French cinema at AF Colombo
‘Ils’ (Them), a 2006 French-Romanian horror- thriller film revolving around an exiled couple directed by Xavier Palud will be screened at 3 pm on Tuesday October 1 and at 6.30 pm on October 2 at Alliance Francaise Auditorium, Colombo.
Lucas and Clémentine, a thirty-year old couple exiled in
Romania, lives recently in a detached house in the suburb of Bucharest. She, a French teacher, he, a novelist, living in peaceful happiness... Nevertheless, one evening, in their house, everything is going to tip (fall) over... The pouring rain rages outside...The telephone ringing, on the phone hear distant incomprehensible voices. The couple is not alone...The nightmare begins... A French comedy ‘Trop belle pour toi’ (Too Beautiful for You) directed by Bertrand Blier will be screened at 3 pm on October 8 and at 6.30 pm on October 9.
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments protagonist when he was a child finds a love letter but he could not return it to the receiver it was sent to. The guilt haunts throughout his life and all his attempts to find the person to whom the letter was addressed fails. Carrying a guilt he directs all his strength on music and becomes an excellent musician. While he searches for the owner of the letter he starts falling in love with her and finally when he comes across her he is faced with another
Asked about the bankruptcy of creation in the audiovisual medium, Jayantha says the main reason being ‘ immoral commercialisation’ and those engaged in
the industry she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband’s very difficult to accept.
Action comedy film ‘Le Boulet’ (Dead Weight) directed by Alain Berbérian will be screened at 3 pm on October 15 and 6.30 pm on October 16.
Moltès, a prisoner, play every week the bingo (lottery). It is Reggio, the clumsy prison guard, who check his bulletin results. One day, Moltès learns that he won the jackpot: fifteen bars!!! But Reggio finds that Pauline, his nursing wife left with the winning ticket to Africa. Moltès, escapes then from the prison, leaves for Bamako to recover the ticket in question.