Taj Enlighten Film Society brings you a slice of European cinema with their European film festival at locations across the city. We've handpicked seven best films from the lot, from classics to shorts. Enjoy
Taj Enlighten Film Society brings you a slice of European cinema with their European film festival at locations across the city. We've handpicked seven best films from the lot, from classics to shorts. EnjoyJune 3, 6.30 PM NCPA (Godrej Theatre), Nariman Point
Two English Girls (Francois Truffaut, 1971):This 108-minute classic from the Truffaut stable is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Henri Pierre Roche. It's set in early 20th century France. Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend his holidays with her, her mother and sister Muriel, who she wants to set him up with. Claude, Ann and Muriel grow close and he gradually falls in love with her. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the marriage. Claude goes back to Paris and what follows tests their relationship.
Also catch: Les Trois Soldat (Kamal Musale, 1989) and Raclette Curry (Kamal Musale, 2000)
June 4, 4 PM World College-School of Media Studies, Malad
Sound of Insects (Peter Leichti, 2009):u00a0
A hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles upon a makeshift tent made from sheets of plastic. It contains the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on the site reveals that the man committed suicide by self-imposed starvation. Inspired by this true event and by the novella 'Until I Am a Mummy' by Shimada Masahiko, Sound of Insects evokes the mysterious man's last days.
Also catch: Workshop by Kamal Musale, documentary Courrier Du Pacifique ( Kamal Musale, 1998, 35 minutes) and Raclette Curry ( Kamal Musale, 2000, 8 minutes)
June 5, 10 AM Metro Big Cinema, Marine Lines
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959): Widely called Godard's masterpiece, Breathless is the story of small-time thief Michel Poiccard, who steals a car and murders the policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, an American studying at the Sorbonne, whom he had earlier met in Nice a few weeks earlier. As he gets caught in a web of underworld acquaintances and romance, Poiccard pursues his love of American movies the beautiful Franchini.
June 5, 12 noon Cinemax, Versova
Army of Shadows (Jean Pierre Melville, 1969): The film is set in France in 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, eventually succeeding in getting the traitor who exposed him, executed. What next?
JUNE 11, 6.30 PM World College-School of Media Studies, Maladu00a0
Yuri Lennon's Landing on Alpha 46 (Anthony Vouardoux, 2010):u00a0
After landing on Jupiter's moon Alpha46, cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with a paradox. Undocked from the mother ship, Yuri begins his starting journey through space, which leads him to the end of the world as we know it. This 15 minute film was canned in one shot.
Au Cafe Romand
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Cartography the Pool
(Phillipe Saire, 2008): This short film unfolds in a garden that was a wasteland in the centre of the city. Three dancers take over this space and carry out a topographical survey. Starting with a formal response linked to the architectural beauty of the place, they then drift towards the organic side of nature, which has been domesticated here.
compiled by Sowmya Rajaram
