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Weekly film screening at Alliance Francaise de Colomb Colombo features different faces of the French cinema. ‘ Les femmes du 6ème étag étage’ ( The Women on the 6th Floor Floor) directed by Philippe Le Guay will be screened at 3 pm on May 17 and at 6.30 pm on May 18 at Alliance Francaise de Colom Colombo. Paris, in the early 1960s. Je JeanLouis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker,stockbroker married to Suzanne, a starchy class- conscious wom woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boringb life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria,Mar the charming new maid at the service of Jean- Louis’ family,fam makes him discover the servants’ quarter on the sixth floorfloo of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean- Louis to open to a newn civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean- Louis will gradually become another man, a better man. Sri Lanka National Television Rupavahini is to telecast Vesak from Bodh Gaya tittled ‘Siri Budhgaya Vandana’ from 5.30 am on the Vesak day, May 21. It was after 25 years that such an important event was being telecast from Bodhgaya. On Vesak day at 6.30 am a sermon will be delivered by Aggamaha Panditha Ven. Kotugoda Dhammawasi Anunayake Thera. Throughout the day various religious programmes will be telecast from India on Rupavahini and a large number of devotees and a crew from SLRC have already gone to India. Parallel to this various religious programmes will be aired from Gangaramaya via the ‘Buddha Rashmi’ Vesak programme.
‘ Le Fils de l’autre’ ( The Other Son) film created by Lorraine Levy will be shown at 3 pm on May 24 and at 6.30 pm on May 25.
Complex repercussions face two families -- one Israeli, one Palestinian -- after learning that their sons ( Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi) were accidentally switched at birth.
‘ L’affaire Farewell ‘ a film directed by Christian Carion will be screened at 3 pm on May 31 and at 6.30 pm on June 1.
In the early 1980s, a high- ranking KGB analyst, Sergei Grigoriev, disillusioned with the Soviet regime, decides to pass Soviet secrets, including a list of Soviet spies, to the government of France, then under the newly elected President François Mitterrand, a Socialist in coalition with the Communist Party. Grigoriev ( codenamed Farewell by the French intelligence service) hopes to force change in the Soviet Union by revealing their extensive network of spies trying to acquire scientific, technical and industrial information from the West. He uses Pierre Froment, a naïve French engineer based in Moscow, as his unlikely intermediary.
‘Aluth‘A HorekHor Onee’, the latest comedy play that is goingg aroundaro the countrycou will be stageds in Moratuwa,Mo MayMa 15, today at 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm at SarvodayaSar Vishwa Samadhi Hall Moratuwa.
TheT play directed by Ajith Mendis stars WijayaWij Nandasiri, Roshan Pilapitiya, Saman Hemarathne,Hem Senaka Titus, Mihiri Priyangani and Kumari Senarathne, Anthoney Surendra and Llewellin Vanderwall. The play will be stagedstag again on May 28 at Bandaranaike College Theatre,The Gampaha.