink Triangle …
