French Film Festival UK 2009
ShareOn Friday I found this wonderful brochure in Paisley Tourist Information Centre for the French Film Festival UK.
The festival delivers the best in contemporary French cinema everyone from established autuers up to the new breed of up in coming film directors. This is an very diverse festival with a little something for everyone but this year they will focus 2 important legendary figures of the French movie scene; Jacques Tati and Jean Eustache. This is the festival’s 17th year running and its programme is once again split into a number of sections.
Panorama is the part of the festival where you’ll find a selection of of the most successful movies from the past year or two. BELLAMY which sees Gerard Depardieu work for the 1st time with veteran director Claude Chabrol, a movie about a workaholic Parisian cop who must investigate a crime whilst on holiday. THE GIRL FROM MONACO a high profile lawyer who has been assigned a gaurd with the only danger coming from a local weather girl. The movie is directed by Coco Avant Chanel’s Anne Fontaine offers a satire on male vanity and self delusion. Lady Jane is the recent offering from director Robert Guediguian (Army of Crime) a near film noir look of life and survival in a Marseille working class neighbourhood, which has a twisting, dark and fenentic feel of 3 childhood friends. There is also an homage to Francoise Sagan through the eyes of Diane Kruys take on the talented writer and her turbulent times in SAGAN. Theres also a rare chance to see Otto Preminger’s version of her first novel Bonjour Tristesse starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven.
Preview is a chance to see some new French films for the first time in UK and will be able to see 4 four offerings, all varied & distinctive but of exceptional qaulity. THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (Mia Hansen-Love) is an emtional but warm protrail which shows the conflicts of an film industry. Martin Provost’s SERAPHINE is a movie based on Séraphine de Senlis a normal French cleaning lady in her forties who is ridiculed by many but stuns everyone with her gift to paint and create great artwork, a rise to stardom much like Britain’s got talent Susan Boyle. WELCOME is a gritty edge of the seat story of immigrants of French town Calais, a moving enthralling story from Phillippe Lioret. There’s also a chance to see the recent BFI London Film Festival winning movie A PROPHET a emtional prison drama by Jacques Audiard with a fantastic debut performance from Tahar Rahim.
Discovery is the section dedicated to the new talents of French cinema, the directors making there mark on the festival and cinema networks. This section is not just for the France it now expands taking in fellow French speaking countries of Belgium and Switzerland. ANOTHER MAN Lionel Baier’s psychological drama about a young inexperienced reviewer who falls for the charms of an establish female collegue, it is also a challenging look at film criticism and erotic encounters of two opposite persons. ELDORADO a crazy road movie which will be showing with VANILLE a short. THE FIRST STAR is about a gambling Parisan man on a low income who promises to take his whole family on a skiing holiday, a movie that raised questions on family, racism and national indentity. GROWN UPS by Anne Novion is about a single father who takes his daughter on holidays accross Europe every year, his daughter knows the trips are designed to fufil her dads needs. But a trip to Sweden and introduction of 2 women his daughter is opened up to a new world and a chance to be a adolescent girl. NEILLY SA MERE is the debut feature from Gabriel Julien-Laferriere about a arab teen who moves into a predomiantly white middle class Parisan suburb, a comedy which over 1 million people have already seen! VERSAILLES is Pierre Schoeller’s is story of a homeless woman who leaves her 5 year old boy with a vagabond man who she met after one day and there bonding.
You can’t have a festival without a tribute and this years festival celebrates the work of France’s most iconic celebrated influential comedians JACQUES TATI with a selection of the great mans movies. A total of 7 movies and one collection of his short movies will be shown (TATI SHORTS). JOUR DE FETE (1949), M HULOT’SÂ LES VACANCES (1953), MON ONCLE (1958), PLAYTIME (1967), TRAFFIC (1971), PARADE (1974), THE MAGNIFICENT TATI a world premiere documentary by Michael House about the rise and fall of Tati. There will also be a tribute paid to Jean Eustache a respected film director whose film career was a rollercoaster of triumph, struggle and tradegy. He remained defiant against becoming part of French movie mainstream and now today he is a respected part of french cinema history.
This is only a small selection of information on this years festival, if you head off to the festivals website you will be able to find out alot more information on the festival and the other movies that will be showning, so when does this all happen? It all starts on Sunday 8th November and lasting until December 20th. The festival will take place in cinemas around Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Aberdeen, Cambridge, Dumfries, Dundee, Durham, Inverness,St.Andrew’s, Manchester, Stirling and Warwick. Below is links and contact info to the cinemas/theatres which will be involved in the festival, I will also post some trailers of some of the movies which will be shown.
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL UK WEBSITE LINK
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12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
Box Office: 0141 332 6535
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Edinburgh Filmhouse
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZÂ Â Â Box Office: 0131 228 2688
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The Belmont Picturhouse, Aberdeen
49 Belmont Street, Aberdeen AB10 1JS
Box Office: 0871 704 2051
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152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY
Box Office:01382 909900
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Bishop’s Road, Inverness IV3 5SA
Box Office: 01463 234234
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THE NORMAN MACLEAN FILMHOUSE
Macrobert, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA
Box Office: 01786 466666
www.macrobert.org
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117 North Street, St.Andrew’s KY16 9AD
Box Office: 01334 474902
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Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE
Box Office: 01387 264808
katebe@dumgal.gov.uk
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University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
Box Office: 024 765 24452
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38-39 St.Andrews Street, Cambridge CB4 3AR
Box Office: 0871 704 2050
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@ Insitut Francais, 17 Queensberry Place London SW7 2DT
Box Office: 0207 073 1350
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70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH
Box Office: 0161 200 1500
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GALA THEATRE & CINEMA
Millenium Place, Durham, DH11WA
Box Office: 0191 332 4041
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