Vive Le Cinéma Français! The St Andrews French Film Festival
Thu 3rd December 2009 to Sun 6th December 2009
NPH Cinema and others TBA
Hot on the heels of the first St Andrews Italian Film Festival comes the first ever St Andrews French Film Festival.
Between 3 and 6 December 2009, the New Picture House cinema in St Andrews will be screening a series of French films as part of the nationwide French Film Festival, which also goes to London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and other major cities around the UK.
Included in the line-up will be an educational screening of Michou d'Auber, which will involve the participation of two local schools, Madras and St Leonard's.
The film, set during the Algerian War, tells the story of a young boy who is put into a foster home on account of their mother's terminal illness. Relocated to the French countryside, young Messaoud and finds himself living with a Gaullist family, which means that he must disguise himself as ‘Michel' (or ‘Michou') in order to pass unnoticed.
This educational screening will be open to the public but, thanks to the generous support of the Institut Français Écosse, will be free to school children in the area. This is a fantastic opportunity to give local children an insight into life in 1960s France at a crucial point in that country's recent history, as well as to introduce them to the importance of cinema as a medium for representing history and politics.
Michou d'Auber will be followed by a screening of Christophe Honoré's The Beautiful Person, a modern-day adaptation of Mme de Lafayette's classic novel, The Princess of Cleves.
There will also be screenings of First Star, an award-winning comedy about an unemployed dosser who promises his family a skiing holiday, and The Joy of Singing, Ilan Duran's ‘anti-romantic comedy' about a spy couple in search of the secrets of the uranium black market.
The festival will close with a screening of Jacques Tati's classic, M Hulot's Holiday - a wonderful comedy starring Tati himself about the taciturn Hulot and his experiences on holiday in the south of France.
The St Andrews French Film Festival is supported by the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, as well as by the Russell Development Trust, Fife Council and, as mentioned, the Institut Français Écosse.
Each screening will be accompanied by an introduction.
Everyone is welcome. We hope to see you there.
For more information contact William Brown (wjrcb@st-andrews.ac.uk).
LINE-UP
Thurs Dec 3rd 2pm - MICHOU D'AUBER
Fri Dec 4th 6pm - THE BEAUTIFUL PERSON
Sat Dec 5th 2pm - FIRST STAR
Sun Dec 6th 2pm - THE JOY OF SINGING
Sun Dec 6th 6pm - M HULOT'S HOLIDAY
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