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on 19-Nov-01 04:51 AM
What follows is from Kalpana Ghimire, the assistant director of Kathmandu's Alliance Francaise.
French Embassy and The Alliance Francaise -- with assistance from The Kathmandu Film Archive -- present:
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Tuesday 27th November at 4 :30 PM
La Lectrice (1988) “The Reader”
Directed by: Michel DEVILLE
Colour, duration: 1H40
Cast: Régis BOYER, Maria CASARES, MIOU-MIOU
Constance is a voracious reader. She decides to make her hobby into a career and advertises her services as a reader of literature. This new job allows her to meet many people. Eric, her first ‘client’ is paralysed. Another of her client, a hurried and harassed CEO.The life of Constance’s clients as well as her own become tangled with the stories she reads.
The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade.
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At 6 :30 PM
Police Python (1975)
Directed by : Alain CORNEAU
Colour, duration: 2H05
Cast : Yves MONTAND, François PERRIER, Simone SIGNORET
Orleans, France. The Police Inspector Ferrot is attracted by Sylvia, the mistress of his boss Ganay. Ferrot and Sylvia have an affair and are found out. Ganay kills the young woman and charges Ferrot with the investigations. All the clues point at Ferrot who did not commit the crime. Luckily for him, Therese Ganay’s wife comes to his rescue.
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Wednesday 28th November at 4 :30 PM
La vie est un long fleuve tranquille, (1988)
“Life is a long quite river”
Directed by: Etienne CHATILIEZ
Colour, duration: 1H30
Cast: Daniel GELIN, Catherine HIEGEL, André VILMS
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with
rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
At 6 :30 PM
Un air de famille (1996) “Family Affair”
Directed by: Cédric KLAPISCH
Colour, duration: 1H50
Cast: Jean-Pierre BACRI, Jean- Pierre DARROUSSIN, Catherine FROT
An upper middle-class French family gather for a meal in the restaurant owned by one of the family members. The absence of one of the members triggers a lot of bitterness that brings to the surface all the hidden tension between the family members. Thus, in one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories clash and coalesce.
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Thursday 29th November
Thursday 29th November at 4:30 PM
Marius et Jeannette (1996)
Directed by: Robert GUEDIGUIAN
Colour, duration: 1H42
Cast: Ariane ASCAIDE, Jacques BOUDET, Pascale ROBERTS
Marius is the keeper of an abandonned cement works staying high above the quarter of l’Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won’t be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again.
At 6: 30 PM
Le Bossu (1997) “On Guard”
Directed by: Philippe de BROCA
Colour, duration: 2H00
Cast: Daniel AUTEUIL, Marie GILLAIN, Fabrice LUCHINI
The Comte de Gonzague has kept secret the existence of his cousin the Duke’s bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a baron’s daughter. The Duke and the mother are murdered but the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Duke’s vast fortune and the Duke’s friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère escape. Lagardère enters the Count’s service his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back.
Friday 30th November
Friday 30th November
at 4:30 PM
Tchao pantin (1983)
Directed by: Claude BERRI
Colour, duration: 1H40
Cast: Richard ANCONIA, COLUCHE, Agnes SORAL
Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a petrol pump, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. But his life changes when he meets Rashid, a bar owner and a dealer. He and Lambert connect somehow, and a few days later, they go for a drink. But the young man is too cavalier, and he is killed. Lambert decides to avenge the young man.
at 6:30 PM
Coup de torchon (1981) “Clean Slate”
Directed by: Bernard TAVERNIER
Colour, duration: 2H08
Cast: Stéphane AUDRAN, Isabelle HUPPERT, Philippe NOIRET
1938, in Bourkassa, a French African colony, Lucien Cordier is the cop of his village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually dumb, racialist and lustful). He is a washout; everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, circumstances force him to turn into a machiavellian exterminating angel.
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