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ANGEL
In French with English Subtitles
M18 - Sexual scene
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Belgium/England/France, 2006, Colour, 134 mins
Date: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 – 8pm
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Romola Garai, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling |
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Based on the novel by British author Elizabeth Taylor, set in England, 1905. Angel Deverell is a gifted young writer who dreams of success, fame and love. But what will happen if all her dreams come true? Angel is a destitute-but-determined young woman living in turn-of-the-century England who ascends the social ranks after authoring a series of successful romantic novels. This is the story of a young woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world about her, and creates her own realities.
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LA VIE EN ROSE
(The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf)
In French with English Subtitles
M16
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France, 2007, Colour, Mono, 140 min
Date: Tuesday, 8 July 2008 – 8 pm
Director: Olivier Dahan
Cast:Marion Cotillard (won the Oscar for Best Actress), Gérard Depardieu, Sylvie
Testud, Clotilde Courau
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As a small child, Edith Piaf is crying on a stoop, near some other children on the streets of Paris...
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PERSEPOLIS
In English
PG – some drug and sexual references |
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French, 2007, Colour, Black & White, 105 mins
Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 – 8pm
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Gabrielle Lopes |
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Marjane Satrapi grew up wearing sneakers and beating up boys. She wanted to grow up to be a saint. When she was ten years old, her world changed overnight. Girls and boys had to use different doors to enter the school. She had to cover herself with a long dark robe. Grownups around her began to disappear. Marjane has several close encounters with the country's morality police and her teachers at school. Iraqi bombs fall on the street where she lives. Eventually her parents send her abroad to receive a European education, but she is miserable: she loves her family and country, despite their flaws, too much to stay away for long. After a brief return and a failed marriage, Marjane leaves Iran for good.
This is a heartbreaking true story of a childhood coinciding with regime change and war in Iran. It's a story that everyone who counts themselves as a human being should read or watch.
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PARIS JE T’AIME
(Paris, I Love You)
In French with English Subtitles
NC16 |
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France, 2006, Colour, Mono, 110 min
Date: Tuesday, 22 July 2008 – 8pm
Directors: Tom Tykwer, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Wes Craven, Grander Chadha, Alexander Payne, Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Olivier Assayas, Sylvain Chomet, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Bruno Podalydès, Christopher Doyle , Gérard Depardieu , Frédéric Auburtin
Cast: Fanny Ardant , Juliette Binoche, Javier Camara, Éric Caravaca, Sergio Castellitto, Willem Dafoe , Ben Gazzara, Maggie Gyllenhaal , Bob Hoskins, Yolande Moreau, Nick Nolte, Natalie Portman, Gena Rowlands, Ludivine Sagnier, Gaspard Ulliel, Leonor Watling
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Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitate, sucked dry, reinvented or awakened... Internationally renowned directors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love. Most of the directors have written their own pieces, and they range from whimsical to romantic, to dramatic and tragic.
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PEAU D’ANE
(Donkey Skin)
In French with English Subtitles
NC16 |
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France, 1970, Colour, 100 mins
(Film will be screened in DVD format)
Date: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 – 8pm
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle, Fernand Ledoux
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On her deathbed, the queen of a strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she. In the whole kingdom, only one woman is more beautiful than the dead queen – her young daughter. In respect of his former wife’s wishes, the king asks his daughter to marry him. Shocked, the princess appeals to a garden fairy to help her. The fairy tells the princess to set the king a series of impossible challenges to dissuade him from marrying her. First, the princess asks her father to give her a dress in the colour of time. The dress is duly provided and the princess tries a harder challenge. She demands the skin of the magical donkey which excretes jewels instead of the usual brown matter. The king obliges and the princess acquires an unusual new addition to her wardrobe. In despair, the princess flees to a nearby farm, wearing the donkey’s skin, and offers to work as a skivvy. Here, she meets a young prince who, on seeing her dressed in her beautiful gown, falls madly in love with her. The prince becomes lovesick and asks for a cake to be baked. In the cake he finds a ring, which he is certain belongs to the woman he loves…
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