Vacation time movies for Children

By Susitha R. Fernando

Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation will telecast a weekly Children’s film during the December vacation. World famous children's film will include 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Butterfly' and 'L'avion' and they are dubbed into Sinhala and will targets on developing children's interest in cinema.

'Butterfly' will be telecast on Saturday December 16 at 12.15 pm. 'L'avion' screens on December 12.15 pm.

The Friday night movies for December on the Rupavahini channel include 'X-Men' on December 15, 'Disappearance' on December 29. The film starts at 10.05 pm. 'Child Called Jesus', the special movie for Christmas will be telecast on December 22.

'A tout de suite' at Alliance Francaise

French director Benoît Jacquot's "A tout de suite" will be screened on December 12, at 3 pm and on December 13 at 6.30 pm at Alliance Francaise, 11, Barnes Place Colombo-7.

The French movie with English subtitles is based on actual events, a Parisian art student, Lili, falls for a handsome Moroccan criminal and impulsively follows him into hiding after a bungled bank robbery.

Shot in stunning black and white on digital video, A tout de suite is a period piece of a kind; set in 1975, it feels completely contemporary.

Isild Le Besco is the nameless heroine, an art student living with her sister and father. One day she falls head over heels for a charismatic Moroccan. After he and a friend rob a bank and use her room as a hideaway, they persuade the young woman and another girl to join them on the run, taking their loot first to Madrid, then Tangiers. They live high on their ill-gotten gains before they are forced to flee to Greece, where the story takes a more sombre turn.

Told in an airy, breezy style that perfectly matches its tone, A tout de suite is reminiscent of early New Wave films.

A selection of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, 'A tout de suite' is a Cinema Guild Release.