CINE CLUB - SKIN DEEP
In the mood for love, directed by Wong Kar Wai
Wednesday 30th June 2010, 6pm
DVD, 2000, 95 ’, colour, in mandarin and Cantonese subtitled in English
“It’s a masterpiece, a sublime tone poem that shows what cinema is capable of when it tries to do more than just tell a story.” Film.com
A man and a woman move in to neighbouring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities.
Hôtel des Amériques, directed by André Téchiné
Wednesday 7th July 2010, 6pm
DVD, 1981, 90 ’, colour, in French not subtitled
“ Among the most revered in a class of post-New Wave French directors, Andre Techine has succeeded the likes of Chabrol, Godard, and Truffaut as a second-generation Cahiers du Cinéma critic-turned-filmmaker. He stands apart, however, with his deeply complex and emotional studies of human condition and his intensified interest in utter naturalism.” Rotten Tomatoes
One evening, whilst driving home, Hélène, an anaesthesiologist, almost runs down Gilles. The two go for a coffee and soon discover they have a mutual attraction. Hélène is suffering from depression after having lost her lover a year ago, whilst Gilles is a no-hoper, who runs a cheap hotel with his mother. Gilles is at first keen about his developing relationship with Hélène, but then backs off when he suspects that she could never really love someone less well off than her. However, Hélène is deeply in love with Gilles and is unable to let him go, even when he starts behaving irrationally towards her.
Les liaisons dangereuses, directed by Stephen Frears
Wednesday 28th July 2010, 6pm
DVD, 1988, 115 ’, colour, in English subtitled in French
“Nothing Miss Close has done on the screen before approaches the richness and comic delicacy of her work as the Marquise.” The New York Times
Les Liaisons dangereuses is Stephen Frears’ terse adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ famous epistolary tale about the sexual machinations of two jaded eighteenth century French aristocrats. In order to get revenge on a man who jilted her, the wicked Marquise de Merteuil persuades a former lover, the rakish Vicomte de Valmont, to deflower the man’s virginal young fiancée. Valmont agrees, but presents the Marquise with his own challenge : if he succeeds in seducing a virtuous young wife known for her unshakable fidelity, Madame de Tourvel, the Marquise must grant Valmont a night in bed...
Et Dieu... créa la Femme, directed by Roger Vadim
Wednesday 4th August 2010, 6pm
DVD, 1956, 90 ’, colour, in French subtitled in French
“Brigitte was the real modern revolutionary character for women. And Vadim, as a man and a lover and a director, felt that. What was true in the New Wave is that suddenly what was important was vitality, eroticism, energy, love and passion. One has to remember it was Vadim who started everything, with Bardot." Jeanne Moreau
In Roger Vadim’s directorial debut, his then-wife, Brigitte Bardot, plays Juliette, a sumptuous orphan beauty who sparks an incendiary and erotically charged love triangle between herself and three men who desire her. Vadim lets Bardot revel in the CinemaScope and Technicolor beauty of the film, and the simmering mambo-infused soundtrack traces the plot’s erotic undercurrents as they drive all the characters toward an inevitable climax of erotic and violent explosion, personal revelation, and a New Wave definition of love and romance.
Program :
30/06 – In the mood for love, directed by Wong Kar Wai
07/07 - Hôtel des Amériques, directed by André Téchiné
28/07 – Les liaisons dangereuses, directed by Stephen Frears
04/08 – Et Dieu ... créa la Femme, directed by Roger Vadim
No food and drinks will be allowed during the screening !
BOOKING ESSENTIAL !
Contact :
E-mail : emilie.demon@alliance.org.za
Tel : 011 646 1115 | Fax : 011 646 1128
Venue :
Dibuka - Alliance Française of Johannesburg
17 Lower Park Drive
2122 Parkview - JHB
