Cycle "Policiers et Polars"
- Monday 29 September 2008, 12:15 am Come and enjoy the French Mystery Movie " Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune"
Synopsis :
Based on the famous mystery novel by early 20th century French novelist Gaston Leroux. An arrogant detective, a jovial investigating magistrate and an enterprising young newspaper reporter, compete to solve a mysterious attempt to kill Mathilde Stangerson, daughter of the famous inventor, Professor Stangerson. Suspicion first falls on the professor’s housekeepers, Mr and Mrs Bernier, his strange American Indian gamekeeper, who also happens to be Mrs Bernier’s lover, and Mathilde’s fiance Robert Darzac. But the case is much more complicated than it first appears. Rouletabille will have to travel to America to solve the mystery of the Yellow Room.
With Denis Podalydes, Jean-Noel Broute and Sabine Azema
- Monday 06 October 2008, 12:15 am "Read my Lips (Sur mes lèvres)"
Synopsis :
Carla accepts the boss’s offer of hiring an intern to lighten her load. Her loneliness is expressed by the gender specific criteria she uses to advertise for the position of her new assistant. Paul is an ex-con who is not nearly qualified to be Carla’s assistant, but Carla is strangely attracted to his looks and decides to hire him. She yearns for intimacy with a man, but she is overly desperate. Seeing the potential in Paul, she decides to take the chance with him ; for he may possess the cure to her loneliness.
With Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos
- Monday 13 October 2008, 12:15 am "La Femme Nikita"
Synopsis :
Nikita is a junkie. Making a desesperate break into a chemist with a gang of punks, she witnesses a vicious shot out in which all of her companions are killed by the police. She shoots a policeman. She is given a second chance : to become a highly trained government assassin….
With Anne Parillaud, Tchéky Karyo
- Monday 20 October 2008, 12:15 am "36 Quai des Orfèvres"
Synopsis :
In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies...
With Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier
- Monday 27 October 2008, 12:15 am "The Crimson Rivers (Les rivières pourpres)"
Synopsis :
Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), a well-known investigator, is sent to the fictional small university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder and mutilation ; the victim’s body had been placed in the fetal position, his eyes removed and his hands cut off. The victim was a senior student of the university. Inspector Niemans begins his investigation by enlisting the help of Fanny Ferreira (Nadia Farès), who is a glaciologist and a student at the university.
Meanwhile, Detective Inspector (Lieutenant de Police) and former car thief[1] Max Kerkerian (Vincent Cassel) is in the nearby town of Sarzac investigating the desecration of the grave of a girl who died in 1982, and the theft of her photos from the local primary school. His first suspects ; a gang of skinheads, lead him to Guernon, where his investigation collides with that of Inspector Niemans. As the plot unfolds, Niemans and Kerkerian notice the startling connections between their cases, and the remainder of the film revolves around their combined efforts to solve the mystery and prevent further bloodshed.
With Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel
Cycle "Cape et d’épée"
- Monday 03 November 2008, 12:15 am "Delusion of grandeur (La Folie des Grandeurs)"
Synopsis :
Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights. But he is scorned by the Queen who, appalled by his wickedness, has him expelled from the court. An outcast and penniless, Salluste plots his terrible revenge. His valet, Blaze, will impersonate Salluste’s noble cousin and seduce the Queen. When he exposes the Queen’s infidelity, the King will be so grateful that Salluste will be instantly reunited with his wealth and privileged office of state. At least, that is what is supposed to happen...
With : Louis de Funès (Don Salluste de Bazan), Yves Montand (Blaze),
- Monday 10 November 2008, 12:15 am "Molière"
Synopsis :
Following an unsuccessful run as a tragic actor, Molière is released from debtor’s prison by Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini), a wealthy commoner with social pretensions, who agrees to pay the young actor’s debts if Molière teaches him to act. Jourdain, already a married man with two daughters, hopes to use this talent to ingratiate himself with Célimène (Ludivine Sagnier), a recently widowed beauty and wit with whom he has become obsessed, by performing a short play he has written for the occasion. Molière, however, who has been presented to the family and staff of Monsieur Jourdain as Tartuffe, a priest who is supposedly to serve as tutor for the Jourdains’ younger daughter, proceeds to fall in love with Jourdain’s neglected wife, Elmire (Laura Morante). ...
With : Romain Duris (Molière), Fabrice Luchini (Monsieur Jourdain), Ludivine Sagnier (Célimène )
