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Celebrating French cinema
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New Wave cinema at Alliance Française
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What’s love? A scene from “Charlotte and her Steak”
The Alliance Française continues to celebrate the month of images with a unique selection of films. Eric Rohmer was the pseudonym of the French director and screen writer Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer. He was a former editor of the famous French fi
lm journal Cahiers du Cinema and was also a very important figure in the post-war “New Wave cinema”.
Alliance Française of Madras, in association with the Indo Cine Appreciation Forum, celebrates the films of Rohmer showcasing not only his regular feature films but also some of his short films till May 17, at 6.30 p.m. at Auditorium AFM.
Fiction
Pauline at the Beach will be screened on May 15. Recently divorced, Marion decides to spend the end of summer in the family beach house on the Normandy coast. She takes her young cousin Pauline, who is delighted to be with her.
At the beach, they meet up with Pierre, Marion’s ex-lover. He offers to teach them windsurfing and introduces them to Henri, who invites them to his place. While at the local casino, Pierre confesses his love to Marion, but she now fancies Henri. Pauline, meanwhile, has met Sylvain…
Short films
On May 16, watch Suzanne’s Career starring Philippe Beuze and Jean-Claude Biette. The Girl at the Monceau Bakery is the tale of a young man who after meeting a local girl with whom he’s secretly been in love, discovers that she has disappeared. Finding himself with time on his hands, he spends his days searching for her.
A young and pretty assistant in a bakery seems to be attracted to him. To deflect boredom, he decides to seduce her. Just when she is about to give into his charms, the first woman turns up again, her ankle wrapped in a bandage.
On May 17, Charlotte and her Steak will be screened. And Nadja in Paris is about Nadja, a young student born in Belgrade with U.S. citizenship, who lives on the Cité Universitaire campus in Paris while writing her thesis on Marcel Proust.
She takes a walk through the city, relating her impressions of the different neighbourhoods she visits.
For more information, contact Alliance Française at 28279803/ 28271477.
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