LITTLE FRENCH CINEMA

Thursday 28 March @6:15pm

La Fille du Puisatier/The Well Digger’s Daughter

Directed by Daniel Auteuil  (2011, Drama/Romance, 1h47)
With Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Cert. PG

6:15pm Wine and cheese reception
Film starts at 7pm

Adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol and starring Daniel Auteuil,  the story is set in the south of France at the start of WWII. Patricia,  the youngest of the well digger’s daughters is being courted by his middle-aged friend Felipe but she is captivated by Jacques, an unreliable younger man from an upwardly mobile bourgeois family.

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Thursday 2 May @7pm

Des Hommes et des Dieux/Of Gods and Men 

Directed by Xavier Beauvois (2010, Historical Drama, 2h02)
With Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Cert. 15

A fictionalised account of real events which occurred in a Cistercian monastery in Algeria in 1996. The monks have, for many years, lived in harmony with Muslims from local villages, partly because the monks provided a free outpatient clinic. They have a quiet, supportive respect for each other’s traditions. The harmony of the relationship and the monks’ personal beliefs are deeply tested when intolerant Muslim extremists become active in the surrounding areas.

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Thursday 4 July @7pm

Les Pires/The Worst Ones

Directed by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (2022, Comedy/Drama, 1h39)
With Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh
Cert. TBC

A film shooting is going to take place at the cité Picasso, in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis and Jessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone in the neighbourhood is surprised: why only take the “worst ones”? 

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Thursday 5 September @7pm

Entre les murs/The Class  

Directed by Laurent Cantet (2008, Documentary/Drama, 2h08)
With François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angelica Sancio
Cert. 15

Based on an autobiographical novel by former teacher François Bégaudeau, who also plays the role of the teacher in the film, it follows  the experience of the teacher in a tough multi-ethnic school in the Parisian banlieue. It focuses on the teacher’s experience with a group  of fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds in a French language and Literature  class and in particular, the interaction between the teacher and two outspoken and challenging young women, and Souleymane, a  troubled young man.

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Thursday 3 October @7pm

A bout de souffle/Breathless

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard (1960, Drama, 1h30)
With Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger
Cert. PG

Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo both show what it can mean to be young and in love. The anti-hero Michel is a swaggering, misogynistic petty criminal who steals a car in the South of France and kills a policeman on the road to Paris. There he meets up with Patricia, an American ex-girlfriend. They talk aimlessly about literature, watch movies and make love. All the time the police are closing in on Michel.

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Thursday 7 November @7pm

Mon Oncle d’Amérique/My American Uncle 

Directed by Alain Resnais - (1980, Comedy, 2h06)
With Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre
Cert. U

One of the oddest movies ever to emerge from the hand of director Alain Resnais, and also perhaps his most popular. A trio of people (Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre) are presented as “case histories” by a lecturer—and we see them not only in their work environments, but also in terms of the cinematic role models (Jean Gabin, Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux) that have helped  shape their self-images..

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