CINEMA
6th Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival 2008
The Alliance Française du Bengale participate to this film festival : it had furnished the short films of the section “Acclaimed shorts from France” which will projected on Tuesday 4th November at 2.30 pm.
Find the full program of the festival on www.kalpanirjhar.com/festival_current.html.
@ Max Müller Bhavan
8 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata
November 1 – November 5 in the afternoon
Cine-club
As always… French films, English subtitles… and all welcome till hall is full!
November : Psychological Drama of Love
November 4
Jeux d’enfants / Love Me if you Dare
Directed by Yann Samuell, 2003.
Jeux d'enfants ('Child's play') or 'Love me if you dare' is a love story born of a game of truth or dare gone out of control. When they first meet, Julien impresses Sophie (a bullied newcomer to his town) with a game based on a present from his mother - a brightly coloured candy tin. Thereafter the two are engaged in a playful rivalry: whoever has the box can force the other to perform a dare to get it back. Yet their love is honest throughout, despite the distinctly sociopathic tendencies that Julien is developing. It's when the relationship breaks up and Sophie reconnects with him as an adult that the plot becomes disjointed - turning into what some can interpret as an alternative timeline or even the dying dreams of 'what could have been'.
November 11
Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Dangerous Love Affairs
Directed by Roger Vadim, 1959.
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
November 18
Alice & Martin
Directed by André Téchiné, 1998.
At the age of 10, Martin is sent by his single mother (a tough, tender, joyful Carmen Maura) to live with his father, an industrialist with a wife and family of his own. Ten years later, the grown Martin (pretty, first-time actor Alexis Loret) flees his new home in a panic when his father dies, and he lives like a hermit in the hills before seeking out his brother (Mathieu Amalric) in Paris. When he meets Alice (the radiant Juliette Binoche), his brother's worldly, wary roommate, his puppy-dog obsessiveness and seductive but sincere tenderness slowly wins her over despite their age differences. But insular Martin keeps his own emotions wrapped up, even as he shoots to the top of modeling world, until his haunted past bursts out in a depression that threatens to consume him and Alice must reconnect him to his estranged family.
November 25
Madame Bovary
Directed by Claude Chabrol, 1991.
In 19th century France, the daughter of a country squire, Emma, marries a country doctor, Charles Bovary. All to soon, Emma grows bored with her husband and looks elsewhere for romance – first with a landowner, Rodolphe Boulanger, then with a law student, Léon Dupuis. Her extravagant tastes lead Emma to run up a huge debt. Determined to keep her folly from her husband, who still dotes on her, Madame Bovary turns to her former lovers for help...
