French cinema at AF Colombo
View(s):1983 French movie ‘L’Argent’ directed by Robert Bresson narrates around a forged 500- franc note that is being passed from hand to hand will be screened at 3 pm on April 15 and at 6.30 pm on April 16 at Alliance Française de Colombo auditorium at no 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 7. The crime drama shows how the cash note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn’t see it for what it is – which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to turn to crime and murder…
Director Philippe Loiret’s ‘Mademoiselle’ revolves around Claire, a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment. It will be screened at 3 pm on April 22 and at 6.30 pm on April 23.
The film ‘La Petite Voleuse’ directed by Claude Miller is set in a small city of the centre of France in the fifties.Janine by going out of the school steals a packet of cigarettes in a car of the American army and clothes from’ ‘madness of Paris ‘.The director of this establishment arrives to her adopted parents and discovers the booty. One day, Janine meets Raul, young roof-repairer in the act of stealing. Her complicity in the stealing and then love is going to link these two young peoples in rebellion against their world.
It will be screened at 3 pm on April 29 and at 6.30 pm on April 30.