AF Colombo : A mirror to French Cinema
View(s):Based on a true story French war drama film ‘UN Secret’ directed by Claude Miller will be screened at 3 pm on October 14 and at 6.30 pm on October 15 at Alliance Française de Colombo auditorium.
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbour that his family’s Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his “Aryan” appearing parents. His athletic father laboured to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family’s many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labour and death camps by the Gestapo. Based on a true story.
‘Monsieur Hire’, 1989 French crime thriller film directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Michel Blanc in the title role and Sandrine Bonnaire as the object of Hire’s affection will be screened at 3 pm on October 21 and at 6.30 pm on October 22.
The film is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn’t like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
‘La Delicatesse’ (Delicacy) romantic comedy directed by David Foenkinos is a story about a French woman who mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker. The film will be screened at 3 pm on October 28 and at 6.30 pm on October 29.
All the films are subtitled in English screened at the auditorium of Alliance Française de Colombo, 11 Barnes Place, Colombo 7.