January 2012
 

BELLE DE JOUR
(Beauty of the Day)
In French with English Subtitles
R21

France, 1967, 101 mins

Date: Tuesday, 3 January 2012 – 8 pm
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.
  

BANLIEUE 13: ULTIMATUM
(District 13: Ultimatum)
In French with English Subtitles
NC16 – violence

France, 2009, 101 mins

Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2012 – 8pm
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Cast: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Philippe Torreton

Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
 

L’ASSAULT
(The Assault)
In French with English Subtitles
M18 – violence and religious references

France, 2010, 95 mins

Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2012 – 8pm
Director: Julien Leclercq
Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier

On Christmas eve 1994, four armed men from the Islamic terrorist group GIA hijacked Air France flight 8969 in Algiers. When they landed in Marseille the plane was raided by highly trained French forces.
 

LE HUSSARD SUR LE TOIT
(The Horsman on the Roof)
In French with English Subtitles
NC16 - nudity

France, 1995, 135 mins

Date: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 – 8pm
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi, François Cluzet

In 1832, cholera ravages Provence (South of France). After several misadventures, Angelo, young Italian officer hunted by the Austrian secret police, meets Pauline de Theus, a young lady. After a second accidental meeting, both will start the search of Pauline's husband in a chaotic country.